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The 15 pages that link to First Buddhist Council, each with the reason it gives.

• Pali CanonRelated: Theravada accounts associate this council with the beginnings of canonical recitation.

• VinayaRelated: Traditional accounts associate the council with the early communal preservation of disciplinary teachings.

• Early Buddhist schoolsRelated: Its account links the earliest community’s efforts to preserve teachings with later lineage histories.

• ĀnandaRelated: Ānanda is portrayed reciting the discourses at this gathering.

• BhikkhunīRelated: Its accounts include the early community in which the nuns’ order took shape.

• PratimokshaRelated: Accounts of the council associate Upāli with transmitting monastic discipline.

• Second Buddhist councilRelated: Like the Second council, it is known through later traditions and linked to preserving communal order.

• Sutta PiṭakaRelated: Tradition associates the early recitation of discourses with this gathering.

• Vinaya PiṭakaRelated: Traditions connect the early preservation of monastic discipline with this council.

• Abhidhamma PiṭakaRelated: Theravāda tradition connects the canon’s preservation to early communal recitation.

• AjatashatruRelated: Buddhist tradition says Ajatashatru sponsored the gathering at Rajagriha.