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Part 125 - Ekottara-Agama (Numbered Discourses)

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Sutta 1: Contemplation of the Buddha

Sutta 2: Contemplation of the Dharma

Sutta 3: Contemplation of the Sangha

Sutta 4: Contemplation of the Precepts

Sutta 5: Contemplation of Generosity

Sutta 6: Contemplation of Devas

Sutta 7: Contemplation of Peace

Sutta 8: Contemplation of Anapanasati

Sutta 9: Contemplation of the Impermanence of the Body

Sutta 10: Contemplation of Death

Sutta 1: Recollection of the Buddha

Sutta 2: Recollection of the Dharma

Sutta 3: Recollection of the Sangha

Sutta 4: Recollection of the Precepts

Sutta 5: Recollection of Giving

Sutta 6: Recollection of Devas

Sutta 7: Recollection of Rest

Sutta 8: Recollection of Anapanasati

Sutta 9: Recollection of the Body

Sutta 10: Recollection of Death

Sutta 1: The Asura King's Form and the Subtlety of Mara's Temptations

Sutta 2: The Significance of the Buddha's Appearance

Sutta 3: The Manifestation of Dharma through the Buddha's Advent

Sutta 4: The Light of Wisdom

Sutta 5: Dispelling Ignorance

Sutta 6: The Thirty-Seven Factors of Awakening

Sutta 7: Sorrow at the Buddha's Passing

Sutta 8: The Radiance of Faith and Wisdom

Sutta 9: Decrease of Evil Realms

Sutta 10: The Unequaled One

Sutta 1: Protection of the Mind

Sutta 2: Diligence in Good Dharmas

Sutta 3: Regarding Donors and Benefactors

Sutta 4: Supporting the Sangha

Sutta 5: Anathapindada's Benevolence

Sutta 6: The Fruits of Giving

Sutta 7: Fear Not Blessings

Sutta 8: Mara and Meritorious Deeds

Sutta 9: Faith, Goodness, and Nirvana

Sutta 10: The Appearance of a Buddha

Sutta 1: The One Path to Nirvana

Sutta 2: Cultivating Loving-Kindness

Sutta 3: The Appearance of the One Most Honored

Sutta 4: Caring for the Sick is Caring for the Buddha

Sutta 5: Praising Ascetic Practices

Sutta 6: Mahakashyapa's Austerity

Sutta 7: The Danger of Gain and Devadatta's Downfall

Sutta 8: Devadatta's Denial of Karma

Sutta 9: The Difficulty of Accepting Offerings

Sutta 10: Shriragupta's Downfall Due to Greed for Gain

Sutta 1: Rahula's Practice of Anapanasmriti

Sutta 2: The Two Realms of Nirvana

Sutta 3: Parables of the Crow and the Pig

Sutta 4: Parables of the Donkey and the Ox

Sutta 5: Wholesome and Unwholesome Actions

Sutta 6: The Two Dharmas

Sutta 7: The Dharma of Illumination and the Path to Illumination

Sutta 8: The Two Powers: Patience and Contemplation

Sutta 9: Venerable Aniruddha and the Divine Eye

Sutta 10: Venerable Rahula and the Exhaustion of Outflows

Sutta 2: The Rarity of Two Appearances

Sutta 3: The Rarity of Two Appearances: Pratyekabuddhas and Arhats

Sutta 4: Two Afflicting Dharmas

Sutta 5: The Disagreeable Nature of Wrong Views

Sutta 6: The Agreeable Nature of Right Views

