Taishō Tripiṭaka


The Taishō Tripiṭaka is a definitive edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon and its Japanese commentaries used by scholars in the 20th century. It was edited by Takakusu Junjiro and others.
The name is abbreviated as “” in Chinese and Japanese.

Contents

Volumes 1–85 are the literature, in which volumes 56–84 are Japanese Buddhist literature, written in Classical Chinese. Volumes 86–97 are Buddhism related drawings, includes drawings of many Buddhas and bodhisattvas. Volumes 98–100 are texts of different indexes of Buddhist texts known in Japan ca. 1930. The 85 volumes of literature contains 5,320 individual texts, classified as follows.

Digitalization

The SAT Daizōkyō Text Database edition contains volumes 1–85. The Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association edition contains volumes 1–55 and 85. The Fomei edition contains texts in Classical Chinese other than Nichiren Buddhism.
Volumes 56-84, although they were written in Classical Chinese, are actually written by Japanese Buddhist scholars.