Norman Says that according to the Theravāda oral tradition Pāli canon was written down in the first century B.C. Although there is no Buddha left us written records of the sermons, but his disciples, the exact words of the Buddha preserved and were in due course transmitted orally from master to student. It is clear that whenever The Buddha preached dhamma for his ordained disciples and lay disciples and prescribed monastic rules for monks and nuns for forty –five years, those of his clever and learned monks immediately kept word for word in their memory. The third basket is called the Abhidhamma Pitaka and comprises the Buddha's higher teaching or special teaching on his psycho-ethical philosophy. The second collection is called the Vinaya Pitaka and it contains all the disciplinary rules and regulations laid down for Bhikkhus and bhikkhunis who have been admitted into the order. The first one is known as the Suttanta Pitaka and it contains the Discourses delivered by the Buddha in various places. That means all of the Buddha’s teachings have been divided in to three parts or Pitakas. The literary meaning of Pali ‘tipika Sanskrit ‘tripitaka’ is three baskets. The Theravāda Buddhist teachings have been preserved in the Pali Tripitaka.
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