A collection
Pali nikaya: a group or collection. The five Nikayas are the divisions of the Sutta Pitaka in the Pali Canon.
A Nikaya gathers discourses of the Buddha by kind: the Digha, Majjhima, Samyutta, Anguttara and Khuddaka. The Jataka tales sit in the Khuddaka Nikaya.
Anapanasati, the Buddha's own core meditation, observes the natural breath without controlling it, settling the mind into deep stillness and insight.
Buddha Purnima, or Vesak, honours the Buddha on the full moon of Vesakha. This article sets out the day, what the early texts say, and where traditions differ.
What a gatha is, the five short chants Theravada Buddhists recite, and the Dhammapada's 26 chapters, with each text linked where the story mentions it.
Taught in the Buddha's first sermon, the Eightfold Path offers eight linked practices of wisdom, ethics, and meditation that together end suffering.
Why the 547 Jataka tales exist, how they are arranged in the Pali canon, and the frame that links a present dilemma to a past life.
In the Anattalakkhana Sutta, the Buddha's second sermon, he shows the five aggregates are not a fixed self, freeing the five ascetics into arahantship.