A Survey on "Pali scriptures"
A Survey on "Pali scriptures"
When you see the term "Pali scriptures", how do you understand it? I mean, What does the term include?
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Pāli Canon of Vinaya Pitaka, Sutta Pitaka & Abhidhamma Pitaka.
If only referring to Sutta Pitaka, I use the term "Pali suttas".
If only referring to Sutta Pitaka, I use the term "Pali suttas".
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What would say to refer to all sanctioned Theravadin texts (which are in Pali), including the commentaries and subcommentaries?
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Pali literature? Wonder if that might be a bit too wide. Would it include any text written in Pali, regardless whether it's sanctioned by the Theravadin tradition?
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Theravadin literature, Theravadin Pali literature to be more precise
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Re: A Survey on "Pali scriptures"
I understand it to refer primarily to the suttas & vinaya, secondarily to abhidhamma, tertiarily to commentaries/subcommentaries/etc. As with most things "Buddhist" in my mind, it is a spectrum, and not a binary system.
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What if I say "Theravadin scriptures"? What would you think it means then?
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I'm not sure if this will help, but it is my understanding that virtually everything written in Pali pertains to Buddhist scripture.
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Theravada Buddhism has sometimes been referred to as Pali Buddhism, though its adherents are not generally happy with this usage. BEST!
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I'm settling for "Theravādin scriptures". Thanks.