Re: Muulakamma.t.thaana

I mentioned Kate Crosby in the original e-mail that began the
thread. I also mentioned your work ("Esoteric Southern
Buddhism" from the Curzon collection in 1990?). I gave a tralk
on the subject of the Theravada Tantra" recently. It is a
difficult, but fruitful subject.
justin

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>Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:07:30 +0000
>From: "L.S. Cousins" <selwyn@...> 
>Subject: Re: [palistudy] Muulakamma.t.thaana 
>To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
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>For some reason I do not seem to have received any earlier
messages
>in this thread.
>
>Perhaps it will be helpful to mention the detailed survey in:
>Crosby, Kate, "Tantric Theravaada: a bibliographic Essay on the
>writings of François Bizot and others on the Yogaavacara
Tradition,"
>_Contemporary Buddhism. An Interdisciplinary Journal_, 1, 2,
2000,
>pp. 141-193.
>
>This is valuable in its own right, but would be particularly
useful
>to anyone who does not read French.
>
>Lance Cousins
>
>
>>Many thanks (to Dr. McDaniel) for a very informative reply.
>>
>>I am a bit surprised that I have not heard of this genre of
MS before
>>(Muulakamma.t.thaana) --but perhaps this is because they are not
>>considered "Pali" in the general history of the literature?
  What I
>>mean to ask here is, are these basically specimens of a
vernacular
>>genre that have had the misfortunte to be translated into Pali?
>>
>>  >
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