Dirgha Agama

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The Dīrgha Āgama is one of the found Buddhist Āgamas of the Sūtra Piṭaka. It collects "long" discourses and corresponds to the Dīgha Nikāya of the Pāli Canon. Two versions of the Dīrgha Āgama have been preserved: A translation into Chinese of a Dharmaguptaka recension and substantial Sanskrit manuscript findings of a Mūlasarvāstivāda version. A Chinese translation of a Dīrgha Āgama text attributed to the Dharmaguptaka school is included in the Chinese Buddhist canon as T 1, 長阿含經. This translation was based on a Prakrit text read out by Buddhayaśas and translated by Zhu Fonian into Chinese in the Later Qin dynasty, dated to 413 CE. This recension consists of 30 sūtras in contrast to the 34 suttas of the Dīgha Nikāya of the Pāli Canon. It also differs from the latter in adopting a four-part division rather than one into three parts. Of the 30 discourses in this Chinese Dīrgha Āgama collection, 3 do not have a parallel in the Dīgha Nikāya: DĀ 11, DĀ 12, and DĀ 30. The first two of these, DĀ 11 (增一經) and DĀ 12 (三聚經), are similar in type to the two preceding discourses, DĀ 9 and DĀ 10, which are parallels to the Saṅgīti Sutta and Dasuttara Sutta of the Dīgha Nikāya. All of these discourses list items arranged according to a numerical grid.