The Related Discourses

(S. Saṃyukta Āgama; C. 雜阿含經)

The Related Discourses was translated to Chinese by Guṇabhadra and Baoyun sometime between 435-443 CE. The text as it has survived in the Taisho Daizokyo consists of 1,362 individually numbered sūtras that span fifty fascicles and 373 pages of Classical Chinese.

The divisions and groups of sūtras listed below are based on the reconstruction by Chinese scholar and Dharma teacher Ven. Yinshun, which corrected the problem of the Taisho edition’s jumbled fascicles and incomplete numbering of sūtras.

Currently, about 15% of the Related Discourses has been translated to English when we combine the work of multiple translators including Anālayo, Pierquet, Choong, and Patton. The numbers in () after each group’s title lists the number of sūtras available in English against the total number of sūtras counted in Yinshun’s reconstruction.

• Part I: The Five Aggregates
  1. The Aggregates (170/178)
• Part II: The Six Sense Bases
  2. The Sense Bases (135/285)
• Part III: Causation
  3. Causation (15/78)
  4. The Truths (12/150)
  5. Elements (1/37)
  6. Feeling (2/31)
• Part IV: The Path
  7. The Abodes of Mindfulness (7/54)
  8. Right Effort (lost)
  9. Miraculous Powers (lost)
  10. Faculties (0/27)
  11. Powers (2/60)
  12. Factors of Awakening (7/67)
  13. The Factors of the Noble Path (32/114)
  14. Mindfulness of Breathing (3/22)
  15. The Student (0/32)
  16. Unbroken Faith (0/29)
• Part V: The Eight Assemblies
  17. Monks (0/22)
  18. Māra (0/20)
  19. Indra (1/22)
  20. Aristocrats (0/21)
  21. Priests (0/38)
  22. Brahmā (0/10)
  23. Nuns (0/10)
  24. Vaṇgīsa (0/16)
  25. Gods (1/108)
  26. Yakṣas (1/12)
  27. Forests (0/32)
• Part VI: The Teachings by Disciples
  28. Śāriputra (0/81)
  29. Maudgalyāyana (0/53)
  30. Aniruddha (0/11)
  31. Mahākātyāyana (0/10)
  32. Ānanda (0/11)
  33. Citrā (0/10)
• Part VII: The Teachings by the Tathāgata
  34. Rādha (22/133)
  35. Views (39/93)
  36. Knowledge That Eliminates (16/10,996)
  37. Heaven (0/48)
  38. Realization (0/70)
  39. Sense Bases, Elements, and Aggregates (0/182)
  40. Unbroken Faith (0/62)
  41. Mahākāśyapa (0/11)
  42. Village Leaders (0/10)
  43. Horses (0/10)
  44. Mahānāman (0/10)
  45. Beginningless (0/20)
  46. Vatsagotra (0/9)
  47. Heretics and Wanderers (0/15)
  48. Defilements (0/18)
  49. Parables (0/19)
  50. Illness (0/20)
  51. Fruits of Deeds (0/35)
• Alternate Translations
• T101, Sūtra 15
• T102 The Five Aggregates Are Empty Sūtra (Yijing, 710 CE)
• T109 The Turning the Dharma Wheel Sūtra (Unknown provenance)
• T110 The Three Turnings of the Dharma Wheel Sūtra (Yijing, 710 CE)
• T112 The Eightfold Right Path Sūtra (Anshigao, c. 148-168 CE)