Dear Jim and Stephen,

Even the Yahoo Group software is leading to impoliteness!
Although I sent my reply at the same time as Jim and about ten
minutes before Stephen, it didn't post until six hours later.
Certainly no criticism of your advice intended :)

With Metta,
Sumana

> Good Luck! Maybe some of the academics will de-lurk and really

give

> you some good advice!
>
> With Metta,
> Sumana
>
>
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "natalie_indeed"

<natalie_indeed@...>

> wrote:
> > Dear lovely bickering members,
> >
> > I am in the process of both deepening my practice and beginning

to

> > study the Pali Canon as an academic. My question regards the
> latter.
> > Does anyone have any recommendations for scholarly books and/or
> > articles that trace the historical development of the Theravada
> Canon,
> > i.e., older sections, newer sections, and so on? Also, I still
> need to
> > get a firm grasp on the historical development of the different
> Nikaya
> > schools in India and their respective doctrinal positions. I'm
> > currently reading Hirakawa/Paul Groner's _History of Indian
> Buddhism_,
> > but it's not quite as in-depth as I had hoped and it's probably
> also a
> > bit dated.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Kindness,
> > Natalie Fisk
> > Graduate Theological Union