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There are a great variety of Buddhist texts. Buddhists place varying value on them: attitudes range from worship of the text itself, to dismissal of some texts as falsification of the ineffable truth. They therefore cannot be called "scripture" in the sense of other religions. The texts can be categorized in a number of ways, but the most fundamental division is that between canonical and non-canonical texts. The former, also called the Sutras (Sanskrit) or Suttas (Pali), are held to be, literally or metaphoricall ...

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  • Buddhist texts - Canonical texts
  • Buddhist texts - Non-canonical texts
  • Buddhist texts - Texts of the Nikaya Schools
    • Buddhist texts - Sutta
    • Buddhist texts - Abhidharma
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  • Buddhist texts - Mahayana texts
    • Buddhist texts - Perfection of Wisdom Texts
    • Buddhist texts - Saddharma-pundarika
    • Buddhist texts - Pure Land Sutras
    • Buddhist texts - The Vimalakirti Nirdesha Sutra
    • Buddhist texts - Samadhi Sutras
    • Buddhist texts - Confession Sutras
    • Buddhist texts - The Avatamsaka Sutra
    • Buddhist texts - Third Turning Sutras
    • Buddhist texts - Tathagatagarbha class sutras
    • Buddhist texts - Collected Sutras
    • Buddhist texts - Transmigration Sutras
    • Buddhist texts - Discipline Sutras
    • Buddhist texts - Sutras Devoted to Individual Figures
    • Buddhist texts - Proto-Mahayana Sutras
    • Buddhist texts - Non-canonical texts
    • Buddhist texts - References
  • Buddhist texts - Vajrayana Texts
    • Buddhist texts - Buddhist tantras
    • Buddhist texts - Other products of the Vajrayana literature

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Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia - Buddhist texts
There are a great variety of Buddhist texts. Buddhists place varying value on them: attitudes range from worship of the text itself, to dismissal of some texts as falsification of the ineffable truth. They therefore cannot be called "scripture" in the sense of other religions. The texts can be categorized in a number of ways, but the most fundamental division is that between canonical and non-canonical texts. The former, also called the Sutras (Sanskrit) or Suttas (Pali), are held to be, literally or metaphoricall ...

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Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia II - Buddhist texts - Canonical texts

These are, in some way or other, texts associated with Gautama, the historical Buddha. Different schools, however, are not always in agreement about which texts are canonical, and the various recensions of the Buddhist Canon contain widely varying numbers and types of texts. Broadly speaking, the texts come in three types: sutras (i.e. discourses), vinaya (relating to the rules of monastic discipline), and abhidharma (analytical texts). Together these three make up what is known in Sanskrit as the Tripitaka and in Pali as the Tipitaka. Both ...

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Buddhist Texts: : Buddhist terms and concepts

Several Buddhist terms and concepts lack direct translations into English that cover the breadth of the original term. Below are given a number of important Buddhist terms, short definitions, and the languages in which they appear. In this list, an attempt has been made to organize terms by their original form and give translations and synonyms in other languages below the definition. Languages and traditions dealt with here: English (Eng.) Pāli: Theravāda Buddhism Sanskrit (or Buddhist Hybrid S ...

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Buddhist Texts: : Buddhism

Buddhism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, who lived in what is now Northern India and Nepal between 566 and 483 BCE. Buddhism spread throughout the ancient Indian sub-continent in the five centuries following his death. It continued to spread into Central, Southeast, and East Asia over the next two millennia. With approximately 708 million followers, Buddhism is a major world religion whose adherents are called Buddhists. Buddhist denominations are historically categ ...

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  • Buddhism - Origins
  • Buddhism - Principles of Buddhism
    • Buddhism - The Four Noble Truths
    • Buddhism - The Noble Eightfold Path
  • Buddhism - Practices of Buddhism
    • Buddhism - Refuge in The Three Jewels
    • Buddhism - The Five Precepts
    • Buddhism - Meditation
    • Buddhism - Buddha-dhatu Buddha-Principle, Buddha-nature
    • Buddhism - Other principles and practices
    • Buddhism - Vegetarianism
  • Buddhism - Buddhist religious philosophy and branches
  • Buddhism - Buddhism after the Buddha
    • Buddhism - Principal schools of Buddhist philosophy
  • Buddhism - Scriptures
  • Buddhism - Relations with other Eastern faiths
  • Buddhism - Buddhism in the modern world
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    • Buddhism - Related systems and religions
  • Buddhism - References and Links
    • Buddhism - References
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Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia - Vinaya Pitaka

The Vinaya Pitaka is the first of three divisions of the Tripitaka, the canon of Buddhism. It mainly concerns the vinaya, or code of conduct for Buddhist monks and nuns. See also. Abhidhamma Pitaka Buddhist texts Sutta Pitaka ...

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Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia - Majjhima Nikaya

The Majjhima Nikaya ("Collection of Middle-length Discourses") is the second of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka. This nikaya consists of 152 discourses by the Buddha and his chief disciples, which together constitute a comprehensive body of teaching concerning all aspects of the Buddha's teachings. See also. Anguttara Nikaya Buddhist texts Digha Nikaya Khuddaka Nikaya S ...

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Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia - Pali Canon

The Pali Canon is one the earliest existing scripture collections of the Buddhist tradition. These scriptures were recited orally from the time of the Buddha and were put into writing in Sri Lanka around 30 BC. Written in the Pali language, these texts form the scriptures of the Theravada school of Buddhism. Versions of many Pali canon scriptures also form the basis of the canon of many non-Theravada schools. These schools canons typically contain an incomplete selection of scriptures from the Pali canon, often with minor additions or alterations, and are usually recorded in Sanskr ...

