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The Pāḷi Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language. [1] It is the most complete extant early Buddhist canon.
Pāli (/ ˈ p ɑː l i /, IAST: pāl̤i), also known as Pali-Magadhi, [2] is a classical Middle Indo-Aryan language on the Indian subcontinent.It is widely studied because it is the language of the Buddhist Pāli Canon or Tipiṭaka as well as the sacred language of Theravāda Buddhism. [3]
The Pali Canon, which contains the main scriptures of the Theravāda, was committed to writing in the first century BCE. [20] Throughout the history of ancient and medieval Sri Lanka, Theravāda was the main religion of the Sinhalese people and its temples and monasteries were patronized by the Sri Lankan kings , who saw themselves as the ...
All texts presumably have a Sanskrit original, although in many cases the Tibetan text was translated from Chinese from Chinese Canon, Pali from Pali Canon or other languages. Tengyur ( Wylie : bstan-'gyur ) or "Translated Treatises or Shastras ", is the section to which were assigned commentaries, treatises and abhidharma works (both Mahayana ...
The work of bringing out the Roman text editions of the Pāli Canon was not financially rewarding, but was achieved with the backing of the Buddhist clergy in Sri Lanka who underwrote the printing costs. Childers published the first Pāli-English dictionary in 1874.
The Pali canon's Sutta Pitaka identifies ten "fetters of becoming": [3] belief in a self (Pali: sakkāya-diṭṭhi) [4] doubt or uncertainty, especially about the Buddha's awakeness (vicikicchā) [5] attachment to rites and rituals (sīlabbata-parāmāsa) [6] sensual desire (kāmacchando) [7] ill will (vyāpādo or byāpādo) [8]
According to K. R. Norman, the Pali canon contains various shortened forms of the four truths, the "mnemonic set", which were "intended to remind the hearer of the full form of the NTs." [ 56 ] The earliest form of the mnemonic set was "dukkham samudayo nirodho marga", without the reference to the Pali terms sacca [ 57 ] or arya , [ 53 ] which ...
It is the seventh and final text of the Abhidhamma Pitaka ("Basket of Higher Doctrine"), which is one of the "Tripiṭaka-Three Baskets" of canonical Theravada Buddhist texts collectively known as the Pali Canon. The Paṭṭhāna consists of three divisions (Eka, Duka, and Tīka).