Re: Buddhaghosa's citations in Visuddhimagga

Hi Khristos,

You are probably familiar with the following (albeit older) book by E.W
Adikaram:

E. W. Adikaram. Early History of Buddhism in Ceylon. Colombo, 1946, Lake
House Bookshop.

It has some great chapters/observations on the porana quotations. As far as
I remember he goes into some detail in comparing them with each other.

mettāya,

Lennart

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Khristos Nizamis <nizamisk@...> wrote:

>
>
> 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@...<selwyn%40ntlworld.com>>
> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > 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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