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PRIMARY SOURCES:
Agganna-Sutta of the Digha-Nikaya; a quick translation is available at: http://www.buddhadust.org/sutta/dn/27_exrpt.html
Walshe, Maurice, Trans. _Digha-Nikaya_
Buddhaghosa’s Visuddhimagga (“Path of Purification”) see 13.32 ff.
SECONDARY SOURCES:
Re: Agganna-Sutta: Paul, Diana _Women in Buddhism_, p. xx.
Collins, Steven. _Nirvana and other Buddhist Felicities_.
Re: world cycles, generally: Tambiah, Stanley _World Conqueror, World Renouncer_ Chapter 2.
REFERENCES ON THE AGGAA-SUTTA (contributed by Tim Lubin)
Collins, Steven. “The Discourse on What Is Primary (Aggaa Sutta): An Annotated Translation.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 21 (1993): 301-93.
Richard Gombrich. “The Buddha’s Book of Genesis?” Indo-Iranian Journal 35 (1992): 179-191. [Interprets the Aggaa Sutta as a parody of Brahmanical creation myths that recasts them in Buddhist terms.]
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