Pali Canon, the Glossary
The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language.[1]
Table of Contents
150 relations: A. K. Warder, Aṅguttara Nikāya, Aṭṭhakavagga and Pārāyanavagga, Abhidhamma Piṭaka, Access to Insight, Agnihotra, Aluvihare Rock Temple, Arhat, Ashoka, Atthakatha, Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu, Āgama (Buddhism), Ānanda, Śāriputra, Bhante Sujato, Bhāṇaka, Bhikkhu Analayo, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Buddhaghosa, Buddhism, Buddhist councils, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, Buddhist Publication Society, Buddhist texts, Chinese Buddhist canon, Climate, Dai people, Dīgha Nikāya, De Gruyter, Dhamma Society Fund, Dhammapada, Dhammapāla, Dhammasaṅgaṇī, Dharmaguptaka, Dhātukathā, Early Buddhist schools, Early Buddhist texts, Edicts of Ashoka, Ekottara Agama, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Extended ASCII, Floruit, Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, Gayatri Mantra, Gregory Schopen, Hajime Nakamura, Hinduism, Ho trai, Itivuttaka, Jan Willem de Jong, ... Expand index (100 more) »
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A. K. Warder
Anthony Kennedy Warder (8 September 19248 January 2013) was a British Indologist.
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Aṅguttara Nikāya
The Aṅguttara Nikāya (also translated "Gradual Collection" or "Numerical Discourses") is a Buddhist scriptures collection, the fourth of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that comprise the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism. Pali Canon and Aṅguttara Nikāya are Theravada Buddhist texts.
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Aṭṭhakavagga and Pārāyanavagga
The Aṭṭhakavagga (Pali, "Octet Chapter") and the Pārāyanavagga (Pali, "Way to the Far Shore Chapter") are two small collections of suttas within the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism.
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Abhidhamma Piṭaka
The Abhidhamma Piṭaka (English: Basket of Higher Doctrine) is the third of the three divisions of the Tripiṭaka, the definitive canonical collection of scripture of Theravada Buddhism. Pali Canon and Abhidhamma Piṭaka are Theravada Buddhist texts and Tripiṭaka.
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Access to Insight
Access to Insight is a Theravada Buddhist website providing access to many translated texts from the Tipitaka, and contemporary materials published by the Buddhist Publication Society and many teachers from the Thai Forest Tradition.
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Agnihotra
Agnihotra (IAST: Agnihotra, Devnagari: अग्निहोत्र) refers to the yajna of offering ghee into the sacred fire as per strict rites, and may include twice-daily heated milk offering made by those in the Śrauta tradition.
Aluvihare Rock Temple
The Aluvihare Rock Temple (also called Matale Alu Viharaya) is a sacred Buddhist temple located in Aluvihare, Matale District of Sri Lanka.
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Arhat
In Buddhism, an Arhat (Sanskrit: अर्हत्) or Arhant (Pali: अरहन्त्, 𑀅𑀭𑀳𑀦𑁆𑀢𑁆) is one who has gained insight into the true nature of existence and has achieved Nirvana and liberated from the endless cycle of rebirth.
Ashoka
Ashoka, also known as Asoka or Aśoka (– 232 BCE), and popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was Emperor of Magadha in the Indian subcontinent from until 232 BCE, and the third ruler from the Mauryan dynasty.
Atthakatha
Aṭṭhakathā (Pali for explanation, commentary) refers to Pali-language Theravadin Buddhist commentaries to the canonical Theravadin Tipitaka.
Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu
Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu (born Osbert John Salvin Moore; 25 June 1905 – 8 March 1960) was a British Theravada Buddhist monk and translator of Pali literature.
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Āgama (Buddhism)
In Buddhism, an āgama (आगम Sanskrit and Pāli, Tibetan ལུང་ (Wylie: lung) for "sacred work"Monier-Williams (1899), p. 129, see "Āgama," retrieved 12 Dec 2008 from "U. Cologne" at http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/MWScan/MWScanpdf/mw0129-Akhara.pdf. Pali Canon and Āgama (Buddhism) are Tripiṭaka.
