Harold Bloom, the Yale English professor famous for his prodigious command of canonical literature, was more dismissive.

According to the tradition, the canonical literature originated from the first tirthankara Adinatha.

Svetambara sect thus claim to have the correct but incomplete canonical literature where as texts written in a later period guides the principles of the digambara.

Largely self-taught, he read the classics of canonical French literature on his own initiative while working as a haberdasher in Montargis.

You can't write a story about colonialism without encountering this whole huge tradition of canonical English literature.

Under such circumstances they could not preserve the entire canonical literature.

They also hold that the canonical literature was eventually lost.

The canonical literature of Jainism does not mention the worship of Ganesha.

The miraculous catch of fish is either of two miracles attributed to Jesus in the early Christian canonical literature known as the Gospels.

Preaching practices are closely connected with both canonical and vernacular literature of Buddhist societies.