Theravada Pali Canon:

The Tripitaka (three baskets)






origin uncertain; variously attributed to early Buddhist councils of 4th - 2nd century BCE, possibly committed to writing by 1st century BCE.


(discourses of Shakyamuni Gautama); (5 sections [nikayas], organized by length)



rules of monastic discipline and their origin through Shakyamuni



(systematic treatises composed after Shakyamuni's paranirvana) ; seven books by unnamed early Buddhists systematically analyzing different aspects of reality