Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The complete collection of the northern Buddhist scriptures, in the three divisions of Sutra, Vinaya, and Abhidharma.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The three divisions, or “baskets” (
pitakas ), of buddhist scriptures, -- the Vinayapitaka [Skr. Vinayapiṭaka] , or Basket of Discipline; Suttapitaka [Pali] , or Basket of Discourses; and Abhidhammapitaka [Pali] , or Basket of Metaphysics.
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In the Tripitaka, that is, the three book-baskets or boxes, we have the term for canon of scripture, in the complete collection of which are _sutra_, _vinaya_ and
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885
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One of the main characters in the fable is a monk, known as Tripitaka in Western translations, who happens to control the other main protagonist through some divine headband.
GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features 2010
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One of the main characters in the fable is a monk, known as Tripitaka in Western translations, who happens to control the other main protagonist through some divine headband.
GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features 2010
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"The Tripitaka is a religious treasure so the museum was built to look like a monastery,"
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"The Tripitaka is a religious treasure so the museum was built to look like a monastery,"
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"The Tripitaka is a religious treasure so the museum was built to look like a monastery,"
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"The Tripitaka is a religious treasure so the museum was built to look like a monastery,"
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Suttanta division into Nik [= a] yas) is called Tripitaka, 'the three baskets,' one containing the tracts on discipline; one, the talks of
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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So officials have responded with guidance, backed by ministers, that all holy books should be treated equally and go on the top shelf together. and one thought immediately came to mind: how long before Muslims are agitating for the Koran to be put on a higher shelf than the Old Tesatment, the New Testament, the Bhagavad Gita, the Vedas, the The Guru Granth, the Tripitaka etc.
All religious books on the top shelf in libraries, anyone care to predict the next step? Not a sheep 2009
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Where Tripitaka, Monkey, Sandy and Pigsy never actually get to India, Buffy and Angel had whole storylines emerging through and between what Wheedon has referred to as the "monster of the week" episodes, those discrete narratives with their own Todorovian architecture of equilibrium, disruption, recognition, reaction and resolution.
Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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