Sentence examples for canonical text from inspiring English sources

Theravada has been the predominant religion of continental South Asia, and the Tipitaka, or Pali Canon [ 20], is its canonical text, which contains the earliest record of Buddha's teachings.

It very quickly became a canonical text".

He was the man who copied the sacred Law faithfully and established the canonical text.

How did it feel to apply their own interpretation and creative energy to a canonical text?

It's a sensation that almost didn't happen, as the guardians of Arthur Miller's estate were initially reluctant to let the innovative Belgian director meddle with a canonical text.

But every so often, plundering and pillaging a canonical text for the sake of entertainment gives it the kiss of life.

The canonical texts of Judaism, particularly the Talmud, are themselves chronicles of interpretive argument.

It helps that science feels like a religion with a priesthood whose canonical texts cannot be easily understood by policymakers.

For years Mitchell has reinvented canonical texts of world literature (the Bhagavad-Gita, the Book of Job).

Sacred literature, with its frozen, canonical texts, is an obvious example.

Several pieces, for instance, comment in different ways on canonical texts.