Suttas

Read authentic Buddhist Suttas — the recorded discourses of the Gautama Buddha from the Pali Canon — including the Dhammapada, Ratana Sutta, and Heart Sutra — with Pali text and meaning in 28 languages. Free PDF.

The Heart of Perfect Wisdom (The Heart Sutra)

The Heart Sutra: Avalokiteshvara tells Shariputra that form is emptiness and emptiness is form, and the sutra ends with the mantra gate gate paragate.

10 verses

The Discourse on Loving-Kindness (Mettā Sutta)

The Karaniya Metta Sutta (Sn 1.8): the Buddha's discourse on boundless loving-kindness toward all beings, chanted for protection.

10 verses

The Seven Factors of Awakening: A Healing Discourse

The Gilana Suttas (Samyutta Nikaya 46.14-16): the seven factors of awakening recited to heal the gravely ill, including the Buddha himself.

58 verses

The Maha Mangala Sutta: The Discourse on the Highest Blessings

The Mangala Sutta (Khuddakapatha 5): the Buddha answers a deva's question on the highest blessings with thirty-eight ethical and spiritual qualities.

13 verses

The Discourse on the Jewels (Ratana Sutta)

The Ratana Sutta (Khp 6, Sn 2.1): the Buddha's protective discourse on the Three Jewels, taught at Vesali in a time of plague and fear.

17 verses