Buddhism Primary Documents

The Buddhavacana is the sacred literature to many different types of Buddhism, it is special to each because for every type of Buddhism, there are different works in their Buddhavacana that they believed were the words of the Buddha, but none are actually proven to be his words. For example, in Theravada Buddhism their Buddhavacana is also known as the Pali Canon, it was origianally passed down orally and it was put together in its current form in 80 BC. In Tibetan Buddhism however, they combined their Buddhavacana along with other texts that they call the Kangyur, and the views on what actually is categorized as the Buddhavacana is extremely close between Tibetan and East Asian Buddhism. The word Buddhavacana itself means "the word of the Buddha. "