Chinese Buddhist canon

Category: Buddhist texts

From Buddhist Encyclopedia

The Chinese Buddhist Canonis the total body of Buddhist literature deemed canonical in China, Korea and Japan and includes texts from Nikaya as well as Mahayana schools.

The oldest and most comprehensive intact version of the Buddhist canon in Chinese script is the Tripiṭaka Koreana or Palman Daejanggyeong. It was carved between 1236 and 1251, during Korea's Goryeo]Dynasty, onto 81,340 wooden printing blocks with no known errors in the 52,382,960 characters. It is stored at Haeinsa, South Korea.

The modern standardized Japanese edition of this work, based on the Tripiṭaka Koreana, is known as the Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō, published in Tokyo between 1924 and 1929. It contains 55 volumes containing 2184 texts, along with a supplement of 45 additional volumes.

The Taishō Tripiṭaka is organised into 85 volumes of 5320 individual texts.

• 阿含部 [vol. 01-02] 460
• 本緣部 [vol. 03-04] 184
• 般若部1-4 [vol. 05-08] 206
• 法華部・華嚴部 [vol. 09-10] 188
• 寶積部・涅槃部 [vol. 11-12] 303
• 大集部 [vol. 13] 71
• 經集部1 [vol. 14] 449
• 經集部2 [vol. 15] 190
• 經集部3 [vol. 16] 167
• 經集部4 [vol. 17] 314
• 密敎部1 [vol. 18] 158
• 密敎部2 [vol. 19] 267
• 密敎部3 [vol. 20] 378
• 密敎部4 [vol. 21] 464
• 律部 [vol. 22-24] 199
• 釋經論部・毘曇部 [vol. 25-29] 196
• 中觀部・瑜伽部 [vol. 30-31] 210
• 論集部 [vol. 32] 194
• 經疏部 [vol. 33-39] 151
• 律疏部・論疏部 [vol. 40-44] 58
• 諸宗部1-3 [vol. 44-46] 167
• 諸宗部4-5 [vol. 47-48] 154
• 史傳部 [vol. 49-52] 44
• 事彙部・外敎部・目錄部 [vol. 53-55] 25
• 續經疏部 [vol. 56-61] 0
• 續律疏部・續論疏部 [vol. 62-70] 0
• 續諸宗部1-7 [vol. 70-76] 8
• 續諸宗部8-10 [vol. 77-79] 5
• 續諸宗部11-13 [vol. 80-82] 5
• 續諸宗部14-15 [vol. 83-84] 75
• 悉曇部 [vol. 84] 6
• 古逸部・疑似部 [vol. 85] 24

External links

• The Chinese Canon
• WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist texts
• Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CEBTA)
• Alternative Source for CBETA