|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries: |
Research categories | Follow us on Twitter |
Research categories
View all topics in the newsView all reference sources at Encyclopedia.com |
|||
Āgama
Āgama (Skt.). One of the four sections of the Sanskrit Buddhist canon that coincide with those of the Pāli Canon. Thus the Sanskrit Dīrgha Āgama corresponds to the Pāli Dīgha Nikāya; the Madhyama Āgama to the Majjhima Nikāya; the Samyukta Āgama to the Saṃyutta Nikāya, and the Ekottara (or Ekottarika) Āgama to the Aṅguttara Nikāya. The equivalence between these collections is broad but not exact. Note there is no reason to suppose that there was ever a single ‘Sanskrit Canon’. The Sarvāstivādins had a canon in Sanskrit but so did the Lokottaravādins and presumably other schools. Others again may have had canons in various forms of Middle Indian, such as Gandhārī. It is not known how many of these schools had an equivalent to the fifth Nikāya of the Pāli Canon, namely the Khuddaka Nikāya, but none survives in Sanskrit. The term āgama is used by Buddhaghoṣa in Pāli interchangeably with Nikāya. Almost certainly the introduction of the term āgama is a later development with the growth of Sanskrit cultural hegemony.
|
|
|
Cite this article
DAMIEN KEOWN. "Āgama." A Dictionary of Buddhism. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. DAMIEN KEOWN. "Āgama." A Dictionary of Buddhism. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O108-gama.html DAMIEN KEOWN. "Āgama." A Dictionary of Buddhism. 2004. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O108-gama.html |
|
Āgama
Āgama (Skt.). In Hinduism, a general term for scripture, but more specifically, a body of medieval Vaiṣṇava (specifically Pāñcarātra), Śaiva, and Śakta literature in Sanskrit and Tamil, called respectively the Pāñcarātra Saṃhitās, the Śaiva Āgamas, and the Śakta Tantras. There is also a collection of Jain Āgamas.
In Buddhism, āgama is the Mahāyāna name for the collections of writings known in Pāli as nikāya. Thus Dirghāgama is equivalent to Digha Nikāya, et al. In Jap., āgama is agon, as in agon-gyō, the four Chinese collections of sūtras. In Jainism, it is the term, along with siddhānta (established teachings); for the ‘canonical’ texts: see AṆGA. |
|
|
Cite this article
JOHN BOWKER. "Āgama." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN BOWKER. "Āgama." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-gama.html JOHN BOWKER. "Āgama." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-gama.html |
|
agama
agama
•dormer, former, korma, Norma, performer, pro-forma, stormer, transformer, trauma, warmer
•sixth-former • barnstormer
•aroma, carcinoma, chroma, coma, comber, diploma, glaucoma, Homer, lymphoma, melanoma, misnomer, Oklahoma, Omagh, roamer, Roma, romer, sarcoma, soma
•beachcomber
•bloomer, boomer, consumer, Duma, humour (US humor), Nkrumah, perfumer, puma, roomer, rumour (US rumor), satsuma, stumer, Sumer, tumour (US tumor)
•zeugma • fulmar
•bummer, comer, drummer, hummer, midsummer, mummer, plumber, rummer, strummer, summa, summer
•latecomer • newcomer • agama
•welcomer
•astronomer, monomer
•ashrama • isomer • gossamer
•customer
•affirmer, Burma, derma, Irma, murmur, squirmer, terra firma, wormer
|
|
|
Cite this article
"agama." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "agama." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-agama.html "agama." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-agama.html |
|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries:
HighBeam™ Research, Inc. © Copyright 2012. All rights reserved.
The Encyclopedia.com advertising network includes:
