Theravada, the term nikāya is used. The word āgama does not occur in this collection. In Buddhism, the term āgama is used to refer to a collection of discourses...
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Fu Kuan consider the Ekottara Āgama to belong to the Mahāsāṃghika school. According to A.K. Warder, the Ekottara Āgama references 250 Prātimokṣa rules...
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Look up agama or आगम in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Āgama (Buddhism), a collection of Early Buddhist texts Āgama (Hinduism), scriptures of several...
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Dīrgha Āgama in Sanskrit. The Madhyama Āgama (Taishō Tripiṭaka 26) was translated by Gautama Saṃghadeva, and is available in Chinese. The Saṃyukta Āgama (Taishō...
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is a Pāli word meaning "volume". It is often used like the Sanskrit word āgama (आगम) to mean "collection", "assemblage", "class" or "group" in both Pāḷi...
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The Agamas (Devanagari: आगम, IAST: āgama) (Tamil: ஆகமம், romanized: ākamam) (Bengali: আগম, ISO15919: āgama) are a collection of several Tantric literature...
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Buddhists in Sri Lanka, Buddhism is parallel to Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity as an āgama, literally "scripture" or "teaching". Buddhism has had a profound...
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based on the discourses of the tirthankara, as per Shwetambar Jainism Āgama (Buddhism), a collection of scriptures Agam Regency, a regency of West Sumatra...
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Jain literature (redirect from Āgama (Jainism))
Literature portal Champat Rai Jain A.N. Upadhye Bal Patil Agama (Hinduism) Āgama (Buddhism) von Glasenapp 1925, pp. 109–110. Champat Rai Jain 1929b, p...
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treatises on Vajrayana Buddhism, and these are influential in Japanese Shingon Buddhism. Abhidhamma Piṭaka Atthakatha Āgama (Buddhism) Buddhavacana Buddhist...
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