An Example of EBT Expansion: Comparing Four Versions of the Saṅgīti Sutta (DN 33)

[Dhammanando]

@cdpatton

One suspicion that has been developing in my mind is that different texts received different levels of attention in one tradition or the other.

One example of this would be the Niddesa in the Pali Khuddakanikāya. Apparently this was an especially unpopular text for monks to memorise - so much so that according to Buddhaghosa’s Vinaya Atthakathā there was at one time only one monk in the whole of Sri Lanka who could recite it.

[thomaslaw]

@cdpatton

I can definitely see a common core in each of the divisions of the recitation. They often have the same order before they diverge.

I think you may provide a table that indicates only the shared teachings from unshared. This is for distinguishing, with some confidence, between doctrinal items that probably date from the period before the four traditions diverged and teachings that developed subsequently.