Re: Man.galatthadiipanii

nyanatusita wrote:
> Dear Phra Yuttadhammo,
>
> Sorry, but the Mangalatthadiipanii is not a modern work, but a late
> medieaval work written by Siri Mangala in the Lanna Kingdom in 1524.

That surprises me... I thought Sirimangalaajaan was a modern scholar.  Thank you for the info.

  > When things become part of the Asian Buddhist traditions, the borders
  > between what is canonical and non canonical often blur. Thailand,
  > Cambodia and Laos (i.e. the countries part of old Siam) seem to have a
  > fairly strong apocryphal, or what Ole Pind calls a pseudepigraphical,
  > tradition, but it also exists to a lesser degree in Burma and Sri Lanka.

But the verse I was looking at, though, seems perhaps not intended to be given as the exact words of the Buddha, but an
expansion, as in, "what He means to say is, 'for as long as my four groups of disciples...'."

justinm@... wrote:
  > P.S. The Mangaladipani is one of the most well-known text
  > (1524 Chiang Mai) in Thailand and is the subject of the
  > highest Pali examinations. There are a number of good
  > vernacular Thai studies of this text. The text has been out on
  > CD Rom for these exams. It is largely an anthology of Pali
  > canonical verses. I have lots more on this text if anyone is
  > interested.

I certainly am, as I may never have time to get around to actually studying it :)  Is it worth studying, do you think?
I would be happy to hear your thoughts on it.

Best wishes,

Yuttadhammo

PS: Unrelated to this, I am working on (or rather wishing I had time to work on) a Digital Pali Reader, in case it is of
use to anyone here.  Please check out the alpha version if you have time:

http://www.fivethousandyears.org/files/dpr.zip