A comparative compendium of sūtra and vinaya.

Fascicle 1 · Translated Heavenly Beings, Part 1 天部上 Complete: the tiers of gods across the desire and form realms, the cycles of cosmic destruction and renewal, and the sun, moon, stars, thunder, lightning, clouds, wind, and rain. Fascicle 2 · Translated Heavenly Beings, Part 2 天部下（欲色天人） Complete: eleven stories — Śakra bowing to a dying jackal for the Dharma, his vow of non-retaliation, a near-rebirth as a donkey, and other tales of devas, giving, and rescue. Fascicle 3 · Translated The Earth 地部 Complete: Jambudvīpa's geography and the naming of Rājagṛha, Sudatta's purchase of Jetavana and Śāriputra's contest with the six heretic teachers, ten great mountains, eight legendary trees, and the paradise continent of Uttarakuru. Fascicle 4 · Translated The Buddha's Advent and Final Nirvāṇa, Part 1 應始終佛部第一 Complete: the compendium's own life of the Buddha — birth, the thirty-two marks, the four sights, six years of austerity, the defeat of Māra, and a long, detailed account of the final nirvāṇa at Kuśinagara. Fascicle 5 · Translated The Buddha's Responsive Body Benefiting Beings, Part 2 應身益物部第二 Complete: eighteen stories including three months eating horse fodder, taming the drunk elephant Nālāgiri, saving five hundred condemned bandits, and walking on water. Fascicle 6 · Translated Affairs Concerning the Buddha After His Nirvāṇa, Part 3 現涅槃後事佛部第三 Complete: the relic wars, King Aśoka's 84,000 stūpas, the Bodhi tree's journey to Sri Lanka, the Lotus Sūtra's jeweled-stūpa scene, the origin of Buddha images, and the Sūtra on the Extinction of the Dharma. Fascicle 7 · Translated The Śākya Clan 諸釋部 Complete: King Śuddhodana's death, Mahāprajāpatī's ordination as the first nun, Rāhula's birth and going forth, four cousins' ordinations, King Virūḍhaka's massacre of the Śākyas, and the past-life vow behind Chandaka and Kaṇṭhaka's devotion. Fascicle 8 · Translated Bodhisattvas' Own Practice, Part 1 自行菩薩部第一 Complete: Sadāprarudita selling his own flesh, Bhaiṣajyarāja's self-immolation, Kṣāntivādin's dismemberment, Aṅgulimāla's origin, and the Snow Mountain ascetic's half-verse on impermanence. Fascicle 9 · Translated Bodhisattvas' Outward Teaching, Part 2 外化菩薩部第二 Complete: Mañjuśrī's transformation of a woman's corpse and his retrieval of a bowl across seventy-two Ganges-sands of buddha-lands, Samantabhadra's vow to protect the Lotus Sūtra's teachers, Prince Samantadāna's dive for wish-granting pearls, two bodhisattvas who kill themselves to save a storm-wrecked ship, and the cowherd child who expounds the Prajñāpāramitā. Fascicle 10 · Translated Bodhisattvas Manifesting Bodies to Fit Capacity, Part 3 隨機現身上菩薩部第三 Complete: Śakra converting an old friend, a courtesan reborn as a king who feeds his own body to a tigress, King Śibi's ransom of a dove with his own flesh, the Śyāma Jātaka, Vasu's conversion of six million merchants, King Samantaprabha and the cannibal king, and three princes who give eyes, marrow, and blood to the sick. Fascicle 11 · Translated Bodhisattvas Manifesting Bodies to Fit Capacity, Part 4 隨機見身下菩薩部第四 Complete: a mountain of flesh that never depletes, a lion who tears his own flesh to ransom a monkey's stolen children, the Deer Park's founding story, the Nine-Colored Deer betrayed by the man he saved, a goose king's ransom, and a turtle king who carries a shipload of merchants to shore. Fascicle 12 · Translated Monastic Bodhisattva-Monks, Part 1 出家菩薩僧部第一 Complete: a slandered monk who proves his purity by levitation, a child converted by an inexhaustible bowl of food, Gaṅgā who sells himself to feed a beggar-sage, three women who each transform into a man to become monks, Mahallaka's secretly guided recitation, Sumedha's five dreams, and a monk whose compassion for a doomed puppy leads both to non-retrogression. Fascicle 13 · Translated Arhat Śrāvaka Monks, Part 2 聲聞無學僧部第二 Complete: Mahākāśyapa's marriage of two golden-skinned ascetics, his begging from a dying