An irregular journal dedicated to the academic study of the Pāli language and its literature.

Articles Featured in our Library:

The Gāravasutta of the Saṃyutta-nikāya and its Mahāyānist Developments (1981) – Étienne Lamotte

Where’s that sutta? (1985) – Laurence Khantipālo Mills

Featured in the course, " The Aṅguttara Nikāya"

Old Bodies Like Carts (1987) – Richard Gombrich

The Oldest Dated Manuscript of the Milindapañha (1987) – Oskar von Hinüber

Three Souls, One or None: The Vagaries of a Pāli Pericope (1987) – Richard Gombrich

Translation of Pañcagatidīpanī (1987) – Ann Appleby Hazlewood

The Summary of Mind and Matter (1987) – Hammalawa Saddhatisa

The letter sent to the royal court at Kandy on behalf of the king of Siam, and published [here], includes some information of considerable interest for the study of the history of Pali texts. For a shipment, which comprised no less than 97 books no longer extant on the island and therefore asked for in a second document accompanying this letter, is said to have been dispatched together with the letter.

Saddhammopāyana: Gift-offering of the True Dhamma (1988) – Ann Appleby Hazlewood

Two Notes on Visuddhimagga IX (1988) – Richard Gombrich

Burmese Manuscripts in the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. (1989) – William Pruitt

Studies in Pāli Grammarians (1989) – Ole Holten Pind

Categories of Sutta in the Pāli Nikāyas (1990) – Joy Manné

Making Mountains Without Molehills: The Case of the Missing Stūpa (1990) – Richard Gombrich

On the Very Idea of the Pali Canon (1990) – Steven Collins

Tuṇḍilovāda: An Allegedly Non-Canonical Sutta (1990) – Charles Hallisey

The Case of the Murdered Monks (1992) – Laurence Khantipālo Mills

A Citation from the Buddhavaṃsa of the Abhayagiri School (1993) – Peter Skilling

Nibbānasutta: An Allegedly Non-Canonical Sutta on Nibbāna as a Great City (1993) – Charles Hallisey

External Sandhi in Pāli: with special reference to the SuttaNipāta (1993) – K. R. Norman

South Asian Flora as Reflected in the Abhidhānappadīpikā (1994) – Jinadasa Liyanaratne

The brahmins would indeed take umbrage at being closely associated with the officiant, because the very fact of his being there as an officiant means that he is doing a paid job and so lowers his status below theirs. [The brahmins, in contrast,] have no duties; they are gracing the occasion.

The Oldest Known Pali Texts, 5–6th century: Results of the Cambridge Symposium on the Pyu Golden Pali Text from Śrī Kṣetra, 18–19 April 1995 (1995) – Janice Stargardt

Studies in Vinaya Technical Terms (1996) – Édith Nolot

The Sambuddhe Verses and later Theravādin Buddhology (1996) – Peter Skilling

Lexicography, Pāli, and Pāli Lexicography (1996) – Margaret Cone

Praises of the Buddha Beyond Praise (1998) – Peter Skilling

A Note on Dhammapada 60 and the Length of the Yojana (1998) – Peter Skilling

… this similarity is neither accidental, nor caused by the Buddha’s inability to free himself from the mental paradigms of his culture. I would rather argue that he formulated Pratityasamutpada as a polemic against Vedic thought.

Featured in the course, " Imagery in the Early Buddhist Texts"
The Cause of the Buddha’s Death (2000) – Mettanando Bhikkhu and Oskar von Hinüber

Featured in the course, " The Buddha"

The Legend of the Establishment of the Buddhist Order of Nuns in the Theravada Vinaya-Pitaka (2000) – Ute Hüsken

Mythology as Meditation: From the Mahāsudassana Sutta to the Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra (2006) – Rupert Gethin

Featured in the course, " Imagery in the Early Buddhist Texts"

Sāriputta’s Three Works on the Samantapāsādikā (2006) – Kate Crosby

Jātakas and Paññsa-jātakas in South-East Asia (2006) – Peter Skilling

Saṅkhepasārasaṅgaha: Abbreviation in Pāli (2007) – Kate Crosby

caveat lector: the next 125 years of the Pāli Text Society (2007) – Margaret Cone

… so many warriors perished on the battlefield. The response of the arahants is truly astounding.

On the Correspondence of Helmer Smith and Gunnar Jarring (2007) – Siegfried Lienhard

Remarks on the Third Precept: Adultery and Prostitution in Pāli Texts (2007) – Steven Collins

The Susīma Sutta and the Wisdom-Liberated Arahant (2007) – Bhikkhu Bodhi

Zombies and Half-Zombies: Mahāsūtras and Other Protective Measures (2007) – Peter Skilling

What’s in a Repetition?: On Counting the Suttas of the Saṃyutta-Nikāya (2007) – Rupert Gethin

Given the fact that the praiseworthy qualities of the Buddha are the main theme of the Mahāsakuludāyi-sutta and its parallel, it is not surprising if the tendency to elevate the Buddha’s status would to some degree also have influenced the reciters responsible for transmitting the discourse. A comparison of the two versions in fact reveals several instances where this tendency is at work

Susīma’s Conversation with the Buddha (2009) – Bhikkhu Bodhi