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The Pāl̤i Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language. [1] It is the most complete extant early Buddhist canon.
1 In Pali Canon. 2 In Arya Śura's Jatakamala. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The Jātakas are found as a textual division of the Pāli ...
The Paṭṭhāna (Pali: paṭṭhāna, Sanskrit: prasthāna, Jñāna-prasthāna, Mahā-Pakaraṇa, Paṭṭhāna-Pakaraṇa, "Book of Causal Relationships") [1] is a Buddhist scripture. It is the seventh and final text of the Abhidhamma Pitaka ("Basket of Higher Doctrine"), which is one of the " Tripiṭaka-Three Baskets " of canonical ...
Cp [3]) is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. It is included there in the Sutta Pitaka 's Khuddaka Nikaya , usually as the last of fifteen books. [ 4 ] It is a short verse work that includes thirty-five accounts of the Buddha 's former lives (similar to Jataka tales) when he as a bodhisattva exhibited behaviors ...
The Aṭṭhakavagga (Pali, "Octet Chapter") and the Pārāyanavagga (Pali, "Way to the Far Shore Chapter") are two small collections of suttas within the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. [note 1] They are among the earliest existing Buddhist literature, and place considerable emphasis on the rejection of, or non-attachment to, all views.
In Buddhism, the term āgama is used to refer to a collection of discourses (Sanskrit: sūtra; Pali: sutta) of the early Buddhist schools, which were preserved primarily in Chinese translation, with substantial material also surviving in Prakrit/Sanskrit and lesser but still significant amounts surviving in Gāndhārī and in Tibetan translation.
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 ...
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]