beggar woman, the First Council and expulsion of Ānanda, the taming of the three Kāśyapa brothers' fire-dragon, Subhūti's birth, and Aniruddha's past lives and present teaching. Fascicle 14 · Translated Arhat Śrāvaka Monks, Part 3 聲聞無學僧部第三 Complete: Śāriputra's birth and debate prowess, King Candraprabha's gift of his own head, the Ullambana Sūtra's origin of the Ghost Festival, Maudgalyāyana's jeweled bridge and subduing of two dragon kings, and his own two honest mistakes. Fascicle 15 · Translated Arhat Śrāvaka Monks, Part 4 聲聞無學僧部第四 Complete: Nanda, Kātyāyana, Kālodāyin, and above all Ānanda — his past life as the Buddha's own close friend, his seven prophetic dreams, a caṇḍāla mother's binding spell, and his elaborate testing of the monk Mountain-Facing before King Aśoka. Fascicle 16 · Translated Arhat Śrāvaka Monks, Part 5 聲聞無學僧部第五 Complete: the patriarchal line from Madhyāntika through Śāṇakavāsin to Upagupta, Lośaka's karmic inability to ever be fed, the boy-arhat Kumāra-Kāśyapa, and Mahinda's conversion of King Devānampiya Tissa, the founding moment of Sri Lankan Buddhism. Fascicle 17 · Translated Arhat Śrāvaka Monks, Part 6 聲聞無學僧部第六 Complete: the tragedy of Saṃghabala, murdered in the wilderness by his own brother's hired bandits; Cūḍapanthaka's broom mnemonic; a third telling of Aṅgulimāla; and the caṇḍāla boy Nīti, lifted bodily into the sky by the Buddha's own hand. Fascicle 18 · Translated Arhat Śrāvaka Monks, Part 7 聲聞無學僧部第七 Complete: 31 short arhat stories — Śroṇa-Koṭikarṇa's lute-string teaching, Upagupta's inventive cures for gluttony, sleep, and attachment in his own students, a matricide converted by Mañjuśrī, and three brief miracle fragments closing the fascicle. Fascicle 19 · Translated Śrāvakas of Unfathomable Depth, Part 8 聲聞不測淺深僧部第八 Complete: 24 stories where outward appearance misleads — Śakra's trick on a miser, monks bound by living grass rather than break a precept, the Ciñcā slander's karmic origin, a hungry ghost's own account of hell, and a monk who bares his belly to a hunter's arrow. Fascicle 20 · Translated Śrāvaka Trainees, Part 9 聲聞學人僧部第九 Complete: 10 stories of disciples still on the path — the Buddha's illusory woman exposing a householder's own conceit, a painted vase filled with filth teaching the body's impurity, a monk's fatal vow to rise from meditation, and the caṇḍāla executioner's seven sons destroyed for refusing to kill. Fascicle 21 · Translated Śrāvakas Who Committed Misdeeds, Part 10 聲聞現行惡行僧部第十 Complete: 12 stories, almost entirely Devadatta — his enmity's past-life origin, the drunk elephant Nālāgiri sent against the Buddha, four animal-fable past lives (fox, jackal, monkey, and the golden lion Firm-Vow), and Sunakṣatra's fall into hell for denying cause and effect. Fascicle 22 · Translated Arhat Novice-Monks, Part 11 聲聞無學沙彌僧部第十一 Complete: 11 stories of novices attaining full liberation while still children — twin infants recalling their own past lives, a boy raised on his dead mother's milk in her own tomb, a novice who takes his own life rather than break his precept, and the closing account of a novice reborn as a worm in a jar of cheese. Fascicle 23 · Translated Arhat Nuns and Nun-Trainees, Part 12 聲聞無學學尼僧部第十二 Complete: 14 stories of women who attained liberation — Bhadrā's memory of a servant girl's defiant generosity, Utpalavarṇā's mind left undefiled by an assault she never consented to, a poor widow's daughter risen to queen who renounces the throne itself, and the closing account of Cañcā's slander traced back through past lives. Fascicle 24 · Translated Wheel-Turning Sage Kings, Part 1 轉輪聖王諸國王部第一 Complete: 12 stories opening the compendium's section on kings — the cosmological origin of kingship, the seven treasures of a cakravartin, a king who carves a thousand lamps into his own flesh for half a verse, King Mandhātā's fatal envy of Śakra's throne told twice over, and King Aśoka's full arc from a boy's sand offering to total renunciation. Fascicle 25 · Translated Kings on the Bodhisattva Path, Part 2 行菩薩道上諸國王部第二 Complete: 11 stories of kings giving up body, wealth, and family for the Dharma — bodies carved into a thousand lamps twice over, King Śibi's flesh weighed against a dove, King Sutasoma's oath to a man-eating rākṣasa, and King Sarvadatta's own family sold into slavery to test a single vow to refuse no request. Fascicle 26 · Translated Kings on the Bodhisattva Path, Part 3 行菩薩道下諸國王部第三 Complete: 9 stories closing the compendium's section on kings — a king converted from blood sacrifice by the Buddha's own teaching, King Sarvadatta's offered head refused by a debtor, King Universal-Light's Prajñāpāramitā verse before a cannibal king, and Ajātaśatru's long dialogue with Mañjuśrī dissolving a doubt no buddha could resolve by argument alone. Fascicle 27 · Translated Kings on the Śrāvaka Path, Part 4 行聲聞道上諸國王部第四 Complete: 11 stories of kings converted through more ordinary encounters with the Dharma — a king awakened by the sound of a single bracelet, King Mahākapphiṇa's invasion halted by an illusory rival king, five kings taught the eight sufferings, and a monk's own kitchen-servitude traced to a single careless word toward his teacher. Fascicle 28 · Translated Kings on the Śrāvaka Path, Part 5 行聲聞道中諸國王部第五 Complete: 13 stories centered on Prasenajit and Bimbisāra — a rākṣasa-possessed usurper's reign of cannibalism, a servant girl's single generous act that leads to her becoming Queen Mallikā, Bimbisāra's guilt over an amputated finger, King Pukkusāti's fatal ordination, and the deva Rohitassa's ancient question of whether the world's edge can ever be reached. Fascicle 29 · Translated Kings on the Śrāvaka Path, Part 6 行聲聞道下諸國王部第六 Complete: 14 stories closing the compendium's long section on kings (fascicles 24-29) — a king born without eyes who governs by a divine eye, Anāthapiṇḍika's daughter Sumāgadhā converting an entire foreign kingdom, King Udayana's consort undamaged by a hundred arrows, and a servant who carries a bowl of oil past a stampede, a fire, and a hailstorm without spilling a drop. Fascicle 30 · Translated Queens 諸國王夫人部 Complete: 6 stories of royal consorts — an eight-year-old arhat novice who corrects Aśoka's own queen on propriety, the Licchavi clan's miraculous origin from a discarded piece of flesh, Queen Mallikā's quiet refusal of a beauty prize, and a dead queen who returns as a rākṣasa to force her own comfortable husband to finally seek liberation. Fascicle 31 · Translated Crown Princes on the Bodhisattva Path, Part 1 行菩薩道長上諸國太子部上 Complete: 8 stories including some of the most celebrated jātakas in the canon — Prince Mahāsattva feeding his own body to a starving tigress, the full Vessantara Jātaka of Prince Sudāna's total generosity, and the origin story of the physician Jīvaka, born to the courtesan Āmrapālī from a mango tree. Fascicle 32 · Translated Crown Princes, Part 2 諸國太子部（續） Complete: 9 stories — two unreconciled sea-quests for the wish-fulfilling jewel, a brother blinded with bamboo spikes by his own brother, the Dīghāvu tale of a son forbidden to avenge his father, the ugly prince who wins back his bride by wit, the mute prince Mùpò speaking at the edge of his own grave, the Golden Light Sūtra's leaner tiger-feeding jātaka, and a rival life of the physician Jīvaka printed beside the one in fascicle 31. Fascicle 33 · Translated Crown Princes on the Śrāvaka Path 學聲聞道諸國太子部下 Complete: 6 stories, four fifths of it from the Aśoka cycle — the brother Vītāśoka made king for seven days with an executioner at the door and later beheaded for the bounty Aśoka put on Jain heads, the full Kunāla legend of the son blinded on a decree sealed with his sleeping father's teeth, and the Buddha releasing Prince Jeta from the precept against liquor. Fascicle 34 · Translated Princesses 諸國王女部 Complete: 9 stories — a gold-skinned princess whose marriage proposal to the Buddha is torn up unread, Mallikā's camel-skinned daughter transformed the moment