Āgama (Buddhism)
Collection of Early Buddhist Texts, related to Pali Canon / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In Buddhism, an āgama (आगम Sanskrit and Pāli, Tibetan ལུང་ (Wylie: lung) for "sacred work"[1] or "scripture"[2]) is a collection of early Buddhist texts.
For other uses of the term, see Agama (disambiguation).
The five āgama together comprise the Suttapiṭaka of the early Buddhist schools, which had different recensions of each āgama. In the Pali Canon of the Theravada, the term nikāya is used. The word āgama does not occur in this collection.