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	AllRefer.com - Pali canon (Buddhism) - Encyclopedia
		Pali, the language in which the canon is written, is a Prakrit (vernacular dialect) of classical Sanskrit (see Prakrit literature).
		After the decline of Buddhism in India, Pali literature was preserved in Sri Lanka, where a vast body of commentary and elaboration of the canon developed.
		Pali is still written in Sri Lanka and to a lesser extent in SE Asia.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Palicano.html (525 words)

	PALI - LoveToKnow Article on PALI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		But when Pali first became known to Europeans it was already used also, by those who wrote in Pali, of the language of the later writings, which bear the same relation to the standard literary Pali of the canonical texts as medieval does to classical Latin.
		The present writer has suggested that the word Pali should be reserved for the language of the canon, and other words used for the earlier and later forms of it; but the usage generally followed is so convenient that there is little likelihood of the suggestion being followed.
		The Pali books written in Ceylon, Burma and Siam will be our best and oldest, and in many respects our only, authorities for the sociology and politics, the literature and the religion, of their respective countries.
	30.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PA/PALI.htm (4041 words)

	Pali Text Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Pali Text Society was founded in 1881 by T.W. Rhys Davids "to foster and promote the study ofPali texts".
		The Pali texts areunique in Buddhism because they are the oldest collection of Buddhist scriptures preserved in the language in which they werewritten down.
		It was an administrative requirement that all civil servants should be familiarwith the language, literature, and culture of the land in which they were posted, so the three men studied with several scholarmonks where, along with an introduction to Sinhala culture and language, they became interested in Buddhism.
	www.therfcc.org /pali-text-society-125872.html (391 words)

	Pali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Pali: A Grammar of the Language of the Theravada Tipitaka, with a Concordance to Pischel’s Grammatik Der Prakrit-Sprachen by Thomas Oberlies (Indian Philology and South Asian Studies, 3: Walter De Gruyter) It is merely a coincidence that after Oskar von Hinuber's A Handbook of Pali Literature we now have Thomas Oberlies' Pali.
		Pali is the language of the texts of the Theravadins, an ancient school of Hinayana Buddhism.
		This is the result of the great influence Sanskrit exercised on Pali, notably in the 12th century when the texts were revised on the basis of (the Burmese) Pali grammars which were heavily influenced by the works of Panini and other Sanskrit grammarians.
	www.wordtrade.com /religion/pali.htm (1433 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Since, for the first time, the Pali and Sinhala are to be used in Roman character effective and genuine endeavour was made to write Pali and Sinhala in Roman script.
		Though, the Pali Text Society is set up in London, the Society never attempted to Anglicise the Buddhist teaching to suit the whims and fancies of some people as it is done particularly in Sri Lanka deliberately and otherwise.
		Back to Rhys Davids and the Pali Text Society, the credit must be showered to the husband-wife duo whose pioneering efforts to learn Sinhala and Pali and Buddhist realizing the efficacy of the Buddha word they made an earnest endeavour to propagate the sublime teaching throughout the globe.
	www.dailynews.lk /2003/10/18/fea05.html (1675 words)

	PALI LANGUAGE
		The word "Pali" means "text" and its vocabulary has a special significance for the study of Buddhism, because its words have been well defined for the needs of the Buddha's teachings.
		Similarly with the Pali word "Kamma", this is the moral law as defined by the Buddha.
		Pali language is called "the language of mankind's philosophy".
	www.rootsweb.com /~lkawgw/pali.html (473 words)

	Literature - Pali
		The word 'Pali' primarily signifies 'Text' or 'sacred texts' or the text of the Buddhist canon' as opposed to the connentaries, but gradually it bacame the name of the language in which the canon (Tripitika) of the Theravada Buddhism and the ancillary texts were written.
		It is, however, certain that the Pali Tipitika grew out of this oral tradition to be modified during the next two centuries in which form it was finally written down in the literary Pali language in the Fourth Council.
		Pali literature falls into two main divisions, namely the cannocial literature consisting of three pitakas as mentioned above and the non-canonical or extra canonical texts consisting mainly of the commentaries, sub-commentaries and chronicles besides some classical works including the Milinda-panha.
	www.ibiblio.org /radha/rpub003.htm (1416 words)

	Buddhism in Myanmar /bischof2.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In later centuries, Pali grammar and the study of the Vinaya were foremost on the agenda.
		In the treaty, he was forced to accept the new borders established by the Indian government and pay compensation to the invaders for the annexation of the coast of Lower Myanmar.
		However, the fact that the original Myanmar chronicle was revised and translated into Pali for the Fifth Buddhist Council indicates that it was by this time considered a useful tool to put the king's authority behind a well-defined orthodox lineage, thus making it easy to refute heresy by referring to the historical teachers.
	www.triplegem.plus.com /bischof2.htm (11167 words)