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Ānanda
Ānanda (Pali and Sanskrit: आनन्द; 5th4th century BCE) was the primary attendant of the Buddha and one of his ten principal disciples.
Śāriputra
Śāriputra (शारिपुत्र; Tibetan: ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་, Pali: Sāriputta, lit. "the son of Śāri", born Upatiṣya, Pali: Upatissa) was one of the top disciples of the Buddha.
Bhante Sujato
Sujato, known as Ajahn Sujato or Bhikkhu Sujato (born Anthony Best), is an Australian Buddhist monk ordained into the Thai forest lineage of Ajahn Chah.
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Bhāṇaka
Bhāṇaka (Pali: reciter) were Buddhist monks who specialized in the memorization and recitation of a specific collection of texts within the Buddhist canon. Pali Canon and Bhāṇaka are Tripiṭaka.
Bhikkhu Analayo
Bhikkhu Anālayo is a bhikkhu (Buddhist monk), scholar, and meditation teacher.
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Bhikkhu Bodhi
Bhikkhu Bodhi (born December 10, 1944), born Jeffrey Block, is an American Theravada Buddhist monk ordained in Sri Lanka.
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Buddhaghosa
Buddhaghosa was a 5th-century Indian Theravada Buddhist commentator, translator and philosopher.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Buddhist councils
Since the death of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, Buddhist monastic communities ("sangha") have periodically convened to settle doctrinal and disciplinary disputes and to revise and correct the contents of the Buddhist canons.
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Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit (BHS) is a modern linguistic category applied to the language used in a class of Indian Buddhist texts, such as the Perfection of Wisdom sutras.
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Buddhist Publication Society
The Buddhist Publication Society (BPS) is a publishing house with charitable status, whose objective is to disseminate the teachings of Gautama Buddha.
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Buddhist texts
Buddhist texts are religious texts that belong to, or are associated with, Buddhism and its traditions.
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Chinese Buddhist canon
The Chinese Buddhist canon refers to a specific collection of Chinese language Buddhist literature that is deemed canonical in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese Buddhism. Pali Canon and Chinese Buddhist canon are Tripiṭaka.
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Climate
Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years.
Dai people
The Dai people (Burmese: ရှမ်းလူမျိုး; ᨴᩱ/ᨴᩱ᩠ᨿ; ໄຕ; ไท; တႆး) are several Tai-speaking ethnic groups living in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture of China's Yunnan Province.
Dīgha Nikāya
The Dīgha Nikāya ("Collection of Long Discourses") is a Buddhist scriptures collection, the first of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Piṭaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipiṭaka of Theravada Buddhism. Pali Canon and Dīgha Nikāya are Theravada Buddhist texts.
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De Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter, is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.
Dhamma Society Fund
Dhamma Society Fund, formally known as The M.L. Maniratana Bunnag Dhamma Society Fund under the Patronage His Holiness Somdet Phra Ñāṇasaṃvara the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, is a charitable organisation in the Buddhist Theravāda Tradition, founded in 1997 by Thanpuying M.L. Manitatana Bunnag (1923–2000), Lady-in-Waiting to Her Majesty Queen Sirikit (1950–2000) and the Dhamma Society First Chairperson (1998–2000).
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Dhammapada
The Dhammapada (धम्मपद; Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures.
Dhammapāla
Dhammapāla was the name of two or more great Theravada Buddhist commentators.
Dhammasaṅgaṇī
The Dhammasaṅgaṇī (Pāli), also known as the Dhammasaṅgaha, is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. Pali Canon and Dhammasaṅgaṇī are Theravada Buddhist texts.
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Dharmaguptaka
The Dharmaguptaka (Sanskrit: धर्मगुप्तक) are one of the eighteen or twenty early Buddhist schools, depending on the source.
