Agamas

collection of early Buddhist texts

category of Hindu religious texts

early Indian Buddhist text

Indian Buddhist text

collection of 30 longer sūtras in four sections, originating from the Dharmaguptaka School, roughly parallel to the Pāli Dīgha Nikāya

division of the Taishō Tripiṭaka collecting non-Mahayana sutras (№ 1–151)

thumb|right|200px|Buddhayaśas Buddhayaśas was a Dharmaguptaka monk and translator. He is recorded as having learned both Śrāvakayāna and Mahāyāna treatises. He translated the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya, the Dīrgha Āgama, and other Mahāyāna texts including the Ākāśagarbha Bodhisattva Sūtra. Buddhayaśas' preface for his translation of the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya states that the Dharmaguptakas had assimilated the body of Mahāyāna sutras.

The Lokavibhāga (literally "division of the universe") is a 5th-century Sanskrit text by Rishi Simhasuri. Its manuscript was first discovered in an Indian temple of Karnataka by M.R.R. Narasimhachar. The Lokavibhaga consists of 11 chapters and a total of 1737 verses (shlokas) distributed over these chapters. The text has an incomplete colophon, which states it was completed in a village named Patalika near Kanchi (Tamil Nadu) in the 22nd year of Simhavarman's rule in Banarastra. The colophon includes astronomical observations along with a samvat date and year which together confirm the text wa