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Buddhist scriptures for Non-Buddhists The Pāli Canon - an overview

Religion and Theology, 1995
AbstractThis 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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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.
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History of the Buddhist Canon

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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Canon and Commentary in the Earliest Buddhist Manuscripts

2022
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 Afghanistan, but its influence ...
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Building a Buddhist Canon in Early Medieval China

The Medieval History Journal, 2015
This 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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Reciting, Chanting, and Singing: The Codification of Vocal Music in Buddhist Canon Law

Journal of Indian Philosophy, 2018
Cuilan Liu
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The Buddhist Canon and the Canon of Buddhist Studies

Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 2004
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Canonical Buddhist Discourse on Killing

2022
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The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1983
Victor H. Mair, Lewis R. Lancaster
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Apocryphal Chinese books in the Buddhist canon at Matsuo Shintō shrine

, 2016
G. Keyworth
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