Saṃyutta Nikāya, or "Connected Discourses of the Buddha," is the third of four major collections of the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon. It consists of 52 chapters (saṃyuttas), distributed across 5 books or sections. Each chapter has a unique theme to which various discourses (suttas) are related, hence the name of this collection.
The second part, The Book of Causation, named after the largest chapter among the ten available, is strikingly different from the first.
Here, literary elegance, inspiring charm, and moral guidance give way to precise philosophical exposition. The other nine chapters explore less weighty but no less interesting topics, such as the beginninglessness of saṃsāra or the details of the biography of Mahākassapa, one of the greatest disciples of the Buddha.
