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Message: <blockquote data-quote="saharaz" data-source="post: 2736587" data-attributes="member: 99166">BUDHDHIST SCRIPTURES / TEXTS DEAR BROTHER FOR YOUR KIND INFORMATION BELOW MENTIONED ARE THE HOLY BUDHDHIST SCRIPTURES / TEXTS I DON'T THINK SCHOLARS OF BUDDHISM WILL DENY THE AUTHENTICATION ON THESE SCRIPTURES Buddhist scriptures and other texts exist in great variety. Different schools of Buddhism place varying levels of value on learning the various texts. Some schools venerate certain texts as religious objects in themselves, while others take a more scholastic approach. The Buddhist canons of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripture" target="_blank">scripture</a> are known in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit" target="_blank">Sanskrit</a> as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripitaka" target="_blank">Tripitaka</a> and in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81li" target="_blank">Pāli</a> as the Tipitaka. These terms literally mean "three baskets" and refer to the three main divisions of the canon, which are:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinaya" target="_blank">Vinaya Pitaka</a>, containing disciplinary rules for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangha" target="_blank">Sanghas</a> of Buddhist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk" target="_blank">monks</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nun" target="_blank">nuns</a>, as well as a range of other texts including explanations of why and how rules were instituted, supporting material, and doctrinal clarification. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutta_Pitaka" target="_blank">Sūtra Pitaka</a> (Pāli: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutta_Pitaka" target="_blank">Sutta Pitaka</a>), contains discourses ascribed to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha" target="_blank">the Buddha</a>. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhidhamma" target="_blank">Abhidharma Pitaka</a> (Pāli: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhidhamma_Pitaka" target="_blank">Abhidhamma Pitaka</a>) contains material often described as systematic expositions of the Buddha's teachings. </li> </ul>According to the scriptures, soon after the death of the Buddha, the first Buddhist council was held; a monk named <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahakasyapa" target="_blank">Mahākāśyapa</a> (Pāli: Mahākassapa) presided. The goal of the council was to record the Buddha's sayings—<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutra" target="_blank">sūtras</a> (Sanskrit) or suttas (Pāli)—and codify monastic rules (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinaya" target="_blank">Vinaya</a>). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda" target="_blank">Ānanda</a>, the Buddha's personal attendant, was called upon to recite the discourses of the Buddha, and according to some sources the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhidhamma" target="_blank">abhidhamma</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upali" target="_blank">Upāli</a>, another disciple, recited the rules of the Vinaya. These became the basis of the Tripitaka. However, this record was initially transmitted orally in form of chanting, and was committed to text in a much later period. Both the sūtras and the Vinaya of every Buddhist school contain a wide variety of elements including discourses on the Dharma, commentaries on other teachings, cosmological and cosmogonical texts, stories of the Buddha's previous lives, and lists relating to various subjects.The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theravada" target="_blank">Theravāda</a> and other <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Buddhist_Schools" target="_blank">early Buddhist Schools</a> traditionally believe that the texts of their canon contain the actual words of the Buddha. The Theravāda canon, also known as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_Canon" target="_blank">Pāli Canon</a> after the language it was written in, contains some four million words. Other texts, such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahayana_sutras" target="_blank">Mahāyāna sūtras</a>, are also considered by some to be the word of the Buddha, but supposedly were transmitted in secret, or via lineages of mythical beings (such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_(mythology)" target="_blank">nāgas</a>), or came directly from other Buddhas or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva" target="_blank">bodhisattvas</a>. Approximately six hundred Mahāyāna sutras have survived in Sanskrit or in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language" target="_blank">Chinese</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_language" target="_blank">Tibetan</a> translations. In addition, East Asian Buddhism recognizes some sutras regarded by scholars as of Chinese origin.The followers of Theravāda Buddhism take the scriptures known as the Pāli Canon as definitive and authoritative, while the followers of Mahāyāna Buddhism base their faith and philosophy primarily on the Mahāyāna sūtras and their own versions of the Vinaya. The Pāli sutras, along with other, closely-related scriptures, are known to the other schools as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agama_(text)" target="_blank">āgamas</a>.Whereas the Theravādins adhere solely to the Pali canon and its commentaries, the adherents of Mahāyāna accept both the agamas and the Mahāyāna sūtras as authentic, valid teachings of the Buddha, designed for different types of persons and different levels of spiritual penetration. For the Theravādins, however, the Mahayana sūtras are works of poetic fiction, not the words of the Buddha himself. The Theravadins are confident that the Pali canon represents the full and final statement by the Buddha of his Dhamma—and nothing more is truly needed beyond that. Anything added which claims to be the word of the Buddha and yet is not found in the Canon or its commentaries is treated with extreme caution if not outright rejection by Theravada.