Pali composition

From: Nyanatusita
Message: 2462
Date: 2008-08-29

Hello,

Does anyone know whether any new Pali books have been written during the
last fifty years?
As far as I know the last works in Pali were composed in Burma in the
1950s, i.e. the Visuddhi~naa.nakathaa (Burma, Mahaasi Sayaadaw, 1950)
and the Visuddhimagga-nidaanakathaa (Burma,
Cha.t.tha-sa"ngiiti-bhaara-nitthaaraka-sa"ngha-samitiya, 1950s.). In Sri
Lanka the last work was probably composed in 1935: the
Mahaanekkhamma-campu by Widurupola Piyatissa. The fake Vimuttimagga was
probably composed after that but I am not sure if this can qualify as an
official Pali work.
If it is a fact that no new Pali compositions were written during the
last fifty years, then this indicates that Pali is now a real dead
language. It could be that some works have been written in Burma though.
Regards,
              Bhikkhu Nyanatusita



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