Pali Canon

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noun

Buddhism.

1. a collection of scriptures, originally recorded from oral traditions in the 1st century b.c., divided into one of three parts Pitaka: sermons Sutta Pitaka, the rules of the Buddhist order Vinaya Pitaka, and several treatises on philosophy and psychology Abhidhamma Pitaka.

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But though the Pali Canon thus recognizes the Bodhisattva as a type which, if rare, yet makes its appearance at certain intervals, it leaves the matter there.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Sir Charles Eliot

Thus, there are four Chinese translations of works bearing some relation to the Dhammapada of the Pali Canon.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot

Tissa then composed the Kathâ-vatthu and presided over a council composed of one thousand arhats which established the true doctrine and fixed the present Pali Canon.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot

Different as it may be from the Buddhism of the Pali Canon, it is an Indian not an exotic growth.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot

A more important problem is this: what is the relation to the Pali Canon of the Chinese texts bearing titles corresponding to Dîrgha, Madhyama, Samyukta and Ekottara?

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot