Samyutta Nikaya

The Samyutta Nikaya is a collection of Buddhist texts, forming part of the Sutta Pitaka within the Pali canon. It contains 7,762 individual discourses, or suttas, which are organized into 56 thematic clusters. A notable discourse within this collection is the Dhammacakkappavattana-sutta, also known as the "Discourse on the Turning of the Wheel of the Law," which represents the Buddha's first sermon. This sermon introduced fundamental Buddhist teachings, including the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, outlining the nature of suffering, its cause, its cessation, and the way to achieve liberation. The Samyutta Nikaya is one of the four main Nikayas, with a fifth, the Khuddaka Nikaya, being a diverse collection of later texts.1234