Nikaya
Nikaya , term of origin Faded, indicates the sections of the canonical corpora of Sutta S Hinayana, whose only complete example nowadays is the Sutta Pitaka of the gun faded. The practitioners of the Mahayana often use agama like synonym of nikaya , although in any rigor the agamas include only part of the Sutta Pitaka .
In the current Theravada, it is also an honorary term to designate a sect, an order or a group of monks.
The term Buddhism nikaya indicates according to the context old Buddhism or Buddhism hinayana.
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See too
- Sutta Pitaka
- Agama
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