The short answer is no. Various schools of Buddhism use different texts and writings as the source of their teachings, and a text that’s venerated in one school may be completely unknown in another. For example, the oldest collection of Buddhist writings, the Tipitaka (known in English as the Pali Canon) is the standard collection of scriptures for Theravada Buddhists. Tipitaka is Pali for “three baskets,” and the text is split into three general categories: the Vinaya Pitaka (the “discipline basket,” which contains rules of discipline for followers), the Sutta Pitaka (the “sayings basket,”
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