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Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia - Lankavatara Sutra

The Lankavatara Sutra is one of the most important sutras (sacred texts) of Mahayana Buddhism. According to tradition, these are the actual words of the Buddha as he entered Sri Lanka (formerly called Ceylon). This sutra figured prominently in the development of Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese Buddhism. It is the cornerstone of Chinese Chan and its Japanese version, Zen, and was translated from Sanskrit into Japanese and English ...

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Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia - Uttarakuru

Uttarakuru was the name of ancient country and its people as numerously referenced in ancient Vedic, Brahmanical and the Buddhist texts and numerous other ancient Sanskrit texts. Sometimes the Uttarakuru country and its people are described as belonging to real world but at other times they appear to be mythical. Uttarakuru - Vedic Literature and Uttarakuru. Aitareya Brahmana makes first reference to Uttarakuru and Uttaramadra as real-life Janapadas and informs us that these two nations lied b ...

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Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia - Culavamsa

The Culavamsa, also Chulavamsa, (Pāli: "lesser chronicle") is a historical record, written in the Pāli language, of the kings of Sri Lanka. It covers the period from the 4th century to 1815. The Culavamsa was compiled over many years by Sinhala Buddhist monks. It is generally considered to be a sequel to the Mahavamsa ("great chronicle") written in the 6th century by the monk Mahanama. The Mahavamsa and the Culavamsa are sometimes thought of as a single work (referred to as the "Mahavamsa") sp ...

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Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia - Mahavamsa

The Mahavamsa, also Mahawamsa, (Pāli: "great chronicle") is a historical record, written in the Pāli language, of the Buddhist kings of Sri Lanka. It covers the period from the coming of King Vijaya in 543 BC to the reign of King Mahasena (334 – 361). The Mahavamsa was written in the 6th century CE by the Buddhist monk Mahanama, brother of the Sri-Lankan King Dhatusena, and heavily relied o ...

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Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia - Mahayana

Mahāyāna (literally "great vehicle"; from the Indian language of Sanskrit. Chinese: 大乘, Dàshèng; Japanese: 大乗, Daijō; Vietnamese: Đại Thừa; Korean:대승, Dae-seung) is one of the major branches of Buddhism. (See Yana for the classification of Buddhism into vehicles, and Schools of Buddhism for further information.) Mahayana originated in the Indian subcontinent, and some of the areas in which it is practiced today are India, China, Tibet, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Taiwan. From Mahayana d ...

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Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia - Buddhist terms and concepts

Several Buddhist terms and concepts lack direct translations into English that cover the breadth of the original term. Below are given a number of important Buddhist terms, short definitions, and the languages in which they appear. In this list, an attempt has been made to organize terms by their original form and give translations and synonyms in other languages below the definition. Languages and traditions dealt with here: English (Eng.) Pāli: Theravāda Buddhism Sanskrit (or Buddhist Hybrid S ...

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Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia - Lokaksema

Lokaksema (Ch: 支娄迦谶 Zhi Loujiachan, sometimes abbreviated 支谶 Zhi Chan), born around 147 CE, The name "Lokaksema" translates into 'welfare of the world' in Sanskrit. He is the earliest known Buddhist monk to have translated Mahayana Buddhist scriptures into the Chinese language. Lokaksema - Origins. Lokaksema was a Kushan of Yuezhi ethnicity from Gandhara. His ethnicity is described in his adopted Chinese name by the prefix Zhi (Ch:支), abbreviation of Yuezhi (Ch: ...

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Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia - Anguttara Nikaya

The Anguttara Nikaya ("Gradual Collection") is the fourth of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka. This nikaya consists of several thousand discourses by the Buddha and his chief disciples arranged in eleven nipatas, or books, according to the number of Dhamma items referenced in them. Anguttara Nikaya - Divisions. The nipatas in this nikaya are: The Book of Ones The Book of Twos The B ...

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Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia - Digha Nikaya

The Digha Nikaya ("Collection of Long Discourses") is the first of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka. Some of the most commonly referenced suttas from the Digha Nikaya include the Maha-parinibbana Sutta (DN 16), which described the final days and death of the Buddha, the Sigalovada Sutta (DN 31) in which the Buddha discusses ethics and practices for lay followers, and the Samaññaphala (DN 2) and Potthapada (DN 9) Suttas, which describe the benefi ...

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Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia - Advaita Vedanta

Advaita Vedanta (IAST advaita vedānta; Devanagari अद्वैत वेदान्त; IPA [ədvaitə vé:dα:ntə]) is probably the best known of all Vedanta schools of philosophy of Hinduism, the others being Dvaita and Vishishtadvaita (total six). "Advaita" literally means "not two", an ...

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Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia - Ashvakas

The Ashvakas are very ancient people of north-east Afghanistan. They find mention in the Puranas, Mahabharata and other ancient Sanskrit and Pali literature. Sanskrit term ashva , Iranian aspa and Prakrit assa means horse. The name Ashvaka or Assaka is said to be derived from Sanskrit Ashva or Prakrit Assa and it litterally denotes someone connected with the horses---hence: a horseman, or a cavalryman. The Ashvakas were especially engaged in the occupation of breeding, raising an ...

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Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia - Dao Xuan

Dao Xuan was the early Tang Dynasty author of a Standard Design for Buddhist Temple Construction, a Chinese language text advocating Buddhist temple-design along traditional Chinese architectural lines. Other related archivesBuddhist, Chinese architectural, Chinese language, Standard Design for Buddhist Temple Construction, Tang Dynasty

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