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**avaissema** · 03-15-2012, 08:45 AM

The closest that I can think of and what I have in my hand is this

but even this book is just a selection of eight topics with 22 Sutras from a long collection of 49 miscellaneous Discourses grouped into one major Sutra in the Mahayana collection, but otherwise as what Lazy have stated.

Maybe if you want the challenge to create a Mahayana equivalent of 'In the Buddha's Words', you might have to do some real digging into the Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and Tibetan Tripitakas. The Mahayana Sutra Pitaka is two fold:

the collection of the Agama Sutras (the nearest cousin to the Pali Sutta Pitaka, basically it's the Sutra Pitaka (Basket) of the other earlier but now extinct 17-18 Indian Schools who are the contemporaries of Theravada and on top of that you might

want to learn how to read Chinese and Tibetan as most of the Agama texts are translated into those languages from Sanskrit and modern translations into other languages of today have so far been rather painfully slow.

The Agama Sutras collection in those mentioned Tripitakas are not from just one School but several and from what I was told, it's a mega collection by itself there.

The Agamas collection is most extensive in collection as found in the Chinese, Korean and Japanese and Vietnamese Tripitakas but most scant in the Tibetan) and the second part is the proper Mahayana

Sutras which contains another twofold parts of the exoteric and esoteric (general mantra / dharani practices and the proper Tantra per se: Lower and Higher) Discourses, which is another bulk by itself.

By the way, in case you didn't know, when 'Tripitaka/Tipitaka' is mention, it is literally 'Three Baskets' denoting the Basket of Discipline (Vinaya Pitaka), Basket of Teachings/Discourses (Sutta/Sutra Pitaka)

and the Basket of Distinguished Teachings (Abhidhamma/dharma Pitaka - 'that which exceeds and is distinguished from the Dhamma/Teaching').

So what is being discussed in this thread is just touching on one major part of the 'Buddhist Bible', do you get how massive it is?

03-15-2012, 08:45 AM	#4
avaissema Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 466 Senior Member	The closest that I can think of and what I have in my hand is this but even this book is just a selection of eight topics with 22 Sutras from a long collection of 49 miscellaneous Discourses grouped into one major Sutra in the Mahayana collection, but otherwise as what Lazy have stated. Maybe if you want the challenge to create a Mahayana equivalent of 'In the Buddha's Words', you might have to do some real digging into the Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and Tibetan Tripitakas. The Mahayana Sutra Pitaka is two fold: the collection of the Agama Sutras (the nearest cousin to the Pali Sutta Pitaka, basically it's the Sutra Pitaka (Basket) of the other earlier but now extinct 17-18 Indian Schools who are the contemporaries of Theravada and on top of that you might want to learn how to read Chinese and Tibetan as most of the Agama texts are translated into those languages from Sanskrit and modern translations into other languages of today have so far been rather painfully slow. The Agama Sutras collection in those mentioned Tripitakas are not from just one School but several and from what I was told, it's a mega collection by itself there. The Agamas collection is most extensive in collection as found in the Chinese, Korean and Japanese and Vietnamese Tripitakas but most scant in the Tibetan) and the second part is the proper Mahayana Sutras which contains another twofold parts of the exoteric and esoteric (general mantra / dharani practices and the proper Tantra per se: Lower and Higher) Discourses, which is another bulk by itself. By the way, in case you didn't know, when 'Tripitaka/Tipitaka' is mention, it is literally 'Three Baskets' denoting the Basket of Discipline (Vinaya Pitaka), Basket of Teachings/Discourses (Sutta/Sutra Pitaka) and the Basket of Distinguished Teachings (Abhidhamma/dharma Pitaka - 'that which exceeds and is distinguished from the Dhamma/Teaching'). So what is being discussed in this thread is just touching on one major part of the 'Buddhist Bible', do you get how massive it is?
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