The Buddhist Pali Canon - in Pali Tipitaka: Ti = Three, Pitaka = Baskets - together with the commentaries and chronicles constitutes the doctrinal foundation of Theravada Buddhism. It contains the teachings of the historical Buddha Gotama that lived in India more than 2500 years ago. At that time the discourses were orally transmitted and later gathered and preserved after the Buddha’s Paranibbana, at the