The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (195 page)

akas and two C
ik
s
tras. The
vet
mbara ‘canon’ is said to have been fixed at the Assembly at Valabh
(453 or 466 CE), but there is no list of what was actually agreed.
3
In Buddhism, the nine (or twelve) ‘branches’ within the
canon
of literary types:
sutta
(
s
tra
),
geyya
(recitation),
veyy
kara
a
(prophecies),
g
th
(verse),
ud
na
(solemn pronouncement),
ittivuttaka
(discourses beginning, ‘This has been said by the master’),
j
taka
,
abhutadhamma
(stories of accomplishments),
vedalla
(analysis and explication). In N.
(Skt.) Buddhism the three additional a