This is the fourth volume of proceedings of the Āgama seminars convened by the Āgama Research Group at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (formerly Dharma Drum Buddhist College). It comprises nineteen studies, contributed by eighteen different scholars, on various themes related to the Connected Collections of discourses (suttas, sūtras) — Saṃyutta-nikāya in Pali, Saṃyukta-āgama in Sanskrit — transmitted by different early Buddhist lineages of reciters, preserved in their Indic originals in Gandhari, Pali and Sanskrit as well as in Chinese and Tibetan translations. This research draws attention to fundamental methodological points posed by the study of these scriptural collections as windows into the formation of early Buddhist texts and the organisation of their transmission.

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作者簡介

About the editor:

Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā
Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts

About the contributors:

Oskar von Hinüber
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Bhikkhu Anālayo
Universität Hamburg

Rupert Gethin
University of Bristol

Richard Salomon
University of Washington

Mark Allon
University of Sidney

Joseph Marino
University of Washington

Jin-il Chung (鄭鎮一)
Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen

Peter Skilling (Bhadra Rujirathat)
École française d’Extrême-Orient

Jens-Uwe Hartmann
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Yao Fumi (八尾 史)
Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies

Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā
Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts

Bhikkhu Pāsādika
Académie bouddhique Linh-Son

Bhikṣu Huimin (釋惠敏)
Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts
Taipei National University of the Arts

Karashima Seishi (辛嶋 靜志)
The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University

Marcus Bingenheimer
Temple University

Ken Su [Su Jinkun (蘇錦坤) ]
Āgama Research Group

Choong Mun-keat (鍾秉潔) [Wei-keat (煒傑)]
University of New England

Stefania Travagnin
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Contents
Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (DILA) Series
Bhikṣu Huimin
Preface
Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā

I. THE COLLECTIONS OF CONNECTED DISCOURSES: STRUCTURAL AND REDACTIONAL PRINCIPLES

The Sagātha-vagga in the Saṃyutta-nikāya: Formation and Vedic Background
Oskar von Hinüber

Peyāla in the Skandha-saṃyukta: Contraction and Expansion in Textual Transmission
Bhikkhu Anālayo

Reading Repetitions in the Saṃyutta-nikāya and Early Abhidhamma: From the Mahā-vagga to the Dhammasaṅgaṇi
Rupert Gethin

II. THE EARLY DISCOURSES: GANDHARAN CIRCULATION

Where are the Gandharan Sūtras? Some Reflections on the Contents of the Gandhari Manuscript Collections
Richard Salomon

A Gandhari Saṃyukta-āgama version of the ‘Discourse on Notself’ (Pali Anattalakkhaṇa-sutta, Sanskrit *Anātmalakṣaṇa-sūtra)
Mark Allon

The Gandhari ‘Discourse on Pleasure and Pain’: Some Thoughts on Similes and Textual Variation in the Connected Discourses
Joseph Marino

III. THE EARLY DISCOURSES: TRANSMISSION IN SANSKRIT

Towards a New Edition of the First Twenty-five Sūtras of the Nidāna-saṃyukta: Current State and Remaining Difficulties
Jin-il Chung (鄭鎮一)

‘Discourse on the Relative Value of the Varieties of Knowledge’ (Vidyāsthānopama-sūtra): A Translation
Peter Skilling (Bhadra Rujirathat)

IV. SCHOOL AFFILIATION:
MULTIPLE RECITATIONS AND INSTITUTIONAL IDENTITIES

Sanskrit Versions of the Āgamas: Schools, Regions and Editors
Jens-Uwe Hartmann

‘Mūlasarvāstivādin and Sarvāstivādin’: Oral Transmission Lineages of Āgama Texts
Bhikkhu Anālayo

V. SŪTRA QUOTATIONS AND REFERENCES: INTRA-, INTER-, CO- AND CROSS-TEXTUALITY

Traces of Incorporation: Some Examples of Saṃyukta-āgama Sūtras in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya
Yao Fumi (八尾 史)

Highlights from a Comparative Study of the Saṃyukta-āgama Quotations in the Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā
Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā

Saṃyukta-āgama Quotations in Yaśomitra’s Abhidharmakośavyākhyā
Bhikkhu Pāsādika

Cross-references to the Śrāvakabhūmi in the Saṃyukta-āgama’s Mātṛkā Transmitted in the Vastusaṃgrahaṇī of the Yogācārabhūmi
Bhikṣu Huimin (釋惠敏)

VI. ĀGAMAS IN CHINESE: TRANSLATION PROCESSES

The Underlying Languages of the Three Chinese Translations of the Saṃyukta-āgamas (Taishō nos. 99, 100 and 101) and their School Affiliations
Karashima Seishi (辛嶋 靜志)

A Study and Translation of the Yakṣa-saṃyukta in the Shorter Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama
Marcus Bingenheimer

Notes on the Translation and the Translator of the Shorter Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama
Ken Su [Su Jinkun] (蘇錦坤)

VII. CANON FORMATION AND TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP: PHILOLOGIES BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY
Ācāriya Buddhaghosa and Master Yinshun 印順on the Threeaṅga Structure of Early Buddhist Texts
Choong Mun-keat (鍾秉潔)

Assessing the Field of Āgama Studies in Twentieth-century China: With a Focus on Master Yinshun’s 印順 Three-aṅga Theory
Stefania Travagnin and Bhikkhu Anālayo