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Apadāna and Atthakatha

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Difference between Apadāna and Atthakatha

Apadāna vs. Atthakatha

The Apadāna is a collection of biographical stories found in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Pāli Canon, the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. Aṭṭhakathā (Pali for explanation, commentary) refers to Pali-language Theravadin Buddhist commentaries to the canonical Theravadin Tipitaka.

Similarities between Apadāna and Atthakatha

Apadāna and Atthakatha have 7 things in common (in Unionpedia): Khuddaka Nikaya, Pali, Pali Text Society, Pāli Canon, Theragatha, Theravada, Therigatha.

Khuddaka Nikaya

The Khuddaka Nikāya (‘Minor Collection’) is the last of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka, the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism.

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Pali

Pali, or Magadhan, is a Middle Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian subcontinent.

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Pali Text Society

The Pali Text Society is a text publication society founded in 1881 by Thomas William Rhys Davids "to foster and promote the study of Pāli texts".

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Pāli Canon

The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language.

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Theragatha

The Theragatha (-gāth&#257), often translated as Verses of the Elder Monks (Pāli: thera elder (masculine) + gatha verse), is a Buddhist text, a collection of short poems in Pali attributed to members of the early Buddhist sangha.

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Theravada

Theravāda (Pali, literally "school of the elder monks") is a branch of Buddhism that uses the Buddha's teaching preserved in the Pāli Canon as its doctrinal core.

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Therigatha

The Therigatha (Therīgāthā), often translated as Verses of the Elder Nuns (Pāli: therī elder (feminine) + gāthā verses), is a Buddhist text, a collection of short poems of early women who were elder nuns (having experienced 10 Vassa or monsoon periods).

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Apadāna and Atthakatha Comparison

Apadāna has 10 relations, while Atthakatha has 59. As they have in common 7, the Jaccard index is 10.14% = 7 / (10 + 59).

References

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