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- From: rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU (Rashmi)
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- Subject: Re: Asians
- Message-ID: <9301261818.AA08231@Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:18:22 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: <9301261715.AA03282@cbis.ECE.Drexel.EDU>; from "torkel@SICS.SE"
- at Jan 26, 93 6:14 pm
-
- Torkel quotes Edward Conze.
-
- > "What has survived of the scriptures exists now in 3 great collections:
-
- > I. The Pali Tripitaka.
- > II. The Chinese Tripitaka.
- > III. The Tibetan Kanjur and Tanjur.
- > IV. A number of Sanskrit works are preserved, but there exists no collection
- > or Canon of them."
-
-
- A condensed version of the same is offered by Mascaro in the introduction
- to _The Dhammapada_:
-
- "Besides the scriptures in Pali (the sutta-pitakas), there is a vast Buddhist
- literature written in Sanskrit, and in Chinese and Tibetan tranlations."
-
- -rashmi
-