Concept
Kaccānagotta Sutta
Overview
The Kaccānagotta Sutta is a short, but influential Buddhist text in the Pali Canon (Saṃyutta Nikāya 12.15).
A Sanskrit and Chinese (Saṃyuktāgama 301; also a partial quotation in SĀ 262) parallel text is also extant. Although there is considerable agreement across versions, the Sanskrit and Chinese texts are more or less identical to each other and both slightly different from the Pāli version.
The Chinese translation was carried out by Guṇabhadra (c. 435-443 CE) as part of a Samyuktāgama Sutta (雜阿含經) translation project. Guṇabhadra is thought to have had the Sanskrit text brought to China from Sri Lanka. A separate Sanskrit text, also part of the fragmentary Saṃyuktāgama and dating from the 13th or 14th century, has been preserved.
The text is cited in Sanskrit in works by Nāgārjuna and his commentators. Nāgārjuna's citation suggests he had a different version from the extant Sanskrit. The text is also cited in a number of other Mahāyāna Sūtras.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Possible passages
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2. _The Philosophy of Gotama and Canade_. The philosophy of Gotama and that of Canade belong to one another.[18] The philosophy of Gotama is called Nyaya (reasoning), and that of Canade, Vaiseshica (particular). The first is a specially perfect dialectic, and the second, on the other hand, occupies itself with physics, that is, with particular or sensuous objects.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
States what Kaccānagotta Sutta is.
Going on, north from this, for a yojana, Fâ-hien arrived at the capital of Nagâra, the place where the Bodhisattva once purchased with money five stalks of flowers, as an offering to the Dipânkara Buddha. In the midst of the city there is also the tope of Buddha's tooth, where offerings are made in the same way as to the flat-bone of his skull.
Confucius, Chinese literature
Close in meaning to Kaccānagotta Sutta; the term itself is not named.
Beginning with the Hellenistic period, therefore, and continuing with increased strength during the Roman world empire, there was a transition from a national to a humanistic culture. World religion was a more decisive indication of this crisis than were any of the other elements of world culture, or than was even world empire, which prepared the way for world culture.
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
Close in meaning to Kaccānagotta Sutta; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Kaccānagotta Sutta
Related ideas
- David Kalupahana
- Āgama (Buddhism)
- Middle Way
- Noble Eightfold Path
- Nagarjuna
- Sanskrit
- Pali Canon
- Pali
- Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
- Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra
- Chinese language
- Chandrakirti
- Guṇabhadra (Buddhist monk)
Place in the tradition
Part of Buddhist philosophy.