This is the fourth volume of proceedings of the Āgama seminars convened by the Āgama Research Group at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (formerly Dharma Drum Buddhist College). It comprises nineteen studies, contributed by eighteen different scholars, on various themes related to the Connected Collections of discourses (suttas, sūtras) — Saṃyutta-nikāya in Pali, Saṃyukta-āgama in Sanskrit — transmitted by different early Buddhist lineages of reciters, preserved in their Indic originals in Gandhari, Pali and Sanskrit as well as in Chinese and Tibetan translations. This research draws attention to fundamental methodological points posed by the study of these scriptural collections as windows into the formation of early Buddhist texts and the organisation of their transmission.
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Contents Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (DILA) Series Preface I. The Collections of Connected Discourses: Structural and Redactional Principles The Sagātha-vagga in the Saṃyutta-nikāya: Formation and Vedic Background Peyāla in the Skandha-saṃyukta: Contraction and Expansion in Textual Transmission Reading Repetitions in the Saṃyutta-nikāya and Early Abhidhamma: From the Mahā-vagga to the Dhammasaṅgaṇi II. The Early Discourses: Gandharan Circulation Where are the Gandharan Sūtras? Some Reflections on the Contents of the Gandhari Manuscript Collections A Gandhari Saṃyukta-āgama version of the ‘Discourse on Notself’ (Pali Anattalakkhaṇa-sutta, Sanskrit *Anātmalakṣaṇa- sūtra) The Gandhari 'Discourse on Pleasure and Pain’: Some Thoughts on Similes and Textual Variation in the Connected Discourses III. The Early Discourses: Transmission in Sanskrit Towards a New Edition of the First Twenty-five Sūtras of the Nidāna-saṃyukta: Current State and Remaining Difficulties ‘Discourse on the Relative Value of the Varieties of Knowledge’ (Vidyāsthānopama-sūtra): A Translation IV. School Affiliation: Multiple Recitations and Institutional Identities Sanskrit Versions of the Āgamas: Schools, Regions and Editors ‘Mūlasarvāstivādin and Sarvāstivādin’: Oral Transmission Lineages of Āgama Texts V. Sūtra Quotations and References: Intra-, Inter-, Co- and Cross-Textuality Traces of Incorporation: Some Examples of Saṃyukta-āgama Sūtras in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya Highlights from a Comparative Study of the Saṃyukta-āgama Quotations in the Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā Saṃyukta-āgama Quotations in Yaśomitra’s Abhidharmakośavyākhyā Cross-references to the Śrāvakabhūmi in the Saṃyukta-āgama’s Mātṛkā Transmitted in the Vastusaṃgrahaṇī of the Yogācārabhūmi VI. Āgamas In Chinese: Translation Processes The Underlying Languages of the Three Chinese Translations of the Saṃyukta-āgamas (Taishō nos. 99, 100 and 101) and their School Affiliations A Study and Translation of the Yakṣa-saṃyukta in the Shorter Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama Notes on the Translation and the Translator of the Shorter Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama VII. Canon Formation and Textual Scholarship: Philologies Between Tradition and Modernity Ācāriya Buddhaghosa and Master Yinshun 印順on the Threeaṅga Structure of Early Buddhist Texts Assessing the Field of Āgama Studies in Twentieth-century China: With a Focus on Master Yinshun’s 印順 Three-aṅga Theory
