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Three Chinese Dīrgha-āgama
Discourses without Parallels
Bhikkhu Anālayo
Numata Center for Buddhist Studies, University of Hamburg &
Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts
2 ∙ R ESEARCH ON THE D ĪRGHA - ĀGAMA
Abstract
With the present paper I examine three discourses in the Dīrgha-

āgama preserved in Chinese translation (長阿含經, T 1) that are not
found in the collections of long discourses extant in Pali and San-
skrit. My presentation proceeds through four main parts: I begin by
surveying the extant collections of long discourses (I), followed by
turning to the three Dīrgha-āgama discourses that are without paral-
lels: DĀ 11, the Discourse Increasing by One, of which I provide a
translation (II); DĀ 12, the Discourse On the Three Groups, which is
similar in type and which I have translated elsewhere (III); and DĀ
30, the Discourse On a Record of the World (IV). The main thrust of
my investigation is towards gaining a better understanding of the
nature of these three discourses and to ascertain if they should be
reckoned as later additions to the Dīrgha-āgama extant in Chinese
translation.
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Contents
I. The Collections of Long Discourses

II. The Discourse Increasing by One (DĀ 11)
II.1 Translation
II.2 Study
III. The Discourse On the Three Groups (DĀ 12)
IV. The Discourse On a Record of the World (DĀ 30)
Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
I. The Collections of Long Discourses
The Vinayas of different Buddhist schools report that a division of

the scriptural collections into āgamas or nikāyas was already used at
the first “communal recitation”, saṅgīti,1 which according to the tra-
ditional account was held at Rājagṛha soon after the Buddha’s de-
cease. While the traditional accounts are of course influenced by
later conceptions of canonicity, the fact that in spite of various dif-
ferences they agree on this basic fourfold division makes it probable
that this way of arranging the discourse material for oral transmis-
sion is fairly early.
Most Vinayas first mention the collection of long discourses
when listing the four āgamas or nikāyas.2 Perhaps considerations of
length influenced this choice, in that the collection of long dis-
courses was placed before the collections of discourses that are of
middle or shorter length.3
1
On the term saṅgīti cf., e.g., Tilakaratne 2000 and Skilling 2009: 55–60.
2
The Dīrgha-āgama is mentioned in first place in the Dharmaguptaka
Vinaya, T 1428 at T XXII 968b19, the Mahāsāṅghika Vinaya, T 1425 at
XXII 491c16 (with a variant listing at 492c18), in the Mahīśāsaka Vina-
ya, T 1421 at T XXII 191a24, and in the Theravāda Vinaya, Vin II
287,16 (which does not list the order explicitly, although the position of
the Dīgha-nikāya is implicit in the circumstance that the Brahmajāla
(DN 1) and the Sāmaññaphala (DN 2) are on record as having been the
first discourses recited at the saṅgīti). An exception is the Mūlasarvāsti-
vāda Vinaya, T 1451 at T XXIV 407b27, which has the Saṃyukta-āgama
in first place. Translations of several of these Vinaya accounts can be
found in Przyluski 1926 and Anuruddha 2008.
3
Alternatively it could also be that this decision was influenced by the
principle of waxing syllables. According to this principle, words with
fewer syllables in a series of terms are followed by words with an equal
or a greater number of syllables; cf. in more detail Anālayo 2009. Fol-
lowing the principle of waxing syllables, the dīrgha would come in first
The principles used for allocating discourses to a particular āga-

ma or nikāya appear to have also affected the type of discourses that
are found in a particular collection. Thus, for example, the topics
chosen for the saṃyukta collections – which contain shorter dis-
courses arranged according to topic – are for the most part based on
themes such as conditionality, the five aggregates, the six senses,
and the constituents of the path to awakening. This naturally invests
the saṃyukta collections with an emphasis on doctrinal teachings.4
In the case of the dīrgha collections, the fact that debates and eulo-
gies easily tend to become prolonged appears to have resulted in a
corresponding emphasis on the Buddha’s ability to stand his ground
successfully in debate with non-Buddhist teachers, 5 together with
the inspiration to be gained from his exceptional nature and qualities.
According to the Sarvāstivāda *Vinayavibhāṣā (薩婆多毘尼毘婆沙),
the long discourses collected in the Dīrgha-āgama are in fact espe-
cially apt for the refutation of heterodox philosophies.6
Three collections of such long discourses are extant:7
position when the four āgamas/nikāyas are listed (as in the Vinaya ac-
counts mentioned in the previous note), because the term dīrgha is the
only one that has just two syllables. In an oral setting the order of
reciting the listing could then have influenced the actual placement of
the collections. Both of my suggestions remain speculative, however, as
I am not aware of any evidence that would support these hypotheses.
4
The point I intend to make is not that the saṃyukta collections are en-
tirely doctrinal, but only that doctrinal teachings are particularly promi-
nent in these collections.
5
On debates in the Dīgha-nikāya cf. Manné 1992.
6
T 1440 at T XXIII 504a1: 破諸外道, 是長阿含.
7
A Dīrgha-āgama had apparently been translated into Tibetan, but the
translation seems to have been lost during the persecution of Buddhism
under King Glang dar ma; cf. Skilling 1997: 96. Faxian (法顯) brought
a Dīrgha-āgama manuscript to China, which he had obtained in Sri
Lanka; cf. T 2085 at T LI 865c24. This was apparently never translated
– the Dīgha-nikāya transmitted by Theravāda reciters, containing

thirty-four discourses;
– substantial parts of the Dīrgha-āgama transmitted by Sarvāsti-
vāda and/or Mūlasarvāstivāda reciters, containing forty-seven
discourses;8
– the Dīrgha-āgama preserved in Chinese translation (長阿含), trans-
mitted by Dharmaguptaka reciters and containing thirty discourses.9
This Dīrgha-āgama is now found as entry no. 1 in the Taishō
edition. According to the information at our disposal, this collec-
tion was translated in the year 413 of the present era by Zhu Fo-
nian (竺佛念), based on an original recited by Buddhayaśas.
The table below gives an overview of the three collections, list-
ing the Dharmaguptaka Dīrgha-āgama discourses to the left and
their counterparts in the Theravāda Dīgha-nikāya and the Sarvāsti-
vāda and/or Mūlasarvāstivāda Dīrgha-āgama to the right.10
since by the time of his return the Dharmaguptaka Dīrgha-āgama had

already been translated; cf. Anālayo 2010a: 69–74. In addition to the
three collections now extant, individual discourses have been preserved
in Chinese or Tibetan translation, as well as in Indic language fragments.
8
Here and below, indications concerning the structure of this collection,
the names of the discourses, and their parallels are based on Hartmann
and Wille 2014.
9
On the school of the Dīrgha-āgama cf., e.g., Demiéville 1951: 252f, Lü
1963: 242, Bareau 1966, Waldschmidt 1980: 136, Mayeda 1985: 97,
Enomoto 1986: 25, Hirakawa 1987: 513, Schmithausen 1987: 318,
Brough 2001 [1962]: 50, Oberlies 2003: 44, Salomon 2007: 354 note 14,
and Willemen 2008: 60.
10
Surveys of this collection have been provided by Hartmann 2000, Hart-
mann 2002, Hartmann 2004, and Hartmann and Wille 2014. Editions of
discourses from this collection, listed in the order of their canonical placing,
are: Govinda-sūtra (14th): Sadakata 1999 and Sadakata 2006, Kāyabhāvanā-
sūtra (20th): Liu 2010, Bodha-sūtra (21st): Hartmann 2004 and Silverlock
2009, Śaṃkara-sūtra (22nd): Zhang 2004, Āṭānāta-sūtra (23rd): Sander
2007 and Dietz 2011, Tridaṇḍi-sūtra (25th): Matsuda 2006, Piṅgalātreya-
Table. Structural Overview of the Collections of Long Discourses
DĀ (Chin) DN DĀ (Skt)
1 大本經 14 Mahāpadāna-sutta 5 Mahāvadāna-sūtra

2 遊行經 16 Mahāparinibbāna-sutta 11
6 Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra
3 典尊經 19 Mahāgovinda-sutta 14 Govinda-sūtra
4 闍尼沙經 18 Janavasabha-sutta 13 Jinayabha-sūtra
5 小緣經 27 Aggañña-sutta
6 轉輪聖王修行經 26 Cakkavatti(sīhanāda)-sutta
7 弊宿經 23 Pāyāsi-sutta
8 散陀那經 25 Udumbarikasīhanāda-sutta
9 眾集經 33 Saṅgīti-sutta 3 Saṅgīti-sūtra
10 十上經 34 Dasuttara-sutta 1 Daśottara-sūtra
11 增一經
12 三聚經
13 大緣方便經 15 Mahānidāna-sutta
14 釋提桓因問經 21 Sakkapañha-sutta
15 阿㝹夷經 24 Pāṭika-sutta 9 Bhārgava-sūtra
16 善生經 31 Siṅgālovāda-sutta
sūtra (26th): Matsuda 2006 and Peipina 2008, Kairvarti-sūtra (29th): Zhou
2008, Kūṭatāṇḍya-sūtra (34th): von Criegern 2002, Ambaṣṭha-sūtra (35th):
Melzer 2006, Pṛṣṭhapāla-sūtra (36th): Melzer 2006 and Stuart 2013,
Kāraṇavādi-sūtra (37th): Melzer 2006, Pudgala-sūtra (38th): Melzer 2006,
Śruta-sūtra (39th): Melzer 2006, Mahalla-sūtra (40th): Melzer 2006, and
Anyatama-sūtra (41st): Melzer 2006. For a survey of work in progress cf.
Hartmann and Wille 2014: 142f.
11
In the Dīgha-nikāya the Mahāsudassana-sutta, DN 17, forms a separate
discourse.
DĀ (Chin) DN DĀ (Skt)
17 清淨經 29 Pāsādika-sutta 15 Prāsādika-sūtra12
18 自歡喜經 28 Sampasādanīya-sutta 16 Prasādanīya-sūtra
19 大會經 20 Mahāsamaya-sutta 24 Mahāsamāja-sūtra
20 阿摩晝經 3 Ambaṭṭha-sutta 35 Ambāṣṭha-sūtra

