Early Buddhist Texts | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-17

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00:00:58 1 Overview
00:06:38 2 Extant material
00:07:33 2.1 Pāli EBTs
00:08:57 2.2 Chinese EBTs
00:10:40 2.3 EBTs from Pakistan and Afghanistan
00:12:31 2.4 Abhidharma
00:13:23 2.5 Other fragmentary sources
00:15:02 3 See also



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Early Buddhist Texts (EBTs), Early Buddhist Literature or Early Buddhist Discourses refers to the parallel texts shared by the Early Buddhist schools, including the first four Pali Nikayas, some Vinaya material like the Patimokkhas of the different Buddhist schools as well as the Chinese Āgama literature. Besides the large collections in Pali and Chinese, there are also fragmentary collections of EBT materials in Sanskrit, Khotanese, Tibetan and Gāndhārī. The modern study of early pre-sectarian Buddhism often relies on comparative scholarship using these various early Buddhist sources.Some scholars such as Richard Gombrich, Alexander Wynne and A.K. Warder hold that Early Buddhist Texts contain material that could possibly be traced to the historical Buddha himself or at least to the early years of pre-sectarian Buddhism.In Mahayana Buddhism, these texts are sometimes referred to as "Hinayana" or "Śrāvakayāna" texts and are not considered Mahayana works.