Pitaka

“Miscellaneous Collections;” a sort of fourth Pitaka.

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms 2003

_Buddhavansa_, "which is the account of the Buddhas contained in the second Pitaka."

Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood

The poems or verses so preserved to us are included in the Fifth Group of the second of the Three Pitakas (the Sutta-Pitaka) in the Pali Canon – the Group entitled Short: Khud'dăkă-Nikāya – and ranged after the Four Nikāyas often quoted in the following pages: Dīgha, Majjhima, Saŋyutt'a, Angutt'ără.

Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909

The gāthās, or stanzas, edited as above described, stand, as for nearly twenty centuries they have stood in the palm-leaf MSS. of the Sutta-Pitaka – that is to say, without any accompanying Commentary.

Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909

The Chinese pilgrim Hsüan Chuang [721] states that the sect of the Mahâsanghikas, which in his opinion arose in connection with the first council, compiled a Pitaka of dhâraṇîs.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

The third Pitaka is known by the name of Abhidhamma.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

Pitaka is considered pre-eminent because it surpasses the others.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

Pitaka belong the Dhammapada, a justly celebrated anthology of devotional verses, and the Sutta-Nipâta, a very ancient collection of suttas chiefly in metre.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

The Khuddaka-Nikâya seems to have been wanting in the Pitaka of the

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

Christian era the contents of the Abhidhamma-Pitaka were not rigidly defined and a new recension was possible.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896