This is the Chinese Buddhist Canon known as the Taisho, or more specifically the “Taisho Revised Tripitaka” (Takakusu Junjiro 1988). The collection consists of thousands of scrolls including foundational texts such as Agamas, Mahayana Sutras, Vinaya, Abhidharma, Tantras, Jatakas and Avadanas (former birth stoeries), commentaries, histories, catalog...

Part 150a - Discourse on Seven Places and Three Subjects for Contemplation

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Sutta 1: Introduction to the Seven Places and Three Contemplations

Sutta 2: The Importance of Self-Control

Sutta 3: The Three Kinds of People

Sutta 4: The Four Attachments and Four Detachments

Sutta 5: The Four Distortions

Sutta 6: The Four Ways of Gathering Disciples

Sutta 7: The Four Factors of the Dharma Wheel

Sutta 8: The Four Kinds of People in Self-Protection

Sutta 9: Another Classification of Four Kinds of People

Sutta 10: The Four Kinds of Clouds and People

Sutta 11: The Four Abodes

Sutta 12: The Four Practices for Attaining Nirvana

Sutta 13: The Four Kinds of People a Householder Should Please

Sutta 14: The Causes of Human Suffering

Sutta 15: The Five Virtues of Giving

Sutta 16: The Five Qualities of Generosity

Sutta 17: The Five Factors that Hinder or Help Understanding the Dharma

Sutta 18: The Five Practices of Seeing Oneness

Sutta 19: The Five Hindrances

Sutta 20: The Five Virtues of Walking

Sutta 21: The Five Qualities for Dwelling in Solitude

Sutta 22: The Five Evils of Misconduct and Five Merits of Wholesome Conduct

Sutta 23: The Five Afflictions of Mutual Reliance

Sutta 24: The Five Evils and Five Virtues of Patience

Sutta 25: The Five Evils of Impatience

Sutta 26: The Five Characteristics of a Royal Elephant and a Bhikkhu

Sutta 27: The Five Evils and Five Merits of Not Relying on Others

Sutta 28: Desire as the Root of All Fears and Sufferings

Sutta 29: The Analogy of the Swollen Body

Sutta 30: The Buddha Says the Sutra on Piled Bones

Sutta 31: The Nine Causes of Untimely Death

Sutta 32: Two Difficult-to-Find People (I)

Sutta 33: Two Difficult-to-Find People (II)

Sutta 34: Two Difficult-to-Find People (III)

Sutta 35: Two Easy-to-Abhor People

Sutta 36: Two Difficult-to-Find People (IV)

Sutta 37: Two Difficult-to-Find People (V)

Sutta 38: Two Difficult-to-Find People (VI)

Sutta 39: Two Difficult-to-Overcome People

Sutta 40: The Two Pure Dharmas

Sutta 41: The Three Kinds of Eyes

Sutta 42: The Three Worlds

Sutta 43: The Three Practices of Faith

Sutta 44: The Three Joys of the Wise

Sutta 45: The Three Major Diseases and Three Major Medicines

Sutta 46: The Three Roots of Evil and Three Roots of Wholesome

Sutta 47: The Four Practices Known by the Wise

[full title]: Sutra on Seven Places and Three Subjects for Contemplation; 七處三觀經 [qī chù sān guān jīng] (qi chu san guan jing)
[parallels]: A collection of 47 sūtras, 30 which have counterparts in the Aṅguttara-nikāya.
[parallels]: Date 148-170 and detailed contents from Lancaster (2004, 'K 738')
[parallels]: Vetter, T. tr. 1998, "An Shigao's Chinese translation of the Saptasthāna-sūtra," Indica-et-Tibetica-Verlag.
[parallels]: References: FGDB, s.v. 七處三觀經.; Lancaster 2004, s.v. K 738.; Nanjio 1883, 157.; Zürcher 2013, p. 442.
[primary source]: An Shigao, translator, 《七處三觀經》 'Qi Chu San Guan Jing,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 2, No. 150a
[colophon]: 七處三觀經後漢安世高譯共 1 卷 Sutra on Seven Places and Three Subjects for Contemplation; Saptasthānasūtra; Qi Chu San Guan Jing; Translated by An Shigao in the Later Han in 1 scroll

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Taisho: Chinese Buddhist Canon

Part 150a - Discourse on Seven Places and Three Subjects for Contemplation

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