An e-learning online course by Bhikkhu Anālayo
Numata Center for Buddhist Studies
University of Hamburg
The lectures held during the summer semester of 2011 covered the first twenty discourses of the Madhyama-āgama. Audio files of the lectures can be audited or downloaded as mp3 files, together with the respective lectures notes as pdfs, at the links given below for each lecture.
Lecture 1 covers the first two discourses, MĀ 1 and MĀ 2:
MĀ 1 Discourse on Wholesome Qualities (善法經)
Pāli Parallel: Discourse on [Being One Who] Knows the Dharma (AN 7.64), Dhammaññū-sutta, PTS ed. AN IV 113
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Numerical Discourses) pp. 1080-1083 (given as discourse no. 68)
MĀ 2 Discourse on the [Celestial] Coral Tree (晝度樹經)
Pāli Parallel: Discourse on the [Celestial] Coral Tree (AN 7.65), Pāricchattaka-sutta, PTS ed. AN IV 117,
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Numerical Discourses) pp. 1083-1085 (given as discourse no. 69)
Lecture 2 covers MĀ 3 and MĀ 4:
MĀ 3 Discourse on the Simile of the [Border] Town (城喻經)
Pāli Parallel: Discourse on the Simile of the Citadel (AN 7.63), Nagaropama-sutta, PTS ed. AN IV 106
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Numerical Discourses) pp. 1075-1080 (given as discourse no. 67)
MĀ 4 Discourse on the Water Simile (水喻經)
Pāli Parallel: Discourse on the Water Simile (AN 7.15), Udakūpama-sutta, PTS ed. AN IV 11
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Numerical Discourses) pp. 1004-1006
Lecture 3 covers MĀ 5, MĀ 6 and MĀ 7:
MĀ 5 Discourse on the Simile of the Heap of Wood (木積喻經)
Pāli Parallel: Discourse on the Simile of the Heap of Fire (AN 7.68), Aggikkhandhopama-sutta, PTS ed. AN IV 128,
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Numerical Discourses) pp. 1090-1094 (given as discourse no. 72)
MĀ 6 Discourse on the Destination of a Good Person (善人往經)
Pāli Parallel: Discourse on the Destination of a Person (AN 7.52), Purisagati-sutta, PTS ed. AN IV 70,
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Numerical Discourses) pp. 1048-1051 (given as discourse no. 55)
MĀ 7 Discourse on [Sources of] Worldly Merit (世間福經)
no Pāli Parallel
Lecture 4 covers MĀ 8:
MĀ 8 Discourse on Seven Suns (七日經)
Pāli Parallel: Discourse on Seven Suns (AN 7.62), Sattasūriya-sutta, PTS ed. AN IV 100
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Numerical Discourses) pp. 1071-1075 (given as discourse no. 66)
Lecture
5 covers MĀ 9:
MĀ 9 Discourse on Seven Chariots (七車經)
Pāli Parallel: Discourse on the Relay of Chariots (MN 24), Rathavinīta-sutta, PTS ed. MN I 145
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Middle Long Discourses) pp. 240-245
A lecture by Bhikkhu Bodhi on the Pāli version can be found here: MN 24
Lecture 6 covers MĀ 10:
MĀ 10 Discourse on the Cessation of the Influxes (漏盡經)
Pāli Parallel: Discourse on All the Influxes (MN 2), Sabbāsava-sutta, PTS ed. MN I 6
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Middle Long Discourses) pp. 91-96
Lectures by Bhikkhu Bodhi on the Pāli version can be found here:
Lecture 7 covers MĀ 11:
MĀ 11 Discourse on the Simile of the [Grain] of Salt (鹽喻經)
Pāli Parallel: Discourse on the Grain of Salt (AN 3.99), Loṇakaphala-sutta, PTS ed. AN I 249,
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Numerical Discourses) pp. 331-335 (given as discourse 100)
Lecture 8 covers MĀ 12, MĀ 13 and MĀ 14:
MĀ 12 Discourse to Vappa (惒破經)
Pāli Parallel: Discourse to Vappa (AN 4.195), Vappa-sutta, PTS ed. AN II 196,
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Numerical Discourses) pp. 572-575
MĀ 13 The Discourse on [Tenets to be] Transcended (度經)
Pāli Parallel: Discourse on Tenets (AN 3.61), Titthāyatanāni-sutta, PTS ed. AN I 173,
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Numerical Discourses) pp. 266-270
MĀ 14 Discourse to Rāhula (羅云經)
Pāli Parallel: Discourse on an Advice to Rāhula at Ambalaṭṭhikā (MN 61), Ambalaṭṭhikārāhulovāda-sutta, PTS ed. MN I 414,
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Middle Long Discourses) pp. 523-526
A lecture by Bhikkhu Bodhi on the Pāli version can be found here: MN 61
Lecture 9 covers MĀ 15 and MĀ 16:
MĀ 15 Discourse on Intention (思經)
Pāli Parallel: Discourse on the Body Made of Deeds (AN 10.208), Karajakāya-sutta (alternative title in PTS trsl.: The Brahma-moods) PTS ed. AN V 299,
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Numerical Discourses) pp. 1541-1543 (given as discourse no. 219)
MĀ 16 Discourse to the Kālāmas (伽藍經)
Pāli Parallel: Kesamutti-sutta (AN 3.65), PTS ed. AN I 188
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Numerical Discourses) pp. 279-283
A lecture by Bhikkhu Bodhi on the Pāli version can be found here: AN 3.65
Lecture 10 covers MĀ 17 and MĀ 18:
MĀ 17 Discourse to Gāmaṇi (伽彌尼經)
Pāli Parallel: Asibandhakaputta-sutta, (SN 42.6), (alternative title in PTS ed.: Pacchābhūmako-sutta), PTS ed. SN IV 311,
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Connected Discourses) pp. 1336-1338
MĀ 18 Discourse to Sīha (師子經)
Pāli Parallel: Sīha-sutta (AN 8.12), PTS ed. AN IV 179,
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Numerical Discourses) pp. 1130-1136
Lecture 11 covers MĀ 19 and MĀ 20:
MĀ 19 Discourse on the Nigaṇṭhas (尼乾經)
Pāli Parallel: Devadaha-sutta (MN 101), PTS ed. MN II 214,
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Middle Long Discourses) pp. 827-838
MĀ 20 Discourse to Pāṭaliya (波羅牢經)
Pāli Parallel: Pāṭaliya–sutta, (SN 42.13), PTS ed. SN IV 340,
please consult Bhikkhu Bodhi (Connected Discourses) pp. 1359-1371