Buddhist scriptures is the Buddha disciple record when the Buddha was alive and practice the words of the true dharma and universal truth, is the Buddha's disciples record, record the beholder of the Buddha's words.As China's Confucian classics "the analects" is recorded Confucius's words and deeds, by his disciples and the disciples to write again.

After the Buddha away, for fear of the disciples said evil see, infiltration of Buddhism, for fear of monk doctrine, time is lost, but have a rally.So buddhist scriptures is the Buddha disciple collected, the ceremony just now at the time of the meeting, first gathered all the monks, in accordance with the precepts, organization for a while, the assembly elected one, make up, the Buddha said, without objection, namely is unanimous, and was recognized as the Buddha says, the book to the bay leaf, become official texts.Circulating today by law, all the collected, so the Tibet did not record, noted posterity forgery, should not be believed.

At the time points in the king's house just outside the gridhrakuta mountain grottoes and wat collected respectively.Five hundred arhat in grottoes, thousands of monks outside the den;Because the dharma is not common, with avatar, at that time, they are able to recite Buddha in the grottoes mainly by the law of honour person recite law to hide, to honour person hiding in the chanting, hidden by the kasyapa honour person such as theory.They are all word of mouth, and their memory and ability to recite are superior, can recite ode to tens of thousands of classes.Later, however, due to all the karma and ability difference, recite some difference, so we record on the bodhi leaf, also called Mr Page via (grottoes arahant rally did not write on Mr Page, they would recite, do not need to record).Therefore be late sthavira and mass of the two.Theravada is now represented by Thailand, Sri Lanka, myanmar;Public department developed mahayana Buddhism, represented by China.

Collected monk, originally should have only one, but took a long, heterodox temporarily xing, affect the teachings, is after death in four hundred, is the rally, four times three times after all has its necessity, hereby points above are to the following:

First rally in March, after death, kasyapa honour person, have the dragon's tuo the cabinet of the king of the sponsor, call arahant, one thousand people, set the king outside and seven shale wat, then in one thousand, and five hundred people, covering a monk, to tuo is responsible for the hiding, hiding the optimal wave is responsible for law, is the so-called theravada collected, also called five hundred rally.

After tens of thousands of monks to at that time, to attend the rock grottoes listen to the law, and leaves no, reason is in 20 miles northwest of rock wat all recite monk, collected separately.Scoring by the theory of Tibet, the Tibetan, law, miscellaneous treasured works, spell, hidden five classes, is known as the public department collected.

Second rally - theravada lay particular stress on conservative old, the public is told to adapt to the environment, from death to hundreds of years, but has suffered in discipline is too severe, proposed should be heavy book, when the elders ", is invited to xian SAN bhikkhu, seven hundred, in which the fish away from the city, newly collected, will this problem, submit to the conference to discuss, to determine the outcome is in favor of wedded interpretation of the legacy system, reject from the discussion, is for the second rally.

Third rally - in two hundred and fifty BC, emperor asoka believe in Buddhism, apare struggling and clothing, but as a monk, mixed in the Buddhism, buddhist scripture change reigned, disrupt the doctrine, Buddha ACTS not discern, be RuXie see what all the lure.Sixty thousand monks, poly seeks the save, the result one thousand people choose the master monk, mesh Jian even the emperor should act in the first, set Cha wavelengths, livermore city (city), finishing the teachings, eliminated the monk, is the third time for the rally.

Fourth rally - seventy b.c., the healthy carry they, king of Canaan, bored with color and, believed in Buddhism, please a monk, into the palace, with once, everyone is different, the king asked to honour person, honour person said: "go to Buddha day, the teacher gradually to his own opinion and miscellaneous proselytize rite, when collected again now, to settle the debate."Wang Ruyan, choose five hundred arhat, for woman to be close friends or the bodhisattva's first, set in Canaan, wet luo, and the monk hundreds of each system, of which the theory of dancing, carved in red copper was a spy, a tower of hidden, is the fourth time for the rally.

Mahayana collected - the rally, four times to theravada monk collected.Non-deluded idea, after death, such as the manjusri maitreya great bodhisattva, please to tuo in iron monk covering around the mountain, hidden of bodhisattva, is collected for the mahayana Buddhism.

Buddhist scriptures is the Buddha disciple record when the Buddha was alive and practice as well as the open text of universal truth.So, who wrote the book, you should know, is the Buddha's disciples record, record the beholder of the Buddha's words.As China's Confucian classics "the analects" is recorded Confucius's words and deeds, by his disciples and the disciples to write again.