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The Chinese Buddhist Canon and Other Buddhist Texts
, 2018 Although Buddhism is now seen as a scriptural religion, its earliest oral transmission to various language communities necessitated the use of translation, and the tolerance of translation in Buddhism is demonstrated by the many languages and scripts in which excavated early fragments of texts were written.
Peter Francis Kornicki
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Canon and Commentary in the Earliest Buddhist Manuscripts
2022Abstract The earliest Buddhist manuscripts were written in the Kharoṣṭhī script and Gāndhārī language, initially on birchbark scrolls and later on palm-leaf pothi-format manuscripts (i.e., bound or wrapped palm-leaf folios). The core area of this manuscript culture was the region of Gandhāra in northern Pakistan and eastern ...
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The Buddhist literature in Mount Wutai: the Chinese Buddhist canon and Tibetan Buddhist canon
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, 2010 There are a number of canonical collections in Buddhism rather than a single fixed corpus of texts that all Buddhists regard as “the canon.” The term Tripiṭaka (Sanskrit)/Tipiṭaka (Pāli) refers to the Three Baskets or groups of texts that ideally ...
Daniel Veidlinger
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Medicine in the Chinese Buddhist Canon
Asian Medicine, 2017Abstract The excerpts below were selected to introduce a number of disparate genres and types of discourses about healing, illness, and cure that are embedded within the Chinese Buddhist canon. They include an excerpt from a monastic disciplinary code concerning the storage of medicines, a scripture with a story of an encounter between a bodhisattva ...
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Translating the Tibetan Buddhist Canon
FORUM. Revue internationale d’interprétation et de traduction / International Journal of Interpretation and Translation, 2011Cet article en accompagne un precedent publie dans ce journal (Raine 2010), qui portait sur l'identite des traducteurs dans l'histoire tibetaine et le contexte dans lequel ils travaillaient. Dans ce present article, l'accent est mis sur la formation et le contenu du canon bouddhiste tibetain et les strategies de traduction auxquelles ont recouru les ...
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Buddhist scriptures for Non-Buddhists The Pāli Canon - an overview
Religion and Theology, 1995AbstractThis article discusses the history and structure of the Pali canon (Tipiţaka). The main sections of this, the canonical scripture of Theravada Buddhism, are outlined, placed in context and displayed in diagram format. The role and history of the Pāli language are also discussed.
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Meditative Listening in the Pāli Buddhist Canon
Numen, 2023Abstract This article addresses the intersection of the oral tradition with textual contents in Pāli Buddhist literature, by focusing mostly on the Suttapiṭaka. Lexicon and stylistic features can be seen as intentional strategies to enhance specific mnemonic and meditative qualities in the disciples, thus working symbiotically with the instructions ...
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