A Composite Sūtra from the Ekottarāgama
By Étienne Lamotte
20 pagesHow could suffering affect
The man whose mind is thus cultivated And which, like a rock,
Stands unmoving,
Detached from pleasant things
An example of a composite sutra from the EA, showing how this collection was made from a jumble of texts. It also contains a concrete example of the Mahayana growing out of Early Buddhism, in its use of the term “vajra”