Re: Mahasatipatthana Sutta in MN?

Dear Ven. Yuttadhammo,

Having just compared the texts of MN 10 and DN 22 side by side in the
Chaṭṭhasaṅgītipiṭaka edition, it is clear that the Dhamm-ānupassanā-sacca-pabba
is actually identical, i.e., the expanded version in both texts (as it
appears also in DPR in both suttas), and this corresponds also with the WTE
version.

But obviously Bodhi, Thanissaro, and Soma, in their translations of MN 10,
have used a text with an abbreviated version of the
Dhamm-ānupassanā-sacca-pabba (which retains only the first introductory
paragraph, up to the colophon "Paṭhamabhāṇavāro niṭṭhito").

No doubt someone else can explain this interesting textual discrepancy and
perhaps indicate the edition that Bodhi, Thanissaro, etc. have relied upon
for their translations of MN 10.

With metta,
Khristos


On 18 April 2012 07:49, Khristos Nizamis <nizamisk@...> wrote:

> Dear Ven. Yuttadhammo,
>
> The romanised Chaṭṭhasaṅgītipiṭaka edition does indeed call MN 10
> 'Mahāsatipaṭṭhānasutta', as does also the World Tipiṭaka Edition (cf.
> http://studies.worldtipitaka.org/tipitaka/9M/1/1.10).
>
> Ven. Bodhi writes of MN 10 (which in his translation he calls
> 'Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta', as do Thanissaro and other translators): "Virtually
> the identical sutta is found as well at DN 22, though with an expanded
> analysis of the Four Noble Truths attached, which accounts for its greater
> length."  (Middle Length Discourses, p. 1188, n. 133.)
>
> Perhaps translators have preferred the shorter title in order to
> distinguish the Majjhima version from the (slightly longer, hence mahā-)
> Dīgha version?
>
> With metta,
> Khristos
>
>
> On 18 April 2012 00:58, Yuttadhammo <yuttadhammo@...> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> Dear Friends,
>>
>> Someone just let me know that the Satipatthana Sutta in the DPR's MN is
>> actually the Mahasatipatthana Sutta from the DN, which doesn't really
>> make sense. This is direct from the VRI tipitaka; can anyone confirm
>> whether the Burmese tipitaka really calls both suttas "Mahasatipatthana"
>> - it looks like the MN sutta is actually the DN one verbatim, even with
>> the eightfold noble path in detail.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Yuttadhammo
>> 
>>
>
>


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