Pali Canon/Addendum
This addendum will give a detailed account of the Pali Canon.
The usual arrangement of the Canon is as follows:
- Vinayapiṭaka
- Sutta- or Suttantapiṭaka
- Dīghanikāya
- Majjhimanikāya
- Saṃyuttanikāya
- Aṅguttaranikāya
- Khuddakanikāya
- Abhidhammapiṭaka
An alternative arrangement is in nikāyas, with the Vinaya and Abhidhamma included in the Khuddakanikāya, either before or after the Sutta parts. The inscriptions approved by the Fifth Council are arranged Vinaya, Abhidhamma, Sutta, while the Sixth Council recited the texts in the order listed above except for placing the Khuddakanikāya at the end.
Abbreviations
- B: Burmese edition; volume numbers are taken from the imprints pages of the 2008 Latin-script issue
- C: Ceylon edition
- E: English edition, PTS
- K: Khmer edition
- N: Nalanda nagari edition
- PTS: Pali Text Society
- S: Siamese edition
Vinayapiṭaka
B1-5; C1-6; K1-13; S1-8; EN 5 volumes.
English translation: The Book of the Discipline, 1938-1966, 6 volumes, PTS.
This division of the Canon is primarily concerned with the rules of monastic discipline, though the stories of the origins of the rules sometimes seem to take on a life of their own.