Pali Canon

The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pali language. It is the only completely surviving early Buddhist canon, and one of the first to be written down. It was transcribed from the more ancient North Indian oral tradition, during the Fourth Buddhist Council in Sri Lanka in the 1st century BC. The...
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  • Tipitaka

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