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Dhātukathā
The Dhatukatha (dhātukathā) is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism, where it is included in the Abhidhamma Pitaka. Pali Canon and Dhātukathā are Theravada Buddhist texts.
Early Buddhist schools
The early Buddhist schools are those schools into which the Buddhist monastic saṅgha split early in the history of Buddhism.
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Early Buddhist texts
Early Buddhist texts (EBTs), early Buddhist literature or early Buddhist discourses are parallel texts shared by the early Buddhist schools.
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Edicts of Ashoka
The Edicts of Ashoka are a collection of more than thirty inscriptions on the Pillars of Ashoka, as well as boulders and cave walls, attributed to Emperor Ashoka of the Maurya Empire who ruled most of the Indian subcontinent from 268 BCE to 232 BCE.
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Ekottara Agama
The Ekottara Āgama (Sanskrit) is an early Indian Buddhist text, of which currently only a Chinese translation is extant (Taishō Tripiṭaka 125). Pali Canon and Ekottara Agama are Tripiṭaka.
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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, first published in 1994 (edited by Ronald E. Asher), with a 2nd edition in 2006 (edited by Keith Brown), is an encyclopedia of all matters related to language and linguistics.
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Extended ASCII
Extended ASCII is a repertoire of character encodings that include (most of) the original 96 ASCII character set, plus up to 128 additional characters.
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Floruit
Floruit (abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active.
Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition
The Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) was founded in 1975 by Gelugpa Lamas Thubten Yeshe and Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, who began teaching Tibetan Buddhism to Western students in Nepal.
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Gayatri Mantra
The Gāyatrī Mantra, also known as the Sāvitrī Mantra, is a sacred mantra from the Ṛig Veda (Mandala 3.62.10), dedicated to the Vedic deity Gayatri.
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Gregory Schopen
Gregory Schopen is Professor of Buddhist Studies at University of California, Los Angeles.
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Hajime Nakamura
was a Japanese Orientalist, Indologist, philosopher and academic of Vedic, Hindu and Buddhist scriptures.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Ho trai
A ho trai (หอไตร) is the library of a Thai Buddhist temple.
Itivuttaka
The Itivuttaka (Pali for "as it was said") is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism and is attributed to Khujjuttara's recollection of Buddha's discourses.
Jan Willem de Jong
Jan Willem (J. W.) de Jong (15 February 1921 – 22 January 2000) was a Dutch 20th-century orientalist and buddhologist.
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Kangyur
The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a defined collection of sacred texts recognized by various schools of Tibetan Buddhism, comprising the Kangyur and the Tengyur. Pali Canon and Kangyur are Tripiṭaka.
Karl Eugen Neumann
Karl Eugen Neumann (18651915) was the first translator of large parts of the Pali Canon of Buddhist scriptures from the original Pali into a European language (German) and one of the pioneers of European Buddhism.
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Kathāvatthu
Kathāvatthu (Pāli) (abbreviated Kv, Kvu) is a Buddhist scripture, one of the seven books in the Theravada Abhidhamma Pitaka. Pali Canon and Kathāvatthu are Theravada Buddhist texts.
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Kāśī (kingdom)
Kāśī (Kāsī) was an ancient kingdom of India whose existence is attested during the Iron Age.
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Khandhaka
Khandhaka is the second book of the Theravadin Vinaya Pitaka and includes the following two volumes. Pali Canon and Khandhaka are Theravada Buddhist texts.
Khmer script
Khmer script (អក្សរខ្មែរ)Huffman, Franklin.
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Khuddaka Nikāya
The Khuddaka Nikāya is the last of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka, the sacred scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. Pali Canon and Khuddaka Nikāya are Theravada Buddhist texts.
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Kosala
Kosala, sometimes referred to as Uttara Kosala was one of the Mahajanapadas of ancient India.
Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
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List of Pali Canon anthologies
This list covers English-language anthologies essentially confined to the Pali Canon and including material from at least two pitakas. Pali Canon and list of Pali Canon anthologies are Pāli Canon.
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List of Sāsana Azani recipients
The Burmese government recognizes Buddhist monks who have successfully passed the Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinations as "Sāsana Azani" (သာသနာ့အာဇာနည်), from Pali.
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Magadha
Magadha also called the Kingdom of Magadha or the Magadha Empire, was a kingdom and empire, and one of the sixteen lit during the Second Urbanization period, based in southern Bihar in the eastern Ganges Plain, in Ancient India.
Magahi language
Magahi, also known as Magadhi, is a Indo-Aryan language spoken in Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal states of eastern India, and in the Terai of Nepal.
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Mahavihara
Mahavihara is the Sanskrit and Pali term for a great vihara (centre of learning or Buddhist monastery) and is used to describe a monastic complex of viharas.
Mahayana sutras
The Mahāyāna sūtras are a broad genre of Buddhist scripture (sūtra) that are accepted as canonical and as ''buddhavacana'' ("Buddha word") in certain communities of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Pali Canon and Mahayana sutras are Tripiṭaka.
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Mahāsāṃghika
The Mahāsāṃghika (Brahmi: 𑀫𑀳𑀸𑀲𑀸𑀁𑀖𑀺𑀓, "of the Great Sangha") was a major division (nikāya) of the early Buddhist schools in India.
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Mahāvaṃsa
Mahāvaṃsa (Sinhala: මහාවංශ (Mahāvansha), Pali: මහාවංස (Mahāvaṃsa)) is the meticulously kept historical chronicle of Sri Lanka until the period of Mahasena of Anuradhapura.
Mahīśāsaka
Mahīśāsaka (महीशासक) is one of the early Buddhist schools according to some records.
Majjhima Nikāya
The Majjhima Nikāya ("Collection of Middle-length Discourses") is a Buddhist scripture collection, the second of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Piṭaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka (lit. "Three Baskets") of Theravada Buddhism. Pali Canon and Majjhima Nikāya are Theravada Buddhist texts.
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Matrikas
Matrikas (Sanskrit: मातृका (singular), IAST: mātṝkā, lit. "mothers") also called Matar or Matri, are a group of mother goddesses who are always depicted together in Hinduism.
Millennium
A millennium is a period of one thousand years, sometimes called a '''kiloannum''' (ka), or kiloyear (ky).
Mingun Sayadaw
The Venerable Mingun Sayadaw U Vicittasārābhivaṃsa (မင်းကွန်းဆရာတော် ဦးဝိစိတ္တသာရာဘိဝံသ,; 1 November 1911 – 9 February 1993) was a Burmese Theravāda Buddhist monk, best known for his memory skills and his role in the Sixth Buddhist Council.
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Mon–Burmese script
The Mon–Burmese script (မွန်မြန်မာအက္ခရာ; အက္ခရ်မန်ဗၟာ,, อักษรมอญพม่า; also called the Mon script, Old Mon script and Burmese script) is an abugida that derives from the Pallava Grantha script of southern India and later of Southeast Asia.
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Monk
A monk (from μοναχός, monachos, "single, solitary" via Latin monachus) is a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery.
MS-DOS
MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
Niddesa
The Niddesa (abbrev., "Nidd") is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism.
Nikāya
Nikāya (निकाय) is a Pāli word meaning "volume". Pali Canon and Nikāya are Pāli Canon and Tripiṭaka.
Nirvana (Buddhism)
Nirvana (Sanskrit: निर्वाण; IAST:; Pali) is the extinguishing of the passions, the "blowing out" or "quenching" of the activity of the grasping mind and its related unease.
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Nun
A nun is a woman who vows to dedicate her life to religious service and contemplation, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent.
