[Buddha-l] Ekottara Agama

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 05:29 -0700, Bill Kish wrote:

> Does anyone know if the Ekottara Aagama has an equivalent
> somewhere in the Paali Canon, and whether there is an
> English translation for it (either from the Aagama, or from
> the Nikaaya source if it exists) ?

Yes and no. The Pali canon has a collection called Anguttara-
nikāya, which roughly corresponds to the Ekottarāgama in form. Lamotte
reports in Histoire du bouddhisme that the contents are not the same.
The two collections do not have the same number of discourses, and even
though one can find some titles that are the same in both collections,
it turns out that the contents of the discourses are not the same. So I
guess you could say the Pali canon has a counterpart, but not an
equivalent, of the Ekottarāgama.

Richard Hayes