Sutta 7: The Story of King Mandhata and Craving

Sutta 8: Observing Good and Bad Friends

Sutta 9: Distinguishing Good and Bad Friends

Sutta 10: The Debate Between Chuliapanthaka and Brahmayu

Sutta 11: The Downfall of Evil and the Flourishing of Righteousness

Sutta 1: On Shame and Conscience

Sutta 2: On Insatiability

Sutta 3: On Giving the Dharma

Sutta 4: On Taming the Elephant and the Brahmin Couple

Sutta 5: On the Taming of Nalagiri

Sutta 6: On Nanda's Worldly Attire

Sutta 7: On Nanda's Enlightenment

Sutta 8: On Mahaprajapati Gautami

Sutta 9: On Slandering the Tathagata

Sutta 1: The Difficult-to-Understand Dharma

Sutta 2: The Middle Way

Sutta 3: The Questions of Shakra and Mahamaudgalyayana

Sutta 4: Two Fearless Beings

Sutta 5: Wisdom and Ignorance

Sutta 6: Poverty and Wealth

Sutta 7: Birth in Noble or Poor Families

Sutta 8: Susima and Kotthita

Sutta 9: Mahakatyayana and the Brahmin

Sutta 10: Two Rare Beings

Sutta 11: The Offering of Amrapali

Sutta 1: Cultivating Good Friends

Sutta 2: The Story of Devadatta and the Importance of Good Company

Sutta 3: The Past Lives of Dharmaruci and the Buddha

Sutta 4: The Lion and the Sheep

Sutta 5: Remembering Kindness

Sutta 6: The Importance of Diligence

Sutta 7: Cultivating Samatha and Vipassana

Sutta 8: Conduct in Solitude and in the Assembly

Sutta 9: Who is Easy and Difficult to Teach

Sutta 10: The Merit of Supporting Parents and a Bodhisattva

Sutta 11: The Unrepayable Kindness of Parents

Sutta 12: Culiapanthaka and the Broom

Sutta 13: Meetings and Separations

Sutta 1: Three People Worthy of Offerings

Sutta 2: Three Inexhaustible Roots of Goodness

Sutta 3: Three Sensations and Their Underlying Afflictions

Sutta 4: Three Things Better Hidden, Three Things Better Revealed

Sutta 5: Three Marks of Conditioned Phenomena

Sutta 6: Three Characteristics of the Foolish and Three Characteristics of the Wise

Sutta 7: Three Unseen and Unheard Dharmas of the Sages

Sutta 8: Three Desirable Things and Their Impermanence

Sutta 9: Three Afflictions Leading to Lower Realms

Sutta 10: Three Unsatisfying Things

Sutta 1: The Request of King Prasenajit

Sutta 2: Vakula's Silence

Sutta 3: Sona Kotivimsha's Perseverance

Sutta 4: The Fate of Bhadrika the Elder

Sutta 5: The Three Fragrances

Sutta 6: Not Associating with the Ignorant

Sutta 7: Devadatta's Attachment to Gain

Sutta 8: Three Unwholesome and Three Wholesome Roots

Sutta 9: Three Kinds of Assemblies

Sutta 10: Three Kinds of Thoughts

Sutta 1: The Teaching on Remembering the Three Jewels

Sutta 2: The Story of King Nanda and the Yaksha Pishaca

Sutta 3: The Teaching on the Dharma King

Sutta 4: The Impermanence of Form and the Path to Liberation

Sutta 5: The First Sermon and the Conversion of the Five Bhikkhus

Sutta 5: The First Sermon (part 2)

