Sources of widom and authority: The Pali Canon
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- The Pali Canon
- Nature
- Passed down orally
- First Buddhist council ordered the Buddha's discourses and rules and recited them
- Originally written of palm leaves and kept in 3 baskets
- Tipitaka
- 1st: Vinaya Pitaka (discipline basket)
- Rules for Sangha
- 2nd: Sutta Pitaka (Discourse basket)
- Conversations between Buddha and monks
- Buddha's sermons
- Buddha's verbal discourses and teachings
- 3rd: Abhidhamma Pitaka (Philosophy basket)
- Further/ special teachings
- Philosophical/ scientific description of nature of the mind, matter and time
- 1st: Vinaya Pitaka (discipline basket)
- 1st and 2nd are work of the Buddha
- 3rd composed by Third Buddhist council
- 3rd basket is concerned with purity of the doctrine and exclusion of heresy
- Tipitaka
- How far it is an accurate record of the Buddha's teachings (relevance of debate for Buddhists)
- Use in worship and daily life
- Monks expected to explain and teach different uses
- 227 rules of the Vinaya have to be known by monks
- Also use some sections for morning and evening chanting
- Sutta is popular for stories and parables of the Buddha
- Told by monks and school teachers for younger people
- Advice on meditation
- Jataka stories good for teaching children about morality
- Theravada pirit ceremonies
- Parts recited for protection
- Metta sutta (universal love) to protect welfare
- Augulimala sutta for protection in childbirth
- Parts recited for protection
- Still considered meritorious in Theravada to learn some by heart
- Authority
- Whenever Buddha gave a discourse his learned monks would commit it to memory word for word
- Often Arhats (pure and free from delusion passion and ill will)
- His words were preserved accurately and passed down
- 3rd basket is concerned with purity of the doctrine and exclusion of heresy
- Whenever Buddha gave a discourse his learned monks would commit it to memory word for word
- Nature
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