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Tripitaka
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Tripitaka [trɪˈpɪtəkə]
n
(Non-Christian Religions / Buddhism) Buddhism the three collections of books making up the Buddhist canon of scriptures
[from Pali tri three + pitaka basket]


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The importance of this Council lies in the fact that the Tipitaka, the Pali Canon, which had been transmitted orally from the time of the Buddha was written down in books for the first time.
That is, what if the final judgment on the authority of any sacred text--the Bible, the Qur'an, the Tipitaka, the Bhagavad-Gita--is its demonstrable capacity to transform the way those who confess its truths live?
Chico) analyzes the development of writing and its complex relationship to the oral tradition during the 15th century in the kingdom of Lan Na in northern Thailand as one part of the story of the transmission of the Tipitaka and related Pali texts of Buddhist literature, a story that now includes compact disks.
 
 
 
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