21 梵動經 1 Brahmajāla-sutta 47 Brahmajāla-sūtra
22 種德經 4 Soṇadaṇḍa-sutta 33 Śroṇatāṇḍya-sūtra
23 究羅檀頭經 5 Kūṭadanta-sutta 34 Kūṭatāṇḍya-sūtra
24 堅固經 11 Kevaddha-sutta 29 Kaivarti-sūtra
25 倮形梵志經 8 Kassapasīhanāda-sutta 46 Kāśyapa-sūtra
26 三明經 13 Tevijja-sutta 45 Vāsiṣṭha-sūtra
27 沙門果經 2 Sāmaññaphala-sutta 44 Rājā-sūtra
28 布吒婆樓經 9 Poṭṭhapāda-sutta 36 Pṛṣṭhapāla-sūtra
29 露遮經 12 Lohicca-sutta 27 Lohitya-sūtra (II)
30 世記經
The table conveys the impression that the Chinese Dīrgha-āgama is

somewhat closer to the Theravāda Dīgha-nikāya than to the Sarvās-
tivāda/Mūlasarvāstivāda Dīrgha-āgama. An exception is the Chin-
ese Dīrgha-āgama’s adoption of a fourfold division, a topic to
which I will return in a later part of my study.13
12
My presentation here follows Hartmann and Wille 2014: 140; the indication
in Hartmann 2004: 126, which relates DĀ (Skt) 15 Prāsādika-sūtra to DN
28 Sampasādanīya-sutta, and DĀ (Skt) 16 Prasādanīya-sūtra to DN 29
Pāsādika-sutta, reflects the then still unclear correspondences, which
thanks to a more detailed study of the fragments have been clarified in
the meantime.
13
The introduction to the Dīrgha-āgama explicitly draws attention to this
fourfold division; cf. T I 1a12: 此《長阿含》四分. The indication by Hart-
The impression of closeness finds confirmation when examining

the situation from the viewpoint of the Dīgha-nikāya. Out of the
forty-seven discourses in the Sarvāstivāda/Mūlasarvāstivāda Dīrgha-
āgama, eleven are without known parallels anywhere in the four Pali
Nikāyas;14 and another twelve discourses are not found in the Dīgha-
nikāya, but only in other Nikāyas.15 Together these amount to twenty-
three discourses not shared with the Dīgha-nikāya, which correspond
to 49% of the Sarvāstivāda/Mūlasarvāstivāda Dīrgha-āgama. In the
case of the thirty discourses of the Dharmaguptaka collection, three
are without counterparts in the Dīgha-nikāya, corresponding to 10%
of the Dharmaguptaka Dīrgha-āgama.
mann and Wille 2014: 139 that “all three versions of the Long Dis-
courses are divided into three sections” and that each of the sections of
the Chinese collection contains 10 discourses does not seem to be cor-
rect. In the Taishō edition the second section begins with the fifth dis-
course (cf. T I 36b28: 第二分), the third section with the twentieth dis-
course (cf. T I 82a6: 第三分), and the fourth section then contains just
DĀ 30 (cf. T I 114b7: 第四分). A correct description of the Chinese
Dīrgha-āgama can be found in Choi 2012a: 77f and Choi 2012b: 18f
(included in the list of works cited in Hartmann and Wille 2014: 154),
whose tables and descriptions reflect the four divisions and the distribu-
tion of the discourses in these divisions as they are found in the Chinese
collection.
14
These are the Arthavistara-sūtra (2nd), the Catuṣpariṣat-sūtra (4th), the
Sarveka(?)-sūtra (8th), the Māyājāla-sūtra (18th), the Tridaṇḍi-sūtra (25th),
the Piṅgalātreya-sūtra (26th), the first Lohitya-sūtra (27th), the second
Maṇḍīśa-sūtra (31st), the Kāraṇavādi-sūtra (37th), the Śruta-sūtra (39th),
the Mahalla-sūtra (40th), and the Anyatama-sūtra (41st).
15
These are: the Apannaka-sūtra (7) ≈ (perhaps) MN 60, the Śalya-sūtra (10)
≈ MN 105, the Bhayabhairava-sūtra (11) ≈ MN 4, the Roma(harṣa)ṇa-
sūtra (12) ≈ MN 12, the Pañcatraya-sūtra (17) ≈ MN 102, the Kāmaṭhika-
sūtra (19) ≈ MN 95, the Kāyabhāvanā-sūtra (20) ≈ MN 36, the Bodha-
sūtra (21) ≈ MN 85, the Śaṃkara-sūtra (22) ≈ MN 100, the Pudgala-
sūtra (38) ≈ MN 51 / AN 4.198, and the Jīvaka-sūtra (43) ≈ MN 55.
In what follows, I examine the three discourses in the Chinese Dīrgha-

āgama that are without parallels:16
– DĀ 11, the Discourse Increasing by One,
– DĀ 12, the Discourse On the Three Groups,
– DĀ 30, the Discourse On a Record of the World.
II. The Discourse

Increasing by One (DĀ 11)
The Discourse Increasing by One (DĀ 11) and the Discourse On the
Three Groups (DĀ 12) occur after the Chinese Dīrgha-āgama ver-
sions of the Saṅgīti-sūtra (DĀ 9) and the Daśottara-sūtra (DĀ 10).17
These four discourses are of a similar nature, in that they provide
lists of doctrinal items.
The list in the different versions of the Saṅgīti-sūtra has as its
main structural element the progression from Ones to Tens, under
which various numbers of doctrinal items are arranged.
The Daśottara-sūtra differs in so far as it invariably assigns ten
items to each of the numerical divisions from Ones to Tens. More-
over, these ten items follow a consistently applied thematic pattern
for each exposition, from Ones to Tens. The thematic pattern pro-
ceeds as follows in the case of the Chinese version:
– “greatly successful”, 多成,
– to be “cultivated”, 修,
– to be “understood”, 覺,
16
For a study of two discourses in T 100 that are without parallels cf. Bin-
genheimer 2013.
17
My use of Sanskrit discourse titles is simply for the sake of ease of
presentation and does not imply taking a stance on the language of the
text that formed the basis for the Chinese translation of the Dīrgha-
āgama, which would have been in a Prakrit.
– to be “extinguished”, 滅,
– leading to “decline”, 退,
– leading to “increase”, 增,
– “difficult to comprehend”, 難解,
– to be “aroused”, 生,
– to be “known”, 知,
– to be “realized”, 證.18
Such a clearly structured discourse is certainly easier to memo-
rize than the listing given in the Saṅgīti-sūtra, where the items under
each number vary considerably and also do not follow a consistent
thematic pattern. Thus the Daśottara-sūtra would have been of con-
siderable appeal to disciples who were not part of the circle of pro-
fessional reciters, but who nevertheless wished to learn by heart
such a summary of the teachings.19
The Discourse Increasing by One proceeds in a similar way to
the Daśottara-sūtra, with the difference that, instead of using ten
topics, it works through the listing of Ones to Tens based on five
topics.
In what follows, I translate this discourse.
18
For the case of the Ones cf. DĀ 10 at T I 53a2, where for the first quality
here and below in the translation of DĀ 11 I follow a variant reading that
adds 多 to 成.
19
For a more detailed study of the function of such summaries cf. An-
ālayo 2014.
II.1 Translation
Discourse Increasing by One20
Thus I heard. At one time the Buddha was at Śrāvastī in Jeta’s
Grove, the park [given by] Anāthapiṇḍada, accompanied by a great
community of one thousand two hundred and fifty monks.
At that time the Blessed One said to the monks: “I will teach you the
sublime Dharma, whose words in the beginning, middle, and end are
all true and correct, which is flavoured with meaning and endowed
with the purity of the holy life, that is to say, states increasing by
one. Listen and pay proper attention to what I will teach you.” [57c]
Then the monks received the instruction and listened.
1. The Buddha said to the monks: “States increasing by one are [as
follows]: that is to say, one state is greatly successful,21 one state is
to be cultivated, one state is to be understood, one state is to be ex-
tinguished, and one state is to be realized.
1.1 “What one state is greatly successful? It is: not neglecting
wholesome states.
20
DĀ 11 at T I 57b25 to 59b8. I have added numbering to the translation
in order to make it easier to recognize the underlying structure. In order
not to overburden the notes to this translation, I have taken into account
only what seemed relevant from the material in the parallels to the pre-
ceding discourse in the Dīrgha-āgama (DĀ 10 at T I 52c17 to T I 57b24),
found in the Sarvāstivāda/Mūlasarvāstivāda and the Theravāda collec-
tions; cf. Mittal 1957 and Schlingloff 1962, as well as DN 34 at DN III
272,1 to DN III 292,7. Thus my survey does not cover another parallel
to DĀ 10, preserved individually in Chinese translation: T 13 at T I
233b23 to T I 241c19. A comparative study of DĀ 10 in the light of all
its three parallels can be found in de Jong 1979 [1966].
21
My translation follows a variant reading that adds 多 to 成.
1.2 “What one state is to be cultivated? It is: constant mindfulness of

one’s own body.
1.3 “What one state is to be understood? It is: being contacted by the
influxes.
1.4 “What one state is to be extinguished? It is: the conceit ‘I am.’
1.5 “What one state is to be realized? It is: the unimpeded liberation
of the mind.22
2. “Again, two states are greatly successful, two states are to be cul-
tivated, two states are to be understood, two states are to be extin-
guished, and two states are to be realized.
2.1 “What two states are greatly successful? They are: knowing
shame and knowing fear of wrongdoing.23
2.2 “What two states are to be cultivated? They are: tranquillity and
insight.
2.3 “What two states are to be understood? They are: name and form.
2.4 “What two states are to be extinguished? They are: ignorance

and craving for existence.
2.5 “What two states are to be realized? They are: knowledge and
liberation.
22
DĀ 11 at T I 57c6: 無礙心解脫, found similarly in DĀ 10 at T I 53a10; on
which de Jong 1979 [1966]: 255 comments: “asaṅgā cetovimuktiḥ?” The
Indic language parallels to DĀ 10 speak of akopyā cetovimuktiḥ or akup-
pā cetovimutti; cf. Mittal 1957: 55 (§i.10) and DN 34 at DN III 273,13.
23
The Indic language parallels to DĀ 10 instead list mindfulness and clear
comprehension; cf. Mittal 1957: 56 (§ii.1) and DN 34 at DN III 273,22.
The qualities of shame and fear of wrongdoing do occur elsewhere in
the Sanskrit fragment version, where they are found instead under the
heading of two states that lead to distinction; cf. Mittal 1957: 56 (§ii.6).
3. “Again, three states are greatly successful, three states are to be

