also: けいてん · きょうでん
noun
sacred books; sutras; scriptures
Refers broadly to religious scriptures, including Buddhist sutras, the Bible, the Koran, and other canonical texts.
彼は毎朝、仏教の経典を読んでいる。
He reads Buddhist sutras every morning.
この経典はキリスト教の聖
This scripture is part of the Christian Bible.
Obsolete kana usage; not used in modern Japanese.
From Chinese 經典 (jīngdiǎn), meaning 'classic texts' or 'scriptures'. The kanji 経 means 'sutra' or 'classic', and 典 means 'code' or 'canon'.