Write about the scraped literatures of Buddhism
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Buddhist texts are those religious texts which belong to the Buddhist tradition. The earliest Buddhist texts were not committed to writing until some centuries after the death of Gautama Buddha.[1] The oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts are the Gandhāran Buddhist texts, found in Afghanistan and written in Gāndhārī, they date from the first century BCE to the third century CE.[2] The first Buddhist texts were initially passed on orally by Buddhist monastics, but were later written down and composed as manuscripts in various Indo-Aryan languages (such as Pāli, Gāndhārī, and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit) and collected into various Buddhist Canons.[3] These were then translated into other languages such as Buddhist Chinese (fójiào hànyǔ 佛教漢語) and Classical Tibetan as Buddhism spread outside of India.[3]
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Tripitaka, also known as Pali Canon in English, is a traditional term used for Buddhist scriptures. The three pitakas are Sutta Pitaka, Abhidhamma Pitaka and Vinaya Pitaka. Sutta Pitaka. It has around 10 thousand sutras related to Buddha and his close associates.