Studies in the Origins of Buddhism c5.2

c5.2

The Buddhist Canon.—In spite of the differences of language, place, dogmatic preferences, verbal variants, and the divisions of the canon, one can still speak of a "Canon of the Hīnayāna" divided in two Piṭakas. The only redaction of this canon which we possess in its entirety and in an early Indian language is the Pali redaction.¹