The Medium Discourses
(Skt. Madhyama Āgama; Ch. 中阿含經)
The Medium Discourses was translated twice to Chinese; the second translation is the one that survives today. Completed in the late 4th century CE, it appears to represent the Sarvâstivāda version of the collection. The Pali equivalent is the Majjhima Nikāya, but the two collections differ somewhat in both their arrangement and the texts chosen. With a total 212 sutras, the Medium Discourses contains many texts that appear in the Pali Aṅguttara Nikāya and some that don’t appear to exist in Pali. The collection is divided into five recitations and 18 thematic chapters.
Below is a list of sutra translations that are currently available.
- I. The Sevens
- MĀ 1 The Good Dharma (∥ AN 7.68)
- MĀ 2 The Pārijāta Tree (∥ AN 7.69)
- MĀ 3 The City Parable (∥ AN 7.67)
- MĀ 4 The Water Parable (∥ AN 7.15)
- MĀ 5 The Wood Pile Parable (∥ AN 7.72)
- MĀ 6 The Good Person’s Departure (∥ AN 7.55)
- MĀ 7 Worldly Merit
- MĀ 8 Seven Suns (∥ AN 7.66)
- MĀ 9 Seven Chariots (∥ MN 24)
- MĀ 10 Ending the Contaminants (∥ MN 2)
- 2. Related to Deeds
- MĀ 11 The Rock Salt Parable (∥ AN 3.100)
- MĀ 15 Intention (∥ AN 10.217-219)
- MĀ 16 The Kālāmas (∥ AN 3.65)
- MĀ 17 Gāminī (∥ SN 42.6)
- 3. Related to Śāriputra
- MĀ 31 Discernment of the Noble Truths (∥ MN 141)
- 5. Related to Training
- MĀ 42 What Purpose (∥ AN 11.1)
- MĀ 43 Don’t Think (∥ AN 11.2)
- MĀ 44 Mindfulness (∥ AN 11.3)
- MĀ 45 Conscience and Modesty (∥ AN 7.65/11.1)
- MĀ 46 Conscience and Modesty (2) (∥ AN 7.65/11.1)
- MĀ 47 Precepts (∥ AN 11.3)
- MĀ 48 Precepts (2) (∥ AN 11.4)
- MĀ 49 Veneration (∥ AN 5.22)
- MĀ 50 Veneration (2) (∥ AN 5.22)
- MĀ 51 The Origin (∥ AN 10.62)
- MĀ 55 Nirvāṇa
- MĀ 56 Meghiya (∥ AN 9.3)
- MĀ 57 A Teaching for the Monks (∥ AN 9.1)
- 6. Related to Kings
- MĀ 58 The Seven Treasures (∥ SN 46.42)
- 7. King Dīrghāyu
- MĀ 72 The Legend of King Dīrghāyu (∥ MN 128)
- MĀ 73 The Gods (∥ AN 8.64)
- MĀ 74 Eight Thoughts (∥ AN 8.30)
- MĀ 75 The Pure Path to the Imperturbable (∥ MN 106)
- MĀ 76 [Ugracelā] (∥ AN 8.63)
- MĀ 77 The Three Clansmen of Sāketa (∥ MN 68)
- MĀ 78 Brahmā’s Invitation the Buddha (∥ MN 49)
- MĀ 79 The Greater Gods (∥ MN 127)
- MĀ 80 The Rough Cloth
- MĀ 81 Mindfulness of Body (∥ MN 119)
- MĀ 82 Crickets (∥ AN 6.60)
- MĀ 83 A Senior Elder’s Drowsiness (∥ AN 7.61)
- MĀ 84 Thornless (∥ AN 10.72)
- MĀ 85 The Genuine Person (∥ MN 113)
- 9. Causation
- MĀ 98 Abodes of Mindfulness (∥ MN 10/DN 22)
- MĀ 101 Progressive Mental States (∥ MN 20)
- 11. Great
- MĀ 127 Fields of Merit (∥ AN 2.35)
- 12. Priests
- MĀ 146 Parable of the Elephant’s Footprint (∥ MN 27)
- MĀ 153 Sugandika (∥ MN 75)
- 14. Mind
- MĀ 176 Dhyāna Practitioners
- 15. Pairs
- 16. The Greats (2)
- 17. Potalaka
- MĀ 204 Raṃbhaka (∥ MN 26)
- MĀ 210 The Nun Dharmadinnā (∥ MN 44)
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