Nyanaponika Thera
Nyanaponika Thera or Nyanaponika Mahathera (July 21, 1901 – 19 October 1994) was a Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist monk and scholar who, after ordaining in Sri Lanka, later became the co-founder of the Buddhist Publication Society and author of numerous seminal books and articles on Theravada Buddhism.
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Nyanatiloka
Ven. Nyanatiloka Mahathera (19 February 1878, Wiesbaden, Germany – 28 May 1957, Colombo, Ceylon), born as Anton Walther Florus Gueth, was one of the earliest Westerners in modern times to become a Bhikkhu, a fully ordained Buddhist monk.
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Oskar von Hinüber
Oskar von Hinüber (born 18 February 1939 in Hanover) is a German Indologist.
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P. A. Payutto
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Paṭṭhāna
The Paṭṭhāna (Pali:, Sanskrit:, Jñāna-prasthāna, Mahā-Pakaraṇa, Paṭṭhāna-Pakaraṇa, "Book of Causal Relationships") is a Buddhist scripture. Pali Canon and Paṭṭhāna are Theravada Buddhist texts.
Pali
Pāli, also known as Pali-Magadhi, is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language on the Indian subcontinent.
Pali literature
Pali literature is concerned mainly with Theravada Buddhism, of which Pali is the traditional language.
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Pali Text Society
The Pāli Text Society is a text publication society founded in 1881 by Thomas William Rhys Davids "to foster and promote the study of Pāli texts." Pāli is the language in which the texts of the Theravada school of Buddhism are preserved. Pali Canon and Pali Text Society are Theravada Buddhist texts.
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Palm-leaf manuscript
Palm-leaf manuscripts are manuscripts made out of dried palm leaves.
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Paracanonical texts (Theravada Buddhism)
"Paracanonical texts" is used by Western scholars to refer to various texts on the fringes of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism (cf. Apocrypha), usually to refer to the following texts sometimes regarded as included in the Pali Canon's Khuddaka Nikaya. Pali Canon and Paracanonical texts (Theravada Buddhism) are Tripiṭaka.
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Parinirvana
In Buddhism, parinirvana (Sanskrit:; Pali) describes the state entered after death by someone who has attained nirvana during their lifetime.
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Paritta
Paritta (Pali), generally translated as "protection" or "safeguard," refers to the Buddhist practice of reciting certain verses and scriptures in order to ward off misfortune or danger, as well as to the specific verses and discourses recited as paritta texts.
Parivāra
Parivāra (Pāli for "accessory") is the third and last book of the Theravādin Vinaya Pitaka. Pali Canon and Parivāra are Theravada Buddhist texts.
Pariyatti (bookstore)
Pariyatti is a nonprofit organization focused on the Theravadan tradition, based in Onalaska, Washington.
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Paul J. Griffiths
Paul J. Griffiths (born 1955) is an English-born American theologian.
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Pāṭimokkha
In Theravada Buddhism, the Pāṭimokkha is the basic code of monastic discipline, consisting of 227 rules for fully ordained monks (bhikkhus) and 311 for nuns (bhikkhuṇīs). Pali Canon and Pāṭimokkha are Theravada Buddhist texts.
Peter Harvey (academic)
Brian Peter Harvey (born 1951) is a contemporary British scholar of Buddhism.
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Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh (ភ្នំពេញ, Phnum Pénh) is the capital and most populous city of Cambodia.
Pitakataik
Pitakataik (ပိဋကတ်တိုက်; also spelt bidagat taik and pitaka taik) is a library of Buddhist scriptures, including the Tipiṭaka, found in Buddhist societies in modern-day Myanmar (Burma).
Prajadhipok
Prajadhipok (8 November 1893 – 30 May 1941) was the seventh king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama VII.
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Prakrit
Prakrit is a group of vernacular Middle Indo-Aryan languages that were used in the Indian subcontinent from around the 3rd century BCE to the 8th century CE.
