Devadatta
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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