cultivated, three states are to be understood, three states are to be
extinguished, and three states are to be realized.
3.1 “What three states are greatly successful? The first is associating
with good friends, the second is [lending] an ear to hear the Dharma,
and the third is becoming accomplished in the Dharma [in accord-
ance with] the Dharma.24
3.2 “What three states are to be cultivated? They are the three con-
centrations: concentration on emptiness, concentration on signless-
ness,25 and concentration on non-activity.26
3.3 “What three states are to be understood? They are: painful feel-
ing, pleasant feeling, and neutral feeling.27
3.4 “What three states are to be extinguished? They are the three
cravings: craving for sensual pleasures, craving for existence, and
craving for non-existence.28
24
The third state mentioned in the Sanskrit fragment parallel to DĀ 10 is
rather “thorough attention”, yoniśo manasikāraḥ; cf. Mittal 1957: 58 (§iii.1).
25
Adopting the variant 相 instead of 想; on this type of variation cf. An-
ālayo 2011a: 274f note 54.
26
The Indic language parallels to DĀ 10 list another set of three concen-
trations: with vitarka and vicāra, without vitarka but still with vicāra,
and without both; cf. Mittal 1957: 58 (§iii.2) and DN 34 at DN III
274,25. On the significance of these two absorption factors cf., e.g.,
Cousins 1992 and Anālayo 2013a: 79–84.
27
The Sanskrit fragment parallel to DĀ 10 lists the three types of becom-
ing, bhava; cf. Mittal 1957: 58 (§iii.3).
28
The Sanskrit fragment parallel to DĀ 10 has craving for immateriality as
its third; cf. Mittal 1957: 59 (§iii.4). This reflects a recurrent difference,
where references in Dharmaguptaka and Theravāda discourses to the
three types of craving, with non-existence as the third, are not found in this
way in Sarvāstivāda and Mūlasarvāstivāda counterparts; cf. also Choong
2000: 166, Delhey 2009: 69 note 4, and Anālayo 2011a: 70 note 216.
3.5 “What three states are to be realized? They are the three knowl-
edges: the knowledge of recollection of past lives, the knowledge of
the divine eye, and the knowledge of the destruction of the in-
fluxes.29
4. “Again, four states are greatly successful, four states are to be
cultivated, four states are to be understood, four states are to be ex-
tinguished, and four states are to be realized.
4.1 “What four states are greatly successful? The first is dwelling in
the middle country (madhyadeśa), the second is associating with
good friends, the third is self-restraint, and the fourth is having
planted wholesome roots in the past.30
4.2 “What four states are to be cultivated? They are the four estab-
lishments of mindfulness: In regard to the internal body a monk con-
templates the body, diligently without negligence, with recollective
mindfulness that is not lost, abandoning lust and discontent for the
world; in regard to an external body he contemplates the body, dili-
gently without remiss, with recollective mindfulness that is not lost,
abandoning lust and discontent for the world; in regard to the inter-
nal and an external body he contemplates the body, diligently with-
out remiss, with recollective mindfulness that is not lost, abandoning
lust and discontent for the world. Contemplating feeling … mind …
and dharmas is also like this.31
4.3 “What four states are to be understood? They are the four nutri-
ments: the nutriment of morsels [of edible food], the nutriment of
29
The Sanskrit fragment parallel to DĀ 10 qualifies these three as being
beyond training, aśaikṣa; cf. Mittal 1957: 60 (§iii.10).
30
Adopting the variant 植 instead of 殖.
31
The Indic language parallels to DĀ 10 do not bring in the distinction
between internal and external mindfulness practice; cf. Mittal 1957: 61
(§iv.2) and DN 34 at DN III 276,10.
contact, the nutriment of [intentional] thought, and the nutriment of

consciousness.
4.4 “What four states are to be extinguished? They are the four
clingings: Clinging to sensual pleasures, clinging to a self, clinging
to precepts, and clinging to views.32
4.5 “What four states are to be realized? They are the four fruits of
recluseship: the fruit of stream-entry, the fruit of once-return, the
fruit of non-return, and the fruit of arhatship.33
5. “Again, five states are greatly successful, five states are to be cul-
tivated, five states are to be understood, five states are to be extin-
guished, and five states are to be realized.
5.1 “What five states are greatly successful? They are the five limbs
of exertion:34 the first is faith in the Buddha, the Tathāgata, the arhat,
who is endowed with ten epithets; [58a] the second is being without
illness, with a body that is constantly at ease; the third is being hon-
est without crookedness, truly arousing the Tathāgata’s path to Nir-
32
The Pali parallel to DĀ 10, DN 34 at DN III 276,19, lists the four floods
(ogha) of sensuality, becoming, views, and ignorance.
33
The Sanskrit fragment parallel to DĀ 10, Mittal 1957: 64f (§iv.10), in-
stead mentions things to be realized directly (literally ‘with the body’),
through recollection, through the [divine] eye, and through wisdom. A
similar set, although in a different sequence, can be found in the Pali
parallel to DĀ 9, DN 33 at DN III 230,7, according to which recollec-
tion of past lives is to be realized through recollection, the passing away
and re-arising (of beings) is to be realized through the [divine] eye, the
eight liberations are to be realized directly, and the destruction of the in-
fluxes is to be realized through wisdom.
34
DĀ 11 at T I 57c29: 五滅盡支 (with 枝 as a variant for 支), a rendering
which would go back to an original prahāṇa instead of pradhāna; on
this type of difference cf., e.g., Bapat 1969: 5, Minh Chau 1991 [1964]:
327, and Gethin 1992: 70–72.
vāṇa; the fourth is having a collected mind that is not confused, [be-
ing able] to recite without forgetfulness; the fifth is being skilled in
contemplating the rise and fall of phenomena, and through noble
practice extinguishing the roots of duḥkha.
5.2 “What five states are to be cultivated? They are the five faculties:
the faculty of faith, the faculty of energy, the faculty of mindfulness,
the faculty of concentration, and the faculty of wisdom.35
5.3 “What five states are to be understood? They are the five aggre-
gates of clinging: the bodily form aggregate of clinging, the feeling …
perception … formations … and consciousness aggregate of clinging.
5.4 “What five states are to be extinguished? They are the five hin-
drances: the hindrance of lustful sensual desire, the hindrance of ill
will, the hindrance of sloth-and-torpor, the hindrance of restlessness-
and-worry,36 and the hindrance of doubt.
5.5 “What five states are to be realized? They are the five groups
that are beyond training (aśaikṣa): the group of morality beyond
training, the group of concentration beyond training, the group of wis-
dom beyond training, the group of liberation beyond training, and the
group of knowledge and vision of liberation beyond training.37
6. “Again, six states are greatly successful, six states are to be culti-
vated, six states are to be understood, six states are to be extin-
guished, and six states are to be realized.
35
The Pali parallel to DĀ 10, DN 34 at DN III 277,25, instead lists five-
fold right concentration.
36
DĀ 11 at T I 58a7: 掉戱蓋, where the second character has rather the
sense of “frivolity”.
37
The Indic language parallels to DĀ 10 do not qualify these five as being
beyond training; cf. Mittal 1957: 74 (§v.10) and DN 34 at DN III 279,14;
the Sanskrit fragment version does, however, introduce them with the
qualification “noble”.
6.1 “What six states are greatly successful? They are: the six prin-
ciples of respect. Supposing a monk cultivates the six principles of
respect, which should be esteemed and respected, for being in har-
mony with the community and without dispute, not different from
practising alone. What are the six? Thus a monk constantly acts with
benevolence (maitrī), extending it to [his companions] in the culti-
vation of the holy life, being established in a mental attitude of af-
fectionate goodwill – this is called a principle of respect, which
should be esteemed and respected, for being in harmony with the
community and without dispute, not different from practising alone.
“Again, a monk speaks with benevolence …
“[Again], he thinks with benevolence …
“[Again], he shares with others his own supplies, up to what has re-
mained in his bowl, without keeping it back from them …
“Again, a monk does not violate the precepts that are practised by
the noble ones, does not break them and is without a stain [in this
respect], as praised by the wise, being well endowed with the up-
holding of the precepts …
“[Again], he is accomplished in right view, which is noble and trans-
cending, and which evenly eradicates duḥkha, extending [this men-
tal attitude] to all [companions] in the holy life – this is called a
principle of respect, which should be esteemed and respected, for
being in harmony with the community and without dispute, not dif-
ferent from practising alone.
6.2 “What six states are to be cultivated? They are the six recollec-
tions: recollection of the Buddha, recollection of the Dharma, recol-
lection of the Community, recollection of morality, recollection of
charity, and recollection of devas.38
38
The Sanskrit fragment parallel to DĀ 10, Mittal 1957: 76 (§vi.2), instead
speaks of remaining balanced with what is experienced through the six
6.3 “What six states are to be understood? They are the six internal
spheres: the eye sphere, the ear sphere, the nose sphere, the tongue
sphere, the body sphere, and the mind sphere.
6.4 “What six states are to be extinguished? They are the six crav-
ings: craving for forms, craving for sounds, craving for odours, crav-
ing for tastes, craving for tangibles, and craving for mental objects.
6.5 “What six states are to be realized? They are the six higher
knowledges: the first is the higher knowledge of supernormal abili-
ties, the second is the higher knowledge of the divine ear, the third is
the higher knowledge of knowing the minds of others, the fourth is
the higher knowledge of recollecting past lives, the fifth is the high-
er knowledge of the divine eye, and the sixth is the higher
knowledge of the eradication of the influxes.
7. “Again, seven states are greatly successful, seven states are to be
cultivated, seven states are to be understood, seven states are to be
extinguished, and seven states are to be realized.
7.1 “What seven states are greatly successful? They are the seven
assets: the asset of faith, the asset of morality, the asset of shame,
the asset of fear of wrongdoing, the asset of learning, the asset of
charity, and the asset of wisdom.39 These are the seven assets.
7.2 “What seven states are to be cultivated? They are: the seven
awakening factors. Thus a monk cultivates the awakening factor of
mindfulness in dependence on dispassion, [58b] in dependence on ces-
sation, and in dependence on seclusion; he cultivates the [awakening
factor] of [investigation of] phenomena … he cultivates the [awak-
ening factor] of energy … he cultivates the [awakening factor] of
senses. A similar quality can be found in the Pali parallel to DĀ 9, DN

