At 20:29 14.08.2007 +0200, you wrote:

>Dear Branislav,
>you have an interesting project.
>The ancient Commentary by Buddhaghosa has been translated by Yang-Gyu
>An, Pali Text Society, 2003.
>ISBN 0 86013 405 9
>This may give you some ideas and background.
>I do not know whether it is on line.
>Success with your work,
>Nina.
>Op 14-aug-2007, om 10:06 heeft Branislav Kovacevic het volgende
>geschreven:
>
> > Some time ago I've translated (unfortunately from English, not from
> > Pali) Mahaparinibbana Sutta into Serbian. Before offering
> > translation to the publisher, I'd also like to write an
> > introduction and explain the context of this sutta in the Canon, as
> > well as it's deeper meaning.

I do not know any online material, sorry. But you will find some of the
informations you are looking for in Rhys Davids' introduction to
Mahaparinibbanasutta in the Pali Text Society's translation of Digha
Nikaya. You might also want to see what Dipak Kumar Barua has to say about
the sutta in his "An Analytical Study of the Four Nikayas", Munshiram
Manoharlal Publishers, and also Govind Chandra Apte in his "Studies in the
Origins of Buddhism", Motilal Banarsidass. I suppose Motilal Banarsidass
will be able to provide both of these books if you ask them. Pande's book
is from 1957 and Barua's book is from 1971, so there will probably be more
recent research to be found somewhere as well, but these should at least be
able to give you some basic info.

Yours,

Kåre A. Lie
http://www.lienet.no


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