Five classics: 1 definition
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In Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
: Google Books: The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical SystemsThe Five Classics (in the Confucian/Ru tradition) are known in Tibetan as gzhung lnga and in Chinese as wujing.鈥擜ccordingly, [while describing the history of the tradition known as the 鈥渟tar-like Ru鈥漖, [regarding the the origin of the treatises]: The first king, Fu Xi, composed a text on the bagua (eight trigrams) called Lianshan; it was the first of the great texts to appear, and it became the principal treatise on the subject. He also composed a work entitled Neijing on the inner principle for clearly knoing the ways things are in reality. Then there appeared what are known today as the wujing, or 鈥渇ive classics鈥�: [...]. The Yijing was written by the aforementioned Fu Xi; the authors of the remaining four have not been determined. These five texts are the basis for the Ru tradition (i.e., Confucianism). However, the five texts themselves are not called Ru but are referred to as Jing (classics). The actual Ru consists of those five texts along with their annotations and supplementary literature.
The Five Classics are:
- the Yijing (Classic of Changes),
- the Shijing (Classic of Odes),
- the Shujing (Classic of Records),
- the Lijing (The Classic of Rites), and
- the Chun Qiu (Spring and Autumn Annals).
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha鈥檚 words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (惫补箩谤补测腻苍补) are collected indepently.
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Full-text: Ancanankiyam, gzhung lnga, Wujing, Yijing, Shijing, Shujing, Lijing, Chun qiu.
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Shurangama Sutra (with commentary) (English) (by Hsuan Hua)
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