A Handbook of Pali Literature (Indian Philology and South Asian Studies, 2)
Publisher: Verlag Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
Published: January 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9783110167382
Subjects: Indic & South Asian Languages - General; Buddhism; East Asian Languages; Literary Criticism; Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books; Foreign Language Study; Southeast Asian Languages (See Also Vietnamese); Foreign Language Study / Southeast Asian Languages; Buddhism - Zen; Asian - Indic; Indic Languages - General
First sentence: 1. Any survey of Pali literature is still hampered by quite a few difficulties: Many texts need reediting, some are available only in oriental though partly excellent editions published in Ceylon, Burma or Thailand or exist only in manuscript form.