Pre-sectarian Buddhism
Pre-sectarian Buddhism, also called early Buddhism, the earliest Buddhism, original Buddhism, and primitive Buddhism, is Buddhism as theorized to have existed before the various Early Buddhist schools developed, around 250 BCE (followed by later subsects of Buddhism).
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Public domain
The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.
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Puggalapaññatti
The Puggalapaññatti is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism, where it is included in the Abhidhamma Pitaka. Pali Canon and Puggalapaññatti are Theravada Buddhist texts.
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Pyu city-states
The Pyu city-states (ပျူ မြို့ပြ နိုင်ငံများ) were a group of city-states that existed from about the 2nd century BCE to the mid-11th century in present-day Upper Myanmar (Burma).
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Rajgir
Rajgir, old name Rajagriha, meaning "The City of Kings," is an ancient city in the district of Nalanda in Bihar, India.
Religious text
Religious texts, including scripture, are texts which various religions consider to be of central importance to their religious tradition.
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Rerukane Chandawimala Thero
Rerukane Chandawimala Thero was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and author.
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Richard Gombrich
Richard Francis Gombrich (born 17 July 1937) is a British Indologist and scholar of Sanskrit, Pāli, and Buddhist studies.
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Royal Dhamma Studies Office
The Royal Dhamma Studies Office at Wat Bowonniwet Vihara The Royal Dhamma Studies Office or The Sanam Luang National Dhamma Studies Examination Curriculum is a three tier system used throughout Thailand for training in theoretical knowledge about Buddhism.
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Rupert Gethin
Rupert Mark Lovell Gethin (born 1957, in Edinburgh) is Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and codirector of the Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Bristol, and (since 2003) president of the Pali Text Society.
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Saṃyutta Nikāya
The Saṃyutta Nikāya ("Connected Discourses" or "Kindred Sayings") is a Buddhist scriptures collection, the third of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism. Pali Canon and Saṃyutta Nikāya are Theravada Buddhist texts.
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Sacca-kiriya
Sacca-kiriyā (Pāli; italic, but more often: satyādhiṣṭhāna) is a solemn declaration of truth, expressed in ritual speech.
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Samanera Bodhesako
Sāmanera Bodhesako (born Robert Smith, 1939–1988; known also as Ven. Vinayadhara and Ven. Ñāṇasuci in his early monastic life) was an American Buddhist monk.
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Sangha
Sangha is a Sanskrit word used in many Indian languages, including Pali which means "association", "assembly", "company" or "community"; in these languages, sangha is frequently used as a surname.
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Sarvastivada
The Sarvāstivāda (𑀲𑀭𑁆𑀯𑀸𑀲𑁆𑀢𑀺𑀯𑀸𑀤; Sabbatthivāda;สรวาสติวาท) was one of the early Buddhist schools established around the reign of Ashoka (third century BCE).
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Sinhala language
Sinhala (Sinhala: සිංහල), sometimes called Sinhalese, is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka, who make up the largest ethnic group on the island, numbering about 16 million.
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Sixth Buddhist council
The Sixth Buddhist Council (Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana); ဆဋ္ဌမသင်္ဂါယနာ; ඡට්ඨ සංගායනා) was a general council of Theravāda Buddhism, held in a specially built Mahā Pāsāṇa Guhā (Great Cave) and pagoda complex at Kaba Aye Pagoda in Yangon, Burma. The council was attended by 2500 monastics from eight Theravādin Buddhist countries.
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Song dynasty
The Song dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
The sub-commentaries (Pali: ṭīkā) are primarily commentaries on the commentaries (Pali: aṭṭhakathā) on the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism, written in Sri Lanka.
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Sutta Nipata
The is a Buddhist scripture, a sutta collection in the Khuddaka Nikaya, part of the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism.
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Sutta Piṭaka
The Sutta Piṭaka (also referred to as Sūtra Piṭaka or Suttanta Piṭaka; English: Basket of Discourse) is the second of the three divisions of the Tripiṭaka, the definitive canonical collection of scripture of Theravada Buddhism. Pali Canon and Sutta Piṭaka are Theravada Buddhist texts.
