Are Chinese Agamas less reliable than Pali Nikayas?

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On the other hand, there’s passages that drop these definitions, like the Madhyama passage

MA 31 defines right samadhi as abiding in jhana (in singular, means meditation in general), where Bhikkhu Analayo translated it as jhanas (in plural) to indicate 4 jhanas, but it’s proved not quite correct here:

Revisiting jhāna and samādhi (again)

Here is quotation of the MA 31 English translation from Bhante Analayo’s The Madhyama Agama: What venerable friends, is right concentration? When the noble disciple is mindful of suffering as suffering, … of its arising as its arising, … of its cessation as its cessation, and mindful of the path as the path; or when he contemplates his former actions; or when he trains to be mindful of all formations; or when he sees the tranquility and calm of nirvana; or when he free from attachment, mindful…