The Sārasaṅgaha is a Pāli text of XIIth-XIIIth century by the Sinhalese monk Siddhattha Thera. Its themes include the aspiration to become a Buddha, shrines, meditation, theories on rain, wind, gender and more. The main body consists of citations from the Nikāyas, the Jātakas, the Visuddhimagga and above all, from commentarial literature. By analysing the way the Sārasaṅgaha refers to and establishes a dialogue with the quoted works, this paper promotes a new assessment of the cultural and textual tendencies that influenced the development of Buddhist literature especially in the Middle Ages. In particular, the analysis of this text and the quotations of which it is composed reveals the importance of commentarial literature, a literary genre that only recently has attracted the attention of Pāli scholars.
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1 Introduction 336 2 The Sārasaṅgaha by Siddhattha Thera 337 3 The Question of the Quotations 339 4 Quoted Texts, Hidden Texts 342 5 A Parallel to the Upāsakajanālaṅkāra 345 6 The Relationship Between the Author and His Work 346 7 Conclusion 348