Sutta 6: Three Fasting Practices on the Fifteenth Day

Sutta 7: Three Present Matters

Sutta 8: The Story of King Dighavu and King Brahmadatta

Sutta 9: Three Fetters

Sutta 10: Three Samadhis

Sutta 1: The Four Noble Truths

Sutta 2: The Four Dharmas Benefitting People

Sutta 3: The Four Unprecedented Dharmas

Sutta 4: The Burden

Sutta 5: The Four Kinds of Birth

Sutta 6: The Four Types of People and Their Bonds

Sutta 7: The Four Fruits and Four Kinds of People

Sutta 8: The Storm Wind

Sutta 9: The Four Birds and Four Kinds of People

Sutta 10: The Four Kinds of Clouds and Four Kinds of People

Sutta 1: The Foundation of Goodness

Sutta 2: The Primacy of Non-Negligence

Sutta 3: The Brightness of Non-Negligence

Sutta 4: The Beauty of Non-Negligence

Sutta 5: Four Kinds of People

Sutta 6: The Impermanence of All Things

Sutta 7: Overcoming Grief

Sutta 8: The Four Fundamentals of Dharma

Sutta 9: The Passing of Sariputta and Moggallana

Sutta 10: The Four Kinds of Revered Individuals

Sutta 1: The Four Noble Truths

Sutta 2: The Difference in Doctrine

Sutta 3: The Merits of Giving

Sutta 4: The Analogy of Sunrise

Sutta 5: Maitreya Bodhisattva's Inquiries on the Six Perfections

Sutta 6: The Four Fearlessnesses of the Tathagata

Sutta 7: The Four Foremost Individuals

Sutta 8: The Four Kinds of Garudas and Dragons

Sutta 9: The Four Merits of Generosity

Sutta 1: The Conversion of Bhadra and Nanda

Sutta 2: The Four Bindings

Sutta 3: The Four Kinds of Seating

Sutta 4: The Skulls

Sutta 5: The Four Great Meanings

Sutta 6: First Bitter, Then Sweet

Sutta 7: The Four Types of Shramanas

Sutta 1: People who experience suffering first, then joy

Sutta 2: People who experience physical pleasure, but not mental pleasure

Sutta 3: Four types of blessings of Brahma

Sutta 4: Four kinds of sustenance

Sutta 5: Four kinds of eloquence

Sutta 6: Four things that are inconceivable

Sutta 7: Four kinds of spiritual powers

Sutta 8: Four things that cause attachment

Sutta 9: Four great rivers

Sutta 10: Four immeasurable minds

Sutta 1: The Dharma Discourses of Srotapanna

Sutta 2: The Parable of the Elder and the Shramanera

Sutta 3: The Story of the Girl Sumati

Sutta 1: The Difficult Path of Solitude

Sutta 2: The Four Abodes of Past Buddhas

Sutta 3: The Four Kinds of Practice Paths

Sutta 4: The Four Fundamental Dharmas

Sutta 5: The Four Gardens and Four Ponds in the Heaven of Thirty-three

Sutta 6: The Parable of the Four Venomous Snakes

Sutta 7: The Four Kinds of Destinations

Sutta 8: The Buddha's Austere Practices and Attainment of Enlightenment

Sutta 9: The Four Floods and Four Joys

Sutta 10: The Impermanence of All Beings

Sutta 11: On Disputes and the Essence of the Dharma

Sutta 1: The Five Roots

Sutta 2: The Aggregates of Evil

Sutta 3: Merits of Worshipping the Buddha

Sutta 4: The Five Messengers

Sutta 5: The Anointment Ceremony

Sutta 6: The Five Signs of Death

Sutta 7: The Removal of Sorrow

Sutta 8: The Five Practices of the Sick

Sutta 9: The Five Practices of the Caregiver

Sutta 10: The Five Merits of Generosity

Sutta 11: The Five Merits of Donating Life, Form, Ease, Power, and Eloquence

Sutta 12: The Five Timely Gifts

Sutta 1: The Five Desires

Sutta 2: The Story of Sivala

Sutta 3: Five Types of Fighters

Sutta 4: Five Types of Fighters (Continued)

Sutta 5: The Sweeper's Merits

Sutta 6: Sweeping Stupas

Sutta 7: Difficulties of Extensive Travel

Sutta 8: Drawbacks of Constant Residence

Sutta 9: Merits of Not Staying in One Place

Sutta 10: The Parable of the Burning Tree

Sutta 1: Cultivating the Five Aggregates

Sutta 2: The Story of King Virudhaka

Sutta 3: The Five Auspicious Signs of a Deva's Demise

Sutta 4: The Five Causes of Disgrace for a Shramana

Sutta 5: The Story of the Brahman Ketu

Sutta 6: The Five Things That Are Hard to Obtain

Sutta 7: The Five Untreatable People

Sutta 8: The Bondage of Mara

Sutta 9: The Meaning of Cessation

Sutta 10: The Reasons for the Decline of Kingdoms and People

Sutta 1: Characteristics of Those Holding Wrong Views

Sutta 2: The Five Actions of the Tathagata

Sutta 3: Meritorious and Non-Meritorious Giving

Sutta 4: The Power of Women and Mara

Sutta 5: The Desires of Women and Bhikkhus

Sutta 6: Times for Prostration

Sutta 7: Venerable Upa and the Householder

Sutta 8: Overcoming Craving for Women

Sutta 9: Venerable Tagisha and the Five Aggregates

Sutta 10: Sangama and His Family

Sutta 1: The Five Merits of Timely Listening to the Dharma

Sutta 2: The Five Merits of Building a Bathhouse

Sutta 3: The Five Merits of Offering Tooth-Sticks

Sutta 4: The Consequences of Killing and the Importance of Compassion

Sutta 5: The Buddha's Visit to Trayastrimsha Heaven and the Subjugation of the Dragon Kings

