Chinyoung Kim

The Rhetoric of Brahmanical Ritual in Early Buddhism: A Comparison of the Five-Sacrifice Formula in the Pāli Nikāyas and Chinese Āgamas

The Pāli Nikāyas preserve a recurrent set of five sacrificial terms—assamedha, purisamedha, sammāpāsa, vājapeyya, and niraggaḷa—here termed the “five-sacrifice formula.” This article compares the Ujjaya-sutta, Yañña-sutta, and Brāhmaṇadhammika-sutta with their Chinese Āgama paral...