Dear Jim,
>
> Thank you for the announcement. I take it that you are the author of this
> new publication. One question I sometimes wonder about is whether or not the
> author of the Vajirabuddhiṭīkā and the Mukhamattadīpanī (aka Nyāsa) are one
> and the same or two different ones. The author of Mmd comes under the name
> of either Vajirabuddhi or Vimalabuddhi and lived well before Aggavaṃsa of
> the 12th cent. A.D.
>
The idea that a Vajirabuddhi was the author of the Vajirabuddhitika probably dates only from the 12th to 13th centuries.
In fact we do not have a name for the author. A colleague of mine, Dragomir Dimitrov, who is working on the Sinhalese monk scholar
Ratnamati thinks him to be the author of the Vajirabuddhitika (his study will be published in the near future). I dealt with these questions in the book.
Your second question whether the authors of the Vajriabuddhitika and of the Mukhamattadipani are the same,
I think no. The author of the Mukhamattadipani quotes from the Vajirabuddhitika and has some passages in common with this text,
but as a whole the Mmd, to my opinion, is a little younger than the Vajirabuddhitika (which I think was composed probably in the
10th century AD). The Mmd is written in a more stereotype style than the Vajirabuddhitika, and uses a more developed
scholastic style.
Best wishes,
Petra
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "petra kieffer-pülz" <kiepue@...>
> To: <palistudy@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 10:17 AM
> Subject: [palistudy] New Publication
>
> > Dear friends and colleagues,
> >
> > I have the pleasure to announce the following publication:
> >
> > Petra Kieffer-Pülz
> >
> > Verlorene Gaṇṭhipadas zum buddhistischen Ordensrecht
> > Untersuchungen zu den in der Vajirabuddhiṭīkā zitierten Kommentaren
> > Dhammasiris und Vajirabuddhis
>
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