འདལ་བ་གཞ notes.1.173
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173. One of the Four Āgama into which the Mūlasarvāstivādin tradition grouped the Buddha’s early sūtra discourses, the Ekottarikāgama (Tib. lung gcig las ’phros pa) is a collection of the Buddha’s sayings arranged numerically, from one to one hundred (Kalyāṇamitra, folio 293.b.3–5). It is known in the Pali tradition as the Aṅguttara Nikāya. Though the Ekottarikāgama was no longer extant in Kalyāṇamitra’s lifetime, its contents were vaguely known from descriptions in other extant works (Kalyāṇamitra, Extensive Commentary , folio 293.b.4–5). Although Tibetan translators of the later spread of Buddhism (tenth to thirteenth centuries and later) “almost completely ignored the āgama literature” in preference for Mahāyāna sutras, the Ekottarikāgama was apparently translated into Tibetan, as Marcelle Lalou located a reference in the Denkarma (ldan dkar ma) catalog to a translation of the text carried out during Trisong Deutsen’s reign (Glass and Allon, 2007, 31).