..续本文上一页e are not concerned with these smaller questions. We treat the canon as a whole, pided into three parts, and containing the books which still exist in MSS., and we want to find out at what time such a collection was made. The following is a short abstract of the Tipitaka, chiefly taken from Childers” Pâli Dictionary:
I. Vinaya-pitaka.
Vol. I, beginning with Pârâgika, or sins involving expulsion.
Vol. II, beginning with Pâkittiya, or sins involving penance.
Vol. I, Mahâvagga, the large section.
Vol. II, Kullavagga, the small section.
[1. Dîpavamsa VII, 40.
2. Dîpavamsa VII, 55.
3. Dr. Oldenberg, in his Introduction to the Vinaya-pitaka, p. xxxii.
4. Oldenberg, Vinaya-pitaka I, p. xvi, treats it as an extended reading of Pâtimokkha.]
p. xxviii
II. Sutta-pitaka.
[1. The Mahâparinibbâna-sutta, ed. by Childers, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, translated with other Suttas by Rhys Dayids (S.B.E. vol. xi). Sept Suttas Palis, par Grimblot, Paris, l876.
2. The first four are sometimes called the Four Nikâyas, the five together the five Nikâyas. They represent the Dharma, as settled at the First and Second Councils, described in the Kullavagga (Oldenberg, I, p. xi).
3. Sometimes Khuddaka-nikâya stands for the whole Vinaya and Abhidhamma- pitaka, with the fifteen pisions here given of Khuddaka-nikâya. In the commentary on the Brahmagâla-sutta it is said that the Dîghanikâya professors rehearsed the text of the Gâtaka, Mahâ and Kulla Niddesa, Patisambhidâmagga, Suttanipâta, Dhammapada, Udâna, Itivuttaka, Vimâna, and Petavatthu, Thera and Therî Gâthâ, and called it Khuddakagantha, and made it a canonical text, forming part of the Abhidhamma; while the Magghimanikâya professors assert that, with the addition of the Kariyâpitaka, Apadâna, and Buddhavamsa, the whole of this Khuddakagantha was included in the Suttapitaka. See Childers, s.v. Nikâya;. See also p. x.
4. Published by Childers, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1869.
5. Published by Fausböll, 1855.
6. Thirty translated by Sir Coomâra Swâmy; the whole by Fausböll, in Sacred Books of the East, vol. x.
7. Published by Fausböll, translat…
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