Is there anything for Buddhist texts equivalent to the typical way of citing Biblical verses? (e.g. John 1:1)
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As I keep looking myself, this seems to be less well-specified than one might hope. But a couple of useful things so far lead me to one option being something like:
DN 16 (PTS DN ii 72)
Trouble is, although that's probably quite a precise form, it's for the Pali. See below for the references that help explain it.
- Access to Insight, as always, has something useful to say. Unfortunately, the especially relevant-looking link in note #1 at the bottom of that page is dead. However, I googled for the title and I think I found it, or something like it as follows:
- The Contents and Structure of the Pali Canon and its Commentaries on this page at BuddhaSasana. (I also searched for it on https://ukabs.org.uk, which is the organization that AtoI's reference suggests originally hosted the document, but I couldn't find it).
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1I have been having the same problem: http://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/3770/tripitaka-section-numbering. Perhaps if you can find a PDF copy of the latter books this might help solving this. – Suminda Sirinath S. Dharmasena Apr 20 '16 at 12:33
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Thanks Suminda. I've added a link to your question since it's almost certainly going to be useful to anyone interested in mine. – tkp Apr 20 '16 at 16:20