Cover of Madhyama Āgama - Chinese parallel to the Majjhima Nikaya

Madhyama Āgama - Chinese parallel to the Majjhima Nikaya

Bhikkhu Analayo, Roderick S. Bucknell

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The Madhyama Āgama is an early Indian Buddhist text. The title means 'Middle Collection'. It is one of the four Āgamas of the Sanskritic Sūtra Piṭaka located in the Chinese Buddhist Canon and contains 222 discourses in 18 chapters. Its Pali equivalent, the Majjhima Nikaya, contains 152 discourses in 15 chapters.