33 at DN III 250,14.
39
Adopting the variant 慧 instead of 惠.
joy … he cultivates the [awakening factor] of tranquillity … he cul-

tivates the [awakening factor] of concentration … he cultivates the
[awakening factor] of equanimity in dependence on dispassion, in
dependence on cessation, and in dependence on seclusion.40
7.3 “What seven states are to be understood? They are: the seven
stations of consciousness. Suppose living beings are of different
body and different perception, [such as some] devas and humans –
this is the first station of consciousness.
“Again, there are living beings of different body but of the same
perception, such as the Brahmā devas at the time of their first being
born – this is the second station of consciousness.41
“Again, there are living beings of the same body and different per-
ception, such as the Ābhāsvara devas – this is the third station of
consciousness.
“Again, there are living beings of the same body and the same per-
ception, such as the Śubhakṛtsna devas – this is the fourth station of
consciousness.
“Again, there are living beings established in the sphere of [infinite]
space – this is the fifth station of consciousness.
40
The Pali parallel to DĀ 10, DN 34 at DN III 282,7, simply lists the seven
awakening factors, without indicating on what their cultivation depends
(which usually comprises four aspects, with seclusion in first place and
the fourth aspect then being that the awakening factors culminate in let-
ting go). The Sanskrit fragments edited in Mittal 1957 have not pre-
served this part of the discourse.
41
My translation here and below (in relation to the nine states to be under-
stood) is based on emending 梵光音天 to 梵天, on the assumption that the
reading for the next station of consciousness, 光音天, has in the course of
transmission or translation influenced the formulation for this station of
consciousness. The use of 梵光音天 is a recurrent pattern in descriptions of
the stations of consciousness in the Dīrgha-āgama; cf. also Behrsing 1930:
51 note 92.

consciousness – this is the sixth station of consciousness.
“Again, there are living beings established in the sphere of nothing-
ness – this is the seventh station of consciousness.
7.4 “What seven states are to be extinguished? They are the states of
the seven underlying tendencies: the underlying tendency to craving
for sensual pleasures, the underlying tendency to craving for be-
coming, the underlying tendency to views, the underlying tendency
to conceit, the underlying tendency to resistance, the underlying ten-
dency to ignorance, and the underlying tendency to doubt.42
7.5 “What seven states are to be realized? They are: the seven pow-
ers of one who has eradicated the influxes. Thus, a monk who has
eradicated the influxes has understood and seen as it really is the
entirety of duḥkha, its arising, its cessation, its gratification, 43 its
danger, and the escape [from it].
“He contemplates sensual pleasures as being like a fiery pit or like a
knife or sword, [so when] he knows sensual pleasures and sees sen-
sual pleasures, he does not lust for sensual pleasures and his mind
does not dwell on sensual pleasures. Herein having further well ex-
amined them and having gained knowledge as it really is, vision as it
really is, he does not give rise to sensual lust in the world, to evil
and unwholesome states, and he is without influxes.
“He cultivates the four establishments of mindfulness, cultivating
them much and practising them much … the five faculties … the
42
The order of enumeration differs from the standard presentation of the
underlying tendencies in the Pali discourses which, e.g. in the case of
DN 24 at DN III 282,17, proceeds as follows: sensual desire (1), re-
sistance (2), view (3), doubt (4), conceit (5), desire for becoming (6), and
ignorance (7).
43
My translation follows an emendation in the CBETA edition of 昧 to 味.
five powers … the seven awakening factors … the noble eightfold

path, cultivating it much and practising it much.44
8. “Again, eight states are greatly successful, eight states are to be
cultivated, eight states are to be understood, eight states are to be
extinguished, and eight states are to be realized.
8.1 “What eight states are greatly successful? They are: the eight
causes and conditions for gaining the wisdom in the holy life that
has not yet been gained, and for increasing the wisdom in the holy
life that has been gained. What are the eight?
“In this way a monk dwells in dependence on the Blessed One, or in
dependence on a senior teacher, or in dependence on a wise com-
panion in the holy life, and having affection and esteem [for them]
he arouses a mental attitude of shame and fear of wrongdoing – this
is the first cause and condition for gaining the wisdom in the holy
life that has not yet been gained, and for increasing the wisdom in
the holy life that has been gained.
“Again, dwelling in dependence on the Blessed One … at the proper
time he asks questions: ‘What is the meaning of this teaching. How
does one give rise to it?’ The Blessed One discloses to him its deep
meaning – this is the second cause and condition …45
44
The Pali parallel to DĀ 10, DN 34 at DN III 284,3, does not mention
the five powers, but only the five faculties; cf. also Anālayo 2014: 52.
Its additional quality (3rd) then is being inclined to and intent on seclu-
sion, viveka. In relation to the first in this set, DN 34 at DN III 283,15
speaks of having seen the impermanent nature of all formations. While
the Sanskrit fragments edited in Mittal 1957 have not preserved this
part of the discourse, a Sanskrit fragment parallel to this item can be
found in fragment Or. 15009/164 (Hoernle 149/185), Hartmann 1991:
135f (§62) and Melzer 2009: 208.
45
Adopting the variant 世尊 instead of 尊長.
Since he has heard the teaching, his body and mind are happy and
calm – this is the third cause and condition …46
“He does not join various unprofitable discussions which obstruct
the path. When he arrives among the community, either he teaches
the Dharma himself or he invites another to teach it; yet he also does
not neglect noble silence – this is the fourth cause and condition …47
“He is widely learned, retaining without loss the deep teachings
which are good in the beginning, middle, and end, [58c] which are
flavoured with meaning and truth, and endowed with the holy life;
what he has heard enters his mind and his view does not fluctuate –
this is the fifth cause and condition …
“He cultivates energy for the cessation of unwholesome activities
and the daily increase of wholesome activities, he makes an effort
and keeps firm, does not neglect these [wholesome] states – this is
the sixth cause and condition …
“Again, he knows the rise and fall of phenomena, through wisdom
aroused by noble ones, and is able to eradicate duḥkha completely –
this is the seventh cause and condition …48
“Again, he contemplates the five aggregates of clinging, the mark of
their arising and the mark of their cessation:49 this is bodily form,
this is the arising of bodily form, and this is the cessation of bodily
form; this is feeling … perception … formations … consciousness,
this is the arising of consciousness, and this is the cessation of con-
46
The parallels to DĀ 10 speak of a twofold withdrawal (vyapakarṣa/
vūpakāsa) by body and mind; cf. Mittal 1957: 84 (§viii.1.3) and DN 34 at
DN III 285,13.
47
The fourth condition in the Pali parallel to DĀ 10, DN 34 at DN III
285,16, instead mentions being virtuous and restrained by the precepts.
48
Adopting the variant 起 instead of 趣.
49
Adopting the variant 相 instead of 想; for a discussion and several exam-
ples where these two characters appear to have been confounded with
each other cf. Anālayo 2011a: 274 note 54.
sciousness – this is the eighth cause and condition for gaining the
wisdom in the holy life that has not yet been gained, and for increas-
ing the wisdom in the holy life that has been gained.
8.2 “What eight states are to be cultivated? They are the [factors of
the] noble eightfold path: right view, right intention, right speech,
right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and
right concentration.
8.3 “What eight states are to be understood? They are the eight
worldly conditions: gain and loss, infamy and fame, praise and
blame, pain and happiness.
8.4 “What eight states are to be extinguished? They are the eight
[types of] wrongness: wrong view, wrong intention, wrong speech,
wrong action, wrong livelihood, wrong effort, wrong mindfulness,
and wrong concentration.
8.5 “What eight states are to be realized? They are the eight libera-
tions: having form one contemplates forms – this is the first libera-
tion. Not perceiving form internally one contemplates forms exter-
nally – this is the second liberation.50 The liberation by purity – this
is the third liberation.51 Surpassing perceptions of form, with the dis-
appearing of perceptions of resistance one dwells in the sphere of
[infinite] space – this is the fourth liberation. Surpassing the sphere
of [infinite] space, one dwells in the sphere of [infinite] conscious-
50
My translation follows an emendation suggested in the CBETA edition
of 有 to 無.
51
The Indic language parallels to DĀ 10 speak of the liberation by beauty,
śubhavimokṣa, or else of being determined on beauty, subhan’ t’ eva
adhimutto; cf. Mittal 1957: 93 (§viii.7) (where this comes as the seventh
instead of the tenth in the tenfold exposition of Eights and thus forms the
exposition of the eight things that are difficult to penetrate; cf. also Pau-
ly 1957: 290) and DN 34 at DN III 288,2 (to be supplemented from DN
III 262,1).
ness – this is the fifth liberation. Surpassing the sphere of [infinite]