Sutta 1: On the Six Dharmas

Sutta 2: The Display of Supernormal Powers by Mahamaudgalyayana and Shariputra

Sutta 3: On the Delights of the Goshringga Sala Grove

Sutta 4: On the Six Virtues of Auspicious Blessings

Sutta 5: On the Path to Purification and Attainments

Sutta 6: On Repentance and Six Dharmas

Sutta 7: The Foremost Emptiness Dharma

Sutta 8: What People Seek

Sutta 9: On Pure Conduct

Sutta 10: The Debate with Satyakani Nirgrantha

Sutta 1: The Six Kinds of Strength

Sutta 2: Contemplating Impermanence

Sutta 3: The Path to the End of Suffering

Sutta 4: The Chain of Causation and the Path to Extinction

Sutta 5: Angulimala's Transformation

Sutta 6: The Story of Angulimala and King Prasenajit

Sutta 7: Chapter on Powers, Part 2

Sutta 8: Mindfulness and Mastery of the Six Sense Bases

Sutta 9: Contemplating Impermanence

Sutta 10: The Six Merits of the Tathagata

Sutta 11: The Power of Merit and the Defeat of the Six Teachers

Sutta 12: Contemplating the Six Sense-Bases

Sutta 1: The Seven Dharmas

Sutta 2: The Pariyattaka Tree

Sutta 3: The Seven Kinds of People as a Water Analogy

Sutta 4: The Analogy of the City and the Mara Papiyan

Sutta 5: The Seven Abodes of Consciousness

Sutta 6: The Venerable Kunda

Sutta 7: The Seven Jewels of a Cakravartin and the Seven Factors of Awakening

Sutta 8: The City of a Cakravartin and the Seven Jewels

Sutta 9: The Venerable Kumara Kashyapa

Sutta 10: Purna Mantaniputra and the Seven Chariots

Sutta 1: The Destruction of the World

Sutta 2: Seven Irreversible Dharmas

Sutta 3: Seven Defilements

Sutta 4: Seven Types of Individuals

Sutta 5: The Elder Biluoxian

Sutta 6: The Dharma for Purifying All Defilements

Sutta 7: Benefits of Merit

Sutta 8: Meditation on Death

Sutta 9: True Arhats

Sutta 10: The Discourse on Non-Attachment

Sutta 1: The Elimination of Three Defilements

Sutta 2: The Elimination of Suffering

Sutta 3: Seven Factors of Awakening and Four Foundations of Mindfulness

Sutta 4: The Eightfold Path and Seven Factors of Awakening

Sutta 5: Kashyapa and Ananda's Stewardship of the Dharma

Sutta 1: The Eight inopportune moments

Sutta 2: The Eight Great Hells

Sutta 3: The Buddha's Final Teachings and Great Nirvana

Sutta 4: Ocean and Dharma Similarities

Sutta 5: Causes of Earthquakes

Sutta 6: Eight Thoughts of a Great Person

Sutta 7: Eightfold Assembly

Sutta 8: Anathapindada's Merit

Sutta 9: Eight Virtues of Giving

Sutta 10: Paths to Hell and Nirvana

Sutta 1: The Journey to Nirvana

Sutta 2: The Eight Precepts of the Sages

Sutta 3: The Journey to Nirvana: A Parable of the Raft

Sutta 4: The Danger of Gain and Renown: The Story of Devadatta

Sutta 5: The Parable of the Raft

Sutta 6: The Cowherd

Sutta 7: King Ajatashatru Seeks the Buddha

Sutta 8: The Eight Worldly Dharmas

Sutta 9: The Lotus Analogy

Sutta 10: The Eight Kinds of Individuals

Sutta 1: The Nine Abodes of Beings

Sutta 2: The Nine Virtues of Generosity

Sutta 3: The Nine Qualities of Evil Bhikkhus

Sutta 4: The Nine Virtues of the Peacock and the Wise Bhikkhu

Sutta 5: The Nine Qualities of Women that Bind Men

Sutta 6: The Foundation of All Dharmas

Sutta 7: Caring for the Sick

Sutta 8: Nine Persons Worthy of Reverence

Sutta 9: Mahalla Kumara and Culiapanthaka

Sutta 10: Good Friends and the Brahma-Faring

Sutta 11: The Diverse Minds of Beings

Sutta 1: The Brahmin's Daughter and the Buddha's Teaching on Women

Sutta 2: The Buddha's Admonition and the Virtues of Bhikkhus

Sutta 3: Dwelling in Villages and Cultivating the Dharma

Sutta 4: The Buddha's Renunciation of Food and the Nine Kinds of Food

Sutta 5: Cultivating Loving-Kindness and Its Unfathomable Virtues

Sutta 6: The Foremost Samadhi: Emptiness

Sutta 7: The Treacherous Plot of Siri-gupta and the Buddha's Miracles

Sutta 1: On Ten Meritorious Virtues

Sutta 2: On the Abode of the Sages

Sutta 3: On the Ten Powers of the Tathagata

