Introduction to the Samyutta Nikaya

Rev Dhammabodhi (John Freese) provides a brief introduction to the Samyutta Nikaya (Connected Discourses) from the Pali Canon. Topics include how early Buddhism arose in Greater Magadha in northeast India separate from the Vedic culture or northwest India, how the Samyutta Nikaya may be the oldest collection of teachings in the Pali Canon, and how those teachings are an interconnected system of teachings on the Four Noble Truths from a yogic oral tradition.