Teaching of the Buddha & Vinaya Piṭaka
The whole teaching of the Buddha is called as Tipiṭaka since it is codified into three piṭakas (books or baskets) named as Vinaya piṭaka, Sutta piṭaka and Abhidhamma piṭaka. Vinaya piṭaka consists of all the proclamations by Buddha for the monastic communities as the disciplinary rules for the protection of virtue. Sutta piṭaka is the collection of all Buddha’s discourses to various people in various situations. The Buddha, after the enlightenment in the seventh rainy season, went to the Tāvatiṃsa deva world to discourse Abhidhamma to the devas including his mother and whole three months discoursed total Abhidhamma piṭaka. Though in the first Buddhist council, the Tipiṭaka was codified according to the currently existing manner, it is evidenced by several Suttas and Vinaya proclamations that there was a Tipiṭaka even at the time of Buddha. Vinaya Piṭaka Etymologically, the word Vinaya is derived from the root √ nī (lead) with the prefix of vi which gives a meaning of lea...