Chinese Agamas
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Recent Updates and Plans for 2024
Hello, everyone. First, apologies for the long hiatus from posting here at the Dharma Pearls blog. The translation project itself took a hiatus to attend to the task of migrating all of the project’s translations from the four Āgamas to SuttaCentral’s legacy html format. This work occupied our time from September to November last year. Continue reading
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Ekottarika Āgama, Book of Ones, Chapters 12-13
With Chapter 12 and 13 in EĀ, we reach a point at which it becomes difficult to avoid the conclusion that some sort of disorder has taken place after the initial Chinese translation. It’s been fairly well documented by Palumbo in his book studying the history of EĀ’s translation that there were at least three Continue reading
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Ekottarika Āgama, Book of Ones, Chapter 11
Chapter 11 is titled “The Non-Returner” after the initial four sūtras on the subject. Most of this chapter has parallels in Pali sources. Ekottarika, Ch. 11 Pali Parallel 1. The Non-Returner 1 Iti 1 Greed 2. The Non-Returner (2) Iti 2 Hate 3. The Non-Returner (3) Iti 3 Delusion 4. The Non-Returner (4) (Iti 1-6) Continue reading
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Ekottarika Āgama Update (Week 31)
I’m happy to report that we’ve recovered from the illness that visited us last month, and I’ve released translations of EĀ 12.10, 13.1-7, and 14.1-10. With these three chapters, we’ve reached the end of the Book of Ones. I wrote a lengthy summary of the chapters added last month at SuttaCentral’s Discuss & Discover forum Continue reading
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Ekottarika Āgama Update
Hello, everyone. So, July has not begun well. At the end of June, I started releasing new translations, and I was hoping to have released most of EA chapter 13 this week, but unfortunately COVID-19 visited our household. Myself and my wife have been incapacitated for the past week, but the fever broke and we’re Continue reading
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Ekottarika Āgama Update (Week 23)
Hello, everyone. Apologies for going quiet for the past couple months. I’ve working on other projects and research since April that ended up taking up most of my time. It was good time spent on background research delving into ancient history as well as exploring the parallels to some of EĀ’s larger sūtras like EĀ Continue reading
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Ekottarika Āgama, Book of Ones, Chapter 10
This month the remainder of Chapter 10 of the Ekottarika Āgama (EĀ) was released at Dharma Pearls. Chapter 10 is a set of ten sūtras that revolve around themes of making merit, especially through generosity. This group of sutras, whose subject is often perceived as primarily a concern for lay Buddhists, are directed at both Continue reading
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Week 13 Update
Hello, again! I hope everyone has had an excellent couple of weeks. Here in California, we have nearly completed our exit from the extreme drought of the past few years. It’s really an amazing turnaround. These erratic and extreme weather patterns remind me of the extreme weather the world suffered during the Little Ice Age Continue reading
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Week 11 Update: Editing, Coding, and Uncertainty
Hello, again, from southern California, where we are gearing up for more rain. The drought is officially over in many parts of the state, which really was in the nick of time. There haven’t been any new releases this week. Instead, my time has been devoted to editing and researching translations that have already been Continue reading
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Week 1 Update: EĀ Ch. 1 Released!
Hello, Everyone! Welcome to a New Year. 2023 is the Year of the Water Rabbit in East Asia, which is good, I suppose. Good-natured, adaptable, intelligent people — yes, the world needs more of them to take the wheel. Good-natured people, especially. The past two months have been a test period for a new translation Continue reading
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