The Taishō Tripiṭaka (;
Japanese
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* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
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: ''Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō''; “
Taishō Revised
Tripiṭaka
''Tipiṭaka'' () or ''Tripiṭaka'' () or ''තිපිටක'' (), meaning "Triple Basket", is the traditional term for ancient collections of Buddhist sacred scriptures.
The Pāli Canon maintained by the Theravāda tradition in ...
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is a definitive edition of the
Chinese Buddhist canon and its Japanese commentaries used by scholars in the 20th century. It was edited by
Takakusu Junjiro
, who often published as J. Takakusu, was a Japanese academic, an advocate for expanding higher education opportunities, and an internationally known Buddhist scholar.Pāli_Canon.html" ;"title="apanese translation of the Pāli Canon">apanese trans ...
and others.
The name is abbreviated as “” in Chinese () and Japanese ().
Contents
Volumes 1–85 are the literature, in which volumes 56–84 are Japanese Buddhist literature, written in
Classical Chinese
Classical Chinese, also known as Literary Chinese (古文 ''gǔwén'' "ancient text", or 文言 ''wényán'' "text speak", meaning
"literary language/speech"; modern vernacular: 文言文 ''wényánwén'' "text speak text", meaning
"literar ...
. Volumes 86–97 are Buddhism related drawings, includes drawings of many
Buddhas and
bodhisattva
In Buddhism, a bodhisattva ( ; sa, 𑀩𑁄𑀥𑀺𑀲𑀢𑁆𑀢𑁆𑀯 (Brahmī), translit=bodhisattva, label=Sanskrit) or bodhisatva is a person who is on the path towards bodhi ('awakening') or Buddhahood.
In the Early Buddhist schools ...
s. Volumes 98–100 are texts of different indexes of Buddhist texts known in Japan ca. 1930. The 85 volumes of literature contains 5,320 individual texts, classified as follows.
Digitalization
The SAT Daizōkyō Text Database edition contains volumes 1–85. The Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA) edition contains volumes 1–55 and 85. The Fomei edition (佛梅電子大藏經) contains texts in Classical Chinese other than
Nichiren Buddhism
Nichiren Buddhism ( ja, 日蓮仏教), also known as Hokkeshū ( ja, 法華宗, meaning ''Lotus Sect'') is a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on the teachings of the 13th-century Japanese Buddhist priest Nichiren (1222–1282) and is one o ...
.
世界第一部漢文電子大藏經《佛梅電子大藏經》珍藏版
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Volumes 56–84, although they were written in Classical Chinese, are actually written by Japanese Buddhist scholars.
Notes
Bibliography
* Matsumoto, T. (1934)
Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō oder kurz „Taishō Issaikyō“
Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 88 (n.F. 13), No. 2, 194-199
External links
at the University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...
Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA)中國傳統佛教資料下載佛教電子書大正大藏經 【大正藏網頁版】
provides some English translations (pdf) from the BDK English Tripitaka series.
* ttp://thecompassionnetwork.org/tripitaka-lists/ Chinese-English Tripitaka with All Titles and Known Translations in English
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