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    Chinese Buddhist Scriptures
    (Indrabhivandana, Department of Hindi Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2019) Ven. Dr. Dunukeulle Sarananda
    The teachings of the Buddha are recorded in various collections of scriptures known as canons. The Pali Canon was committed to writing in Sri Lanka in the first century B.C. and consists of three divisions known as baskets (Pitaka). They are Sutra Pitaka, Vinaya Pitaka and Abhidharma Pitaka. 1 China has completed cataloguing of ancient Buddhist scriptures with a history of more than two thousand years. This is the result of years of efforts to collect and make photocopy the precious pages in Southwest China’s Tibetan autonomous region originated from India; the scriptures were introduced to Southwestern China’s Yunnan province and Tibet Autonomous region during religious exchanges. It formed the foundation of Buddhism and is hoped to add more pages to China’s rich civilization