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The Collation And Annotation Of Saṃyuktāgama
''The Collation and Annotation of Saṃyuktāgama'' is a Chinese translation and collection of Sarvastivada, Sarvastivada Buddhist texts. The text was compiled by Wang Jianwei and Jin Hui over more than fourteen years, and consists of 4 parts, 7 chapters, 56 ''samyuktas'' and 8491 sutras, divided into 3 categories: sutra, geya and vyakarana. The authors also included annotations to clarify the text. This work was a funded project by Shanghai Publishing Funds in 2013. It won first prize in both the 2014 National Excellent Ancient Book Award and the 2014 Excellent Ancient Book Award in East China in 2014, and is the first prize winner of the 14th Shanghai Book Award. Background During the Early Buddhist schools, Early Buddhist period, the Theravada and Sarvastivada schools were the most influential. In Sri Lanka and South India the Tipitaka and notes and commentaries of Theravada were more prevalent, however in China, North India, and Southeast Asia the extant texts of Sarvasti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarvastivada
The ''Sarvāstivāda'' (; ;) was one of the early Buddhist schools established around the reign of Ashoka (third century BCE).Westerhoff, The Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy in the First Millennium CE, 2018, p. 60. It was particularly known as an Abhidharma tradition, with a unique set of seven canonical Abhidharma texts.Westerhoff, 2018, p. 61. The Sarvāstivādins were one of the most influential Buddhist monastic groups, flourishing throughout North India, especially Kashmir and Central Asia, until the 7th century CE. The orthodox Kashmiri branch of the school composed the large and encyclopedic '' Abhidharma Mahāvibhāṣa Śāstra'' around the time of the reign of Kanishka (c. 127–150 CE). Because of this, orthodox Sarvāstivādins who upheld the doctrines in the ''Mahāvibhāṣa'' were called '' Vaibhāṣikas.'' There have been debates about the exact chronological emergence of Sarvastivadins from Sthavira nikāya. According to the Theravādin '' Dī ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
