The earliest collection of Buddhist texts, the __________, is foundational to all three of the great traditions in Buddhism: Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana.
These Buddhist texts were originally passed by the monks and were composed in the forms of the manuscripts in various Indo Aryan languages and were further translated into the local languages as the Buddhist spread.
As most of the Buddhist traditions have the goals of overcoming the suffering, cycles of the death and rebirth and their relative importance were assigned to the texts and specific teaching s and practices.
