This is the school of Buddhism that draws its scriptural inspiration from the texts of the Pali Canon, which scholars generally accept as containing the earliest surviving record of the Buddha's teachings. Pali is the language of the Theravada Buddhists and was origanally spoken with no alphabet of its own...
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It is based on a dialect of the Middle Indo-Aryan that was most likely spoken in central India during Buddha’s time. Most of Buddha’s sermons were memorized in Ven, and then were passed down orally within the monastic community. Eventually Sri Lankan scribe-monks wrote them down using the Pali language and their own Sinhala alphabet...
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