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Puṇya-sūtra of the Ekottarikāgama in Comparison with the Fu-jing 福經 of the Chinese Madhyamāgama

CHUNG Jin-il 1

1Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities

ABSTRACT

The school affiliation of the Chinese Madhyamāgama is one of the remaining unsolved questions in the field of Buddhist studies, and will remain unsolved, as long as the material basis does not change fundamentally. Nonetheless, the unexpected finds of the Ekottarikaand Dirghāgama manuscripts from Gilgit at the end of the last millennium and recent results of research on the manuscripts allow us for the first time to make a direct comparison of two sūtras with their counterparts in the Chinese Madhyamāgama at full length. A precise comparison between Puṇya-sūtra of the Ekottarikāgama and Fu-jing 福經 on the one hand, and between Śrutānṛśaṃsa-sūtra of the Dīrghāgama and Wende-jing 聞德經 on the other, will illustrate differences and similarities of the texts in concern. It might further contribute to a critical review of prevailing opinions on the relationship between the Chinese Madhyamāgama and the Sarvāstivāda tradition in general.

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