The Tipitaka Sutta Pitaka – Khuddaka Nikaya - Atthaka Vagga

The Tipitaka: “The Sutta Pitaka contains all the dhamma (teachings) of the Buddhist faith…divided into five collections (nikayas); the Digha Nikaya, the Majjhima Nikaya, the Samyutta Nikaya, the Anguttara Nikaya, an the Kuddaka Nikaya…”

The Tipitaka contains everything we know of the Buddha teachings. Tipitaka means three baskets and refers to the three main sections of the Pali Buddhist Canon, The Sutta Pitaka, Abhidhamma Pitaka and Vinyana Pitaka.

On Suttas. The fundamental building blocks of the Buddhas teaching are suttas, which are the equivalent of a sermon, homily, religious discourse, lecture, or dialogue….”

Khuddaka Nikaya
“…a collection (nikaya) of small (Khuddaka) sermons or discourses of the Buddha containing fifteen section…the Kuddaka Nikaya contains some of the most important…highly regarded works of the entire Tipitaka…The Kuddakapatha contains none small recitations of readings (patha) that constitute precepts of Buddhism as taught by the Buddha…the recitations of the Khuddakapatha were not likely collected together as a unit n order to facilitate the initial education of young monks, as these recitations constitute an important collection of the major tenants of Buddhist doctrine…”