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    Theravada, the term nikāya is used. The word āgama does not occur in this collection. In Buddhism, the term āgama is used to refer to a collection of discourses...
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  • Fu Kuan consider the Ekottara Āgama to belong to the Mahāsāṃghika school. According to A.K. Warder, the Ekottara Āgama references 250 Prātimokṣa rules...
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  • Look up agama or आगम in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Āgama (Buddhism), a collection of Early Buddhist texts Āgama (Hinduism), scriptures of several...
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    Dīrgha Āgama in Sanskrit. The Madhyama Āgama (Taishō Tripiṭaka 26) was translated by Gautama Saṃghadeva, and is available in Chinese. The Saṃyukta Āgama (Taishō...
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  • is a Pāli word meaning "volume". It is often used like the Sanskrit word āgama (आगम) to mean "collection", "assemblage", "class" or "group" in both Pāḷi...
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  • Buddhists in Sri Lanka, Buddhism is parallel to Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity as an āgama, literally "scripture" or "teaching". Buddhism has had a profound...
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  • The Agamas (Devanagari: आगम, IAST: āgama) (Tamil: ஆகமம், romanized: ākamam) (Bengali: আগম, ISO15919: āgama) are a collection of several Tantric literature...
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  • based on the discourses of the tirthankara, as per Shwetambar Jainism Āgama (Buddhism), a collection of scriptures Agam Regency, a regency of West Sumatra...
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    treatises on Vajrayana Buddhism, and these are influential in Japanese Shingon Buddhism. Abhidhamma Piṭaka Atthakatha Āgama (Buddhism) Buddhavacana Buddhist...
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  • Acala Acariya Access to Insight Achar (Buddhism) Adam's Peak Adhiṭṭhāna Adi-Buddha Ādittapariyāya Sutta Adosa Āgama Agga Maha Pandita Aggañña Sutta Aggavamsa...
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    Literature portal Champat Rai Jain A.N. Upadhye Bal Patil Agama (Hinduism) Āgama (Buddhism) von Glasenapp 1925, pp. 109–110. Champat Rai Jain 1929b, p...
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    Buddhism has a long history in Indonesia, and is one of the six recognized religions in Indonesia, along with Islam, Christianity (Protestantism and Catholicism)...
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    Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Chinese Esoteric Buddhism, Japanese Shingon Buddhism and Nepalese Newar Buddhism. Although Southern Esoteric Buddhism does not directly...
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    The Āgama Section (阿含部; pinyin: Āhán Bù; Japanese: Agon Bu) is a division of the Taishō Tripiṭaka that contains sūtras related to the Āgamas, roughly corresponding...
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    character. Other Sarvāstivādin Āgama sutras (extant in Chinese) which have emptiness as a theme include Samyukta Āgama 335 - Paramārtha-śunyatā-sūtra...
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  • Narakas (Pali: Pacceka-niraya) and Lokantarikas. The Dīrghāgama or Longer Āgama-sūtra (Ch. cháng āhán jīng 長阿含經), was translated to Chinese in 22 fascicles...
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    and his chief disciples. The Majjhima Nikaya corresponds to the Madhyama Āgama found in the Sutra Piṭakas of various Sanskritic early Buddhist schools...
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  • Kṣudraka Āgama. The Chinese translation of the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya provides a table of contents for the Dharmaguptaka recension of the Kṣudraka Āgama, and...
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  • social norms. Early Buddhism appears to have been silent concerning homosexual relations. According to the Pāli Canon and Āgama (the early Buddhist scriptures)...
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  • Shorter Chinese Saṃyukta Āgama or short Saṃyukta Āgama (Chinese:別譯雜阿含經 Taishō 100) is a second (the first being Saṃyukta Āgama, or Saṁyuktāgama) , but...
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    Āgamas, which are analogous to the Nikayas of the Pali Canon. Namely, they are the Saṃyukta Āgama, Madhyama Āgama, Dīrgha Āgama, and Ekottara Āgama....
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    In Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths (Sanskrit: चतुरार्यसत्यानि, romanized: caturāryasatyāni; Pali: caturāriyasaccāni; "The Four Arya Satya") are "the truths...
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    (2011), "Right View and the Scheme of the Four Truths in Early Buddhism − The Samyukta-āgama Parallel to the Sammādimmhi-sutta and the Simile of the Four...
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    Mahayana (redirect from Mahāyāna Buddhism)
    have traditionally studied these teachings in the Āgamas preserved in the Chinese Buddhist canon. "Āgama" is the term used by those traditional Buddhist...
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    Buddhism is an ancient Indian religion, which arose in and around the ancient Kingdom of Magadha (now in Bihar, India), and is based on the teachings of...
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    Patika Division (suttas 24-34) The Digha Nikaya corresponds to the Dīrgha Āgama found in the Sutta Piṭakas of various Sanskritic early Buddhist schools...
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    Structure of the Sanskrit Dīrgha-āgama from Gilgit vis-à-vis the Pali Dīgha-nikāya. in 'Research on the Dīrgha-āgama' (2014) edited by Dhammadinnā. Chung...
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  • of Devi or Shakti) āgamas; all āgamas are elaborate systems of Vedic knowledge. According to Vedanta Desika, the Pāñcarātra āgama teaches the five-fold...
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  • becoming an arhat. Avalokitavrata wrote of the Mahāsāṃghikas as using a "Great Āgama Piṭaka", which is then associated with Mahāyāna sūtras such as the Prajñāparamitā...
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  • 14020. S2CID 247872609. Warder, A. K. Indian Buddhism, page 6 Warder, A. K. Indian Buddhism, page 7 "Āgama research group". Archived from the original...
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