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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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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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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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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 constitute a canon, which are the Vinaya, Sutta (Pāli)/Sūtra (Sanskrit), and Abhidhamma (Pāli)/Abhidharma ...
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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 constitute a canon, which are the Vinaya, Sutta (Pāli)/Sūtra (Sanskrit), and Abhidhamma (Pāli)/Abhidharma ...
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Canon and Commentary in the Earliest Buddhist Manuscripts
2022The 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 Afghanistan, but its influence ...
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Chinese Buddhist canon: approaches to its compilation
Studies in Chinese Religions, 2016ABSTRACTThis paper deals with approaches to the construction of the Chinese Buddhist canon from ancient times to the present. In ancient times, the purpose of making a Buddhist canon was mainly religious. The compilation of the Japanese Taishō Edition marked a shift in motive from religious to academic.
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Building a Buddhist Canon in Early Medieval China
The Medieval History Journal, 2015This article analyses catalogues of the Chinese translations of Buddhist scriptures. The main goal for compiling these scriptural catalogues was to prove authenticity of the Chinese Buddhist canon. The influence of Confucian bibliographic tradition that developed long before Buddhism spread to China was one of the main reasons why Chinese Buddhists ...
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Sectarian Buddhist Canons as Modern Scripture
Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 2021openaire +1 more source
The Buddhist Canon and the Canon of Buddhist Studies
Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 2004openaire +1 more source