Re: Textual criticism of Pali writings

Dear Ven. Nyanatusita,

Many thanks for your reply. Is the Skilling article the same as "Traces of the Dharma" which I found in Bulletin de l'Ecole Francaise d'Extreme Orient? The other articles I have been able to locate. Also, could you please send me a PDF of your article, as I was not able to download it and it is not showing up properly on the screen.

Thanks very much for your help,,

Metta, Bryan



--- On Sat, 4/23/11, Nyanatusita <nyanatusita@...> wrote:

From: Nyanatusita <nyanatusita@...>
Subject: Re: [palistudy] Textual criticism of Pali writings
To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
Received: Saturday, April 23, 2011, 3:53 PM
















 



  


    
      
      
       Dear Bryan,



K. R. Norman, Peter Skilling and especially Dr. von Hinueber have

published a lot on the textual traditions of Pali .



Norman's /A Philological Approach to Buddhism /and his /Collected

Papers/, Hinueber's /Selected Papers/, /The Oldest Pali Manuscript /(a

description and edition of the 4 folios of the Cullavagga, dating from

the 8-9th century), /Notes on the Pali Tradition in Burma, Pali as an

Artificial Language, /and Peter Skilling's articles on the Pali

inscriptions in Thailand and Burma  in the /Journal of the Pali Text

Society /will give you a lot of information.



Please also have a look at my articles on Pali Manuscripts of Sri Lanka

and SE Asian Pali manuscripts in Sri Lanka.



http://www.scribd.com/doc/34598208/Pali-Manuscripts-of-Sri-Lanka



(You'd need to sign up to Scribd to see this, which is free. Otherwise I

can send you a copy.)



Regards,

                  Bhikkhu Nyanatusita



On 23-4-2011 17:19, Bryan Levman wrote:

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> Dear Friends,

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> Vis a vis Ven. Yuttadhammo's discussion on textual forms, is anyone

> aware of any academic work done on the subject of Pali textual

> criticism - i. e. the origin and nature of the texts that have come

> down to us, the relation and differences between them, the process of

> oral and written textual transmission, reconciliation of variants, etc?

>

> In the field of the Jewish/Christian bible, an enormous amount of work

> has been done in this area, but they have manuscripts dating back to

> the 2nd and 3rd century BC, whereas most of our manuscripts are quite

> recent. I believe the oldest Pali manuscript is only about 450 years

> old, although we have recensions of the Dhammapada from the first

> and/or second century A. D. written in Gandhari.

>

> If anyone knows any scholarly work done on this subject I would

> appreciate a reference(s),

>

> Thanks,

>

> Bryan

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