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> if i misunderstood your question, English isn't my first language.
You did, but you partially answered.
"Canon" is the collection of religious texts. It is usually comprised of "scriptures" and sometimes "commentaries". Far east religions usually put commentaries in their canons, western religions rarely. For example, the Tibetan Buddhist canon has the Kangyur section (scriptures) and Tengyur section (commentaries). If we wanna oversimplify, the Jews have the Torah (scriptures) and the Talmud (commentary).
Canons change according to the "branch" of the religion (yours being eastern orthodox) and its "denomination" (greek, slavonic, georgian). Picrel is the canon for the old testament.
>eastern orthodox
What patriarchy are you in? Are you the ukrainian pooner I see from time to time on here?
>im more casual about researching non Abrahamic religions
Me too. I wanna get serious about Esoteric Buddhism, though. It has a lot of things I agree with.
>Zoroastrianism
How do you approach it? Do you go directly into critical editions of primary texts or do you first read (or watch) some introductory stuff, like seminars, podcast episodes, yt videos?
>ive been wanting to dive into Buddhism next.
If you wanna get into Tibetan Buddhism, try the 84000.co project. It has a very nice section for beginners.
I've tried posting on /lit/ after reading it and they really struggled even with the most basic of concepts, so I think whatever they use to learn about Buddhism is not good at all.
Also, avoid Zen Buddhism till you get decently confident with Buddhism. It is not light stuff (even if it is very concise) and the commentaries don't give you the whole picture.
The Buddhist canons are fucking massive, iirc they are almost as long as the Taoist canon.