	Tipitaka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Handbook of Pali Literature, by Somapala Jayawardhana (Colombo: Karunaratne and Sons, Ltd., 1994).
		An Analysis of the Pali Canon, Russell Webb, ed.
		An indispensable "roadmap" and outline of the Pali Canon.
	www.accesstoinsight.org /canon/index.html (406 words)

	Theravada -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		This literature includes commentaries and independent works written in Pali in Sri Lanka and the Theravada countries of Southeast Asia (for example, the highly respected commentary on the Man written in northern...
		Written in the Pali language and called collectively the Pali canon, the texts of early Buddhism originated in the first few centuries after the death of Buddha in 483 BC.
		Pali is a western Indian dialect that was adopted by the Theravada school of Buddhism, and it is often identified with Buddha's own speech.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9072059 (746 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Sri Lanka proudly claims as the home of Pali Theravada tradition protected, maintained and developed from the very first visit of the Buddha in His ninth month after attaining Supreme Enlightenment 2592 years ago to be exact.
		The fundamental character of the Pali language is the absence of 'hal kirima'.
		Jayatilaka, Chairperson of the Committee which produced the "booklet" in her "punyanumodana" states that after Sinhala commentaries were translated into Pali, a large number of people could not carry on their work due to the paucity of Pali language....
	www.buddhistnews.tv /current/pali-090204.php (1273 words)

	Pali Text Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Pali Text Society was founded in 1881 by T.W. Rhys Davids "to foster and promote the study of Pali texts".
		It also publishes ancillary works including dictionaries, concordance, books for students of Pali and a journal.
		In 1871 he was posted as Assistant Government Agent of Nuwarakalaviya of which Anuradhapura was the administrative centre, where the Governor was Sir Hercules Robinson.
	www.bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/p/pa/pali_text_society.html (686 words)

	Pali - netlexikon
		Pali hat keine eigene Schrift, sondern wird je nach Land mit verschiedenen örtlichen Schriften geschrieben; im Westen und in der akademischen Welt überhaupt ist heute die lateinische Schrift üblich geworden.
		Auch heute noch verfassen gebildete Mönche religiöse Texte in Pali, um sie der internationalen Mönchsgemeinde (vor allem in Burma, Thailand und Sri Lanka) zugänglich zu machen.
		Zusätzlich sind in das Pali auf Sri Lanka später eine Reihe singhalesischer Wörter eingedrungen, ebenso in den anderen Ländern des Theravâda-Buddhismus Wörter der dortigen Landessprachen; ein Effekt, den Pali mit den meisten Sakralsprachen der Welt teilt.
	www.lexikon-definition.de /Pali.html (503 words)

	Pali literature History and criticism. - Indo-Iranian Languages and Literatures - What's Been Published (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A history of Indian literature / Maurice Winternitz ; a new authoritative English translation by V. Srinivasa Sarma.
		A handbook of Pali literature / Oskar von Hinüber.
		Pali literature : including the canonical literature in Prakrit and Sanskrit of all the Hinay ana schools of Buddhism / K.R. Norman.
	www.pitbossannie.com /rps-pk-pali-literature-history-and-criticism.html (137 words)

	Beyond the Tipitaka
		A quick glance through the pages of the Pali Text Society's publications catalogue should be enough to convince anyone that there is much more to classical Pali literature than the Tipitaka alone.
		First of all, although many of these texts were indeed first written in Pali a thousand years after the Buddha, most Sinhala versions upon which they were based were written much earlier, having themselves been passed down via an ancient and reliable oral tradition.
		Most of these titles have been published in romanized Pali by the Pali Text Society (PTS); the few for which English translations are available are noted with a dagger (†), followed by the translator, date of translation, and publisher.
	www.pratyeka.org /a2i/canon/postcanon.html (3331 words)

	Buddhism in Myanmar
		Acariya Buddhaghosa was the greatest commentator on the Pali Buddhist texts, whose Visuddhimagga and commentaries to the canon are regarded as authoritative by Theravada scholars.
		Pali was obviously well known as a language of learning, but unfortunately no original texts composed in Sri Ksetra or Thaton have come down to us.
		K.R. Norman says: "The greatest of extant Pali grammars is the Saddaniti, written by Aggavamsa from Arimaddana [Pagan] in Burma..."[33] Aggavamsa was also known as the teacher of King Narapatisithu (1167-1202) and was given the title Aggapandita.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /buddhism_in_myanmar.htm (21741 words)

	Buddhist Bioethics
		The themes of impermanence, decay and death are omnipresent in Buddhist literature.
		In many Asian cultures Buddhism is identified as the authority par excellence on matters pertaining to death, and is closely linked to the rites and ceremonies associated with the transition from this life to the next.
		Buddhist literature emphasises the importance of meeting death mindfully since the last moment of one life can be particularly influential in determining the quality of the next rebirth.
	www.changesurfer.com /Bud/BudBioEth.html (4426 words)

