Hi Gus,
thank you so much for doing this! I love your introduction. 
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This is lovely.
If I may make a suggestion… should this be entitled the middle-length discourses though?
With metta
Si
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Hi Gus,
Thanks for the project! I wonder is it any future plan for other nikayas ?
I live in Indonesia, I could only download the pdf version. So I keep waiting for other nikayas PDF when they’re avialable.
Kent
general info - thebookpatch.com works as well. I’ve printed loads of PDFs into books there, and you can set up the sale to make no profit yourself for sure. I look forward to adding these to my library.
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I’m dealing with some unexpected stuff at the moment, so I can’t sit down and spend much time on this project for now. I will return to it in a week or so, most likely.
In the meantime, some more replies to various matters:
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My plan is three titled book sets: The Longer Discourses of the Buddha (complete), The Middle Discourses of the Buddha (complete), and then Selected Shorter Discourses of the Buddha, because the shorter ones in most cases seem like the most repetitive, and many repetitive discourses in a row wouldn’t fit what most people expect when they pick up a book. I didn’t see much value to the word “Length” in the title, so I dropped it.
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The spaces between paragraphs are an artifact of the HTML, but I’ve kept them on purpose. I’d considered making the margins much smaller to allow for notes (I love writing in my books), but spaces between paragraphs also serve that function, and they’re already in place, so they’ve stayed.
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Please do port these files elsewhere to publish. I went to Lulu because I’ve published some other projects there before, mostly reprinting out-of-print public domain books that I’d wanted in paper form.
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If anyone produces a spiral-bound version, I’d love to hear feedback about how it went and address any potential problems in that format.
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As an aside, In terms of MN 1, I found the BPS booklet by Bhikkhu Bodhi on this and its commentries quite useful… BP210s
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Excellent! The next volume is on its way to me now, and it should be available for buying and gifting in just a few more days, once I’ve addressed the publishing or typographic issues.
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OMG 
If you have one spare, a copy for Santi Forest Monastery would be amazing!
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I’ll send you both volumes in just a couple of days, and there will be more in the weeks to come.
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The second volume is now available! It covers discourses 41-90 and again features @yodha’s artwork on the cover:
23996222_cover.pdf (2.7 MB)
And here’s the PDF of the text, which you can take and put into other formats if you like:
23996222.pdf (1.4 MB)
Volume 1 remains available, and Volume 3 is now underway. Copies have also been ordered as gifts to those to whom I’d promised; others may buy the books at cost by following the first link above.
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And here’s the front and back of volume 2. This is the proof copy; the right hand margin of the front will be slightly more generous in the publicly available version.
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Love the paean to the paragraph, so terribly victimized by its older brother the thesis. Your reference to the noble first sentence was what Mrs. Chasens , my heavily accented Russian English teacher in my tenth year of public school-way back when parsing or diagramming sentences was de riguer in English comp-called the ‘topic sentence’. Oy!
I am both grateful, and eager to read and learn more. Thank you so much for your work, and nice karma.
With much literary Metta, Sadu!
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Here is volume III:
As usual, the files are available for a free download, or you can buy a perfect-bound paperback at production cost. Here’s the cover:
(Edit: Copies are on their way to the usual folks in different corners of the world.)
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Thanks a lot for making the new translations available in print, Gus!
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I noticed something on Lulu: Bhante Sujato has two different contributor IDs: 1612867 (Vols. I-II) and 1627092 (Vol. III). Perhaps we could ask Lulu to merge those so that people can find the trilogy more easily on Lulu.
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Do you have the free files for Vol. III?
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RE: “Selected Shorter Discourses of the Buddha.”
i) I think one of the advantages of Bhante Sujato’s translations is its completeness. There are already countless anthologies out there. Though I agree the shorter discourses are repetitious, many present the teachings from a slightly different angle or with a different emphasis; something I find quite valuable. (I don’t think I’m alone in that.) For the time being, Bhikkhu Bodhi’s full translations of SN and AN in print remain unequaled. I’d love to see this status quo challenged.
ii) Speaking of Bhikkhu Bodhi’s translations: I do think they have paved the way for full physical copies of SN and AN in print. His The Connected Discourses has been in print for two decades, and has gained acclaim in Buddhist circles. People have had the time to get used to complete printed editions.
iii) Finally, any anthology is pretty much guaranteed to leave out someone’s favorite suttas.
Of course, I do not know how much work complete editions would entail. My intention is only to provide a few arguments in favor of them.
With kindness, and gratitude for your work.
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Me too ! 
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I’m not sure why there are different contributor IDs. I’ll see what I can figure out.
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The free files should be available for download here: The Middle Discourses of the Buddha vol III by Trans. Bhikkhu Sujato (Paperback) - Lulu
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All good points, and I’ll give them some thought.
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