Sutta 4: On the Ten Powers and Four Fearlessnesses

Sutta 6: On Ten Illegal Matters in Proximity to the State

Sutta 7: On the Ten Dharmas for the Endurance of Kings and Bhikkhus

Sutta 8: On the Difference Between the Buddha's Teachings and Other Schools

Sutta 9: On the Ten Thoughts

Sutta 10: On Overcoming Desire Through Impurity Contemplation

Sutta 11: The Ten Thoughts

Sutta 1: The Ten Laws of Existence

Sutta 2: The Roots of Evil and Their Consequences

Sutta 3: Generosity and True Illusion

Sutta 4: Discussions on the Dharma and Virtues

Sutta 5: The Nature of Alms-Seeking

Sutta 6: On Not Criticizing Kings and Nations

Sutta 7: Self-Cultivation and the Ten Practices

Sutta 8: The Principle of Pure Giving

Sutta 9: Eliminating Wrong Views and Cultivating Wholesome Actions

Sutta 10: The Lifespan of Beings and the Impermanence of Life

Sutta 1: The Karmic Consequences of Unwholesome Deeds

Sutta 2: The Purity of the Sangha and the Disappearance of the Dharma

Sutta 3: The Future Appearance of Maitreya Buddha

Sutta 4: The Names and Accounts of the Seven Buddhas

Sutta 5: The Merit of Equanimous Giving

Sutta 6: The Power of Diamond Samadhi and the Wisdom of Sariputta

Sutta 1: The Herdsman

Sutta 2: The Eleven Accomplishments

Sutta 3: Similar Natures

Sutta 4: The Story of Elephant Sariputra

Sutta 5: The Law of Dependent Origination

Sutta 6: The Discussion with Brahmin Shila

Sutta 7: On Eating at One Sitting

Sutta 8: On the Path of Shramanas and Brahmins

Sutta 9: On Devadatta's Demise

Sutta 10: On the Eleven Rewards of Loving-Kindness

Sutta 1: Honoring the Tathagata's Divine Temple

Sutta 2: The Practice of Salutation

Sutta 3: Homage to the Sangha

Sutta 4: The Cycle of Universal Monarchs and Decline

Sutta 5: The Four Types of Hell-Beings

Sutta 6: The Buddha's Omniscience of Destinies and Nirvana

Sutta 7: The Five Virtues of a Good Man or Woman

Sutta 8: On Improper Conduct and Misinterpretation of the Dharma

Sutta 9: The Immeasurable Kalpas

Sutta 10: The Eons and the Buddhas

Sutta 1: The Flow of Tears in Samsara

Sutta 2: The Flow of Blood in Samsara

Sutta 3: Contemplation of Impermanence

Sutta 4: The Five Hindrances and Five Fetters

Sutta 5: The Rise and Decline of Dharma

Sutta 6: Guarding the Six Sense Faculties

Sutta 7: The Story of Anathapindika's Sons and the Four Great Treasures

Sutta 8: Anathapindika's Heavenly Rebirth and Sariputta's Teaching

Sutta 9: The Four Types of Wives

Sutta 10: Birth and the Stages of Practice

Sutta 1: The Nirvana of Mahaprajapati Gautami

Sutta 2: Bhadra's Recollection of Past Lives

Sutta 3: The Immeasurable Length of a Kalpa

Sutta 4: The Immeasurable Length of a Kalpa

Sutta 5: The Five Virtues of Listening to the Dharma at the Right Time

Sutta 6: The Five Virtues of a Benefactor

Sutta 7: Where to Give Dana for Great Merit

Sutta 8: The Ten Evils and Their Retribution

Sutta 9: King Pasenadi's Ten Dreams

[full title]: Ekottarāgama; 增壹阿含經 [zēng yī ā hán jīng] (zeng yi a han jing)
[parallels]: Approximately corresponds to the Aṅguttaranikāya 'Numerically arranged discourses' from the Pāli Canon. Translated in 397. (Lancaster, 2004, 'K 650') English translations of the Aṅguttaranikāya from the Pāli: 1. Access to Insight 2013 2. Bodhi 2012
[parallels]: Access to Insight 2013, “Anguttara Nikaya: The Further-factored Discourses,” Access to Insight (Legacy Edition),
[parallels]: Thích Huyên-Vi 1983–1984, “Ekottarāgama I-XIV,” Buddhist Studies Review 1.2.
[primary source]: Gautama Saṅghadeva, translator, 《增壹阿含經》 'Ekottarāgama,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 2, No. 125
[colophon]: 增壹阿含經東晉瞿曇僧伽提婆譯共 51 卷 Ekottarāgama, Translated by Gautama Saṅghadeva in the Eastern Jin in 51 scrolls.

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Taisho: Chinese Buddhist Canon

Part 125 - Ekottara-Agama (Numbered Discourses)

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