consciousness, one dwells in the sphere of nothingness – this is the
sixth liberation. Surpassing the sphere of nothingness, one dwells in
the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception – this is the sev-
enth liberation. Surpassing the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-
perception, one dwells in the cessation of perception and knowing –
this is the eighth liberation.
9. “Again, nine states are greatly successful, nine states are to be
cultivated, nine states are to be understood, nine states are to be ex-
tinguished, and nine states are to be realized.
9.1 “What nine states are greatly successful? They are the states of
the nine factors of exertion for purification: the factor of exertion for
purification of morality, the factor of exertion for purification of the
mind, the factor of exertion for purification of view, the factor of
exertion for purification by surmounting doubt, the factor of exer-
tion for purification by distinguishing [what is the path from what is
not the path], the factor of exertion for purification by [knowledge
and vision of] the path, the factor of exertion for purification by
elimination, the factor of exertion for purification by dispassion, and
the factor of exertion for purification by liberation.52
52
The Indic language parallels to DĀ 10 have as the fifth to eighth factors
in their list: 5) knowledge and vision of what is the path and what is not
the path, 6) knowledge and vision of the path, 7) knowledge and vision, 8)
wisdom; cf. Schlingloff 1962: 18 (§ix.1) and DN 34 at DN III 288,20
(where this is the second set in the list of Nines and thus describes the
nine things that are to be cultivated). While in the case of the fifth and
sixth factors it is possible that the description in DĀ 11 has preserved part
of a similar expression (hence my supplementations), in the case of the
seventh and eighth factors the original used for translation must have
been different.
9.2 “What nine states are to be cultivated? They are the nine states
that are a root of joy: the first is joy [itself], the second is affection,
the third is delight, the fourth is happiness, the fifth is concentration,
the sixth is knowledge as it really is, the seventh is relinquishing, the
eighth is dispassion, and the ninth is liberation.53
9.3 “What nine states are to be understood? They are the nine abodes
of living beings: There are living beings of different body and dif-
ferent perception, such as some devas and humans – this is the first
abode of living beings.
“Again, there are living beings of different body but of the same
perception, such as the Brahmā devas at the time of their first being
born – this is the second abode of living beings.
“Again, there are living beings of the same body and different per-
ception, such as the Ābhāsvara devas – this is the third abode of liv-
ing beings.
“Again, there are living beings of the same body and the same per-
ception, such as the Śubhakṛtsna devas – this is the fourth abode of
living beings.
“[Again, there are living beings] without perception, who do not feel
or know anything, such as the unconscious devas – this is the fifth
abode of living beings.
space [59a] – this is the sixth abode of living beings.
consciousness – this is the seventh abode of living beings.
“Again, there are living beings established in the sphere of nothing-
ness – this is the eighth abode of living beings.
53
The Pali parallel to DĀ 10, DN 34 at DN III 288,8, has a similar list as
its first quality, with the difference that it indicates how each quality
leads on to the next. As already noted by Schlingloff 1962: 18 note 2,
the same is also the case for a similar listing in the Mahāvyutpatti
§§1585–1595; cf. Sakaki 1962 [1916]: 127f.
“Again, there are living beings established in the sphere of neither-per-

ception-nor-non-perception – this is the ninth abode of living beings.
9.4 “What nine states are to be extinguished? They are the nine
[states] that are rooted in craving: in dependence on craving there is
searching, in dependence on searching there is gain, in dependence
on gain there is use, in dependence on use there is desire, in depend-
ence on desire there is attachment, in dependence on attachment
there is jealousy, in dependence on jealousy there is guarding, in de-
pendence on guarding there is protection.54
9.5 “What nine states are to be realized? They are the nine eradica-
tions: Entering the first absorption, the thorn of sound ceases.55 En-
tering the second absorption, the thorn of [directed] awareness and
[sustained] contemplation ceases. Entering the third absorption, the
thorn of rapture ceases. Entering the fourth absorption, the thorn of
breathing in and out ceases. Entering the sphere of [infinite] space,
the thorn of the perception of form ceases. Entering the sphere of
[infinite] consciousness, the thorn of the perception of space ceases.
Entering the sphere of nothingness, the thorn of the perception of
consciousness ceases. 56 Entering the sphere of neither-perception-
54
The Pali parallel to DĀ 10, DN 34 at DN III 289,6, indicates that such
protection leads to the taking up of weapons, quarrelling, and falsehood.
55
The Pali parallel to DĀ 10, DN 34 at DN III 290,6 (to be supplemented
from DN III 266,6), instead highlights that with the attainment of the
first absorption, perceptions of sensuality cease. That sound is a thorn
for the first absorption is stated elsewhere in the Pali discourses, how-
ever; cf. AN 10.72 at AN V 135,1 (the same position is also taken in its
parallel MĀ 84 at T I 561a7). While the Sanskrit fragments edited in
Mittal 1957 have not preserved this part of the discourse, a Sanskrit
fragment parallel to this item can be found in Or.15009/542 (Hoernle
149/Add.2), Hartmann 1991: 140 (§67).
56
Here and with the next two items, my translation follows an emendation
in the CBETA edition of 剌 to 刺, in keeping with the character used
earlier.
nor-non-perception, the thorn of the perception of nothingness ceas-

es. Entering the concentration on cessation, the thorn of perception
and feeling ceases.
10. “Again, ten states are greatly successful, ten states are to be cul-
tivated, ten states are to be understood, ten states are to be extin-
guished, and ten states are to be realized.
10.1 “What ten states are greatly successful? They are the ten states
of protection: The first is when a monk is endowed with the two
hundred and fifty precepts and endowed with dignified deportment,
seeing a minor offence arouses in him great trepidation, he evenly
trains in morality with a mind that does not incline to wrongness.
“The second is gaining a good friend.
“The third is speaking what is balanced and correct, and having
much patience.
“The fourth is seeking well the good Dharma and sharing it [with
others] without stinginess.
“The fifth is to assist his companions in the holy life in what they
have to arrange without becoming weary, being able to do what is
difficult to do, and to teach others in doing it.
“The sixth is being learned, able to retain what has been heard with-
out ever forgetting it.
“The seventh is being energetic in eradicating unwholesome states
and increasing wholesome states.
“The eighth is being oneself constantly with undivided mindfulness,
without being [carried away] by different perceptions, and [thus able]
to recall former good activities as if they were in front of one’s eyes.
“The ninth is being accomplished in wisdom, contemplating the
arising and cessation of states, and through noble discipline aban-
doning the root of duḥkha.
“The tenth is delighting in seclusion, giving attention with undivided

mindfulness and being without restlessness between meditations.57
10.2 “What ten states are to be cultivated? They are the ten right
practices: right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right
livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration, right
liberation, and right knowledge.58
10.3 “What ten states are to be understood? They are the ten material
spheres: the sphere of the eye, the sphere of the ear, the sphere of the
nose, the sphere of the tongue, the sphere of the body, the sphere of
forms, the sphere of sounds, the sphere of odours, the sphere of
tastes, and the sphere of tangibles.
10.4 “What ten states are to be extinguished? They are the ten wrong
practices: wrong view, wrong intention, wrong speech, wrong action,
wrong livelihood, wrong effort, wrong mindfulness, wrong concen-
tration, wrong liberation, and wrong knowledge.59
57
The ten states of protection in the Pali parallel to DĀ 10, DN 34 at DN
III 266,27, are that a monk is: 1) morally restrained, 2) learned, 3) a
good friend, 4) gentle and patient, 5) capable at assisting companions in
the holy life, 6) delighted by the Dharma, 7) contented, 8) energetic, 9)
mindful, and 10) wise. The Sanskrit fragment parallel in Schlingloff
1962: 23f (§x.1), which has not preserved the first state, lists: 2) moral-
ly restrained, 3) a good friend, 4) secluded, 5) energetic, 6) mindful, 7)
wise, 8) gentle, 9) delighted by the Dharma, 10) capable at assisting com-
panions in the holy life.
58
The Pali parallel to DĀ 10, DN 34 at DN III 290,16, presents the ten
spheres of totality, kasiṇāyatana, as what should be cultivated. Regard-
ing the positioning and implications of right knowledge cf. Bucknell
1984: 9f, 15, and 31, and Anālayo 2011a: 663 note 114.
59
The Sanskrit fragment parallel to DĀ 10, Schlingloff 1962: 26 (§x.4),
lists the five hindrances in a twofold manner (cf. also SHT VII 1646A,
Bechert and Wille 1995: 60; identified by M. Schmidt in Bechert and
Wille 2004: 423). Similar presentations, where a doubling of the five
10.5 “What ten states are to be realized? They are the ten states be-
yond training: the right view beyond training, [59b] the right inten-
tion … right speech … right action … right livelihood … right ef-
fort … right mindfulness … right concentration … right liberation …
and right knowledge [beyond training].
“Monks, these are called states increasing by one. Now having
taught you the Dharma in this way, as the Tathāgata I have done for
my disciples what is appropriate, with which you are now all com-
pletely familiar. I have taught you out of kindness and concern. You
should be diligent and receive it respectfully. Monks, you should
dwell in seclusion, at the root of trees, in empty places, energetically
sit in meditation. Do not yourselves be negligent. If you do not exert
yourselves now, what benefit will it be later to harbour regrets? This
is my injunction, uphold it diligently.”
At that time the monks, hearing what the Buddha had said, were de-
lighted and received it respectfully.
hindrances results in ten, can be found in SN 46.52 at SN V 110,1 and its

parallels SĀ 713 at T II 191b11 and D 4094 ju 60a1 or Q 5595 tu 66a2.
II.2 Study
Compared with the early discourses found elsewhere in the Pali
Nikāyas and Chinese Āgamas, the Discourse Increasing by One
translated above stays well within the doctrinal world of early Bud-
dhist thought. That is, even though this discourse does not have a
known parallel, in doctrinal terms nothing seems to mark it off as
substantially late.
Perhaps the only difference worth explicit mention is in regard to
the “nine factors of exertion for purification”. The rendering of some
factors here suggests that the Indic original used for the translation
of the Dīrgha-āgama into Chinese differed from the terms used in the
corresponding schemes found in the Daśottara-sūtra of the Sarvāsti-
vāda and/or Mūlasarvāstivāda Dīrgha-āgama and in the Dasuttara-
sutta of the Theravāda Dīgha-nikāya.60
Elsewhere I have argued that the scheme of seven purifications,
which is part of this ninefold set, might have been an adaption of
what was not originally a Buddhist teaching.61 Should this indeed be
the case, it would not be surprising if some variation in terminology
occurred in what would not have been a scheme of central im-
portance, at least in the early stages of transmission.
So in doctrinal terms the Discourse Increasing by One (DĀ 11)
shows no evident signs of lateness. Its presentation in fact corre-
sponds exactly to the Dharmaguptaka Dīrgha-āgama version of the
Daśottara-sūtra (DĀ 10) for these five topics:
– “greatly successful” (1st of DĀ 10 = 1st of DĀ 11),
– to be “cultivated” (2nd of DĀ 10 = 2nd of DĀ 11),
– to be “understood” (3rd of DĀ 10 = 3rd of DĀ 11),
– to be “extinguished” (4th of DĀ 10 = 4th of DĀ 11),
– to be “realized” (10th of DĀ 10 = 5th of DĀ 11).
60
Cf. above note 52.
61
Anālayo 2012b: 70–77.
In other words, the main difference between the Discourse Increas-

