The Ekottara Agama is an old indian buddhist text, of which currently only a Chinese translation is extant. It's name in the Chinese Buddhist Canon is the Ekottara-āgama-sūtra, or Zēngyī Ahánjīng (增一阿含經). It is not knows from which early Buddhist school this version of the Ekottara Agama comes originally, but scholars suspect it might be the Mahasamghika. The MahÄsÄṃghika was one of the early buddhist schools in ancient India which is now extinct (i. ...
The Ekottara Agama is related to the Anguttara Nikaya of the Pali Canon, but of the Agamas contained in the Chinese Buddhist Canon, it is the one which differs most from the Pali version. The Anguttara Nikaya (Gradual Collection) is the fourth of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the three baskets that compose the Pali Tipitaka. ... Standard edition of the Thai Pali Canon The Pali Canon is the standard scripture collection of the Theravada Buddhist tradition. ... For the Buddhist texts called the Agamas, see Nikaya. ...
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