the Pali Canon
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The Pali Canon is the foundational collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, preserving the earliest recorded teachings of the Buddha in the Pali language.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pali Canon | 15 |
| Pāli Canon | 5 |
| Pali Buddhist canon | 1 |
| Theravada Tipitaka | 1 |
| the Pali Canon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11757130 — 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: the Pali Canon Context triple: [Kuthodaw Pagoda, dedicatedTo, the Pali Canon]
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A.
Te Pitaka
Te Pitaka is the indigenous name for Penrhyn Island, a remote coral atoll in the northern Cook Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.
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B.
Chinese Buddhist Canon
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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C.
Sutta Pitaka
The Sutta Pitaka is a major division of the Pali Canon in Theravada Buddhism, comprising discourses attributed to the Buddha that form a primary source for Buddhist doctrine and practice.
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D.
Aṅgulimālīya Sūtra
The Aṅgulimālīya Sūtra is a Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture that teaches the doctrine of tathāgatagarbha, or universal Buddha-nature, using the story of the former bandit Aṅgulimāla to illustrate the potential for enlightenment in all beings.
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E.
Vajrasekhara Sutra
The Vajrasekhara Sutra is a key esoteric Buddhist tantra that, together with the Mahavairocana Sutra, forms a primary doctrinal foundation for Shingon Buddhism’s ritual and cosmological system.
- 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: the Pali Canon Target entity description: The Pali Canon is the foundational collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, preserving the earliest recorded teachings of the Buddha in the Pali language.
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A.
Te Pitaka
Te Pitaka is the indigenous name for Penrhyn Island, a remote coral atoll in the northern Cook Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.
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B.
Chinese Buddhist Canon
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.
-
C.
Sutta Pitaka
The Sutta Pitaka is a major division of the Pali Canon in Theravada Buddhism, comprising discourses attributed to the Buddha that form a primary source for Buddhist doctrine and practice.
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D.
Aṅgulimālīya Sūtra
The Aṅgulimālīya Sūtra is a Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture that teaches the doctrine of tathāgatagarbha, or universal Buddha-nature, using the story of the former bandit Aṅgulimāla to illustrate the potential for enlightenment in all beings.
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E.
Vajrasekhara Sutra
The Vajrasekhara Sutra is a key esoteric Buddhist tantra that, together with the Mahavairocana Sutra, forms a primary doctrinal foundation for Shingon Buddhism’s ritual and cosmological system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Pāli Canon
this entity surface form:
Pali Canon
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Pali Canon
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Pali Canon
this entity surface form:
Pali Canon
this entity surface form:
Pali Canon
this entity surface form:
Pali Canon
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Pali Canon
this entity surface form:
Pali Canon
this entity surface form:
Pali Canon
this entity surface form:
Pāli Canon
this entity surface form:
Pāli Canon
this entity surface form:
Pali Canon
this entity surface form:
Pali Canon
this entity surface form:
Pali Canon
this entity surface form:
Theravada Tipitaka
subject surface form:
Suvarnabhumi
this entity surface form:
Pali Buddhist canon
this entity surface form:
Pali Canon
this entity surface form:
Pali Canon
this entity surface form:
Pāli Canon