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| Poster: A Buddhist Reply Post Message Date: Wed May 1 22:14:33 2002 |
| Subject: Kinh Pha^.t |
| Post No: 822 Reply to: 810 |
Kinh Pha^.t is a long subject for discussion. Basically, Kinh Phat is divided into 2 parts: one part was written on palm leaves (35-32B.C)accoring to the Theravada view, the other part was written about the beginning of the Common Era. After the death of Buddha and around the first centuy B.C, Theravada monks (Mahayanists did not exist at this time) at Sri Lanka hold a Fourth Council and agreed to write down the Buddha's teaching called the Pali Canon and it has 3 parts (basket, Pitaka in Pali.) The Canon has three parts: Vinaya Pitaka, Sutta Pitaka (Skt. Sutra) and Abhidhamma Pitaka. Together they are called Tipitaka (Skt. Tripitaka). Vinaya deals with monastic codes and rules & regulation, Sutta contains discourses of Buddha, Abhidhamma dicussed matters related to Buddhist Philosophy and Psychology. Around the biginning of the Common Era, there was a movement in India. Philosophers and monks of this movement called themselves Mahayanists and wrote later sutras, for example, Prajnaparamita, Die^.u Pha'p Lie^n Hoa, Lankavatara, Diamond,...The Mahayanists interpreted the teachings of Buddha and then wrote them down (no oral transmission.) The Theravada sutta (Pali Canon) was transmitted orally about 500 years before it was written down. Both Theravada and Mahayana suttras are the true teaching of Shakyamuni. |