Is the gradual training found in the texts of the other early schools? I remember Sujato saying the gradual training is the early Buddhist scheme of practice, but I can’t seem to find it in the agamas.
Just doing a quick search, the suttas that mention anupubbasikkhā (gradual training) look to each have a Chinese parallel.
See here
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Here’s an example as well: The Long Discourses | 20. Ambāṣṭha
Note that some of the translations use ellipses for the gradual training. It looks like DN 2’s parallel DA 27 has that for example.
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Thanks everyone. Much appreciated.
Oops. I probably would not have ever found that myself. Thanks!
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One version is also found in the Yogācārabhūmi-Śāstra, within the Śrāvakabhūmi’s section on the “13 requisites” (sambhāra).
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