n the centuries after the Buddha’s death, as the original Buddhist monastic order spread out over the Indian subcontinent, it split into regional communities, each of which probably maintained a collection of authoritative texts, likely deriving from a common core. Sadly, the collections belonging to most of the early Indian Buddhist schools were lost when Indian Buddhism was extinguished in the land of its birth. Only one complete collection of texts stemming from an early Indian Buddhist school managed
THE WORD OF THE BUDDHA
Jul 19, 2022
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