Dear Chanida,

We have just completed the first round of listing all the Pali sutta titles
(1.6 mb), mostly from the WT = Chattha Sangiiti (Be). However, the work is
still going on.

However, in the Sutta Discovery (SD) series esp SD 1 (SD 2 is in the press),
we reflect the variant titles in the header of each Sutta translation.

For more info, please see http://dharmafarer.org

With metta,

Piya

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Chanida Jantrasrisalai <
jchanida@...> wrote:

>
>
> Dear Dhivan,
>
> Thank you very much for your explanation. Yes, I agree with you about what
> Bryan meant and the reason for small variations among different editions of
> the Pali canon. The reason I asked about this is that I found the number of
> some particular suttas varies in different editions of the Pali canon,
> i.e.,
> PTS, Syamrattha, Buddhajayanti, Burmese and the Thai Khun Tipitaka of
> Chieng
> Tung. A colleague told me that it could be a matter of abbreviation and
> probably omission in a particular edition. For example, an edition may omit
> or abbreviate the repetitive parts of the suttas, while the other editions
> preserve the entire wordings, etc. I was about to collect such information
> for my own use and wondered whether anyone has done that so I could use
> his/her work as reference.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Chanida
>
> From: Pali@yahoogroups.com <Pali%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:
> Pali@yahoogroups.com <Pali%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of Dhivan
> Thomas Jones
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 11:38 PM
> To: Pali@yahoogroups.com <Pali%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Pali] Re: Comparison of Pali suttas in different versions
>
> Dear Chanida,
>
> My understanding of the Pali canon is that it is fairly fixed in form.
> That's to say, although there may be variations between Sri Lankan,
> Burmese,
> Thai etc. versions, probably due to various scribal errors down the
> centuries, we do not find differences of the sort you mention, such as
> suttas found in one version and not in another. The reason for this is
> simple. The Pali canon was pretty much fixed in the 5th c. CE by the
> commentators, and the various versions I mention are all later, but they
> all
> relate back to the the canon as the commentators describe it. So there is
> no
> scope for the kind of differences you are thinking might be found. What
> Brian was referring to is differences between the Pali version of texts
> like
> the Mahaaparinibbaana Sutta and other versions in Sanskrit, Chinese, etc.
>
> Best wishes,
> Dhivan
>
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>
>
>

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