In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon
The standard English entry to the Buddha's discourses, selected and introduced by an ordained Western monk — the doorway to a canon in which kataññuta, gratitude, is praised as the mark of a good person, owed especially to parents and teachers. Goodreads 4.21.
Bhikkhu Bodhi’s anthology is the standard accessible route into the Pali canon in English. The directory cites it as the within-tradition doorway for the Buddhist section: the canon’s teaching that gratitude (kataññuta) marks the good person, held inside a tradition whose thanks has no creator as its address.
An anthology: a fraction of the canon, chosen by one editor from one (Theravada) textual tradition. Buddhist gratitude is not directed at a creator, and reading it through theistic categories misreads it — a limit of the reader, which this entry flags rather than fixes.
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