Are Chinese Agamas less reliable than Pali Nikayas?

[seniya]

@sujato

I always wanted to revisit this point with a proper statistical analysis, which I suspect might be the only way to really discern the underlying Samyutta structure.

Dear Bhante,

I’m eagerly to see you revisiting this and updating your GIST (Grand Integrated Sutta Theory) in A History of Mindfulness. Your GIST didn’t much compare and analyse structure and content of AN dan EA because lack of data, but now we have paper who have done it here:

The Structure and Formation of the Anguttara Nikaya and the Ekottarika Agama

Is there anyone here who have read this journal article? Is there any interesting findings about AN dan EA? The Structure and Formation of the Aṅguttara Nikāya and the Ekottarika Āgama Tse-fu Kuan, Roderick S. Bucknell Issued Date: 19 Mar 2020 Abstract In both the Aṅguttara Nikāya in Pali and the Ekottarika Āgama in Chinese translation, the suttas are grouped into eleven nipātas (“books”), from the Ekaka-nipāta/Eka-nipāta (Book of Ones) to the Ekādasaka-nipāta (Book of Elevens) – though in …