Where can I find translations of the Sanskrit Dirgha Agama. Is there any translations available.
I have also read there is a version of the mahapairinirvana sutra from the Lokottaravada
The Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang visited a Lokottaravāda vihara in the 7th century at Bamyan (modern Afghanistan); this monastery site has since been rediscovered by archaeologists.[10]Birch bark and palm-leaf manuscripts of texts in this monastery’s collection, including Mahāyāna sūtras, have been discovered at the site, and these are now located in the Schøyen Collection. Some manuscripts are in Gāndhārī and written in Kharosthi, while others are in Sanskrit written in Gupta scripts. Manuscripts and fragments that have survived from this monastery’s collection include the following source texts:[10]
Prātimokṣa Vibhaṅga of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravāda (MS 2382/269)
There have been a few selections from the Sanskrit Dirgha Agama translated and available. They are mainly studies made by the scholars who are studying and editing the manuscripts that were discovered. My understanding is that while a large portion of it survives, it is missing significant chunks of text, and it is full of typos and non-standard spellings.
There’s also a translation in Charles Simone’s study of the Prasādanīya-sūtra: “Intertextuality, Contradiction, and Confusion in the Prasādanīya-sūtra, Sampasādanīya-sutta, and 自歡喜經 (Zì huānxǐ jīng)”
There may be others that I’m not aware of … perhaps one of our academics forum members could help.
The Schoyen Collection’s page on that text indicates that what survives are four fragments. A photo of one of them shows the extent of the damage; there is not much left of the page shown. It would be interesting to know if the surviving text can be matched to another text like one of the unidentified Chinese translations, but I doubt a translation of the fragments would be very edifying unless they happen to be on an important section.
In diSimone 2024, he wrote that he is going to publish a full translation of the whole of the Sanskrit Dīrgha-āgama, but something tells me it will take a while (and not something I would be too excited about).
The Sanskrit fragments of the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra were translated into German in this book:
