A quick head-count of the Sutta Pitaka lands just over ten thousand individual discourses, scattered across five collections—or Nikāyas—each with its own flavor and focus.

• Dīgha Nikāya (“Long Discourses”): 34 lengthy talks, where the Buddha dives into ethics, cosmology and the famous “Greater Discourse on the Elephant’s Footprint.”
• Majjhima Nikāya (“Middle-Length Discourses”): 152 teachings, ranging from household advice to deep explorations of mind and meditation.
• Saṃyutta Nikāya (“Connected Discourses”): organized into thematic groups, it contains around 2,800 distinct suttas—touching on everything from the five aggregates to the nature of craving.
• Aṅguttara Nikāya (“Numerical Discourses”): roughly 2,300 short suttas arranged by number (one thing, two things, up to eleven), perfect for quick daily reflections.
• Khuddaka Nikāya (“Minor Collection”): a grab-bag of smaller works—Dhammapada’s 423 verses, the 550 Jātaka stories, the Udāna’s inspired verses, plus half a dozen more texts. Depending on how one counts, these add another few thousand “snippets” of wisdom.

Stack all those together and the Sutta Pitaka opens like a vast library of more than 10,000 dialogues, parables and teachings. In today’s world—where mindfulness apps and online retreats are all the rage—many of these same discourses are getting a second life on podcasts and YouTube channels. It’s like discovering that a centuries-old radio drama is now streaming in surround sound: the core message stays timeless, even as the medium evolves.