4-761: The Dirgha Agama is one of the Buddhist Agama . It corresponds to the Digha Nikaya of the Pāli Canon . A Chinese translation of the text attributed to the Dharmaguptaka school is included in the Chinese Buddhist canon . This translation was completed by Buddhayaśas and Zhu Fonian in the Later Qin dynasty , dated to 413 CE. This recension consists of 30 sūtras in contrast to
8-763: Is a Buddhist scriptures collection , the first of the five Nikāyas , or collections, in the Sutta Piṭaka , which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipiṭaka of Theravada Buddhism . Some of the most commonly referenced suttas from the Digha Nikaya include the Mahāparinibbāṇa Sutta (DN 16), which describes the final days and passing of the Buddha , the Sigālovāda Sutta (DN 31) in which
12-898: The 34 suttas of the Dīgha Nikāya of the Pali Canon . The original Sanskrit text of the Dharmaguptaka recension is lost. However, in the 1990s, extensive fragments of a Sarvastivadin Sanskrit recension of the Dīrgha Āgama text were discovered. Portions of the Sarvastivadin recension also survive in Tibetan translation. This Buddhism -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Digha Nikaya The Dīgha Nikāya ("Collection of Long Discourses")
16-712: The Buddha discusses ethics and practices for lay followers , and the Samaññaphala Sutta (DN 2) and Brahmajāla Sutta (DN 1) which describe and compare the point of view of the Buddha and other ascetics in India about the universe and time (past, present, and future); and the Poṭṭhapāda (DN 9) Sutta, which describes the benefits and practice of Samatha meditation. The Digha Nikaya consists of 34 discourses, broken into three groups: The Digha Nikaya corresponds to
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