Category
page 1Buddhist literature
Jātaka
collection of traditional narratives of the previous lives of Buddha before his last life as Gautama

sutra
thumb|360px|A Sanskrit manuscript page of [[Lotus Sutra (Buddhism) from South Turkestan in Brahmi script]]
thumb|360px|A manuscript page from Kalpa Sūtra (Jainism)
blind men and an elephant
parable from the ancient Indian subcontinent, in which several blind men feel and try to conceptualize an elephant
Avadana
Avadāna (Sanskrit; Pali: Apadāna) is the name given to a type of Buddhist literature correlating past lives' virtuous deeds to subsequent lives' events.
Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
variety of Sanskrit used in Buddhist texts
Thus have I heard
standard formula to introduce Buddhist discourses
Sanskrit Buddhist sutra
Buddhist texts composed in Sanskrit