Author: M G Chitkara
Publisher: APH Publishing Corporation
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 000
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8176483141
Description
This concluding volume of 21-volume series on Buddhism: A World Faith reflects that Buddhism is the teaching of actuality, and its language also – the Pali as regards content of actuality, takes a leading place among languages.
The Pali is a language of an eminently actual character. It is owing to this content of actuality in Buddhism and its language that so many expressions are found in it for which a fitting translation is scarcely or not at all to be found.
In Buddhism sutra once meant only teachings recorded in simple prose. The Buddha’s sermons, said to number eighty-four thousand, were grouped in several categories according to form and content. Today, the word sutra refer to all sermons of the Buddha. The oldest compilations of his sermons, the Five Nikayas of the Pali cannon and four Agamas of the Chinese canon, are known collectively as the Agana sutras and are also called the Sutra-Pitaka, or Sutra Basket, meaning a collection of Scriptures. Each sermon included in the Sutra-Pitaka is called a sutra.
Today, the word sutra refer to all sermons of the Buddha. The oldest compilations of his sermons, the Five Nikayas of the Pali cannon and the four Agamas of the Chinese cannon, are known collectively as the Agana sutras and are also called the Sutra-Pitaka, or Sutra Basket, meaning a collection of scriptures. Each sermon included in the Sutra-Pitaka is called a sutra.
Buddhism: A World Faith is an Encyclopaedia & Glossary in its last volume. The reader can have a clear glimpse of Buddhism if he intelligently, goes through this volume. In any case the Glossary is likely to be of great utility to the reader in his study of Buddhism.
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