Pitaka

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 200

Pitaka, a division of the Buddhists' sacred literature; the tripit'aka meaning the three great divisions of their canonical works, the Vinaya (discipline), Abhidharma (metaphysics), and Sūtra (aphorisms in prose), and collectively, therefore, the whole Buddhistic code.

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