The Fundamental Teachings of Early Buddhism: A Comparative Study Based on the Sutranga Portion of the Pali Samyutta-Nikaya and the Chinese Samyuktagama

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Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000 - 269 oldal
This book is a comparative examination of the main teachings contained in the Sutranga portion of the Pali Samyutta-nikaya (SN) and its counterpart in Chinese canon, a translation of a now lost Sanskrit Samyuktagama (Za-ahan-jing) (SA). The SN and SA are essentially two different versions of the same collection of discourses.This study builds on the work of Yin Shun, which demonstrates the historical importance of SN/SA in the formation of the early Buddhist canon. In particular, it is based on Yin Shun's recognition of the three-anga structure of SN/SA, and of the status of its Sutranga portion as of prime importance in the historical formation of this nikaya/agama, and as containing the most fundamental teachings of Buddha. The aim of this research is to reveal and clarify the similarities and differences between SN and SA, with regard to the principal Buddhist teachings contained in their Sutranga portion.
 

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Historical background
2
Aim and significance of the research
11
Distribution of samyuktas within each anga
18
The five aggregates
24
The five aggregates and the five aggregates with attachment
31
Knowing things as they really
45
11
53
The four abodes of consciousness and the five aggregates
59
The dhātu of selfacting
145
The summary formula
156
Different numbers of factors of arising by causal condition
169
Practices involving the sense spheres
171
Karma and arising by causal condition
199
The path
206
3 The Four Stations of Mindfulness
215
5 The Four Right Efforts
221

Notself and karmic effect
66
Conclusion
72
Knowing things as they really
87
Sectarian and later components
103
Knowing things as they really are
114
Stages in the cessation of feeling
122
Conclusion
128
Ethical or moral dhātu
139
9 Training
227
11 The four noble truths
235
Conclusion
241
Contrast Table of Sūtraanga portion SASN and
252
Bibliography
258
Index
267
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