Perfect Awakening

The Long Discourses, or Dirghagama , is a collection of the Buddha’s most well-known sermons that has circulated widely in the Buddhist world. The present volume is the first in a three-volume series to present this rare manuscript, with a study, translation, and critical edition of two of the sutras in the collection. Around thirty years ago, a rare bookseller in London parceled out birchbark leaves of a manuscript bundle representing an ancient scripture that had likely been unearthed in the G