The Āgama Section ( zh, 阿含, p=Āhán Bù; ) is a division of the
Taishō Tripiṭaka that contains
sūtras related to the
Āgamas, roughly corresponding to the texts of the ''
Sutta Piṭaka'' of the
Pāli Canon
The Pāḷi Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhism, Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language. It is the most complete extant Early Buddhist texts, early Buddhist canon. It derives mainly from t ...
. It corresponds to the first two volumes of the Taishō Tripiṭaka and corresponds to text numbers 1–151. Notable collections within this section include the ''
Dīrghāgama'' (長阿含經; T1), ''
Madhyamāgama'' (中阿含經; T26), ''
Saṃyuktāgama'' (雜阿含經; T99), and the ''
Ekottarāgama'' (增壹阿含經; T125), while the section also includes individual sūtras that were translated separately from these collections, but which contain parallels therein, such as the ''
Dharmacakrapravartana Sūtra'' (佛說轉法輪經; T109).
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