Dear Jon,

Please try the article Textual Criticism in Wikipaedia, for a beginning.
Let's close this thread with this.

Mahinda

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Jon Fernquest <bayinnaung@...> wrote:

> Dear Jim;
>
> "Unless there has been a recent change in the presidency, my
> understanding is that Dr. Rupert Gethin is the Society's current
> president and Dr. Peter Skilling is the Society's regional
> representative for Thailand."
>
> Sorry, you're right:
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_Text_Society#Presidents_of_the_Pali_Text_Society
> http://www.palitext.com/
>
> Just repeated what others told me.
> Should have checked the facts myself.
>
> BTW the discussion over the anomalous sentence in Buddhadatta really
> ended up being a sort of mini-lesson in philology and editing of
> scholarly editions of texts, something of value to learn how to do in
> its own right.
>
> Anyone know of books that treat this subject in greater depth, or is
> this just something that has to be acquired from experience?
>
> With metta,
> Jon
>
>
>


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