A Gāndhārī Saṃyukta-āgama Version of the Discourse on Not-self (P Anattalakkhaṇa-sutta, Skt. *Anātmalakṣaṇa-sūtra) (original) (raw)

2020, In Dhammadinnā, ed. Research on the Saṃyukta-āgama. Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts Research Series, pp. 201-258. Taipei: Dharma Drum Publishing Co.

The importance of the topic of anātman (Sanskrit, Pali anātman, Gandhari aṇatva), the 'not-self' nature of personal existence represented by the five aggregates in the teaching of the Buddha is witnessed by it being the topic of the second discourse that, according to tradition, he gave to the group of five monks in the Deer Park near Benares shortly after his awakening and setting in motion of the Wheel of the Dharma. This article presents a diplomatic edition, reconstruction and translation of the first Gandhari version of this important discourse to have surfaced, which is found in the Robert Senior collection of Kharoṣṭhī manuscripts. It also discusses the structure of the Gandhari version and its relationship to the parallels in other languages, the reasons for its popularity, and the likely reasons for its inclusion in the Senior collection.

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