Saṃyukta-āgama

This project aims at providing an English rendering of the Saṃyukta-āgama (雜阿含經 / Taishō no. 99) that has been preserved in a Chinese translation undertaken 435-436 by Băoyún (寶雲), based on what appears to have been a Sanskrit original of Mūlasarvāstivāda provenance read out by Guṇabhadra. The translation will be accompanied by annotations that take into account significant differences found between Saṃyukta-āgama discourses and their extant parallels in Chinese, Pāli, Sanskrit and Tibetan.

The translation and comparative study is undertaken by bhikkhu Anālayo, in cooperation with bhikṣu Kongmu, Bhikṣuṇī Syinchen and Ken Su, a private scholar from Taiwan who has for many years been studying and teaching on the Saṃyukta-āgama collection. The translations are appearing fascicle by fascicle in the Dharma Drum Journal of Buddhist Studies (starting from 2012):

  1. “On the Five Aggregates (1) – A Translation of Saṃyukta-āgama Discourses 1 to 32”, Dharma Drum Journal of Buddhist Studies, 2012, vol. 11 pp. 1–61. (PDF)
  2. “On the Five Aggregates (2) – A Translation of Saṃyukta-āgama Discourses 256 to 272”, Dharma Drum Journal of Buddhist Studies, 2013, vol. 12 pp. 1–69. (PDF)
  3. “On the Five Aggregates (3) – A Translation of Saṃyukta-āgama Discourses 59 to 87”, DharmaDrum Journal of Buddhist Studies, 2013, vol. 13 pp. 1–65. (PDF)
  4. “On the Five Aggregates (4) – A Translation of Saṃyukta-āgama Discourses 33 to 58”, DharmaDrum Journal of Buddhist Studies, 2014, vol. 14 pp. 1–71. (PDF)
  5. “On the Five Aggregates (5) – A Translation of Saṃyukta-āgama Discourses 103 to 110”, DharmaDrum Journal of Buddhist Studies, 2014, vol. 15 pp. 1–64. (PDF)
  6. “On Rādha and Views ―A Translation of Saṃyukta-āgama Discourses 111 to 138 (Fascicle 6)”,Dharma Drum Journal of Buddhist Studies, 2015, vol. 17 pp. 1–42. (PDF)
  7. “On Views and Penetrative Knowledge ―A Translation of Saṃyukta-āgama Discourses 139 to 187 (Fascicle 7)”, Dharma Drum Journal of Buddhist Studies, 2015, vol. 17 pp. 43–100. (PDF)

Sāmaṇerī Dhammadinnā provides annotated translations of the parallels to the discourses in the Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama as preserved in Śamathadeva’s Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā, a compendium of the canonical quotations cited in Vasubandhu’s Abhidharmakośabhāṣya. The discourse quotations in the Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā stem from a Mūlasarvāstivāda lineage of transmission closely related to that of the Saṃyukta-āgama, though not identical to it. These instalments are intended as companions to the translations of the discourses of the Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama published by bhikkhu Anālayo in the Dharma Drum Journal of Buddhist Studies and are published in the same journal:

  • “A translation of the quotations in Śamathadeva’s Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā parallel to the Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama Discourses 8, 9, 11, 12, 17 and 28”, Dharma Drum Journal of Buddhist Studies, 11 (2012): 63–96.    download
  • “A translation of the quotations in Śamathadeva’s Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā parallel to the Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama Discourse 265”, Dharma Drum Journal of Buddhist Studies, 12 (2013): 71–84.    download
  • “A Translation of the Quotations in Śamathadeva’s Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā Parallel to Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama Discourses 61, 71, 73, 77, 79 and 81”, Dharma Drum Journal of Buddhist Studies, 13 (2013): 123–151.    download
  • “A Translation of a Discourse Quotation in the Tibetan Translation of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya Parallel to Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama Discourse 36 and of the Discourse Quotations in Śamathadeva’s Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā Parallel to Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama Discourses 39, 42, 45, 46, 55, 56, 57 and 58”, Dharma Drum Journal of Buddhist Studies, 14 (2014): 73–128.     download

