Re: Pali composition

Dear Justin,

Thanks for the reply. Please send me the details (author, name of work,
and year of publication) so that I can include it in my list of Pali
literature (see
http://www.bps.lk/other_library/reference_table_of_pali_literature.pdf).
It will also be put on a German scholarly website soon.

Regards,
             Bhikkhu Nyanatusita

justinm@... wrote:
>
> 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
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> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:25:31 +0530
> >From: Nyanatusita <nyanatusita@ gmail.com
> <mailto:nyanatusita%40gmail.com>>
> >Subject: [palistudy] Pali composition
> >To: palistudy@... ps.com <mailto:palistudy%40yahoogroups.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
> >
> >
>
>