Buddhavacana
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Buddhavacana, meaning "the Word of the Buddha", refers to the most sacred writings of the various Buddhist traditions. It has never been interpreted literally, and all traditions recognize as Buddhavacana texts that make no claim to being the actual words of the Buddha, such as the Theragatha and Vimalakirtinirdesa Sutra.
In Theravada Buddhism, the standard collection of Buddhavacana is the Pali Canon. In Tibetan Buddhism it is the Kangyur. East Asian Buddhism has the Korean Tripitaka[1] and the Taishō Canon 大正大藏經 in Japan.[2] These canons always combined Buddhavacana with other literature in their standard collected editions. However, their general view of what is and is not Buddhavacana is broadly similar to that of Tibetan Buddhism.
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- ^ Korean Tripitaka is now available online in Korean http://www.sutra.re.kr/
- ^ The Electrinic version of the Taisho Canon is available on the Tokyo University website in Japanese: http://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT/index.html ; The Chinese tripitaka is also now available online at http://www.cbeta.org/index.htm