ing by One (DĀ 11) and the Dharmaguptaka version of the Daśottara-
sūtra is their compass, the former takes up five topics, the latter ten
that include the former’s five. In principle, it would be possible that
an earlier presentation of five topics was later expanded to ten, and
this expansion became a separate discourse, or else that the five top-
ics were extracted from an earlier presentation of ten topics to form a
separate discourse. Since the mode of presentation by way of ten top-
ics recurs in the Sarvāstivāda and/or Mūlasarvāstivāda Daśottara-sūtra
and in the Dasuttara-sutta of the Theravāda tradition, as well as in an
individually translated Chinese version, it seems safe to conclude that
this form of presentation is the earlier one, given that it is shared by
different transmission lineages. From this it would follow that the
Discourse Increasing by One is an extract from this tenfold presenta-
tion, by leaving out these five topics:
– leading to “decline”,
– leading to “increase”,
– “difficult to comprehend”,
– to be “aroused”,
– to be “known”.
Such an abridgement would make it easier to memorize the list
and thus enable those outside of the circle of professional reciters to
commit to heart a summary of the teachings.
III. The Discourse On

the Three Groups (DĀ 12)
Similar to the Dharmaguptaka Dīrgha-āgama parallel to the Daśottara-
sūtra (DĀ 10) and the Discourse Increasing by One (DĀ 11), the
Discourse On the Three Groups (DĀ 12) works its way through a
list of doctrinal items based on the same pattern of proceeding from
Ones to Tens. It differs from the other two discourses by adopting a

threefold scheme, 62 which distinguishes between:
– what leads towards a bad destiny, 趣/向惡趣,
– what leads towards a good destiny, 趣/向善趣,
– what leads towards Nirvāṇa, 趣/向涅槃.
Like the Discourse Increasing by One (DĀ 11), the Discourse On
the Three Groups (DĀ 12) appears to be based on the Daśottara-
sūtra (DĀ 10). Thus the exposition of what “should be cultivated” in
the Daśottara-sūtra recurs in the Discourse On the Three Groups
under the heading of what leads towards Nirvāṇa. This is the case
for each of the sets, from the Ones to the Tens. The exposition of
what leads to either a bad destiny or else a good one in the Dis-
course On the Three Groups corresponds to what leads to decline or
else to increase according to the Daśottara-sūtra in the case of the
Twos, Threes, Sixes, Nines, and Tens. Moreover, in the case of the
Eights the states that lead to a bad destiny in the Discourse On the
Three Groups correspond to what should be “extinguished” ac-
cording to the Daśottara-sūtra.
In this way, while the Discourse Increasing by One in its entirety
appears to be simply a straightforward extract from the Daśottara-
sūtra, the Discourse On the Three Groups is based on such an ex-
tract in the case of its third category, regarding what leads towards
Nirvāṇa. This appears to be the nucleus out of which the Discourse
On the Three Groups evolved, that is, by taking over the entire list-
ing of states to be cultivated from the Daśottara-sūtra. The other
two categories – what leads towards a bad or a good destiny – are
only in part inspired by the Daśottara-sūtra.
The following scenario emerges: At an earlier point in its evolu-
62
DĀ 12 at T I 59b14 to T I 60a27; in what follows my presentation is based
on extracts from a more detailed study and translation of DĀ 12 in Anālayo
2013b.
tion what was to become the Dharmaguptaka Dīrgha-āgama would

have had versions of the Saṅgīti-sūtra (DĀ 9) and the Daśottara-sūtra
(DĀ 10), similar to the Theravāda Dīgha-nikāya and the Sarvāstivāda/
Mūlasarvāstivāda Dīrgha-āgama collections. The appeal of such sum-
maries of the Dharma would then have led to the emergence of an
abbreviated version of the Daśottara-sūtra in the form of the Dis-
course Increasing by One (DĀ 11).63 The same tendency would have
inspired the reciters to develop an even shorter summary of the teach-
ings in the form of the Discourse On the Three Groups (DĀ 12).
In comparison to the development that in this way can be dis-
cerned in the Dharmaguptaka Dīrgha-āgama collection, the Sarvās-
tivāda/Mūlasarvāstivāda Dīrgha-āgama reciters pursued a somewhat
different course, resulting in the Arthavistara-sūtra.64 This discourse
is found in their Dīrgha-āgama between the Daśottara-sūtra and the
Saṅgīti-sūtra. The Arthavistara-sūtra, attributed to Śāriputra, no longer
follows a numerical order in its presentation. Instead, the items in its
list proceed thematically, following a trajectory that builds up to the
attainment of full liberation and freedom from rebirth. This trajecto-
63
It is noteworthy that a discourse with the same title is mentioned in the
Mahīśāsaka Vinaya account of the first saṅgīti, T 1421 at T XXII 191a19:
增一經, followed by references to the 增十經 and the 僧祇陀經, counter-
parts to the Daśottara-sūtra and the Saṅgīti-sūtra. Thus it seems as if a
similar discourse was also part of the Mahīśāsaka Dīrgha-āgama. In a
personal communication Matsuda Katsunobu pointed out to me that this
reference in T 1421 has already been noted in Karashima et al. 2000: 14,
which due to my ignorance of Japanese I had not been able to consult
when writing the present paper.
64
The discourse has been preserved in Sanskrit fragments, a Tibetan trans-
lation, and two Chinese translations: Arthavistara-sūtra, Hartmann 1991:
319–336; ’phags pa don rgyas pa zhes bya ba’i chos kyi rnam grangs, D
318 sa 188a7 to 193b7 or Q 984 shu 197b6 to 203a5; [佛說]廣義法門經,
T 97 at T I 919b22 to 922a23, and [佛說]普法義經, T 98 at T I 922b5 to
924c28.
ry of building up towards liberation is also evident in the schemes

employed in the Daśottara-sūtra as well as in the two discourses
found only in the Chinese Dīrgha-āgama (the Discourse Increasing
by One and the Discourse On the Three Groups). What appears to be
a specific line of development taken in the Sarvāstivāda/Mūlasarvāsti-
vāda collection is that with the Arthavistara-sūtra a numerical scheme
is no longer evident. This shows that attempts to construct a sum-
mary survey of central aspects of the Dharma were not confined to
numerical listings.
In this way, while the Saṅgīti-sūtra and the Daśottara-sūtra re-
flect the shared heritage of the Dharmaguptaka, Sarvāstivāda/Mūla-
sarvāstivāda and Theravāda traditions, the basic tendency underly-
ing these two discourses has found different modes of expressions
with the Sarvāstivāda/Mūlasarvāstivāda Dīrgha-āgama and the Dhar-
maguptaka Dīrgha-āgama. These different modes point to the same
need to provide the disciples of the Buddha with a succinct summary
of the Dharma, a map to be memorized, contemplated, and recited as
a way of ensuring proper understanding of the teachings and com-
munal harmony.65
IV. The Discourse On

a Record of the World (DĀ 30)
The fourth division of the Dharmaguptaka Dīrgha-āgama contains

just a single discourse. This discourse, the Discourse On a Record of
the World,66 comprises five fascicles in the Taishō edition and is by
65
For a more detailed discussion of the function of such lists cf. Anālayo
2014.
66
DĀ 30 at T I 114b7 to 149c21; several parts of DĀ 30 have been trans-
lated by Howard 1986: 115–156; a detailed survey of the discourse can be
found in Denis 1977b: 289–301, a comparison with the Lokapaññatti in
far the longest discourse in any of the Āgama or Nikāya collec-

tions.67
The Discourse On a Record of the World begins with the Buddha
in Jeta’s Grove at Śrāvasti in the company of one thousand two hun-
dred and fifty monks. Sitting in the assembly hall together after the
meal, the monks discuss the topic of the nature of the heavens and
the earth, and of living beings.68 The Buddha overhears their con-
Denis 1977a: xxv. While Mizuno 1961: 70 speaks of the “Loka-utsthāna-

sūtra of the Dīrgha Āgama”, Dhammajoti 2007 [2002]: 108 and van Put
2007: 207 reconstruct the title 世記 as Lokaprajñapti; cf. also Bareau
1979: 301: “Description du monde”. Willemen 2008: 60 remarks that
“ji in the title means jishuo 記說 , explanation. This most probably
means prajñapti, but a form of sthā ... or a compound (e.g. vyava-
sthāna), are not impossible”.
67
By way of comparison, the Dharmaguptaka counterpart to the longest
discourse in the Pali Nikāyas, the Mahāparinibbāna-sutta (DN 16), co-
vers three fascicles: DĀ 2 at T I 11a7 to 30b4.
68
DĀ 30 at T I 114b10: “It is marvellous, venerable friends, now what
causes the destruction of this heaven and earth? What causes its forma-
tion? What are the living beings that dwell in its countries?”, 諸賢, 未曾
有也, 今此天地何由而敗? 何由而成? 眾生所居國土云何? The terms 敗
and 成 recur in the title of a discourse mentioned in the account of the
first saṅgīti in the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya as being part of the Dīrgha-
āgama, the “Discourse On the Formation and Destruction of the World”,
世界成敗經. Except for the first two discourses in this account’s listing,
found in T 1428 at T XXII 968b15, the titles of the other discourses do
not necessarily correspond to what appear to be their equivalents in the
Dīrgha-āgama: 1st (梵動經) ≈ DĀ 21 (梵動經), 2nd (增一) ≈ DĀ 11 (增一
經), 3rd (增十) ≈ DĀ 10 (十上經), 5th (僧祇陀經) ≈ DĀ 9 (眾集經), 6th (大
因緣經) ≈ DĀ 13 (大緣方便經), 7th (天帝釋問經) ≈ DĀ 14 (釋提桓因問
經). The 4th in this listing, the 世界成敗經, could correspond to DĀ 5, 小
緣經, translated in Meisig 1988, since this discourse briefly refers to the
destruction of the world, T I 37b28, and then takes up the formation of
the world in detail; a possible correspondence already suggested by
Oldenberg 1898: 653. According to Bareau 1966: 50, however, the ref-
versation through his supernormal ability of the divine ear. He joins

