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All texts presumably have a Sanskrit original, although in many cases the Tibetan text was translated from Chinese from Chinese Canon, Pali from Pali Canon or other languages. Tengyur ( Wylie : bstan-'gyur ) or "Translated Treatises or Shastras ", is the section to which were assigned commentaries, treatises and abhidharma works (both Mahayana ...
[53] [54] [55] Aspects of the Pali Canon, such as what it says about society and South Asian history, are in doubt because the Pali Canon was extensively redacted in the 5th- or 6th-century AD, nearly a thousand years after the death of the Buddha. [10] Further, this redacted Pali Canon of Sri Lanka itself mentions that it was previously ...
The Itivuttaka (Pali for "as it was said") is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism and is attributed to Khujjuttara's recollection of Buddha's discourses. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is included there in the Sutta Pitaka 's Khuddaka Nikaya .
The Pali language is a composite language which draws on various Middle Indo-Aryan languages. [1] Much of the extant Pali literature is from Sri Lanka, which became the headquarters of Theravada for centuries. Most extant Pali literature was written and composed there, though some was also produced in outposts in South India. [2]
The word khuddaka in the title means ‘small’ in Pali and Nikāya is ‘collection’. The equivalent collection in the Chinese and Tibetan canons is the Kṣudraka Āgama , but there is substantial variation among the collections.
These texts are collections of sayings and aphorisms, the most well known of which is the Pali Dhammapada, but there are various versions in different languages, such as the Patna Dharmapada and the Gāndhārī Dharmapada. The Pali Udana and the Sarvāstivāda Udānavarga. These are other collections of "inspired sayings".
While the Pali Canon invariably includes this form of contemplation in its various lists of mindfulness meditation techniques, [13] the compendious fifth-century Visuddhimagga identifies this type of contemplation (along with anapanasati) as one of the few body-directed meditations particularly suited to the development of samādhi (Vism. VIII ...
A number of Tipitaka collections have multiple volumes. For instance, the Pali version of the Digha Nikaya is made up of three volumes in the Burmese, Sinhalese, Thai and PTS editions. While there is a significant degree of overlap in terms of the number of volumes per collection across the various editions, for the sake of this template's ...