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20 lip 2016 · The main Buddhist holy book - The Sutta Pitaka - is many times larger than the Bible, consisting of more than 10,000 discourses. However, the essential teachings the Buddha compared to a ' handful of leaves' .
The “Sutta Pitaka” contains the suttas (Sanskrit, sutras) or recorded discourses of the Buddha and some of his disciples; the “Vinaya Pitaka” contains the Buddha’s code of discipline for his monastic community; and the “Abhidhamma Pitaka” contains a detailed analysis of the nature, origin, and interaction of material and ...
The Pali Canon, used by the Theravada tradition, is the shortest, but it's still longer than the Bible. In the Mahayana, generally there are individual Sutras that might be as long as the Bible, and there might be hundreds of Sutras (not all that length) that are part of the canon.
Buddhism has a rather different relationship to its texts than Abrahamic religions do to the Bible or Quran. Mahayana, Theravada, and Tibetan Buddhism all have large canons.
21 lut 2019 · Buddhism has a vast number of scriptures, but few texts are accepted as authentic and authoritative by every school of Buddhism. There is one other reason that there is no Buddhist Bible. Many religions consider their scriptures to be the revealed word of God or gods.
10 maj 2019 · Lama Jampa introduces the different types of Buddhist scripture and explains how they relate to the three fold path of morality, meditation and wisdom. Lama Jampa Thaye is an extraordinary ...
7 paź 2014 · Buddhism itself has universal beliefs such as the 4 Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path and the notion of going for refuge. To me then it doesn't seem unreasonable that there could have been a Buddhist Bible that complied these central beliefs in the same way as the Christian Bible.