them and the monks report what they had been discussing. The Bud-
dha praises them for broaching such a topic and asks if they wish
him to expound on this theme, to which the monks happily agree.
After this introduction, the discourse proper starts, providing a de-
tailed description of matters of cosmology in twelve chapters.
The first two chapters of the discourse describe Jambudvīpa and
Uttarakuru,69 followed by a chapter that portrays a cakravartin with
his various endowments and a chapter that surveys the hells. The
discourse continues with chapters on nāgas and garuḍas, on the
asuras, on the Four Heavenly Kings, and on the Gods of the Thirty-
three, together with various other matters. Then come chapters on
the three calamities (i.e., the destruction of the world by fire, water,
and wind), on warfare between the devas and the asuras, on three
types of kalpas during which the lifespan and morality of beings de-
crease, and on the coming into being of the world after one of the
three calamities. The discourse concludes with the standard descrip-
tion of the delight of the listening monks.
Much of the information given in these chapters can be found
elsewhere among the early discourses, although often put to a dif-
ferent purpose. Thus, for example, the function of the cakravartin in
the early discourses is not yet the providing of a model that Buddhist
erence 世界成敗經 is to DĀ 30, the 世記經. On this identification it would

seem that at the time of the translation of the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya
this discourse was already part of the Dīrgha-āgama (according to an in-
troduction that prefaces the Dīrgha-āgama, the translation of the Dhar-
maguptaka Vinaya was completed before the translation of the Dīrgha-
āgama; cf. T 1a28). It is possible, however, that the reference was added
to the listing in the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya during a subsequent revi-
sion of the translation, the undertaking of which is mentioned in the in-
troduction to the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya itself, T 1428 at T XXII 567b3;
cf. also Heirman 2006: 415.
69
On the term Jambudvīpa cf. Wujastyk 2004.
kings should emulate, which appears to be a later development. In-

stead, the main function of the cakravartin motif is to convey the
soteriological message that even the acme of worldly power is vastly
inferior to renunciation and liberation.70 Such a message is no longer
evident in the third chapter of the Discourse On a Record of the
World, whose function is merely to provide a detailed description of
a cakravartin.71
The overall impression conveyed by the discourse is as if all
kinds of information on cosmological matters had been collected
from various discourses and passages to form a single text that gives
an exhaustive account of the world from a Buddhist viewpoint.72 As
a result, the Discourse On a Record of the World is not only excep-
tionally long, but also has a somewhat different thrust when com-
pared to cosmological descriptions found elsewhere in the early dis-
courses, as these usually serve to illustrate some doctrinal teaching.
While doctrinal teachings are also found in the Discourse On a Rec-
ord of the World, these appear for the most part to have made their
way into the description simply because they were found in the orig-
inal discourse from which a particular passage was taken.73
In sum, the function of the Discourse On a Record of the World
is mainly a descriptive one – “on a record of the world”, as the title
indicates – and thus in its basic thrust similar to texts like the Jain
Ṭhāṇaṅga, for example, where Mahāvīra is shown to give all kinds
70
Cf. in more detail Anālayo 2011b.
71
DĀ 30 at T I 119b26.
72
On Buddhist (and Indian) cosmology cf., e.g., La Vallée Poussin 1911,
Kirfel 1920, Günther 1944, Bhattacharyya 1969, Gombrich 1975, Reyn-
olds and Reynolds 1982, Kloetzli 1983, Jayawardhana 1984, Nattier
1991, Kongtrul 1995, Gethin 1997, Sankarnarayan 2002, Gethin 2004,
Sadakata 2004 [1997], and Zhu 2006.
73
Anesaki 1908: 35 comments that texts like DĀ 30 “may have been one
of the products of the period in which many manuals of Buddhist phi-
losophy and tradition were compiled”.
of detailed descriptions of cosmological matters.74 In sum, it seems

fairly probable that the Discourse On a Record of the World is a
rather late text.75
The impression that the Discourse On a Record of the World
could be a latecomer to the Dharmaguptaka Dīrgha-āgama collec-
tion is strengthened when the entire collection is examined from a
structural viewpoint. In what follows, I first consider the function of
such structuring by looking at the other Āgamas and Nikāyas, in or-
der to be able to apply this to the case of the Chinese Dīrgha-āgama.
In the case of the saṃyukta and ekottarika collections, the fact
that these collections are subdivided by way of topics or numbers –
the saṃyukta is arranged according to topics, the ekottarika groups
discourses according to a numerical principle ranging from Ones to
Elevens – would have facilitated portioning off parts of the collec-
tion for memorization purposes.
The same procedure is less easily applied to the long and middle
length discourse collections, as these are not structured by topics or
a numerical principle. Nevertheless, a similar effect can still be
achieved. This can be seen by taking a closer look at the Majjhima-
nikāya, transmitted by the Theravāda tradition, where a basic three-
fold division appears to have fulfilled this purpose. 76 This basic
threefold division of the Majjhima-nikāya collects the discourses in
three fifties:
– the Mūla-paṇṇāsa, “the root fifty” (50 discourses),
– the Majjhima-paṇṇāsa, “the middle fifty” (50 discourses),
– the Upari-paṇṇāsa, “the top fifty” (52 discourses).
74
For an edition of the Ṭhāṇaṅga cf. Jambūvijaya 1985, and on its structure
Krümpelmann 2006.
75
Pande 1957: 79 comments that this “single long cosmological sūtra …
appears apocryphal”. He appears to have come to this conclusion based
on the survey of the chapters of DĀ 30 given in Nanjio 1989 [1883]: 137.
76
What follows is based on extracts from Anālayo 2010b.
The Visuddhimagga indicates that these three fifties were to be

learnt by a prospective reciter one after the other in succession. That
is, reciters would at first memorize the first fifty, and when this was
accomplished they would turn to the middle fifty. When these had
been successfully committed to memory, they would learn the final
fifty. 77 According to the Samantapāsādikā, a monk who wants to
become a reciter of the Majjhima-nikāya needs to memorize at least
the first set of fifty.78 From this it would follow that the first set of
fifty is the minimum that needs to be learned, to which the middle
and the final fifty could then be added. Though these descriptions
are only found in commentarial literature, they may well reflect an-
cient patterns among reciters.
Extrapolating from the indications given in the commentaries,
the subdivision into three fifties could reflect the need to accommo-
date differences in the memory skills of those who wish to become
reciters of the Majjhima-nikāya. A reciter of less talent in memori-
zation may only learn the first fifty, as suggested in the Samanta-
pāsādikā. The first set of fifty in fact collects discourses that take up
the most essential themes required for a monastic’s training and
practice. Thus learning the first fifty would provide a reciter with
expositions on the most foundational matters.
A reciter with more abilities could then continue and learn also
the second fifty. Having learned two fifties would enable such a re-
citer to take up preaching on a broader scale. For such purposes the
five chapters assembled in the second fifty would be particularly apt,
as they collect discourses spoken to householders, monks, wanderers,
77
Vism 95,23 describes that a prospective reciter of the Majjhima-nikāya
needs first to memorize the first fifty, then the middle fifty, and then the
final fifty, mūlapaṇṇāsaṃ sajjhāyantassa majjhimapaṇṇāsako āgacchati,
taṃ sajjhāyantassa uparipaṇṇāsako.
78
Sp IV 789,14: sace majjhimabhāṇako hoti, mūlapaṇṇāsako uggahetabbo.
kings, and Brahmins. 79 These five groups are the main audiences
that a reciter would address when preaching on a broader scale, so
that learning this second set of fifty would provide a selection of
discourses related to each of these groups, as occasion demands.
A reciter who trains further and becomes a full-fledged majjhima-
bhāṇaka, in the sense of memorizing all of its 152 discourses, would
also be versed in the more detailed descriptions of meditation prac-
tice and related topics provided in several of the discourses collected
under the third fifty. This would enable such a reciter to be not only
a preacher in general, but also to act as a teacher for more advanced
disciples and fellow monastics, guiding them in their practice.
Thus the division into three fifties appears to suit the exigencies
of oral transmission, where reciters of differing degrees of ability
need to be provided with a foundational set of discourses, with the
option of adding more material for teaching the wider society
through the second fifty, and eventually more expositions for adepts
in memorizing the Majjhima-nikāya by learning the final fifty.
The counterpart to the Majjhima-nikāya of the Theravāda tradi-
tion, the Madhyama-āgama (中阿含) extant in the Taishō edition as
entry no. 26 and apparently transmitted by Sarvāstivāda reciters,80
has considerably more discourses than its Pali counterpart and does
not show evidence of having been partitioned in a threefold manner.
Coming back to the collections of long discourses, the Theravāda
Dīgha-nikāya also adopts a threefold division of its discourses:81
79
This is evident from the titles of the subdivisions of the middle fifty:
Gahapati-vagga, Bhikkhu-vagga, Paribbājaka-vagga, Rāja-vagga, and
Brāhmaṇa-vagga.
80
The general consensus by scholars on this school affiliation has recently
been called into question by Chung and Fukita 2011: 13–34; for a criti-
cal reply cf. Anālayo 2012a: 516–521.
81
On this threefold division cf. also Bapat 1926.
– the Sīlakkhandha-vagga, the “chapter on the aggregate of moral-

ity” (13 discourses);
– the Mahā-vagga, the “great chapter” (10 discourses);
– the Pāṭika-vagga, the “chapter [beginning with] Pāṭika” (11 dis-
courses);
While the tripartite division of the Majjhima-nikāya does not
seem to have an equivalent in the Sarvāstivāda Madhyama-āgama,
the threefold division of the Dīgha-nikāya does have a counterpart
in the Sarvāstivāda/Mūlasarvāstivāda Dīrgha-āgama preserved in
Sanskrit fragments, which also falls into three main sections:
– the Ṣaṭsūtraka-nipāta, a section with “six discourses” (6 dis-
courses);
– the Yuga-nipāta, a section on “pairs” of discourses (18 discourses);
– the Śīlaskandha-nipāta, a section on the “aggregate of morality”
(23 discourses).
While the Theravāda Dīgha-nikāya and Sarvāstivāda/Mūlasarvāsti-
vāda Dīrgha-āgama agree on this basic threefold division, the Dhar-
maguptaka Dīrgha-āgama instead falls into four main chapters. For
the Dharmaguptaka collection to differ from its Theravāda coun-
terpart on an issue where the Theravāda and Sarvāstivāda/ Mūlasar-
vāstivāda versions agree is noteworthy, since the general tendency is
for Theravāda and Dharmaguptaka transmissions of the collection of
long discourses to be similar.82 In view of the close relationship of
these two traditions in the history of the Buddhist schools, for these
two collections to disagree on such a fundamental matter as the
basic division of the collection, especially when the Theravāda and
Sarvāstivāda/Mūlasarvāstivāda collections are in agreement in this
respect, is surely significant.
82
On the otherwise close relation between the Theravāda Dīgha-nikāya
and the Dharmaguptaka Dīrgha-āgama cf., e.g., Lamotte 1981 [1949]:
811 note 1 and Waldschmidt 1980: 149, as well as the discussion above
p. 8.
This supports the impression that the Discourse On a Record of the

