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Tipiṭaka

The “three baskets”: the Pali canon of the Theravāda, comprising discipline, discourses and higher teaching.

Also: Tipitaka, Pali canon, Tripitaka

Early Buddhism and the Theravāda

The Tipiṭaka is the scripture of Theravāda Buddhism, preserved in Pali and written down in Sri Lanka in the first century BCE. Its three baskets are the Vinaya, the monastic discipline; the Sutta, the discourses; and the Abhidhamma, the systematic analysis of mind and matter.