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The Ekottarika-āgama Parallel to the Saccavibhanga-sutta and the Four (Noble) Truths

Issue: Vol 23 No. 2 (2006)

Journal: Buddhist Studies Review

Subject Areas: Religious Studies Buddhist Studies

DOI: 10.1558/bsrv.2006.23.2.145

Abstract:

The present article offers a translation of the Ekottarika-āgama parallel to the Saccavibhanga-sutta, followed by a discussion of a significant difference to be found between the Pāli and the Ekottarika-āgama versions of this discourse. This difference supports the suggestion that at an earlier time references to the four noble truths in this and other discourses may have been without the qualification
'noble'.

Author: Ven. Anālayo

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