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The Early Development of Buddhist Literature and Language in India
Author Cousins, Lance (著)
Source Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies
Volumev.5
Date2013.11
Pages89 - 135
PublisherOxford Centre for Buddhist Studies
Publisher Url https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/how-get-here
LocationOxford, UK [牛津, 英國]
Content type期刊論文=Journal Article
Language英文=English
AbstractAfter some preliminary considerations concerning orality and writing in India and the date of the Buddha, this article re-examines the questions of where and when a version of the Pali Canon was first set to writing and what were the contents of that collection. It then goes on to examine the origin and evolution of the Māgadha language we now call Pali, seeing it as derived from a written language which was in wide use over the major part of India during the last centuries B.C. rather than directly from spoken dialects.
Table of contentsWriting in India 93
Oral literature in India 99
Some preliminary considerations 100
What was written down? 101
Proposed ealier divisions of the canonical material 104
Where and when were the texts written down? 108
By whom were the texts written down? 112
Contents of the earliest Canon in Ceylon 113
Summary of the discussion of the writing down of the texts 118
In what language were they written? 118
ISSN20471076 (P)
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Created date2022.04.06
Modified date2022.04.13



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