Talk:Tripitaka
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is part of WikiProject Buddhism, an attempt to promote better coordination, content distribution, and cross-referencing between pages dealing with Buddhism. Please participate by editing the article Tripitaka, or visit the project page for more details on the projects.
|
|
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's quality scale. Please rate the article and then leave a short summary here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article. | |
A time of writing / publication would be handy. Jachin 01:49, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
- It's not really possible to assign such a date to the Tripitaka as a whole. The Pali Canon was first written down in Sri Lanka about 100 years after the life of the Buddhja (making it around 400-300 BCE, depending on the date you like); some of the texts in the sutta pitaka and the Vinaya may date to the time of the Buddha. The Pali Abhidhamma was still being added to during the reign of Ashoka Maurya. Some Mahayana texts were composed in China but given a-historical Sanskrit pedigrees. Some Tibetan texts came directly from the Indian scholastic tradition; others were composed in Tibet. There should be some additional detail thrown in about the various dates, but there's still a lot of discussion over dating; for instance, the fact that a text appears in a written form later than another text doesn't necesarily mean that the text that was written down later was a new composition or something- a particular oral tradition may have just made the jump to writing later on. The various versions of the Tripitika have been in publication in several different languages and a dozen more scripts pretty much continuously for the last 2000 years. --Clay Collier 03:15, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
-
- The first half of the second sentence is wrong: the Pali canon was written down in the last century BC.The second half is correct, but the next is understated: additions were almost certainly being made to the Kathavatthu up to the time of writing down, if not later. I think material about dating is better placed in more specialized articles. Tripitaka is really an artificial concept, a word for a variety of things which are better dealt with separately. This should be almost a disambiguation article. Peter jackson 16:49, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Simple anyone?
The article seems to be excessivly long, I am not sure if that is just me, but if at all possible, it would be nice to get a Simple English version.
[edit] How to pronounce it
Does anyone know how to pronounce tripitaka?
- Strictly speaking, it should probably be pronounced TRIPitterker in English or TRIPittuhkuh in American. In practice I suspect a variety of other pronunciations are used. Peter jackson 11:35, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
