The Numerical Discourses

A Reader’s Guide to the
Chinese Ekottarika Āgama

This Reader’s Guide provides a brief summary of the contents of the Chinese translation of the Numerical Discourses. It also provides some commentary by the English translator on intertextual and historical issues. (More will be added as new chapters are released in English.)

• Chapter 1: The Introduction
• The Book of Ones
• Chapters 2-3: Ten Recollections
• Chapters 4-7: The Four Assemblies
• Chapter 8: Asura
• Chapter 9: The Only Son
• Chapter 10: The Guarded Mind
• Chapter 11: The Non-Returner
• Chapter 12: The Single-Entry Path
• Chapter 13: Profit
• Chapter 14: The Five Precepts
• The Book of Twos
• Chapter 15: Existence and Inexistence
• …