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The Chinese Buddhist Canon (Chinese character: 大藏經; Cantonese: Dai Zorng Ging;Mandarin: Dà Zàng Jīng; Korean: Dae Jang Kyung; Japanese: Daizōkyō, Vietnamese: Đại Tạng Kinh), which means Great Treasury of Scriptures, is the total body of Buddhist literature deemed canonical in China, Korea and Japan. It includes both the Agama, Vinaya and Abhidharma texts from the Early Buddhist schools, as well as the Mahayana Sutras of Mahayana Buddhism and scriptures of Tantric Buddhism.

There are many versions of the canon in East Asia in different places and time[1]. A comprehensive intact version of the Buddhist canon in Chinese script is the Tripiṭaka Koreana or Palman Daejanggyeong. It is based on older Chinese versions, and it was carved between 1236 and 1251, during Korea's Goryeo Dynasty, onto 81,340 wooden printing blocks with no known errors in the 52,382,960 characters. It is stored at the Haeinsa temple, South Korea.

One of the most used version is Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō (Taishō Tripiṭaka, 大正新脩大藏經), a modern standardized edition published in Tokyo between 1924 and 1934. It is based on older Japanese versions, which are based on the Tripiṭaka Koreana, and compared to many other versions of the individual texts in Japan. There are a few Dunhuang cave texts. It contains 100 volumes. Volume 1-85 are the literature, in which volume 56-84 are Japanese Buddhist literature, written in Classical Chinese. Volume 86-97 are Buddhism related drawings, includes drawings of many buddhas and bodhisattvas. Volume 98-100 are texts of different indexes of Buddhist texts in Japan. The 85 volumes of literature contains 5320 individual texts, classified as follows.

Volume Sutra Chinese Transliteration Indic Description
T01-02 01/01/51 阿含部 A-han Bu Āgama Early sutra collections
T03-04 152-219 本緣部 Ben Yuan Bu Jātaka Birth stories
T05-08 220-261 般若部 Bo-re Bu Prajñapāramitā Perfection of wisdom
T09a 262-277 法華部 Fa Hua Bu Saddhammapundarikā Lotus of the true Dhamma
T09b-10 278-309 華嚴部 Hua Yan Bu Avataṁsaka Flower-garland
T11-12a 310-373 寶積部 Bao Ji Bu Ratnakūṭa Jewel-peak: collected Mahāyāna sutras.
T12b 374-396 涅槃部 Nie-pan Bu Nirvāṇa The Buddha’s passing away
T13 397-424 大集部 Da Ji Bu Mahāsannipāta The great collection
T14-17 425-847 經集部 Jing Ji Bu Sūtrasannipāta Collected sutras
T18-21 848-1420 密教部 Mi Jiao Bu Tantra Esoteric teachings
T22-24 1421-1504 律部 Lv Bu Vinaya Monastic discipline
T25-26a 1505-1535 釋經論部 Shi Jing Lun Bu Sūtravyākaraṇa Treatises explaining the sutras
T26b-29 1536-1563 毗曇部 Pi-tan Bu Abhidharma Systematic analyses
T30a 1564-1578 中觀部類 Zhong Guan Bu Lei Madhyamaka Texts of the Middle-way school
T30b-32 1579-1627 瑜伽部類 Yu-qie Bu Lei Yoga Texts of the meditation (Yogācāra) school
T32 1628-1692 論集部 Lun Ji Bu Śāstra Treatises
T33-39 1693-1803 經疏部 Jing Shu Bu Sūtravibhāṣa Clarifying the Sutra
T40a 1804-1815 律疏部 Lv Shu Bu Vinayavibhāṣa Clarifying the Vinaya
T40b-44a 1816-1850 論疏部 Lun Shu Bu Śāstravibhāṣa Clarifying the treatises
T44b-48 1851-2025 諸宗部 Zhu Zong Bu Sarvasamaya All the sects
T49-52 2026-2120 史傳部 Shi Zhuan Bu Histories
T53-54a 2121-2136 事彙部 Shi Hui Bu Collected matters
T54b 2137-2144 外教部 Wai Jiao Bu Non-Buddhist teachings
T55 2145-2184 目錄部 Mul Lu Bu Catalogues
T85a 2732-2864 古逸部 Gu Yi Bu Ancient
T85b 2865-2920 疑似部 Yi Shi Bu Doubtful
T86-97 圖像部
98-100 昭和法寶總目錄

The Zokuzokyo(Xuzangjing) version, which is a supplement of another version of the canon, is often used as a supplement for Buddhist texts not collected in the Taishō Tripiṭaka.

The most comprehensive cannon is the new Chinese cannon published in Beijing in 1997, with 106 volumes of literature, including many newly unearthed scriptures from Dunhuang.

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