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## Preface A book showing the commonalities and unique points of various Buddhist traditions could have been approached from any number of perspectives. As Buddhists, we all bow to the Buddha, make offerings, and confess our ethical downfalls. We engage in meditation, chanting, study and recitation of sūtras, and listening to teachings. All of our communities have temples, monasteries, hermitages, and centers. Explaining the similarities and differences among these external activities would certainly aid our mutual understanding. This book, however, focuses on the teachings-the shared tenets and the unique tenets of what we are calling the "Pāli tradition" and the "Sanskrit tradition." These are terms of convenience and should not be taken to imply that either tradition is homogenous. Both traditions trace their teachings and practices back to the Buddha himself. The Pāli tradition is descendant from the suttas and commentaries in Prakrit, in the old Sinhala language, and in Pāli. It relies on the Pāli canon and is currently found principally in Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and parts of Vietnam and Bangladesh. The Sanskrit tradition descends from sūtras and commentar

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Author

Bhikshu Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and Bhikshu Thubten Chodron

Publisher

Wisdom Publications,u.s

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781614293927

Category

religious

Subjects

Buddhism, Religion, History

Rating

4.6 / 5 (152 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14