Talk:Ekottara Agama

"Ekottara Agama" Translation

I know that the title "Ekottara Agama" is often translated as the "Increased by One Discourses" or the "One-Up Discourses," but I'd rather that titles such as these were not used. My reasoning is simply that they sound strange and convey little actual meaning. Whether we take the title to mean "incremented by one" or "numbered from one", the resulting title basically just says that the discourses are numbered, and that they happen to either be increasing by one or starting from one. To me, these things seem very superfluous to put into a "translation" of a title. The basic meaning always goes back to the fact that the Ekottara Agama is a collection of discourses arranged numerically, so I've left it at that: "Numbered Discourses." In English, it's implicit that anything arranged by number like this, is starting from one and being incremented by one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tengu800 (talk • contribs) 15:18, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Same heading in a different sense

Translation of this text is being serialized in Buddhist Studies Review. Peter jackson (talk) 18:30, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Warder reference

Where is the reference to A(nthony) K(ennedy) Warder's text? Namely Indian Buddhism, 2004/1970, New Dehli: Motilal Barnasidass, page 6 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.43.195.27 (talk) 15:25, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

The relevant part of this article for that reference is the following... Tengu800 23:37, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

According to A.K. Warder, the Ekottara Āgama references 250 Prātimokṣa rules for monks, which agrees only with the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya, which is also located in the Chinese Buddhist canon. He also views some of the doctrine as contradicting tenets of the Mahāsaṃghika school, and states that they agree with Dharmaguptaka views currently known. He therefore concludes that the extant Ekottara Āgama is that of the Dharmaguptaka school.[3]