This is the third volume of proceedings of the Āgama seminars convened by the Āgama Research Group at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (formerly Dharma Drum Buddhist College). It collects academic contributions on various aspects related to the Middle-length Collec¬tions of discourses (sūtras, suttas) transmitted by different early Buddhist lineages of reciters, preserved in their Indic originals in Gandhari, Pali and Sanskrit as well as in Chinese and Tibetan translations.

作者簡介：

About the editor

Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā

Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts

About the contributors

Mark Allon & Blair Silverlock

University of Sydney

Bhikkhu Anālayo

University of Hamburg

Roderick S. Bucknell

University of Queensland

Jin-il Chung（鄭鎮一）

Göttingen Academy of Sciences

Takamichi Fukita（吹田隆道）

Bukkyō University

Jen-jou Hung（洪振洲）

Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts

Seishi Karashima（辛嶋靜志）

The International Research Institute for

Advanced Buddhology at Soka University

Michael Radich

Victoria University of Wellington

Richard Salomon

University of Washington

Peter Skilling

École française d’Extrême-Orient

Ingo Strauch

University of Lausanne