several Buddhist canons, which refers to the various scriptural collections of Buddhist sacred scriptures or the various Buddhist scriptural canons. Some...

Buddhist concept of a Tripitaka, literally meaning "three baskets" (of Sutra, Vinaya, and Abhidharma), a term which referred to the scriptural canons...

The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a compilation of the Buddhist sacred texts recognized by various schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The Canon includes the Kangyur...

contains comparatively fewer early Buddhist texts than the Pali and Chinese canons. The Chinese and Tibetan canons are not translations of the Pali and...

there are three main Buddhist Canons: the Pāli Canon of the Theravāda tradition, the Chinese Buddhist Canon used in East Asian Buddhist tradition, and the...

The Buddhist canon is vast, with many different textual collections in different languages (such as Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, and Chinese). Buddhist schools...

and to revise and correct the contents of the Buddhist canons. These gatherings are often termed Buddhist "councils" (Pāli and Sanskrit: saṅgīti, literally...

later period that still preceded the final redactions of the various Buddhist canons. According to Feer and Anderson, the four truths probably entered the...

institutional and doctrinal divisions of Buddhism which are the teachings off buddhist texts. The schools of Buddhism have existed from ancient times up to the...

Buddha's teaching or Dhamma in the Pāli Canon for over two millennia. The Pāli Canon is the most complete Buddhist canon surviving in a classical Indian language...

22.59" (CSCD) or "S iii 66" (PTS). This discourse is also found in the Buddhist monastic code (Vinaya). In the Chinese set of Āgamas, this discourse can...

the Pāli Canon. This identification has been reinforced by the discovery of a version in the Gandhāran Buddhist texts, one of the oldest Buddhist (and, indeed...

been found of a female corpse being possessed to elicit sex from men. A Buddhist scripture regarding prayer to Avalokiteśvara, the Dharani Sutra of Amoghapāśa...

A Buddhist temple or Buddhist monastery is the place of worship for Buddhists, the followers of Buddhism. They include the structures called vihara, chaitya...

Hu̍t-kàu) is a Chinese form of Mahayana Buddhism which draws on the Chinese Buddhist canon that includes the indigenous cultural traditions of Confucianism and...

Sanskrit manuscripts, and translations in the Tibetan Buddhist canon and Chinese Buddhist canon. Several hundred Mahāyāna sūtras survive in Sanskrit,...

Chinese Buddhist canon. These include the various forms of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese Buddhism in East Asia. East Asian Buddhists constitute...

general position is cogent. Regamey argues that the various Buddhist canons, like the Pali canon, have many chronological layers and include "many divergences...

later period that still preceded the final redactions of the various Buddhist canons." According to some scholars, the philosophical outlook of earliest...

Early Buddhist texts (EBTs), early Buddhist literature or early Buddhist discourses are parallel texts shared by the early Buddhist schools. The most...

(which included many Vajrayāna elements). It thus preserves many Indian Buddhist tantric practices of the post-Gupta early medieval period (500–1200 CE)...

By the time, the different canons began to be written down, and as a result the Abhidharma texts of the early Buddhist schools were substantially different...

possibly older, sequences of the stages on the Buddhist path to liberation, can be found throughout the Pali Canon. A standard sequence of developments can...

during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist legends, he was born in Lumbini, in what is now Nepal, to royal parents...

enlightened Buddhas to regional spirits adopted by Buddhists or practiced on the margins of the religion. Buddhists later also came to incorporate aspects from...

Dhamma Sutta or Promulgation of the Law Sutta) is a Buddhist scripture that is considered by Buddhists to be a record of the first sermon given by Gautama...

principles of Buddhism — as enshrined in the Pali Canon. Theravada List of Buddhist temples "Sāsanārakkha Buddhist Sanctuary | Monk Training Centre and Retreat...

biblical canons, although the majority of manuscripts are shared in common. Different religious groups include different books in their biblical canons, in...

This list of Buddhism by country shows the distribution of the Buddhist religion, practiced by about 535 million people as of the 2010s, representing 7%...

Buddhist ethics are traditionally based on the enlightened perspective of the Buddha. In Buddhism, ethics or morality are understood by the term śīla (Sanskrit:...