she prays, a dog reborn as a princess of Parthia, seven sisters who refuse marriage and out-argue Śakra in a charnel ground, and Mālinī spending her last six days before sacrifice taking the whole court to hear the Dharma. Fascicle 35 · Translated Elders Who Attained the Path, Part 1 得道長者部上 Complete: 15 stories of householder elders — Yaśas walking out of a house turned graveyard, Śroṇa and the lute-string simile, a hundred-year-old refused ordination by five hundred arhats and then shown six ordinary lives working out their consequences on a sea island, Anāthapiṇḍada at his richest and his poorest, a fire pit and poisoned dinner laid to test the Buddha's omniscience, and two beggars whose opposite wishes are granted the same day. Fascicle 36 · Translated Elders of Mixed Conduct, Part 2 雜行長者部下 Complete: 19 stories — Jalavāhana borrowing twenty elephants to water ten thousand dying fish, Jyotiṣka's house that outshines the palace, a boy born without ears, eyes, or limbs who inherits because the law recognizes his one feature, a rival teacher who takes the Buddha's congratulatory verse to a house in mourning, a laundry stone still generating merit centuries after its monastery fell, and the aloeswood burned into charcoal. Fascicle 37 · Translated Lay Followers (Upāsakas) 優婆塞部 Complete: 14 stories, ghosts in eight of them, all turning on the precepts as a standing other beings must respect — Śroṇa Koṭikarṇa walking through a landscape of the dead where two men are blissful by night and eaten alive by day for taking the precepts only half the time, a man-eating ghost fetching the lethal flowers for an innocent man, a cook sentenced to be trampled by elephants, and a hell-king overruling his own officers on a point of jurisdiction. Fascicle 38 · Translated Lay Women (Upāsikās) 優婆夷部 Complete: 9 stories — Suppiyā cutting flesh from her own thigh for a sick monk (the origin of the rule against eating human flesh), Āmrapālī's four impossible conditions and the parrot over the wall, Sumanā arguing her ten sons out of hunting, the mother sent to beg fire where no one has died, Paṭācārā's day and night, a brahmin widow argued off her own pyre, Nandā's inextinguishable lamp, and a fifteen-year-old who reasons her way out of her betrothal. Fascicle 39 · Translated Heterodox Teachers and Sages 外道仙人部 Complete: 16 stories — the ninety-six schools traced to one robbed monk hung naked from a tree and the passers-by who each drew a conclusion, the six teachers' scouts, the twin miracle told from Pūraṇa Kāśyapa's side, Kṣāntivādin dismembered, Udraka Rāmaputra's story told twice from two sources, a sage who fathered twelve sons on a tigress, and Ekaśṛṅga ridden into Vārāṇasī by a courtesan. Fascicle 40 · Translated Brahmins 梵志部 Complete: 12 stories — the Dīpaṃkara prophecy told at length (with the flower-girl's request and the displaced elder's counter-vow), a diagnostic dream of pig-faced kings, Māgandiya offering his daughter, a father who walks to Yama's court and is disowned by his own son, a man who feasts five hundred monks to collect on them as draught animals, a household mistaken for cold, four brothers hiding from death, and the framing and murder of Sundarī. Fascicle 41 · Translated Brahmins, Part 2 婆羅門部 Complete: 16 stories — Dhanika's five accidents, the king's collapsing prosecutions, the two-mother test and the three roadside riddles; Cock-Head's hundred-coin loan and the feast Vaiśravaṇa catered; the old man's verse in praise of his staff; a nāga king who had been a teacher his disciples left; a servant's rice-washings and the nyagrodha seed; and the potter who seized a brahmin youth's head to make him meet the Buddha Kāśyapa. Fascicle 42 · Translated Householders 居士部 Complete: 5 stories — Meṇḍaka's household of six inexhaustible portions and the argument over whose merit it is, Ugra formally giving away his chief wife, Fish-Body and the starving strongman, the nāga Elāpattra's treasury reclaiming seven households, and