[Pali] Vinaya Piṭaka – The Discipline – Bộ Luật tạng
Vinaya Piṭaka regulates monastic life and the daily affairs of monks and nuns according to rules attributed to the Buddha. Giới luật quy định là bộ kinh điển sớm nhất quy định đời sống của Tăng Ni trong tăng đoàn
[Pali] Dīgha Nikāya – The Long Discourses of the Buddha – Kinh Trường Bộ
The Digha Nikaya is a Buddhist scripture, the first of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the “three baskets” that compose the Pali Tipitaka of Buddhism.
[Pali] Majjhima Nikaya – The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha – Kinh Trung Bộ
Majjhima Nikaya (“Medium [Length] Collection”; Sanskrit Madhyamagama), 152 suttas, some of them attributed to disciples, covering nearly all aspects of Buddhism. Included are texts dealing with monastic life, the excesses of asceticism, the evils of caste, Buddha’s debates with the Jains, and meditation, together with…
The Titles of The Taisho Tripitaka
The Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese: 大正新脩大藏經; pinyin: Dàzhèng Xīnxīu Dàzàngjīng; Japanese: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō; lit. “Taishō Revised Tripiṭaka”) is a definitive edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon and its Japanese commentaries used by scholars in the 20th century. It was edited by Takakusu Junjiro and others. The name is abbreviated as “大正藏” in Chinese (Dàzhèngzàng) and Japanese (Taishōzō).
Sanskrit Canon: 阿含部 | Āgama | Bộ A Hàm | T.001 – T.0151
These sutras correspond to the first four Nikāyas (and parts of the fifth) of the Sutta-Pitaka of the Pali Canon, which are also occasionally called āgamas.
[Pali] Anguttara Nikaya – The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha – Kinh Tăng Chi Bộ
The Anguttara Nikaya also translated “Gradual Collection” or “Numerical Discourses” is a Buddhist scripture, the fourth of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the “three baskets” that comprise the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism. This nikaya consists of several thousand discourses ascribed to the Buddha and his chief disciples arranged in eleven “books”, according to the number of dhamma items referenced in them…
Sanskrit Canon: 本緣部 | Jātaka | Bộ Bản Duyên | T.0152 – T.0219
A collection of 550 stories of the former lives of the Buddha Gotama, one of the twelve divisions of the Buddhist teaching.
[Pali] Samyutta Nikaya – The Collected Discourses of the Buddha – Kinh Tương Ưng Bộ
The Samyutta Nikaya consists of fifty-six chapters, each governed by a unifying theme that binds together the Buddha’s suttas or discourses…
[Pali] Khuddaka Nikaya – Smaller Collection Discourses of the Buddha, Division of Short Books, Minor Collection – Kinh Tiểu Bộ
The Khuddaka Nikaya, the fifth division of the Sutta Pitaka, is a wide-ranging collection of fifteen books (eighteen in the Burmese Tipitaka) containing complete suttas, verses, and smaller fragments of Dhamma teachings…
Sanskrit Canon: 般若部 | Prajñāpāramitā | Bộ Bát Nhã | T.0220 – T.0261
The wisdom which enables one to reach the other shore, i.e. wisdom for salvation; the highest of the six paramitas, the virtue of wisdom as the principal means of attaining nirvana. It connotes a knowledge of the illusory character of everything earthly, and destroys error, ignorance, prejudice, and heresy.