Difference between revisions of "Sūtra"

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Definitions
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 synoptic literature, some of which summarised and condensed the teachings in the sūtras.

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 |Glossary-EnglishIW=discourse; scripture
 |Glossary-Definition=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.
-|Glossary-Senses=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.
+|Glossary-Senses=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 synoptic literature, some of which summarised and condensed the teachings in the sūtras.
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