Digha Nikaya

Dighanikaya

Anonymous / tradition (early Buddhist sangha) · c. 300-200 BC (reaching roughly closed form by the Mauryan period; individual suttas preserve older material) · Magadha (India) · scripture

The Digha Nikaya gathers the longest discourses of the Pali canon, including the Buddha's extended final teaching and death narrative and lengthy polemical surveys of rival philosophical positions, into a collection organized by length rather than topic.