World is a later addition to the collection, since without this discourse
the Dharmaguptaka Dīrgha-āgama would also follow the subdivision
into three chapters, similar to its Theravāda and Sarvāstivāda/Mūla-
sarvāstivāda counterparts.
In principle, the integration of such an addition could have hap-
pened at any time during the transmission in India of the Dīrgha-
āgama or even at the time of its translation into Chinese.83 Be that as
it may, it seems clear that this discourse is a latecomer to the col-
lection, an addition that in view of the nature of the discourse can
safely be assumed to have happened subsequent to the addition of
the two discourses surveyed in the first part of this paper.
What these additions share in common is the attempt to provide a
map. In the case of the Discourse Increasing by One (DĀ 11) and
the Discourse On the Three Groups (DĀ 12), this attempt is merely
83
In view of the case record of the translator Zhu Fonian (竺佛念), studied
by Nattier 2010, it cannot a priori be excluded that the Discourse On a
Record of the World became part of the Dīrgha-āgama only in China. At
the time of the translation of the Dīrgha-āgama, a comparable discourse
on cosmological matters had already been translated: T 23 at T I 27a3, 大
樓炭經, which according to the information given in the Taishō edition
was translated during the Western Jin and thus towards the end of the
third or the beginning of the fourth century. Nanjio 1989 [1883]: 139
refers to T 23 (his no. 551) as one instance of what he calls “earlier
translations” of DĀ 30. An interest in cosmological matters is also evi-
dent in EĀ 40.1 at T II 735c15, translated by the same Zhu Fonian be-
fore undertaking the translation of the Dīrgha-āgama. EĀ 40.1 precedes
its exposition of the destruction of the world by seven suns with a long
cosmological description, and after the destruction continues by depict-
ing the re-emergence of the world, T II 736c16, material that bears simi-
larities to DĀ 30, but is absent from the parallels to EĀ 40.1: AN 7.62
at AN IV 100,1, MĀ 8 at T I 428c7, T 30 at T I 811c19, and D 4094 ju
102b3 or Q 5595 tu 117a7 (edited and translated in Dietz 2007, together
with an edition of relevant Sanskrit fragments).
an extension of a concern already evident in the Saṅgīti-sūtra and

the Daśottara-sūtra found in all three collections of long discourses.
The need to have a map of central doctrinal teachings must have
made itself felt soon after the teacher’s demise. In fact the parallel
versions of the Saṅgīti-sūtra explicitly indicate that the main pur-
pose of the discourse is to forestall disputes about the teachings once
the Buddha had passed away.84 The Discourse On a Record of the
World (DĀ 30), however, reflects concerns of a later period.85 Inter-
est in an exhaustive account of the world from a Buddhist viewpoint
would have arisen only once the making of maps had already ac-
quired a momentum of its own for quite some time.
Conclusion
The three discourses in the Chinese Dīrgha-āgama that are without

parallels in other early discourse collections appear to be later addi-
tions to the collection. They share in common an attempt to map
doctrinal terminology. While the Discourse Increasing by One (DĀ
11) and the Discourse On the Three Groups (DĀ 12) still seem to
belong to an early stage in the developing of such maps, the Discourse
On a Record of the World (DĀ 30) appears to reflect a later stage.
The circumstance that all three discourses in the Chinese Dīrgha-
āgama that are without parallels appear to be later additions should
84
For a more detailed discussion cf. Anālayo 2014.
85
La Vallée Poussin 1911: 129 begins his survey of Buddhist cosmogony
and cosmology with the pertinent remark: “in the earliest times, specula-
tions on the universe were apparently regarded as wrong”; cf. also
Bhattacharyya 1969: 49f: “the Buddha did not encourage speculations on
the universe, which, according to him, were nothing but foolish ques-
tions … but in [the] course of time the Buddhists developed a systematic
cosmographical outlook”.
not be taken to reflect a general rule, however, assuming that any

discourse without parallels must be a later addition. It is always pos-
sible that a discourse is now extant from only one textual lineage due
to the vicissitudes of transmission. An example would be the Jīvaka-
sūtra of the Sarvāstivāda/Mūlasarvāstivāda Dīrgha-āgama. Until the
recent discovery of fragments of the Jīvaka-sūtra, only the Majjhima-
nikāya version of this discourse was known. This was because the
Sarvāstivāda/Mūlasarvāstivāda reciters had allocated this discourse
to their long discourse collection, whereas the Theravāda reciters
placed their version of this discourse in their middle length collec-
tion.86 So lack of a parallel may simply be the result of differences in
the distribution of discourses among the four discourse collections,
transmitted by various Buddhist schools.
I am indebted to Rod Bucknell, Adam Clarke, sāmaṇerī Dhammadinnā,

Jens-Uwe Hartmann and bhikṣu Kongmu for commenting on a draft
version of this paper.
Abbreviations
AN Aṅguttara-nikāya
D Derge edition
DĀ / DĀ (Chin) Dirgha-āgama (Chinese, T 1)
DĀ (Skt) Dīrgha-āgama (Sanskrit)
DN Dīgha-nikāya
EĀ Ekottarika-āgama (T 125)
MĀ Madhyama-āgama (T 26)
86
For a more detailed discussion cf. Anālayo 2012a: 528–532.
MN Majjhima-nikāya
Q Peking edition
SĀ Saṃyukta-āgama (T 99)
SN Saṃyutta-nikāya
Sp Samantapāsādikā
T Taishō edition (CBETA)
Vin Vinaya
Vism Visuddhimagga
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Three Chinese Dīrgha-āgama

Discourses without Parallels

With the present paper I examine three discourses in the Dīrgha-

I. The Collections of Long Discourses

I. The Collections of Long Discourses

The Vinayas of different Buddhist schools report that a division of

The principles used for allocating discourses to a particular āga-

– the Dīgha-nikāya transmitted by Theravāda reciters, containing

since by the time of his return the Dharmaguptaka Dīrgha-āgama had

Table. Structural Overview of the Collections of Long Discourses

1 大本經 14 Mahāpadāna-sutta 5 Mahāvadāna-sūtra

20 阿摩晝經 3 Ambaṭṭha-sutta 35 Ambāṣṭha-sūtra

The table conveys the impression that the Chinese Dīrgha-āgama is

The impression of closeness finds confirmation when examining

In what follows, I examine the three discourses in the Chinese Dīrgha-

II. The Discourse

1.2 “What one state is to be cultivated? It is: constant mindfulness of

2.4 “What two states are to be extinguished? They are: ignorance

3. “Again, three states are greatly successful, three states are to be

contact, the nutriment of [intentional] thought, and the nutriment of

senses. A similar quality can be found in the Pali parallel to DĀ 9, DN

joy … he cultivates the [awakening factor] of tranquillity … he cul-

“Again, there are living beings established in the sphere of [infinite]

five powers … the seven awakening factors … the noble eightfold

ness – this is the fifth liberation. Surpassing the sphere of [infinite]

“Again, there are living beings established in the sphere of neither-per-

nor-non-perception, the thorn of the perception of nothingness ceas-

“The tenth is delighting in seclusion, giving attention with undivided

hindrances results in ten, can be found in SN 46.52 at SN V 110,1 and its

In other words, the main difference between the Discourse Increas-

III. The Discourse On

Ones to Tens. It differs from the other two discourses by adopting a

tion what was to become the Dharmaguptaka Dīrgha-āgama would

ry of building up towards liberation is also evident in the schemes

IV. The Discourse On

The fourth division of the Dharmaguptaka Dīrgha-āgama contains

far the longest discourse in any of the Āgama or Nikāya collec-

Denis 1977a: xxv. While Mizuno 1961: 70 speaks of the “Loka-utsthāna-

versation through his supernormal ability of the divine ear. He joins

erence 世界成敗經 is to DĀ 30, the 世記經. On this identification it would

kings should emulate, which appears to be a later development. In-

of detailed descriptions of cosmological matters.74 In sum, it seems

The Visuddhimagga indicates that these three fifties were to be

– the Sīlakkhandha-vagga, the “chapter on the aggregate of moral-

This supports the impression that the Discourse On a Record of the

an extension of a concern already evident in the Saṅgīti-sūtra and

The three discourses in the Chinese Dīrgha-āgama that are without

not be taken to reflect a general rule, however, assuming that any

I am indebted to Rod Bucknell, Adam Clarke, sāmaṇerī Dhammadinnā,

Anālayo 2009: “Waxing Syllables”, in Encyclopaedia of Buddhism,

⎯⎯ 2013b: “Summaries of the Dharma – A Translation of Dīrgha-

Bingenheimer, Marcus 2013: “Two Sūtras in the Chinese Saṃyuk-

Demiéville, Paul 1951: “À propos du concile de Vaiśālī”, T’oung

⎯⎯ 2000: “Zu einer neuen Handschrift des Dīrghāgama”, in Vivi-

Kloetzli, W. Randolph 1983: Buddhist Cosmology, Science and The-

Oldenberg, Hermann 1898: “Buddhistische Studien”, Zeitschrift der

Sander, Lore 2007: “Preliminary Remarks on Two Versions of the

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