It includes a poem written by a man who had an affair with the wife of King Tissa, the "Oil Cauldron Verses," and a work about a relic that can be found in the Sacred Temple of the Tooth, the Dathavamsa.
It includes a poem written by a man who had an affair with the wife of King Tissa, the "Oil Cauldron Verses," and a work about a relic that can be found in the Sacred Temple of the Tooth, the Dathavamsa. Its "Island Chronicle" is the first known work to be written about Sri Lanka. Recitations by the disciple Upali were transcribed to form its section on rules for monks and nuns, the Vinaya, which is joined by the Sutta and Abhidhamma. FTP name this sole canonical collection of Theravada Buddhist writings named alternately for the sacred language in which it was written, or for its originally being stored in three baskets.
It includes a poem written by a man who had an affair with the wife of King Tissa, the "Oil Cauldron Verses," and a work about a relic that can be found in the Sacred Temple of the Tooth, the Dathavamsa.
{Pali canon} or {tipitaka }or {tripitaka}