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In Buddhism, the term "sutra" refers generally to canonical scriptures that are regarded as records of the oral teachings of Gautama Buddha. These teachings are assembled in the second part of the Tripitaka which is called Sutra Pitaka. There are also some Buddhist texts, such as the Platform SutraPlatform Sutra (more fully, Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is a Buddhist scripture that was composed in China. It is one of the seminal texts in the Chan/ Zen schools. Centered on the discourse given at Shao Zhou temple attributed to the sixth Chan, that are called sutras despite being attributed to much later authors.

The PaliPli is a middle Indo-Aryan dialect or prakrit. It is most famous as the language in which the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism (also known as the Pli Canon or in Pli the Tipitaka) were written down in Sri Lanka in the 1st century BCE. Pli has been written form of the word sutra is sutta, and is used exclusively to refer to Buddhist scriptures, particularly those of the Pali CanonThe Pali Canon is one the earliest existing scripture collections of the Buddhist tradition. They were reciting orally from the time of the Buddha and were put into writing in Sri Lanka in about 30 BCE. Written in the Pali language, these texts form the s.

1 See also

• List of sutrasBelow is a list of sutras organized alphabetically under the broad categories of Hinduism and Buddhism. Note that there is considerable difficulty in fixing the period of the various sutras. Sutras primarily associated with Hinduism Vedic sutras (800-300

2 References

Monier-Williams, Monier. (1899) A Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Delhi:Motilal Banarsidass. p. 1241

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