Pitaka

[ pit-uh-kuh ]

noun

, Buddhism.

1. Pali Canon

Word History and Origins

Origin of Pitaka¹

< Pali: literally, basket

Example Sentences

This Sutta Pitaka is divided into five collections called Nikyas.

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In Buddhist literature the composite and tertiary character of the Sutta Pitaka is equally plain.

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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.

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Of greater general interest is the Sutta Pitaka, in which the sermons and discourses of the Buddha are collected.

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But the Sutta Pitaka is an attempt to delineate a personality as well as to record a doctrine.

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