Great-Intention passing four snake-ringed cities and then bailing out the sea with a bowl. Fascicle 43 · Translated Merchants 估客部 Complete: 16 stories — the sea-spirit's riddle of a handful of water, the tree cut branch by branch, the Siṃhala legend of the rākṣasa island and the horse-king, the four cities and the burning wheel, arms lit as torches, the five precepts bought at a market stall, a nāga maiden ransomed for eight oxen, and the bodhisattva who kills one man to save five hundred and keep the killer out of hell. Fascicle 44 · Translated Ordinary Men, Part 1 男庶人部上 Complete: 38 mostly short stories from half a dozen parable collections — the illusionist who cannot dismiss his own conjured hall, the turtle that repaid its buyer, the uncle-and-nephew thief who defeats five royal traps in turn, the man in the pit with the rats gnawing the root (here undone by five drops rather than sweetened by honey), the Buddha's arithmetic of three wasted portions of a life, and the sandalwood tree-spirit whose benefactor names it for a reward. Fascicle 45 · Translated Ordinary Women, Part 2 女庶人部下 Complete: 17 stories set almost entirely in ordinary households — the woman who sold her hair at half price for one meal, the mother of a hundred sons who stops an army from a tower, the miser's tour of a hell and a heaven both reserved for her own household, the bell hung on a door, the birth of Jyotiṣka alive in his mother's funeral fire, the Ciñcā slander and the wooden bowl, and a maid who mistakes a hanged woman's reflection for her own face. Fascicle 46 · Translated Ghosts and Spirits 鬼神部 Complete: 22 entries in four sections (asuras, gandharvas, kinnaras, and ghosts of every kind) — four irreconcilable accounts of the asura wars printed side by side, Druma's lute knocking five hundred sages out of the air, the man dismembered and rebuilt by two quarrelling ghosts, the taming of Āḷavaka and of Hārītī, the anger-eating demon on Śakra's throne, and eighteen hungry ghosts questioned on the Ganges bank. Fascicle 47 · Translated Beasts and Animals, Part 1 雜獸畜生部上 Complete: 37 stories in 14 sections by species — the lion king who would die rather than break faith, the eleven purposes of the lion's roar, the twelve zodiac beasts on a teaching rota round four outer seas, the ox for whose debt the Buddha stood surety, the dog who sued its assailant, the doe who came back to the snare, the white dog who was his owner's father, the five hundred monkeys who built a stūpa in play, and the rat that named the Kalandaka Grove. Fascicle 48 · Translated Birds and Creeping Creatures 禽畜生部中蟲畜生部下 Complete: 29 entries in 15 sections across two of the compendium's divisions — the matched garuḍa and nāga cosmographies, the golden goose who was a doting brahmin, the dove Śāriputra could see no end of, the four loyal crows, the nāga flayed alive rather than break a one-day precept, the Buddha's robe divided against the garuḍas, the hundred-headed fish, the blind turtle and the log, the grain-thief, and the pearls kept by a monastery head. Fascicle 49 · Translated The Hells, Part 1 地獄部上 Complete: 12 entries, almost entirely descriptive — Yama's own three daily torments, the three heavenly messengers and the question asked three times, four irreconcilable registers of the hells and their governors printed side by side, the Sinicized bureaucracy of the fast-day patrols and registers, the cold hells sorted by whether the sufferer can still form words, and the eight great hells given as one unbroken circuit. Fascicle 50 · Translated The Hells, Part 2 地獄部下 Complete: 4 entries closing the compendium — Avīci and its furniture, the eighteen sub-hells given one by one on a single repeating pattern in which the wardens grant the dying man his last wish and it is the trap, a flat register of sixty-four hells with the small domestic deed behind each, and the Great Perfection of Wisdom's great hells matched to false weights, crooked judgments and burned villages.