A Handbook of Pāli Literature

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Walter de Gruyter, 2000 - Foreign Language Study - 257 pages

The Handbook surveys the whole of Pali Theravada Buddhist literature (Ceylon, South East Asia). It reviews previous research in the field, and then concentrates on new methodological approaches and a treatment of later Pali literature (after the twelfth century).

 

Contents

Introduction
1
V
7
The Theravada Canon 10155
8
The AbhayagiriVinaya 4345
22
3
64
1
76
4
82
2
92
VII
166
Vinayatthamañjūsā on the Kankhāvitaraṇī 378
174
Cosmological Texts 393402
182
Collections of Stories 409418
189
Letters and Inscriptions 438446
203
XIV
206
XVI
229
167
233

12
98
The Commentaries 203322
100
VI
154
2
160
2
236
XVII
250
Additions and Corrections to the Numerical System
256
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