Kitab Buddhis awal

Kitab Buddhis awal, Kitab Buddhis Awal (dengan kapitalisasi; disingkat KBA), sastra Buddhis awal, diskursus Buddhis awal, dikenal dalam bahasa Inggris sebagai Early Buddhist texts (EBT), adalah kitab-kitab sejenis yang dipakai oleh berbagai aliran Buddhisme terdahulu, seperti empat kitab Nikāya berbahasa Pali, kitab Āgama berbahasa Sanskerta, dan sadurannya dalam bahasa Tionghoa Klasik.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] Beberapa ahli berpendapat bahwa sebagian kitab Vinaya, seperti yang digunakan aliran Patimokkha, serta beberapa bagian dari kitab Abhidharma, juga termasuk dalam Kitab Buddhis awal.^[5]

^ Tse-Fu Kuan. Mindfulness in similes in Early Buddhist literature in Edo Shonin, William Van Gordon, Nirbhay N. Singh. Buddhist Foundations of Mindfulness, page 267.
^ Mun-Keat Choong (1999). The Notion of Emptiness in Early Buddhism, Motilal Banarsidass, p. 3.
^ Rupert Gethin (1998), The Foundations of Buddhism, OUP Oxford, pp. 42-43.
^ Shulman, Eviatar. Mindful Wisdom: The Sati-paṭṭhāna-sutta on Mindfulness, Memory, and Liberation. Vol. 49, No. 4 (May 2010), pp. 393-420
^ * Sujato, Bhante; Brahmali, Bhikkhu (2015), The Authenticity of the Early Buddhist Texts (PDF), Chroniker Press, hlm. 9–10, ISBN 9781312911505

[1] Tse-Fu Kuan. Mindfulness in similes in Early Buddhist literature in Edo Shonin, William Van Gordon, Nirbhay N. Singh. Buddhist Foundations of Mindfulness, page 267.

[:3-2] Mun-Keat Choong (1999). The Notion of Emptiness in Early Buddhism, Motilal Banarsidass, p. 3.

[3] Rupert Gethin (1998), The Foundations of Buddhism, OUP Oxford, pp. 42-43.

[4] Shulman, Eviatar. Mindful Wisdom: The Sati-paṭṭhāna-sutta on Mindfulness, Memory, and Liberation. Vol. 49, No. 4 (May 2010), pp. 393-420

[5] * Sujato, Bhante; Brahmali, Bhikkhu (2015), The Authenticity of the Early Buddhist Texts (PDF), Chroniker Press, hlm. 9–10, ISBN 9781312911505

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