Incorrectly listed Chinese parallels

For SN 14.12, SC had 3 parallels: SA 449, SA3 20, and T 111. These are certainly incorrect. They would appear instead to be parallels to 14.25.

The correct parallel (there may be more, I haven’t looked) to 14.12 is SA 458.

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Just as a follow-up, I want to scratch the word “certainly.” While they are obviously not the best candidates for parallel matches, there is doctrinal overlap. The superlative comes across as dismissive.

These parallels are largely drawn from Akanuma’s Comparative Catalogue (I have a copy, and these are the ones that he lists for SN 14.12), and he wasn’t always spot on. In this case, he apparently missed the direct parallel but found these vaguely similar sutras.

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