Chinese Buddhist Canon

E281267

Buddhist canon religious text collection scriptural corpus

The Chinese Buddhist Canon is the comprehensive collection of Buddhist scriptures translated into Chinese over many centuries, encompassing sutras, vinaya texts, and commentaries that shaped East Asian Buddhism.

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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
Chinese Buddhist Canon canonical	14
Chinese Buddhist canon	7
Chan Buddhist canon	1
Chinese Buddhist Tripiṭaka	1
Chinese Tripitaka	1
Chinese Tripiṭaka	1
Taishō Revised Tripiṭaka	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2609874 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Chinese Buddhist Canon
Context triple: [Tripitaka, preservedIn, Chinese Buddhist Canon]

A. Tripitaka
Tripitaka is the traditional Buddhist canon, comprising three collections of teachings that form the foundational scriptures of the Buddhist religion.
B. Mahayana sutras
The Mahayana sutras are a broad collection of later Buddhist scriptures that present the philosophical foundations, cosmology, and bodhisattva-centered ideals of Mahayana Buddhism.
C. Tibetan Kangyur
The Tibetan Kangyur is the canonical collection of Tibetan Buddhist scriptures containing the translated words of the Buddha, including sutras, tantras, and monastic rules.
D. Āgamas
Āgamas are early Buddhist scriptural collections preserving discourses attributed to the historical Buddha, closely paralleling the Pali Nikāyas in content and structure.
E. Daozang
Daozang is the vast canonical collection of Taoist scriptures, rituals, and commentaries compiled over centuries as the primary literary foundation of Taoist religious and philosophical tradition.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Chinese Buddhist Canon
Target entity description: The Chinese Buddhist Canon is the comprehensive collection of Buddhist scriptures translated into Chinese over many centuries, encompassing sutras, vinaya texts, and commentaries that shaped East Asian Buddhism.

A. Tripitaka
Tripitaka is the traditional Buddhist canon, comprising three collections of teachings that form the foundational scriptures of the Buddhist religion.
B. Mahayana sutras
The Mahayana sutras are a broad collection of later Buddhist scriptures that present the philosophical foundations, cosmology, and bodhisattva-centered ideals of Mahayana Buddhism.
C. Tibetan Kangyur
The Tibetan Kangyur is the canonical collection of Tibetan Buddhist scriptures containing the translated words of the Buddha, including sutras, tantras, and monastic rules.
D. Āgamas
Āgamas are early Buddhist scriptural collections preserving discourses attributed to the historical Buddha, closely paralleling the Pali Nikāyas in content and structure.
E. Daozang
Daozang is the vast canonical collection of Taoist scriptures, rituals, and commentaries compiled over centuries as the primary literary foundation of Taoist religious and philosophical tradition.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (68)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Buddhist canon ⓘ religious text collection ⓘ scriptural corpus ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Chinese Buddhist Tripiṭaka ⓘ linked to: Chinese Buddhist Canon Chinese Tripiṭaka ⓘ linked to: Chinese Buddhist Canon Dàzàngjīng ⓘ linked to: Tripitaka
basedOn	Central Asian Buddhist texts ⓘ Indian Buddhist texts ⓘ translations from Gandhari ⓘ translations from Pali (indirectly) ⓘ translations from Prakrits ⓘ translations from Sanskrit ⓘ
compiledIn	China ⓘ
contains	Abhidharma Piṭaka ⓘ linked to: Abhidhamma Pitaka Sūtra Piṭaka ⓘ linked to: Sutta Pitaka Tripiṭaka structure ⓘ Vinaya Piṭaka ⓘ linked to: Vinaya Pitaka
developedFrom	early Chinese Buddhist translations ⓘ
feature	includes both translated and indigenous Chinese compositions ⓘ includes commentarial literature ⓘ includes doctrinal treatises ⓘ includes liturgical and ritual manuals ⓘ organized into numbered fascicles in many editions ⓘ preserves many Indian texts lost in original languages ⓘ
function	scriptural authority for East Asian Buddhism ⓘ
hasPart	Chinese Buddhist treatises ⓘ Mahāyāna sūtras ⓘ linked to: Mahayana sutras Tantric texts ⓘ abhidharma texts ⓘ apocryphal scriptures ⓘ commentaries ⓘ ritual texts ⓘ sutras ⓘ vinaya texts ⓘ Āgama collections ⓘ
influenced	Chan (Zen) Buddhism ⓘ linked to: Chan Buddhism Chinese Buddhism ⓘ Esoteric Buddhism in East Asia ⓘ Huayan school ⓘ linked to: Huayan / Kegon Japanese Buddhism ⓘ Korean Buddhism ⓘ Pure Land Buddhism ⓘ Tiantai school ⓘ Vietnamese Buddhism ⓘ
language	Classical Chinese ⓘ Literary Chinese ⓘ
majorEdition	Jiajing Canon ⓘ Kaibao Canon ⓘ linked to: Kaibao Koryŏ Canon ⓘ linked to: Tripitaka Koreana Qianlong Canon ⓘ Qisha Canon ⓘ Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō ⓘ Yongle Northern Canon ⓘ Yongle Southern Canon ⓘ
region	East Asia ⓘ
religion	Buddhism ⓘ
script	Chinese characters ⓘ
timePeriod	Han dynasty ⓘ Ming dynasty ⓘ Qing dynasty ⓘ Six Dynasties period ⓘ linked to: Six Dynasties Song dynasty ⓘ Tang dynasty ⓘ Yuan dynasty ⓘ
tradition	East Asian Buddhism ⓘ
usedBy	Chinese Buddhist monastics ⓘ East Asian Buddhist schools ⓘ Mahayana Buddhists ⓘ linked to: Mahayana

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (26)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tripitaka → preservedIn → Chinese Buddhist Canon ⓘ

Chinese Buddhism → hasScripture → Chinese Buddhist Canon ⓘ

East Asian Buddhism → scripturalCanon → Chinese Buddhist Canon ⓘ

Āgamas → preservedIn → Chinese Buddhist Canon ⓘ

Three Baskets → preservedIn → Chinese Buddhist Canon ⓘ

Chinese Buddhist Canon → alsoKnownAs → Chinese Tripiṭaka ⓘ