Samyukta Āgama (Sanskrit). The ‘Connected Discourses’, being one of the major sections of the Sūtra Piṭaka comprising around 3,000 sūtras and corresponding to the Saṃyutta Nikāya of the Pāli Canon. Many of the major Eighteen Schools of Early Buddhism had their own versions of these texts, although for the most part these have not survived. As well as recent discoveries of small portions of the Sarvāstivāda Saṃyukta Āgama in Sanskrit and several sūtras from that tradition in Tibetan translation, a complete version from the Sarvāstivādin school and an incomplete version from the Kāśyapīya school exists in Chinese. A comparison of the different versions that survive shows overall a high degree of consistency of content although each recension contains texts not found in the others. See also Āgama.

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