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Essays in Zen Buddhism, First series

Note f164 — THE TEN COW-HERDING PICTURES

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See also a Sutra in the Anguttara Āgama bearing the same title, which is evidently another translation of the same text. Also compare “The Herdsman, I.,” in The First Fifty Discourses of Gotama the Buddha; Vol. II., by Bhikkhu Sīlācāra. Leipzig, 1913. This a partial translation of the Majjhima Nikāya of the Pali Tripitaka. The eleven items as enumerated in the Chinese version are just a little differently given. Essentially of course, they are the same in both texts. A Buddhist dictionary called Daizo Hossu gives reference on the subject to the great Mahayana work of Nāgārjuna, the Māhāprājñāpāramitā-Śāstra, but so far I have not been able to identify the passage.

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