>The Buddhist scripture (Pali canon) is 57 volumes Holy shit!

>>9154352
And they are all empty.

woe

That's an impressive amount of text about nothing.

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Bible is one volume and is better.

>>9154365
It'd be pretty funny if it really was just 57 Volumes of blank pages. Whoever created them would've made Siddhartha proud.

>>9154365
fpbp

>>9154623
pretty much. there's a ton of repetitive lists. you can read some great edited and annotated translations by Bhikhu Bodhi

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>>9154352
>Pali Cannon is the Buddhist Scripture
*Theravada

>>9154352
A significant percentage of that is explanations of explanations of explanations and rewording/summarization of previous explanations of explanations.

>>9156341
>Bhikhu Bodhi
Careful now, Bhikkhu Bodhi is a extremely liberal interruption of Buddhism heavily influenced by his middle-upper class upbringing.

>>9154626
"no"

the sutras are extremely repetitive. don't get me wrong, they are wonderful in lots of ways, but they very frequently repeat whole sentences, even paragraphs, with maybe a single word changed, multiple times in the course of a single sutra.

>>9154352
The Talmud goes on and on, and there are multiple Talmuds. A lot of it is more like jurisprudence than theology, but it all goes back to "Because God said so"

>>9154352
The bible is technically a collection of 73 books.

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>>9154352
>Holy shit! Is Buddhism the most patrician religion ever? Can other religions even compete?
If your standard of what makes a religion patrician is the number of texts, I'll have you know that in the Daoist canon, the Daozang, there are over 5300 texts.

Published, critical editions have 38 to 60 volumes which include "only" some 1500 of the oldest texts. No, it's not translated. Pic related is just a supershort bibliography scholars can use, in fact it's barely an annotated index, and is 1800 pages.

The Pali Canon isn't even comparable to the Bible though, Buddhist Canons are the equivalent of The Bible, Plus the Deuterocanon and Apocrypha, the Church Fathers and Aquinas.

It gets even more ridiculous when you see the Chinese Buddhist canons that include commentaries on commentaries, folk tales and non-Buddhist works.

>>9156827
The Daozang doesn't hold any official status and suffers every problem mentioned in this thread and several more including half of it being complete gibberish understandable by no living persons.

>>9154626
its funny how you can see the photography studio in the reflection of his sunglasses

The corpus of Christian literature dwarfs that by an order of magnitude. Just the collected works of the Church Fathers is probably that long. The difference is that the Church doesn't canonize every document that comes along.

>>9154352
buddhist scripture is like the books of the bible that list "a son of b son of c son of d son of e" but for 57 volumes

>>9157070
> collected works of the Church Fathers
Not at all they wouldnt even be a third of that amount, aside from Augustine the works of the Church fathers werent all that large.

>>9156373
what exactly is changed by his translation?

>>9154352

Isn't Buddhism about like, not reading books or something?

The Fathers of the Church series is 127 volumes.

http://cuapress.cua.edu/books/series.cfm