Buddhist Studies Review

Placing the Pali discourses and their counterparts in the Chinese Āgamas side by side often brings to light an impressive degree of agreement, even down to rather minor details. This close agreement testifies to the emphasis on verbatim recall in the oral transmission of the early discourses. In this respect the early Buddhist oral tradition forms a class of its own in the ambit of oral literature

The Weary Buddha: Why the Buddha Nearly Couldn’t Be Bothered (2005) – David Webster

Featured in the course, " The Buddha"

The Ekottarika-āgama Parallel to the Saccavibhaṅga-sutta and the Four (Noble) Truths (2006) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

The Story of the Horse-King and the Merchant Siṃhala, in Buddhist Texts (2007) – Naomi Appleton

Featured in the course, " The Form(s) of Buddhism"

The Suttas on Sakka in Āgama and Nikāya Literature: Some Remarks on the Attribution of the Shorter Chinese Saṃyukta Āgama (2008) – Marcus Bingenheimer

What the Nikāyas Say and Do not Say about Nibbāna (2009) – Ajahn Brahmali

Featured in the course, " Nibbāna: The Goal of Buddhist Practice"

Channa’s Suicide in the Saṃyukta-āgama (2010) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

Featured in the course, " Nibbāna: The Goal of Buddhist Practice"

Lao Buddhist Women: Quietly Negotiating Religious Authority (2010) – Karma Lekshe Tsomo

In Theravāda monasteries, nuns, even those who have been ordained for decades, typically sit on a mat on the floor, while monks, even those who have just been ordained, sit on a raised platform above them. The seating arrangement of nuns below or behind the monks is symbolic of [their] subordinate position

Teachings to Lay Disciples: The Saṃyukta-āgama Parallel to the Anāthapiṇḍikovāda-sutta (2010) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

A Note on the Term Theravāda (2013) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

Two Sūtras in the Chinese Saṃyuktāgama without Direct Pāli Parallels: Some Remarks on how to identify Later Additions to the Corpus (2013) – Marcus Bingenheimer

A Comparison of the Pāli and Chinese Versions of the Brahma Saṃyutta, a Collection of Early Buddhist Discourses on Brahmās, the Exalted Gods (2014) – Mun-Keat Choong

Assertion and Restraint in Dhamma Transmission in Early Pāli Sources (2015) – Graham Dixon

Featured in the course, " The Form(s) of Buddhism"

The Liberative Role of Jhānic Joy (Pīti) and Pleasure (Sukha) in the Early Buddhist Path to Awakening (2015) – Keren Arbel

the common interpretation of the jhānas as absorption-concentration attainments [is] incompatible with the teachings of the Pāli Nikāyas. […] one attains the jhānas, not by one-pointed concentration and absorption into a meditation object, but by releasing and letting go of the foothold of the unwholesome mind […] the entrance into the first jhāna is the actualization and embodiment of insight practice.

Intertextuality, Contradiction, and Confusion in the Prasādanīya-sūtra, Sampasādanīya-sutta, and 自歡喜經 (Zì huānxǐ jīng) (2016) – Charles DiSimone