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Day: April 30, 2019

An Introduction to the Middle-Length Agama

April 30, 2019April 30, 2019 ~ Charles Patton ~ Leave a comment

The Middle-Length Agama (MA) is Taisho No. 26, which spans 60 fascicles and 388 pages of the Taisho Daizokyo, Vol. 1. To put this in perspective, a page of Taisho prose typically translates to 1,500 words of English, so a complete translation of MA will probably be 600,000-700,000 words in length. In addition to this … Continue reading An Introduction to the Middle-Length Agama

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