Chinese Buddhist canon
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The Chinese Buddhist Canon (Chinese character: 大藏經;pinyin: Dà Zàng Jīng; Korean: Dae Jang Kyung; Japanese: Daizōkyō, Vietnamese: Đại Tạng Kinh), which means Great Treasury of Scriptures, is the total body of Buddhist literature deemed canonical in China, Korea and Japan. It includes both Agama, Vinaya and Abhidharma texts from Early Buddhist schools, as well as the Mahayana Sutras of Mahayana Buddhism and scriptures of Tantric Buddhism.
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[edit] Versions
There are many versions of the canon in East Asia in different places and time[1]. An early one are the Fang Shan Stone Sutras (房山石經).[1] The earlier Lung Tripitaka (龍藏) and Jiaxing Tripitaka (嘉興藏) and new tripitakas are still completed in printed form. A comprehensive intact version of the Buddhist canon in Chinese script is the Tripiṭaka Koreana or Palman Daejanggyeong. It is based on older Chinese versions, and 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 the Haeinsa temple, South Korea.
One of the most used version is Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō (Taishō Tripiṭaka, 大正新脩大藏經).[2] Named after the Taisho era, a modern standardized edition published in Tokyo between 1924 and 1934. It is the only puntuated tripitaka.[3] It is based on older Japanese versions, which are based on the Tripiṭaka Koreana, and compared to many other versions of the individual texts in Japan. There are a few Dunhuang cave texts. It contains 100 volumes.
The 卍 Zokuzokyo(Xuzangjing) (卍續藏) version, which is a supplement of another version of the canon, is often used as a supplement for Buddhist texts not collected in the Taishō Tripiṭaka. The Jiaxing Tripitakas, and a Dazangjing Bu Bian (大藏經補編) published in 1986 are supplements of them.[4]
The Zhonghua da zang jing (中華大藏經), a new collection of canonical texts, was published in Beijing in 1997, with 106 volumes of literature, including many newly unearthed scriptures from Dunhuang.[5] There are newer Zhonghua da zang jing projects.
[edit] Non-collected works
A number of apocryphal sutras composed in China, composed stories such as the Journey to the West and Chinese folk religion texts are excluded in the earlier canons.[6] Modern religious and scholar works are also excluded but they are published in other book series.
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General
- The Chinese Canon(Introduction)
- WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist texts(Book index)
- Chinese Buddhist Tripitaka Electronic Text Collection, Taipei Edition
- East Asian Buddhist Studies: A Reference Guide
- (Chinese)歷代漢文大藏經概述&民國增修大藏經概述(Description of versions of the Canon)
- (Chinese)大藏经研究(Book index)
- (Chinese)佛教《大藏经》34种版本介绍保证网络最全(Book index)
- (Chinese)電子藏經 Extensive list of online tripitakas
- (Chinese)汉文大藏经刊刻源流表(Book index)
- (Chinese)汉文大藏经概述(Book index)
- (Chinese)近三十年新发现的佛教大藏经及其价值(Description of rediscovered texts of the Canon)(Book index)
- (Chinese)历代印本汉文大藏经简介(Description of existing versions of the Canon)
- (Chinese)汉文佛教大藏经的整理与研究任重道远(Description of new versions of the Canon)
Texts
- (Japanese)Machine-readable text-database of the Taisho Tripitaka (zip files of Taisho Tripitaka vol. 1-85)
- (Chinese)CBETA Project(with original text of Taisho Tripitaka vol.1-55, 85; the complete Zokuzokyo/Xuzangjing, and the Jiaxing Tripitaka).
- (Chinese)Qianlong/Chien-Lung Tripitaka mirrors in Taiwan&Mainland China&Singapore&Hong Kong&Hong Kong(links to big size pdfs)
- (Korean)Tripitaka Koreana(electronic scans)
- Alternative Source for CBETA
- Buddhist Scriptures in Multiple Languages
Non-collected works
- (Chinese)報佛恩網(A collection of many modern Buddhist works outside the existing canon versions)
- (Chinese)生死书繁简版(Another collection of modern Buddhist works)
- (Chinese)戒邪淫网(Another collection of modern Buddhist works)
- (Chinese)佛學研究基本文獻及工具書(Book list)
- (Chinese)大藏经(Book list)
- (Chinese)大藏经(Book list)
- (Chinese)佛教大学(Book list)
- (Chinese)中文佛學文獻檢索與利用(Book list)
- (Chinese)工具書‧叢書‧大藏經(Book list)
- (Chinese)Center for Buddhist Studies 國立臺灣大學佛學研究中心(Book list)
- (Chinese)佛教研究之近況(Book list)
- (Chinese)佛書- 佛門網Buddhistdoor - 佛學辭彙- Buddhist Glossary(Book list)
- (Chinese)兩岸佛學研究與佛學教育的回顧與前瞻(Book list)
- (Chinese)当代台湾的佛学研究(Book list)
- (Chinese)佛教资料库网站集锦(修订3版)(Book list)