Dear Thomas,

Do you (or anyone) know the pinyin version of Ven Yinshun's book "The Formation of
Early Buddhist Texts". I plan to buy this book and look for some people who might be
able to translate this book into English.

I am looking for someone well versed in Buddhist Chinese. I will do the English/Pali
editing.

Sukhi

Piya

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thomaslaw03 wrote:

> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Bhante Sujato" <sujato@...> wrote:
> >
> > Junet, yes i did give a talk on the structure of the Buddha's
> > teachings, and published a book on the topic called The GIST. Alas,
> > it's already out-of-date and revisions are underway. I think that
> > certain ideas pursued by Ven Yin Shun and others are leading to one
> > of the great breakthroughs that Gombrich talked about in his book.
> > To sum up briefly: the large scale structure of the Dhamma (textual
> > teachings) in its earliest redaction was modelled after the
> > structure of the Dhamma (truth of reality) itself, the 4 noble
> > truths. This is approximately what we today call the Samyutta
> > Nikaya/Agama. I started pursuing such matters almost by accident,
> > and the significance of it is only just starting to become clear to
> > me.
> >
>
> I hope that one day we would have English translation of Ven. Yin
> Shun's works, particularly, _The Formation of Early Buddhist Texts_.
> At least a clear and critical introductory English article of the
> book should come to exist. So, the wider Buddhist communities in the
> world could know why and how the Samyutta-nikaya/Samyukta-agama is
> historically an earliest collection of the Nikayas/Agamas, which Ven.
> Yin Shun suggests.
>
> Thomas Law
>
>
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