Translations by Bhikkhu Anālayo of single Saṃyukta-āgama discourses:

  • (SĀ 110) “Saccaka’s Challenge – A Study of the Saṃyukta-āgama Parallel to the Cūḷasaccaka-sutta”, Chung-Hwa Buddhist Journal, 2010, vol. 23 pp. 39-70.  download
  • (SĀ 200) “Teaching and Liberation – The Saṃyukta-āgama Parallel to the Rāhulovāda-sutta”, in Dharmapravicaya, Aspects of Buddhist Studies, Essays in Honour of N.H. Samtani, ed. L. Shravak and C. Willemen, Delhi: Buddhist World Press, 2012, pp. 1–21.
  • (SĀ 276) “Attitudes Towards Nuns – A Case Study of the Nandakovāda in the Light of its Parallels”, (with an appendix by Giuliana Martini), Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 2010, vol. 17 pp. 332–400.  download
  • (SĀ 344 and SA 389) ” Right View and the Scheme of the Four Truths in Early Budhism, The Saṃyukta-āgama Parallel to the Sammādiṭṭhi-sutta and the Simile of the Four Skills of a Physician”, Canadian Journal of Bud­dhist Studies, 2011, vol. 7 pp. 11–44.  download
  • (SĀ 379) “The Chinese Parallels to the Dhammacakkappavattana-sutta (1)”, Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 2012, vol. 3 pp. 12-46.  download
  • (SĀ 379) “The Chinese Parallels to the Dhammacakkappavattana-sutta (2)”, Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 2013, vol. 5 pp. 9-41.  download
  • (SĀ 505) “Śakra and the Destruction of Craving – A Case Study in the Role of Śakra in Early Buddhism”, Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies, 2011, vol. 12 pp. 157-176.  download
  • (SĀ 506) “Teaching the Abhidharma in the Heaven of the Thirty-three, the Buddha and his Mother”, Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 2012, vol. 2 pp. 9–35.
  • (SĀ 619) “Protecting Oneself and Others Through Mindfulness – The Acrobat Simile in the Saṃyukta-āgama”, Sri Lanka International Journal of Buddhist Studies, 2012, vol. 2 pp. 1–23.   download
  • (SĀ 810) “Mindfulness of Breathing in the Saṃyukta-āgama”, Buddhist Studies Review, 2007, vol. 24 no. 2 pp. 137–150.
  • (SĀ 1032) “Teachings to Lay Disciples – The Saṃyukta-āgama Parallel to the Anāthapiṇḍikovāda-sutta”, Buddhist Studies Review, 2010, vol. 27 no. 1 pp. 3–14.
  • (SĀ 1042) “The Saṃyukta-āgama Parallel to the Sāleyyaka-sutta”, Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 2006, vol. 13 pp. 1–22.  download
  • (SĀ 1077) “The Conversion of Aṅgulimāla in the Saṃyukta-āgama”, Buddhist Studies Review, 2008, vol. 25 no. 2 pp. 135–148.
  • (SĀ 1198 – SĀ 1207) “Saṃyutta-nikāya/Saṃyukta-āgama: Defying Māra – Bhikkhunīs in the Saṃyukta-āgama”, in Women in Early Indian Buddhism: Comparative Textual Studies, A. Collett (ed.), Oxford University Press, pp. 116–139.
  • (SĀ 1249) “Exemplary Qualities of a Monastic – The Saṃyukta-āgama Counterpart to the Mahāgopālaka-sutta and the Need of Balancing Inner Development with Concern for Others”, Sri Lanka International Journal of Buddhist Studies, 2010, vol. 1 pp. 1–22.  download
  • (SĀ 1265) “Vakkali’s Suicide in the Chinese Āgamas”, Buddhist Studies Review, 2011, vol. 28 no. 2 pp. 155–170.
  • (SĀ 1266) “Channa’s Suicide in the Saṃyukta-āgama”, Buddhist Studies Review, 2010, vol. 27 no. 2 pp. 125–137.