The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Samyutta Nikaya)

Bhikkhu Bodhi is a Buddhist monk and translator trained in Pali, and this is his academic translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, one of the core collections of the Pali Canon, published by Wisdom Publications, a respected publisher of serious Buddhist scholarship. Its strength is that Bodhi is both a practicing monastic within the Theravada tradition and a rigorously trained Pali scholar, giving the translation both linguistic precision and doctrinal fluency, with extensive scholarly introductions and notes explaining difficult points. Its limit is that any translation involves interpretive choices, and Bodhi's renderings of technical Pali terms, while widely respected, are one translator's considered choices among genuinely debated options, so a highly technical doctrinal dispute may need comparison with another translator's version.