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In Buddhism, an āgama (आगम Sanskrit and Pāli, Tibetan: ལུང་ (Wylie: lung) for "sacred work" [1] or "scripture" [2]) is a collection of early Buddhist texts. The five āgama together comprise the Suttapiṭaka of the early Buddhist schools , which had different recensions of each āgama.
(The Connected Āgama Collection) Translated by Guṇabhadra and Baoyun in 435–436. [19] 50 fascicles. With a total of 1362 sūtras, the Taishō has 50 section divisions. Yinshun's suggested reordering sees it divided into 8 vargas with 51 sections. [20] Anālayo, et al., A Translation of Saṃyukta-āgama Discourses (selected sūtras). [21]
The Ekottara Āgama generally corresponds to the Theravādin Aṅguttara Nikāya, but of the four Āgamas of the Sanskritic Sūtra Piṭaka in the Chinese Buddhist Canon, it is the one which differs most from the Theravādin version. The Ekottara Āgama even contains variants on such standard teachings as the Noble Eightfold Path. [1]
The Digha Nikaya corresponds to the Dīrgha Āgama found in the Sutta Piṭakas of various Sanskritic early Buddhist schools, fragments of which survive in Sanskrit. A complete version of the Dīrgha Āgama of the Dharmagupta school survives in Chinese translation by the name Zhǎng Āhánjīng (長阿含經). It contains 30 sūtras in contrast ...
The Ksudraka Agama (Skt. Kṣudraka Āgama; English: "Minor Collection") is one of the Buddhist Agamas, a collection of Buddhist texts. It corresponds to the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Pali Canon . Rupert Gethin writes that in addition to the four main Nikāya /Āgama texts, a ‘minor’ collection of miscellaneous texts was also recognized.
The Madhyama Āgama (Chinese: 中阿含經; pinyin: Zhong Ahan Jing [1]) is an early Indian Buddhist text, of which currently only a Chinese translation is extant (Taishō Tripiṭaka 26). [1] The title means "Middle Collection."
Āgama (Buddhism), a collection of Early Buddhist texts Āgama (Hinduism) , scriptures of several Hindu sects Jain literature (Jain Āgamas), various canonical scriptures in Jainism
Another sutra has Maitreya state that "Those who offer coloured silk and all kinds of things to Buddhist temples, and who chant ‘namo buddhāya’, will all come to where I am." It also states that those who worship the Buddhas will eventually reach nirvana. [1] Another Ekottarika-āgama sutra mentions a different phrase: namas tathāgatāya. [1]