The Pali Canon
The Buddha’s Historical Teachings
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5 min readFeb 9, 2022
At the time of the Buddha, the world still had a couple of thousand years to go before Gutenberg launched his printing press. So no books.
And since Gotama Buddha walked the northern Indian earth during what was still the iron age, not too much writing and note-taking either. It was all verbal. It was all speaking and hearing and remembering. That’s why we…