Chinese Buddhist canon

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The Chinese Buddhist Canon (Chinese: 大藏經; pinyin: Dàzàngjīng; literally "Great Treasury of Scripture") is the total body of Buddhist literature deemed canonical in China, Korea and Japan and includes texts from Nikaya as well as Mahayana schools.

The oldest and most comprehensive intact version of the Buddhist canon in Chinese script is the Tripiṭaka Koreana or Palman Daejanggyeong. It was carved between 1236 and 1251, during Korea's Goryeo Dynasty, onto 81,340 wooden printing blocks with no known errors in the 52,382,960 characters. It is stored at the Haeinsa temple, South Korea.

The modern standardized Japanese edition of this work, based on the Tripiṭaka Koreana, is known as the Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō, published in Tokyo between 1924 and 1929. It contains 55 volumes containing 2184 texts, along with a supplement of 45 additional volumes.

The Taishō Tripiṭaka is organised into 85 volumes of 5320 individual texts.