Re: Pali composition

A new Pali chronicle was composed by the present Sangharaja of Thailand. I think he wrote it in the early 1980s. I have an edition of this if anyone wants more details.
Thank you,
justin
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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
3046 INTN
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
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>Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:25:31 +0530
>From: Nyanatusita <nyanatusita@...> 
>Subject: [palistudy] Pali composition 
>To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
>
>   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
>
>