Translation of "经典" into English

他认为,自给农民从经典或主流发展模式中几乎没有获益。

In his view, subsistence farmers had achieved very little from the classical or mainstream development model.

他认为,自给农民从经典或主流发展模式中几乎没有获益。

In his view, subsistence farmers had achieved very little from the classical or mainstream development model.

甚至规模更大的是中国的佛教经典,据说所占篇幅将近10万页。

Even more voluminous, the Chinese Buddhist canon is said to cover nearly a hundred thousand printed pages.