Sūtra
| Key Term | sūtra |
|---|---|
| In Tibetan Script | མདོ། |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | mdo |
| Devanagari Sanskrit Script | सूत्र |
| Romanized Sanskrit | sūtra |
| Tibetan Phonetic Rendering | dho |
| Chinese Script | 佛经 |
| Chinese Pinyin | fújīng |
| English Standard | scripture; discourse |
| Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | discourse |
| Ives Waldo's English Term | discourse; scripture |
| Basic Meaning | Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples and the sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. |
| Has the Sense of | Sūtras originally referred to the aphoristic sayings and discourses although one can find many exegetical and descriptive sūtras. In the Buddhist tradition, sūtras are generally considered to be words of the Buddha or his immediate disciples in contrast to the commentarial or literature, some of which summarised and condensed the teachings in the sūtras. |
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