"...The arrangement of texts in the Theravada canon underlines the importance of Buddhist law, for it is contained in the first part of the Tipitaka, the "basket of the discipline" (Vinaya-pitaka) followed by the "basket of the teaching" (Sutta-pitaka). This sequence is found already in the well-known account of the first council held at Rajagaha ... immediately after the death of the Buddha according to the Buddhist tradition..."