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Suttavibhaṅga
Suttavibhanga (Pali for "rule analysis") is the first book of the Theravadin Vinaya Pitaka. Pali Canon and Suttavibhaṅga are Theravada Buddhist texts.
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Taishō Tripiṭaka
The Taishō Tripiṭaka (Japanese: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō; "Taishō Revised Tripiṭaka") is a definitive edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon and its Japanese commentaries used by scholars in the 20th century. Pali Canon and Taishō Tripiṭaka are Tripiṭaka.
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Takakusu Junjiro
, who often published as J. Takakusu, was a Japanese academic, an advocate for expanding higher education opportunities, and an internationally known Buddhist scholar.
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Tamrashatiya
The Tāmraśāṭīya (Sanskrit: ताम्रशाटीय), also called Tāmraparṇīya (Sanskrit; Pali: Tambapaṇṇiya) was one of the early schools of Buddhism and a branch of the Vibhajyavāda school based in Sri Lanka.
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Tantra
Tantra (lit) is an esoteric yogic tradition that developed on the Indian subcontinent from the middle of the 1st millennium CE onwards in both Hinduism and Buddhism.
Thai script
The Thai script (อักษรไทย) is the abugida used to write Thai, Southern Thai and many other languages spoken in Thailand.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.
Theravada
Theravāda ('School of the Elders') is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school.
Thomas William Rhys Davids
Thomas William Rhys Davids (12 May 1843 – 27 December 1922) was an English scholar of the Pāli language and founder of the Pāli Text Society.
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Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinations
The Tipiṭakadhara Tipiṭakakovida Selection Examinations (တိပိဋကဓရ တိပိဋကကောဝိဒ ရွေးချယ်ရေး စာမေးပွဲ) are the highest-level monastic examinations held annually in Burma since 1948, organized by the Ministry of Religious Affairs.
See Pali Canon and Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinations
Tripiṭaka
Tipiṭaka or Tripiṭaka, meaning "Triple Basket", is the traditional term for ancient collections of Buddhist sacred scriptures.
Tripiṭaka tablets at Kuthodaw Pagoda
Stone tablets inscribed with the Tripiṭaka (and other Buddhist texts) stand upright in the grounds of the Kuthodaw Pagoda (means 'royal merit') at the foot of Mandalay Hill in Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma). Pali Canon and Tripiṭaka tablets at Kuthodaw Pagoda are Tripiṭaka.
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Udāna
The Udāna is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism.
Upāli
Upāli (Sanskrit and Pāli) was a monk, one of the ten chief disciples of the Buddha and, according to early Buddhist texts, the person in charge of the reciting and reviewing of monastic discipline (Pāli and italic) on the First Buddhist Council. Upāli belongs to the barber community. He met the Buddha when still a child, and later, when the Sakya princes received ordination, he did so as well.
Upāsaka
Upāsaka (masculine) or Upāsikā (feminine) are from the Sanskrit and Pāli words for "attendant".
Vajjika League
The Vajjika (Pāli) or Vrijika League, Confederacy, or Sangha, also called simply Vajji (Pāli) or Vriji, was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribal league which existed during the later Iron Age period in north-east South Asia.
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Vajrayana
Vajrayāna (वज्रयान; 'vajra vehicle'), also known as Mantrayāna ('mantra vehicle'), Mantranāya ('path of mantra'), Guhyamantrayāna ('secret mantra vehicle'), Tantrayāna ('tantra vehicle'), Tantric Buddhism, and Esoteric Buddhism, is a Buddhist tradition of tantric practice that developed in Medieval India and spread to Tibet, Nepal, other Himalayan states, East Asia, parts of Southeast Asia and Mongolia.
