Different types of Buddhist texts & literature
Buddhist texts are those religious texts which belong to the Buddhist tradition.
The earliest Buddhist texts were not committed to writing until some centuries after the death of Gautama Buddha.
The oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts are the Gandhāran Buddhist texts, found in Afghanistan and written in Gāndhārī, they date from the first century BCE to the third century CE.
The first Buddhist texts were initially passed on orally by Buddhist monastics, but were later .
