History of the Theravāda
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This sequence of images of cities may lie behind the location of Nibbāna at the pinnacle of a cosmological hierarchy as has been frequently noted in ethnographic studies of contemporary Theravādin Buddhism.
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A translation of a medieval, Sri Lankan letter summarizing the Dhamma in Pāli verse for a friend.
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prostitutes do not, or at least do not necessarily do, wrong, and do not break the Third Precept. Men who visit them likewise do not
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in sketching out what the councils were, I hope to indicate how they might be fruitfully studied
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This article offers further support for Lance Cousins’ thesis that the Pāli canon, written down in the first century BCE in Sri Lanka, was based largely on a Theriya manuscript tradition from South India.
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An overview of the Pāli literature of Sri Lanka in the first millennium of the common era.
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The Abhayagiri monks were broad-minded in outlook; they maintained contacts with foreign Buddhist schools, and themselves established bases in India and in South-east Asia.
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