Re: Buddhaghosa's citations in Visuddhimagga

Dear Lance,

many thanks for this information.  I would very much like to read Dr
Lottermoser's text.

I just have to work out how to get hold of a copy of it to read.  : )

Best wishes,
Khristos





On 6 December 2010 20:19, L.S. Cousins <selwyn@...> wrote:

>
>
> Dear Khristos,
>
> The most useful study relating to this is a thesis (submitted in Germany
> but in English):
>
> Lottermoser, Friedgard. "Quoted Verse Passages in the Works of
> Buddhaghosa: Contributions Towards the Study of the Lost Sīhaḷaṭṭhakathā
> Literature." Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der
> philosophischen Fakultat der Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen,
> Göttingen, 1982.
>
> By the end of the first millennium A.D. the form of alphabet in use in
> Ceylon had changed and the Sinhalese language had also changed
> considerably from the Sinhalese Prakrit in which these works were
> written. Probably very few monks could read them and so they were little
> copied and not preserved in times of invasion and warfare. Note that
> many Pali works that survive were preserved in South-East Asia and
> reimported into Ceylon. It is doubtful if works in Sinhaḷa Prakrit were
> ever taken to South-East Asia.
>
> Lance Cousins
>
> 
>


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