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THE ATLAS OF THE EMPTY THRONE

The Pāli Canon · Tipiṭaka

the Pāli Canon
nature
"The three baskets": the discourses (Sutta), the monastic rule (Vinaya), and the analytic systematisation (Abhidhamma). Carried orally for four centuries by reciter lineages before being written down in Sri Lanka — and the redundancy and formulaic repetition modern readers find tedious is exactly the engineering that made that possible.

The oldest complete Buddhist scripture, and the base text of Theravāda.
rhymes with
sephirahyesod
whyYesod, the foundation that everything later stands on and channels through.
tags
tipitaka · pali canon · sutta · vinaya · abhidhamma
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