The Shorter Chinese Saṃyukta Āgama
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The Shorter Chinese Saṃyukta Āgama or short Saṃyukta Āgama (Chinese:別譯雜阿含經 Taishō 100) is a second (the first being Saṃyukta Āgama, or Saṁyuktāgama) , but plausibly incomplete Chinese translation of a rencension of the Saṃyukta Āgama (Chinese: 雜阿含經 Taishō 99) ascribed to the Kāśyapīya (飲光部) school; this translation is by an unknown translator, from around the Three Qin (三秦) period, 352-431 CE.[1]
It consists of 364 sutras and belongs to the early Chinese Buddhist texts collectively called Āgama sutras. Āgama literature constitutes the earliest part of Buddhist literature. However, the originals are largely lost, only a few fragments have survived.