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- From: torkel@SICS.SE
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- Subject: Re: Asians
- Message-ID: <9301261714.AA02952@anhur.sics.se>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:14:03 GMT
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
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- Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue,
- 26 Jan 93 10:55:00 -0600. <9301261705.AA13321@sics.se>
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- >I can't think of what they can possibly be called other than "sutra"s
- >(in Sanskrit) or "sutta"s (in Pali). I thought that all of the Buddhist
- >suttas were in the Sutta-pitaka, but of course I was only going by the
- >name.
-
- Since I'm now at home, I can answer with easy authority, by quoting
- Edward Conze.
-
- "What has survived of the scriptures exists now in 3 great collections:
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- I. The Pali Tripitaka.
-
- This contains the scriptures of one of the Hinayana schools, the Thera-
- vadins. The scriptures of other Hinayana schools are partly preserved
- in Sanskrit and Chinese, but the greater number of them is lost.
- ...
-
- II. The Chinese Tripitaka.
- Its composition is less rigidly fixed, and it has varied in the course
- of time. The oldest Catalogue, of 518 A.D., mentions 2,113 works,
- of which 276 are still in existence. ...
- ...
-
- III. The Tibetan Kanjur and Tanjur.
- ......
-
- IV. A number of Sanskrit works are preserved, but there exists no collection
- or Canon of them."
-