Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: An Anthology of Suttas fron the Anguttara Nikaya translated and edited by Nyanaponika Thera, completed and revised by Bhikkhu Bodhi. (AltaMira) This book is an anthology of discourses by the Buddha selected from the Ariguttara Nikdya, the Collection of Numerical Discourses. The Anguttara Nikaya belongs to the Pali Canon, the authorized recension of the Buddha's Word for followers of Theravada Buddhism, the form of Buddhism that prevails in the Buddhist countries of southern Asia: Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. The texts included in the anthology are called sutta (Skt: sutra), literally "threads", a Pali word denoting the Buddha's own words (or those of his most eminent direct disciples) as distinguished from expository and commentarial works, which lack the same degree of authority.

A complete English translation of the Anguttara Nikaya is published by the Pali Text Society (PTS) under the title The Book of the Gradual Sayings. That translation, however, is dated in both style and interpretation, and a fresh rendition of the entire work is urgently needed. The present anthology, while no substitute, is intended to provide a wide‑ranging selection from the Numerical Discourses with special emphasis on the practical side of the Buddha's teachings, already so prominent in this collection.