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	READINGS IN BUDDHIST TEXTS
		Generally reading will be restricted to the Buddhist texts designated here as Required Textbooks, and we will be focused on reading these works closely and carefully, with critical discussions to follow.
		Sutta-nipāta is considered one of the earliest Buddhist texts and is widely read within the monastic communities of South and Southeast Asia.
		As this is a “second-tier” course with a prerequisite, the research paper should reflect a fairly detailed look into the Buddhist topic of your choice, using multiple sources, and with a proper bibliography and footnotes or endnotes as necessary for citation and/or explanation.
	www.albany.edu /eas/eas393.html (525 words)

	Sacred Texts: Buddhism
		This is a often-cited scholarly anthology of translations of key Theravada Buddhist documents.
		The Jataka is a huge collection of fables framed as previous incarnations of the Buddha, many of which either have parallels or derivatives in western folklore and literature.
		Although the Jataka is not considered part of the canonical Buddhist scripture, it is very popular.
	www.sacred-texts.com /bud/index.htm (759 words)

	Buddhist Meditation in the Theravada tradition
		In addition to presenting the core texts of early Buddhism we are developing an online library featuring some of the finest modern writing on Buddhism and meditation.
		In the Pali language of the early Buddhist texts, vipassana means insight.
		It is the oldest living tradition and its core teachings are based on the word of the Buddha as found in the earliest texts.
	www.vipassana.com (385 words)

	Buddhist Scriptures: Buddhist Bark Texts Found
		The manuscripts date from, most likely, the first century A.D., and as such are the oldest surviving Buddhist texts, which promise to provide unprecedented insights into the early history of Buddhism in north India and in central and east Asia
		Mr Shaw explained: "The scrolls tell us something about the way Buddhists passed on the teachings, which were for a long time passed on orally." After the Buddha's death, his disciples are said to have gathered in assemblies where they recited his sermons and organised them into what came to be the Buddhist canon.
		Although nothing is known of their provenance, their attribution has been confirmed by the University of Seattle's Professor Richard Salomon, one of the world's greatest scholars of Kharosthi - a script derived from the Aramaic alphabet that was restricted to a small area of India.
	www.buddhanet.net /e-learning/history/s_scripts.htm (456 words)

	Buddhist texts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Buddhists place varying value on them: attitudes range from worship of the text itself, to dismissal of some texts as falsification of the ineffable truth.
		Later texts, such as the Mahayana Sutras, are also considered to be the word of the Buddha, but were transmitted either in secret, via lineages of mythical beings (such as the nagas), or came directly from other Buddhas or bodhisattvas.
		This text is in the form of a dialogue between Nagasena, and the Indo-Greek King Menander (Pali: Milinda).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buddhist_texts (4607 words)

	Gandhāran Buddhist Texts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One more manuscript, written on birch bark in a Buddhist monastery of the abhidharma tradition, also in the 1st or 2nd century CE, was acquired from a collector by the University of Washington Libraries in 2002.
		The Gandhāran texts are in a considerably deteriorated form (their survival at all is miraculous), but educated guesses about reconstruction have been possible in several cases using both modern preservation techniques and more traditional textual scholarship, comparing previously known Pāli and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit versions of texts.
		Scholarly critical editions of the texts are being printed by the University of Washington Press in the "Gandhāran Buddhist Texts" series, beginning with a detailed analysis of the Ghāndārī Rhinoceros Sutra including phonology, morphology, orthography, paleography, etc.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gandharan_Buddhist_texts (415 words)

	Encyclopedia: Buddhist texts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A replica of an ancient statue of Gautama Buddha, found from Sarnath, near Varanasi Buddhism, a religion and philosophy from ancient India, is based on the teachings of the Buddha, SiddhÄrtha Gautama, of the Shakyas.
		The percentage of Buddhist population of each country was taken from the US State Departments International Religious Freedom Report 2004 [1].
		The Buddhist temple Wat Chiang Man, in Chiang Mai, Thailand, which dates from the late 13th century Buddhist temples and monasteries, sorted by location.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Buddhist-texts (689 words)

	Buddhist Texts
		Their texts classify experience in terms of impermanent groupings of factors referred to as dharma (Pali: dhamma), which in aggregations are the focus of the doctrine (dharma) taught by Buddha.
		The transmission of Buddhist texts to China occurred over the course of several centuries, and during this time the tradition in India was developing and creating new schools and doctrines.
		The selections are intended to present a representative sampling of early texts that contain central doctrines or that recount important events in the history of Buddhism, along with statements by Buddhist thinkers of later times that represent influential developments in Buddhist thought and practice.
	www.twilightbridge.com /hobbies/festivals/buddha/texts.htm (761 words)

	WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist texts
		Some texts have been translated repeatedly, and are related through their (common?) ancestors, other texts are commentaries, or even commentaries of commentaries (of commentaries) and intimately related to the holy scripture that stands at the beginning of this discourse.
		Even other types of texts relate biographical information about the same persons, and derive some relationship from that fact, in the same way are texts that preserve the commandments and regulations for the sangha of different times closely related in the content of the rules.
		A text can be in a collection of separate texts, thus becoming a subdivision and at the same time another version can be available as self-contained copy.
	www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp /~wittern/can/can2/ind/canwww.htm (1951 words)

	ipedia.com: Buddhist texts Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Buddhists place varying value on texts: attitudes range from worship of the text itself, to dismissal of texts as falsification of the ineffa...
		Although many versions of the Nikaya school texts were written in Sanskrit, the only complete canon to survive is that of the Theravadin school, which preserved the texts in the Pali language.
		The Mahāsanghika Mahāvastu is said to be a vinaya text, but rather than dealing with rules it is an extended biography of the Buddha which it describes in terms of his progression through ten bhumis, or stages.
	www.ipedia.com /buddhist_texts.html (4386 words)

	Buddhist Texts
		The Tripitaka is the sole canonical text in Theravada Buddhism.
		The Lotus Sutra is used extensively in many forms of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, and is even the primary text for one strand of Mahayana, Nicheren Buddhism.
		It reveres the Tripitaka, which was perhaps the first buddhist text to be translated into Tibetan.
	uwacadweb.uwyo.edu /religionet/er/buddhism/BTEXTS.HTM (1002 words)

	Buddhist Texts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Buddhist Texts is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		The Buddhist canon of scripture is known in Sanskrit as the Tripitaka and in Pali as the Tipitaka.
		The Vinaya Piaaka, containing disciplinary rules for the Sangha of Buddhist monks and nuns, as well as a range of other texts which explain why and how rules were instituted, supporting material, and doctrinal clarification.
	www.experiencefestival.com /buddhist_texts (611 words)

	Zen & Buddhist texts
		The oldest remaining printed text in the world, is, by the way, the Diamond Sutra.
		They are very advanced texts that you won't understand without a good teacher.
		The same monk also told me that rather than study many texts, is is usually better to choose one text to study your whole life.
	zen.thetao.info /read/texts.htm (299 words)

	Buddhism, an introduction, John C. Powers, Publications, Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Buddha and the Texts of the Pali Canon
		In mahamudra, one dispenses with the visualizations and rituals of tantra and focuses on the natural state of mind, which is said to be a union of clear light and emptiness.
		They are a summary of the entire Buddhist path, including the renunciation of the world, the development of compassion, and the importance of avoiding extreme views.
	www.anu.edu.au /asianstudies/buddhism/tib.html (1824 words)

	Buddhist Texts (from Indian literature) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		More results on "Buddhist Texts (from Indian literature)" when you join.
		The Coffin Texts, combined with the Pyramid Texts from which they were derived, were the primary sources of the Book of the Dead, which was in prominent use during...
		It was developed before the Christian era; its Sanskrit influence originated in the Mahayana Buddhists' use of Sanskrit in their writings.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-202574 (843 words)

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		In the reign of King Lhatotori, the 28th king of the Yarlung Dynasty, Buddhist texts first reach Tibet, but are not comprehended.
		The fundamental Hinayana and Mahayana texts, relied upon by all schools, are preserved in their original translations with only minor revisions in grammar and spelling.
		The texts of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon collected at Nartang monastery in central Tibet are organized by Buton Rinchendrup into Kanjur (Buddha’s Words) and Tanjur (Commentaries by Buddhist masters).
	www.nyingma.org /yd/bkth2.html (848 words)

	Buddhist Scriptures and Sacred Texts - ReligionFacts
		There are a vast number of Buddhist scriptures and religious texts, which are commonly divided into the categories of canonical and non-canonical.
		The latter are the various commentaries on canonical texts, other treatises on the Dharma, and collections of quotes, histories, grammars, etc.
		Tripitaka means "three baskets," from the way in which it was originally recorded: the text was written on long, narrow leaves, which were sewn at the edges then grouped into bunches and stored in baskets.
	www.religionfacts.com /buddhism/texts.htm (407 words)

	Zen@MetaLab
		I don't claim to be an expert on koans or on Zen, but I fell in love with the spirit of the Zen teachings and wanted to be able to share some of the koans with the Net at large.
		A collection of Zen texts by Southwest Chogye International Zen Academeia in Houston, Texas, including a dictionary of Buddhist terms and sutra.
		The Mountains and River Order (MRO) is an organization of associated Zen Buddhist temples, practice centers and sitting groups in the United States and Abroad.
	www.ibiblio.org /zen (664 words)

	Buddhist Texts
		Digital versions of ancient and endangered Buddhist texts, primarily those from the Kangyur and Tengyur collections.
		Texts are on CD ROM and are in their original languages, Sanskrit and Tibetan.
		Homepage of the Group in Buddhist Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
	teaching_buddhism.tripod.com /texts.html (475 words)

	Electronic Texts
		Alex: A catalog of electronic texts on the Internet provides author, title and subject access to many electronic texts found on the Internet.
		Electronic Scriptoral Texts for Buddhist, Confucian and Taoist Studies - Diamond Sutra, Sutra of the Perfect Enlightenment, Analects of Confucius etc.
		ETANA core texts - texts of the civilizations of the ancient Near East (Egypt, Assyria, Sumeria, Babylon etc.), includes both primary and secondary texts (Book of the Dead, Encyclopedia Biblica, Handbook of Egyption Relgion etc.)
	www.acs.ucalgary.ca /~lipton/texts.html (2284 words)

	Buddhist Publication Society
		It is the author's wish, however, that any such republication and redistribution be made available to the public on a free and unrestricted basis and that translations and other derivative works be clearly marked as such.
		Printed copies of these titles that are still in print may be ordered directly from the BPS or from one of their regional distributors.
		Buddhist Ceremonies and Rituals of Sri Lanka, by A.G.S. Kariyawasam
	www.accesstoinsight.org /lib/bpslist.html (1178 words)

	Buddhist Studies WWW VL
		Google rank #1 among the 1,600,000 buddhist studies pages world-wide (Nov 2006).
		A meta-directory of Buddhist meditation and study centres around the world.
		Awards, accolades and distinctions received by the Buddhist Studies WWW VL
	www.ciolek.com /WWWVL-Buddhism.html (562 words)

	free buddhist audio : texts
		We will be adding more texts and other speakers over time.
		Many of the texts contained within these pages come from a remarkable project conducted over 25 years or so by Silabhadra, who set out to transcribe all of the seminars, talks, and question-and-answer sessions by his teacher, Urgyen Sangharakshita.
		It's also good to be aware that when Sangharakshita quotes from Buddhist texts, other works of literature or people, it is often from memory — so, again, there may be inaccuracies.
	www.freebuddhistaudio.com /texts (323 words)

	buddhisttexts.html
		This guide supports the scholarly study of Buddhist texts by providing links to primary textual sources and reference material.
		This includes links to electronic text sites and to linguistic tools such as online dictionaries.
		Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library: the Internet Guide to Buddhism and Buddhist Studies.
	www.geocities.com /manjushri_2000/buddhisttexts.html (210 words)

	Electronic Texts
		Alex: A catalog of electronic texts on the Internet provides author, title and subject access to many electronic texts found on the Internet.
		Josephus - Texts in Greek and English (Brill and Whiston translations).
		ETANA core texts - texts of the civilizations of the ancient Near East (Egypt, Assyria, Sumeria, Babylon etc.), includes both primary and secondary texts (Book of the Dead, Encyclopedia Biblica, Handbook of Egyption Relgion etc.)
	www.ucalgary.ca /~lipton/texts.html (2413 words)

	Spiritual Library (Site not responding. Last check: )
		These are modern (early 20th century) compilations of the Buddhist Canon by Paul Carus, and are suitable for casual readers who want to get a sense of what Buddhism is about:
		It includes a wealth of detail as well as very lucid explanations of Zen Buddhist concepts.
		This book is an anthology of texts relating to Zen.
	groups.msn.com /SpiritualLibrary/buddhisttexts.msnw (249 words)

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