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This paper discusses the different explanations offered by the fifth-century Indian commentator Ācāriya Buddhaghosa and the contemporary Chinese scholar-monk Master Yinshun 印順 (1906–2005) regarding the three aṅgas (i.e., Sanskrit/Pali sūtra/sutta, geya/geyya, vyākaraṇa/veyyākaraṇa) of early Buddhist texts. Essentially it argues that the three-aṅga structure of the Saṃyukta-āgama/Saṃyuttanikāya proposed by Master Yinshun should be regarded as more logical and acceptable (or perhaps historically more accurate) than Ācāriya Buddhaghosa’s traditional interpretation of the aṅgas. |
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