I am looking for EBTs not found in the Pali Canon.
I already found this fantastic thread by Javier with his research. Any other sources?
I would also appreciate a list of suttas from the Agamas that are not found in the Pali Canon. Javier did not include material from the Agamas in his document.
Thank you.
Hereās some Ägamas without Pali parallels (or are significantly different but have bits that are also found in Pali suttas) that Iāve translated so far:
DÄ 11 Increasing One by One
DÄ 12 Three Categories
These are both similar to DN 34 Dasuttara Sutta, but smaller.
MÄ 7 Worldly Merit
MÄ 72 The Legend of King DÄ«rghÄyu
MÄ 80 The Rough Cloth
EÄ 24.5 Miraculous Transformations
EÄ 31.8 The Bodhisattvaās Austerities
EÄ 43.5 The Parable of the Raft
EÄ 50.6 Knowledge of Rebirth
EÄ 50.8 The Snake Parable
SÄ 35 Three Gentlemen
SÄ 38 Lowly
SÄ 86 Impermanent
SÄ 233 The World
SÄ 684 The TathÄgata and the Arhat
SÄ 723 Junior Monks
SÄ 737 Abodes of Mindfulness
SÄ 750 The Roots of Good and Bad
SÄ 785 The Eightfold Path
Thereās more unique Ägamas than this. These are just the ones that Iāve translated so far.
You might want to look into the work of Peter Skilling. Heās done translations of Tibetan material. Ditto Bhikkhuni Dhammadina.
I canāt believe I have never seen your website before. What an amazing resource! Thank you!
Like if I took these Suttas to Ajahn Brahmali would he say theyāre legit EBT?
I have no idea what Ajahn Brahmali would say about it. These are sutras from early Buddhist traditions like the Theravada. I imagine the Avadana stories like the Legend of Dirghayu are later literary developments just as some of the Digha Nikaya sutras seem to be. Beyond that, most of them are on par with Nikaya texts, just from different canons. They may only appear to be unique because other parallels have been lost. Same is true for the suttas in the Nikayas that appear to be unique. Not all of the EBTs have survived to the present day.
Right. And weāre still in our infancy in studying these things. Looking back at a lot of 20th century work on authenticity, while there was much progress, thereās also a lot of leaping to conclusions. Comparative method would suspect any sutta lacking parallels, but itās certain there has been loss, so lack of parallels is just one indicator. One of the many reasons why translations are so important, to build up our fundamental basis of knowledge.
You may be happy to know that a version of the Legend of Dirghayu [MÄ 72] can be found in the PÄli Vinaya. The PÄli legend is shorter and less fanciful, but essentially the same.
Vinaya<->sutta parallels on SC are quite lacking!
Iām going to share what is in a book of Ghandhara text by Solomon. Itās actually longer. But the part Iām sharing is teaching missing in Pali.
What is the concentration accompanied by perception of displeasure toward the whole world? Here, when a monk views a village as if it were no village, a city as if it were no city, the countryside as if it were no countryside, then he is dissatisfied with them, he ponders them, he does not enjoy them, he takes no pleasure in them. He tames and controls his mind toward them; he makes it [soft] and pliable. If, after he has tamed and controlled his mind toward them and has made it soft and pliable, he sees at another time a beautiful park, a beautiful forest, a beautiful pond, a beautiful [river], a beautiful land, or a beautiful mountain, then he is dissatisfied with them, he ponders them, he does not enjoy them, he takes no pleasure in them. He tames and controls his mind toward them; he makes it soft [and pliable]. After [he] has tamed and controlled his mind [toward them] and has made it soft and pliable, then at another time, [whatever he sees,] whether above and below, across, all around, everywhere, he is dissatisfied with it, ponders it, [does not enjoy it, takes no pleasure in it]. It is the undisturbed one-pointedness of mind of such a person that is meant by āthe concentration accompanied by perception of displeasure toward the whole world.ā
In The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Ghandhara
