Sangha tripitaka the baskets necessity teacher

•Numbers and Distribution

• For Mahayana: a great number of texts in various languages,
including Chinese, Japanese,
Tibetan

• For Vajrayana: the Kanjur (tantric texts) and Tanjur (commentaries)

The Vinaya

stories of the Buddha’s former births (jataka), accounts of the lives of the great disciples, didactic verses,
Dhammapada (Path of Truth) and other texts.

The Abhidharma
•the nature of mind and matter.

“the word of the Buddha”

• The Pali Canon of Theravada
Buddhists, is the earliest extant, complete canon.

• In the nineteenth century a temple complex was erected in Mandalay, Burma, where the canon was also inscribed in its entirety.

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• The Dharma:the Teaching, the truth and cosmic law-orderliness

• The Sangha: the Monastic Order

•Avoid doing all evil
deeds
•Cultivate doing good
deeds
•And purify the mind
•This is the teaching of
all buddhas.

Dhammapada, 183

• Suffering (dukkha)
• Cause of Suffering: craving (tanha), thirst (trishna)
• End of Suffering (nirvana),
• The Path to End Suffering: the
Eightfold Path

The Path to End Suffering: the Eightfold Path

B.The Cause of Suffering, the Conditions of Suffering, the Process of Suffering, the End of Suffering

C.Suffering, Desire as the Cause of Suffering, the End of Suffering, and the Path to End Suffering

– “the Great Vehicle”
– Started 150 BCE-100 CE, a response to the Theravada
– Sakyamuni only one manifestation of
Buddhahood
• Buddha could still be contacted in prayer, meditation, and visions.

• The first Buddha images – 200 CE
– Sanskrit literature and translations in Chinese, Tibetan, Vietnamese, etc.

B.Three jewels: the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha

C.Three marks of existence: impermanence, suffering, and non-self