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Indians now speak Hindi, which is the Chinese language of India and belongs to the Aryan language family of the Indo-European language family; The main areas of use are in the northern and central states of India. Hindi is divided into Eastern Dialect Regions and Western Dialect Regions. The second most spoken language in India is Telugu, which is the official language of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

In addition to this, India is also spoken in Gujarati, Assamese, Kashmiri, Malayalan, Biliha, Punjabi, Mathira, Uriya, Rajasthani, and Yo"Urdu language related to the army. "

Pali, like most of the languages of Western Europe, Iran, and North India, is an Indo-European language family. Within the Indo-European language family, Pali belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family, which is also known as prakrit in Indian linguistic writings. As a result, Pali can be said to be one of the oldest surviving prakrits.

The earliest Buddhist scriptures were passed down orally It is recorded that during the time of Emperor Ashoka, the Buddhist scriptures were not yet written in Pali, but in another unknown script Later, due to the superiority of Pali in writing and propagating Buddhist scriptures, gradually, Pali became the written language of most Buddhist scriptures, until the advent of Sanskrit Buddhism had entered the Esoteric period

The Buddhist scriptures introduced into China in the early days were recorded to be written in Pali script, and during the Eastern Han Dynasty, the monks of the Western Regions came to China to translate the scriptures, which was to translate the Pali Buddhist scriptures at that time

Pali was a popular language in ancient India. Southern Buddhism is mainly based on the Pali scriptures, and according to legend, the Buddha spoke in Pali

Sanskrit is an elegant language used by the ancient Indian aristocracy. Northern Buddhism is mainly based on Sanskrit scriptures

That's all I know.

The various methods of meditation can be summarized into 40 types of karma, and the "Introduction to Theravada Buddhism" and "Karma Chapter" mainly talk about the classical interpretation of the karma of entering and exiting the mind and the actual meditation methods, which belong to the Pao meditation system, and other meditation lineages include Sun Lun, Mahashi, Goenka, etc.

Introducing a**, the path to enlightenment, which contains the Pali scriptures and is available for reference.

A few months after the Buddha's death, the Venerable Kāṇa, under the patronage of King Ajata of the kingdom of Magadha, summoned a thousand arhats to gather in the Seven Leaves Cave outside the royal house, and then selected 500 people out of the thousand people to take charge of the assembly of the Three Tibets, and sent Ananda to be in charge of the Sutra Collection, Upali to be in charge of the Vinaya Collection, and Fuluna to be in charge of the Tibetan Collection, because all the participants were the Theravada elders of the Sangha, which is the so-called Theravada assembly.

At that time, tens of thousands of bhikshus came and wanted to participate in the cave to listen to the Dharma, but Ka Ye was not allowed, so he was more than 20 miles northwest of the cave, reciting the three Tibets, and gathered separately. The five categories of scoring scriptures, Vinayas, treatises, miscellaneous collections, and forbidden mantras are the so-called collections of the general department.

From the present point of view, the assembly of the Mass and Theravada schools is still Hinayana Buddhism, and the content of Mahayana is the assembly of Manjushri and the great bodhisattvas in the Tiewei Mountain. Of course, there are some thoughts in the popular sector that have a Mahayana flavor, but if we talk about it, all the Dharma is the same, and everyone has the same thing, which is that they can practice and move towards liberation. Then it is not surprising that there are similarities.

Theravada Buddhism is self-interested Mahayana Buddhism is self-interested and altruistic.