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Pitaka
[ pit-uh-kuh ]
noun
- Pali Canon
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Origin of Pitaka1
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This Sutta Pitaka is divided into five collections called Nikyas.
In Buddhist literature the composite and tertiary character of the Sutta Pitaka is equally plain.
This book forms an appendix to the Vinaya Pitaka and in some verses printed at the conclusion is said to be the work of one Dpa.
Of greater general interest is the Sutta Pitaka, in which the sermons and discourses of the Buddha are collected.
But the Sutta Pitaka is an attempt to delineate a personality as well as to record a doctrine.
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