Dear Steven,
According to the Sumańgalavilāsinī (Sv I 15), the Therīgāthā was one of the
texts rehearsed at the First Great Council held shortly after the passing
away of the Buddha and attended by 500 arahants, perhaps some of them were
even arahantīs. I have no problem believing that such an eminent group along
with their exceptional memories would have been quite capable of putting
together a compilation of such verses as first uttered by arahantīs which
would then be transmitted orally down through the centuries and put into
writing in the 1st cent. BCE.
Jim Anderson
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It is, I fear, a category mistake to think that because the narrative voice
of a text is female that it was writiten by a female. The Therīgāthā verses
may well have been written by men - we shall never know. For a modern
example, see the history of 'George Eliot'.
Steven Collins
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Dear all,
This is an update on a musical project involving some Therīgāthā verses that
I have mentioned before on this list. Anne Harley, the artistic director,
c