Valagamba of Anuradhapura
Valagamba (Sinhala: වළගම්බා), also known as the Great Black Lion, Wattagamani Abhaya and Valagambahu, was a king of the Anuradhapura Kingdom of Sri Lanka.
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Vibhaṅga
The is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism, where it is included in the Abhidhamma Pitaka. Pali Canon and Vibhaṅga are Theravada Buddhist texts.
Vinaya Piṭaka
The Vinaya Piṭaka (English: Basket of Discipline) is the first of the three divisions of the Tripiṭaka, the definitive canonical collection of scripture of Theravada Buddhism. Pali Canon and Vinaya Piṭaka are Theravada Buddhist texts.
See Pali Canon and Vinaya Piṭaka
Visuddhimagga
The Visuddhimagga (Pali; English: The Path of Purification), is the 'great treatise' on Buddhist practice and Theravāda Abhidhamma written by Buddhaghosa approximately in the 5th century in Sri Lanka. Pali Canon and Visuddhimagga are Theravada Buddhist texts.
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Wat Phra Dhammakaya
Wat Phra Dhammakaya (วัดพระธรรมกาย) is a Buddhist temple (wat) in Khlong Luang district, in the Pathum Thani province north of Bangkok, Thailand.
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Woodblock printing
Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper.
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Yamaka
The Yamaka (यमक; Pali for "pairs") is a text of the Pali Canon, the scriptures of a Buddhist monk laws.
See also
1st-century BC books
- 1 Esdras
- 2 Maccabees
- 3 Maccabees
- Apocryphon of Ezekiel
- Biographies of Exemplary Women
- Book of Baruch
- Book of Enoch
- Book of Wisdom
- Cato Maior de Senectute
- Fan Shengzhi shu
- Genesis Apocryphon
- On Plants
- Pali Canon
- Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children
- Prayer of Manasseh
- Psalms of Solomon
- Testament of Qahat
Pāli Canon
- Abhidhamma Pitaka
- List of Pali Canon anthologies
- Nikāya
- Pali Canon
- Sutta Pitaka
- Vinaya Pitaka
- Vulture Peak
Theravada Buddhist texts
- Abhidhamma Piṭaka
- Abhidhammattha-sangaha
- Abhidhammāvatāra
- Aṅguttara Nikāya
- Dhammasaṅgaṇī
- Dhammānudhammapaṭipatti
- Dhātukathā
- Dīgha Nikāya
- Jataka tales
- Kathāvatthu
- Khandhaka
- Khuddaka Nikāya
- Majjhima Nikāya
- Metta Sutta
- Milinda Panha
- Paññāsa Jātaka
- Pali Canon
- Pali Text Society
- Parable of the Poisoned Arrow
- Paramatthamañjusā
- Parivāra
- Paṭṭhāna
- Puggalapaññatti
- Pāṭimokkha
- Satipatthana Sutta
- Saṃyutta Nikāya
- Sutta Piṭaka
- Suttavibhaṅga
- The Shorter Chinese Saṃyukta Āgama
- Theravāda Abhidhamma
- Vessantara Jātaka
- Vibhaṅga
- Vinaya Piṭaka
- Visuddhimagga
- Yogāvacara's manual
Tripiṭaka
- Abhidhamma Piṭaka
- Bhāṇaka
- Buddhayaśas
- Buddhist Institute (Cambodia)
- Chinese Buddhist canon
- Dirgha Agama
- Ekottara Agama
- Kaibao Canon
- Kangyur
- Ksudraka Agama
- Madhyama Agama
- Mahayana sutras
- Nikāya
- Pali Canon
- Paracanonical texts (Theravada Buddhism)
- Pāli Canon
- Taishō Tripiṭaka
- Tengyur
- Tetsugen Doko
- Tripitaka Koreana
- Tripiṭaka
- Tripiṭaka tablets at Kuthodaw Pagoda
- Zhaocheng Jin Tripitaka
- Āgama (Buddhism)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_Canon
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