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Buddhist Tantras are key texts in Vajrayana Buddhism, which is the dominant form of Buddhism in Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia. They can be found in the Chinese canon, but even more so in the Tibetan Kangyur which contains translations of almost 500 tantras .
This is a list of writers on Buddhism. The list is intended to include only those writers who have written books about Buddhism , and about whom there is already a Wikipedia article. Each entry needs to indicate the writer's most well-known work.
Various passages from the early Buddhist texts contain criticisms of musical performance directly from the Buddha.The main criticism is that music leads to sense desire and attachment, and is thus a hindrance to meditative concentration (), and to peace of mind.
Modern discoveries of various fragmentary manuscript collections (the Gandhāran Buddhist texts) from Pakistan and Afghanistan has contributed significantly to the study of Early Buddhist texts. Most of these texts are written in the Gandhari Language and the Kharoṣṭhī script, but some have also been discovered in Bactrian. [55]
Encyclopedia of Buddhism. MacMillan Reference Books. ISBN 978-0-02-865718-9. Cone, Margaret (transcriber) (1989). "Patna Dharmapada" in the Journal of the Pali Text Society (Vol. XIII), pp. 101–217. Oxford: PTS. Online text interspersed with Pali parallels compiled by Ānandajoti Bhikkhu (2007). Ancient Buddhist Texts Retrieved 06-15-2008.
The Gandhāran Buddhist texts also date from this period. Written in Gāndhārī Prakrit, they are the oldest Buddhist manuscripts yet discovered (c. 1st century CE). [75] According to Richard Salomon, most of them belong to the Dharmaguptaka school. [76] Emperor Kanishka (128–151 CE) is particularly known for his support of Buddhism.
The Gandhāran Buddhist texts are the oldest Buddhist manuscripts yet discovered, dating from about the 1st century BCE to 3rd century CE and found in the northwestern outskirts of Pakistan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They represent the literature of Gandharan Buddhism and are written in the Gāndhārī language .
[l] [38] [39] Another one of his edicts (Minor Rock Edict No. 3) mentions the titles of several Dhamma texts (in Buddhism, "dhamma" is another word for "dharma"), [42] establishing the existence of a written Buddhist tradition at least by the time of the Maurya era. These texts may be the precursor of the Pāli Canon. [43] [44] [m]