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Konchog-wangdu.jpeg" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Konchog-wangdu.jpeg</a>Buddhist monk Geshe Konchog Wangdu reads Mahayana sutras from an old woodblock copy of the Tibetan Kanjur.For the Mahāyānists, in contrast, the āgamas do indeed contain basic, foundational, and, therefore, relatively weighty pronouncements of the Buddha. From the Mahayana standpoint the Mahāyāna sutras articulate the Buddha's higher, more advanced and deeper doctrines, reserved for those who follow the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva" target="_blank">bodhisattva</a> path. That path is explained as being built upon the motivation to liberate all living beings from unhappiness. Hence the name Mahāyāna (lit., the Great Vehicle), which expresses availability both to the general masses of sentient beings and those who are more developed. The theme of greatness can be seen in many elements of Mahayana Buddhism, from the length of some of the Mahayana sutras and the vastness of the Bodhisattva vow, which strives for all future time to help free all other persons and creatures from pain), to the (in some sutras and Tantras) final attainment of the Buddha's "Great Self" (mahatman) in the sphere of "Great Nirvana" (mahanirvana). For Theravadins and many scholars, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.K._Warder" target="_blank">A.K. Warder</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#cite_note-84#cite_note-84" target="_blank">[85]</a> however, the self-proclaimed "greatness" of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahayana_Sutras" target="_blank">Mahayana Sutras</a> does not make them a true account of the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha.Unlike many religions, Buddhism has no single central text that is universally referred to by all traditions. However, some scholars have referred to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinaya_Pitaka" target="_blank">Vinaya Pitaka</a> and the first four Nikayas of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutta_Pitaka" target="_blank">Sutta Pitaka</a> as the common core of all Buddhist traditions.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#cite_note-85#cite_note-85" target="_blank">[86]</a> However, this could be considered misleading, as Mahāyāna considers these merely a preliminary, and not a core, teaching, the Tibetan Buddhists have not even translated most of the āgamas, though theoretically they recognize them, and they play no part in the religious life of either clergy or laity in China and Japan.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#cite_note-86#cite_note-86" target="_blank">[87]</a> The size and complexity of the Buddhist canons have been seen by some (including Buddhist social reformer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babasaheb_Ambedkar" target="_blank">Babasaheb Ambedkar</a>) as presenting barriers to the wider understanding of Buddhist philosophy.Over the years, various attempts have been made to synthesize a single Buddhist text that can encompass all of the major principles of Buddhism. In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theravada" target="_blank">Theravada</a> tradition, condensed 'study texts' were created that combined popular or influential scriptures into single volumes that could be studied by novice monks. Later in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka" target="_blank">Sri Lanka</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhammapada" target="_blank">Dhammapada</a> was championed as a unifying scripture.Dwight <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddard" target="_blank">Goddard</a> collected a sample of Buddhist scriptures, with the emphasis on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Buddhism" target="_blank">Zen</a>, along with other classics of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_philosophy" target="_blank">Eastern philosophy</a>, such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching" target="_blank">Tao Te Ching</a>, into his '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buddhist_Bible&action=edit&redlink=1" target="_blank">Buddhist Bible</a>' in the 1920s. More recently, Dr. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babasaheb_Ambedkar" target="_blank">Babasaheb Ambedkar</a> attempted to create a single, combined document of Buddhist principles in <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ambedkar/ambedkar_buddha/" target="_blank">"The Buddha and His Dhamma"</a>. Other such efforts have persisted to present day, but currently there is no single text that represents all Buddhist traditions. PLEASE DON'T GIVE COMMENTS WITH YOUR OWN I'M REPLYING WITH THE SCRIPTURES SO THE VEIWERS WILL UNDERSTAND REGARDIN SRI_LION YO SAID HE CAN'T PROVE THAT BUDDHISM IS RIGHT BUT I CAN PROVE THAT ISLAM IS RIGHT BECOZ IT IS THE TRUTH (other member don't get upset this is personaly for kalyanamithra brother) EVEN IF SRI_LION OR ANYONE ELSE WILLING TO ENTER THE ISLAM WHAT IS HARM IN IT BECOZ SRI LANKA HAS THE RELIGOUS FREEDOM  TRUTH HAS COME FALSEHOOD HAS VANISHED OHH ALLAH I CONVEYED MY MESSAGE TO THIS EK'S IF THEY ACCEPT THE TRUTH ALLAH GUIDE AND BLESS THEM IF NOT HE WIIL BREAK THEIR BACK YOU IN THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT</blockquote>

Verification: Nawa warak dahaya keeyada? (Namaya wadi kireema dahaya)

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