Table of Contents

• Books (8)
• Canonical Works (8)
• Readings (14)
• Audio/Video (2)
• Reference Shelf (2)
• Related Topics (2)

Books (8)

Great Disciples of the Buddha: Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy (1997) – Ven. Nyanaponika Thera and Hellmuth Hecker

The Dhammapada and its Commentary (2006) – Bhikkhu Pesala and Ven Nārada Mahāthera

The Stories About the Foremost Elder Nuns (2015) – Bhikkhu Ānandajoti

The Root of Existence: The Mūlapariyāya Sutta and its Commentaries (1980) – Bhikkhu Bodhi

The Discourse on Right View: The Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta and its Commentary (1986) – Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli Thera

Three Discourses Concerning Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī (2014) – Bhikkhu Ānandajoti

The Discourse on the Snake Simile: Alagaddūpama Sutta with Introduction and Notes (1963) – Ven. Nyanaponika Thera

The Suttanipāta: An Ancient Collection of the Buddha’s Discourses Together with Its Commentaries (2017) – Bhikkhu Bodhi

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Canonical Works (8)

Jātaka Gāthā Vaṇṇanā: Word Commentaries on the Jātaka Verses (2022)

Abhidhammatthasaṅgaha: A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma (1993) – Ācariya Anuruddha

The Nidānakathā: Introduction to the Jātaka Stories (1880)

The Great Discourse on Causation: The Mahānidāna Sutta and its Commentaries (1984) – Bhikkhu Bodhi

The First Sanghādisesa Rule for Bhikkhus: The Vinaya Pitaka Text and its Commentarial Exegesis (1982) – Bhikkhu Bodhi

Ja 1 Apaṇṇaka Jātaka: The Story about what is Unquestionable (2021)

Ja 2 Vaṇṇupatha Jātaka: The Story about a Sandy Place (2022)

Ja 3 Seriva Vāṇija Jātaka: The Story about the Tradesman from Seriva (2022)

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Readings (14)

Featured:

• Reuse of Text in Pāli Legal Commentaries (2017) – Petra Kieffer-Pülz

  We will examine three types of reuse represented in Pāli legal literature: (1) unacknowledged borrowings of authoritative opinions and definitions adapted and rearranged; (2) unacknowledged borrowings of largely unchanged selected text portions being rearranged; and (3) unconnected extracts of unchanged text portions lined up in the sequence of the source text.

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• Two Notes on Visuddhimagga IX (1988) – Richard Gombrich

  Buddhaghosa is referring to the brahminical etymology

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See also:

Language Theory, Phonology and Etymology in Buddhism and Their Relationship to Brahmanism (2017) – Bryan Levman

The Meaning of the Word Tathāgata According to the Pāli Commentaries: Text and Introduction (1978) – Bhikkhu Bodhi

The Many Voices of Buddhaghosa: The Commentator and Our Times (2019) – Oscar Carrera

Historical Consciousness and Traditional Buddhist Narratives (2014) – Rita Gross

Building the Theravāda Commentaries: Buddhaghosa and Dhammapāla as Authors, Compilers, Redactors, Editors and Critics (2013) – Oskar von Hinüber

An Elephant Good To Think: The Buddha in Pārileyyaka Forest (2013) – Reiko Ohnuma

How Early Buddhism differs from Theravada: A Checklist (2022) – Bhante Sujato

Studies in Pāli Grammarians (1989) – Ole Holten Pind

Soreyya/ā’s Double Sex Change: On Gender Relevance and Buddhist Values (2019) – Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā

Beyond Class, Only Commentary: Rereading the Licchavis’ Origin Story in Buddhist Contexts (2018) – Charles S. Preston

A Survey of the Pali Lexicographical Literature and the Abhidhānappadīpikā (2001) – Thera Medagama Nandawansa

Nibbāna and Saññvedayitanirodha: An Endless Controversy (1993) – Mathieu Boisvert

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Audio/Video (2)

MN 140 Sutta Class (2012) – Bhante Sujato

Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns (Interview) (2020) – Alice Collett

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Reference Shelf (2)

Digital Pāli Reader (2011) – Bhante Yuttadhammo

Buddhist Dictionary: A Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines (1952) – Nyanatiloka Thera

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Related Topics (2)

Supertopic

• History of the Theravāda »

Subtopics (1)

• Visuddhimagga