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The Nepalese Buddhist textual tradition is a unique collection of Buddhist texts preserved primarily in Nepal, particularly within the Newar Buddhist community of the Kathmandu Valley. [55] It is distinct for its emphasis on preserving the Sanskrit originals of many Mahayana and Vajrayana scriptures, which have otherwise been lost in India and ...
The earliest Buddhist texts were not committed to writing until some centuries after the death of Gautama Buddha. [2] The oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts are the Gandhāran Buddhist texts, found in Pakistan and written in Gāndhārī, [3] [4] they date from the first century BCE to the third century CE. [5]
An illustration from the Zhaocheng Jin Tripitaka. The Zhaocheng Jin Tripitaka (Chinese: 趙城金藏) is a Chinese copy of the Buddhist canon dating from the Jin dynasty (1115–1234). The Jin Tripitaka was originally created at the Tianning Temple in Shanxi province around 1149, funded by donations from a woman named Cui Fazhen and her ...
Tripiṭaka manuscript from Thailand Tripiṭaka manuscripts on Gold Plate, Burma The woodblock of Tripiṭaka Koreana in Haeinsa, Hapcheon, South Korea Tripiṭaka writing The Kuthodaw Pagoda, consisting of 729 stupas containing the world's largest book, the Tripiṭaka on marble tablets, at Mandalay, Myanmar Kangyur writing with gold
The other two main Buddhist canons in use in the present day are the Chinese Buddhist Canon and the Tibetan Kangyur. The standard modern edition of the Chinese Buddhist Canon is the Taishō Revised Tripiṭaka, with a hundred major divisions, totaling over 80,000 pages.
The Jingo-ji Tripiṭaka is a Japanese collection of the Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon) composed of over 5400 scrolls made of Indigo dyed paper, and written in golden ink. Created in the twilight of the Heian period , throughout the Genpei War , the compilation of the canon was commissioned by Emperor Toba and Emperor Go-Shirakawa from ...
The Chu sanzang jiji has been a source of information on dates and translator attribution for later catalogs and East Asian Buddhist canons. Radich [6] states that Fei Changfang appears to used Chu sanzang jiji attribution data in his Records of the Three Treasuries Throughout Successive Dynasties (歷代三寳記; T2034) in addition his own questionable attributions.
Early Buddhist texts are believed to have been transmitted by lineages of bhāṇaka, monks who specialized in memorization and recitation of particular collections of texts, [20] until they were eventually recorded in writing after the 1st Century BCE. As noted by Alexander Wynne: