Have you heard of the pali canon??? If there is, where/how can I obtain it? Is there a digital version? If not, is there any institution working on it?

Acrobat Reader.PDF Download Acrobat Reader: To read our eBooks you will require the Acrobat Reader. The Guide to the Tipitaka is an outline of the Pali Buddhist Canonical.Updated on 1st Dec 2008. Pali Canon is one of the earliest of these written rec complete early version that has survived intact. Xii In the Buddha's Words and terminology.

There is no Buddhist 'canon'. A History Of Political Theory By George Sabine Pdf Printer. The word 'canon' within Christianity means 'authority'. Hp Printer Director S For Windows 7 there. It is only from the Christian 'canon' that doctrine may be extracted. I know of no such generalized 'authority' within Buddhism.

Having said that there are any number of texts which carry greater weight than others - but much depends on the tradition, the sect and the school. Yes, we generally call the Tripitaka the Buddhist Canon in the West, but it's not really, not the way people generally define the term. That is the Christian background influencing the western scholars, where we have a closed and authorized version of the Bible and we all accept the strange assumption that someone in the distant past had the God given authority to banish anything not on the official list. A canon is an authorized set of scriptures for a particular religion. The key word missing from the history of Buddhist writings is 'authority'. Buddhism had its councils, but we never had an authority with the power and aim to define proper and heretical Buddhism and enforce one set of sutras and doctrine. So canon is actually a poor word choice to define what sutras are 'authentic'. Chat Program With Php.