	Buddhism, an introduction, John C. Powers, Publications, Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This canon was written in a language called Pali, which is believed to have been derived from a dialect used in the region of Magadha.
		The Sinhala texts were translated into Pali in the fifth century C.E. The Vinaya section of the Pali canon consists of rules of conduct, most of which are aimed at monks and nuns.
		Many of these are derived from specific cases in which the Buddha was asked for a ruling on the conduct of particular members of the order, and the general rules he promulgated still serve as the basis for monastic conduct.
	online.anu.edu.au /asianstudies/buddhism/texts.html (818 words)

	Translations of the Pali
		Translations of the Pali We are very fortunate that the words of the Buddha were preserved for so many centuries.
		The Milindapañha is one of the great classics of Pali literature, a spirited dialogue between the Greek king Milinda and the Buddhist sage Nagasena.
		The translator, John D. Ireland, an English Buddhist, is a longtime student of Pali and Buddhist canonical literature.
	www.dhammabooks.com /Translations_of_the_Pali.html (375 words)

	The Pali Tipitaka Project
		The sources of Vipassana meditation are the teachings of Gotama the Buddha, contained principally in the vast Pali literature.
		Sources from the Pali literature offer a graphic account of the societal conditions during the Buddha's time.
		The Pali literature also includes the Atthakathas (commentaries), Tikas (subcommentaries), and further subcommentaries such as the Anu-Tikas, Madhu-Tikas, etc. The commentarial literature is very extensive, exceeding the Tipitaka in length.
	www.vri.dhamma.org /publications/tpmain.html (964 words)

	Pali canon on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The word Pali literally means a “line” or “norm,” hence the extended meaning of “scriptural text.” The teachings of the Buddha were first transmitted orally, and were not committed to writing until the 1st cent.
		Bibliography: See M. Winternitz, A History of Indian Literature (3 vol., 1927-63); S. Banerji, An Introduction to Pali Literature (1964); W. Geiger, Pali Literature and Language (tr., rev. ed.
		The bodhisattva ideal in Theravada Buddhist theory and practice: a reevaluation of the bodhisattva-sravaka opposition.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/Palicano.asp (670 words)

	A Graduated Pali Course (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		What is now known as " Pali " was the language spoken in the sixth century B.C. in Magadha, a country in Northern India.
		The existing Pali literature is so extensive and of such vital importance that it is of immense value to the philologist, the historian, and the student of folklore, science, philosophy, psychology and comparative religion.
		As to the age of the Buddhist canonical books, the best evidence is the contents of the books themselves-the sort of words they use, the style in which they are composed and the ideas they express.
	www.maithri.com /addme.asp?bid=108 (244 words)

	Pali Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		They were widely known in the 3rd century B.C.The Pali work Jataka consists of 550 Jatakas or stories of Buddha's previous births, arranged in 22 nipatas or books.
		Each story begins with a preface which explains the circumstances in the Buddha's life which led him to relate this particular Jataka or birth-story, and so reveal the story of one of his numerous previous births as a bodhisattva (one meant to become the Buddha).
		Both literature and history, the Jataka is a treasure house of Indian heritage.
	www.indiaheritage.com /creative/litra/pali_lit.htm (235 words)

	Making of the CSCD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Unfortunately, the Pali texts and the practice of Vipassana were lost in India.
		Realizing the importance of the Pali canon as an invaluable part of the ancient heritage of India, the Government of India after the Chattha Sangayana took the decision to publish the entire Pali literature in Devanagiri script.
		The sublime record of the Buddha's teaching in Devanagiri is therefore now not readily available to those speaking the languages of the country in which it originated.
	www.vri.dhamma.org /publications/tpmakingcd.html (447 words)

	Pali Text Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pali Text Society was founded on the model of the Early English Text Society with Rhys Davids counting on support from a lot of European scholars and Sri Lankan scholar monks.
		Currently another dictionary is being compiled by Margaret Cone, with the first of three volumes (A - Kh) published in 2001.
		This page was last modified 06:46, 18 May 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pali_Text_Society (442 words)

	Oltre il Tipitaka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Durante questo tempo e nei secoli che sono seguito, altri produttori hanno preparato le traduzioni di Pali dei testi in anticipo supplementari di Sinhala.
		In primo luogo, anche se molti di questi testi erano effettivamente primi scritti in Pali mille anni dopo il Buddha, la maggior parte delle versioni di Sinhala su cui sono state basate sono state scritte molto più presto, essi stessi che sono passati giù via una tradizione orale antica e certa.
		The Visuddhimagga's emphasis on meditation practices that are scarcely mentioned in the suttas (the kasina meditations) fueled a controversy concerning the relationship between jhana and vipassana that persists to this day.
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	Indian literature
		Oral literature in the vernacular languages of India is of great antiquity, but it was not until about the 16th cent.
		Among the Muslims classical Persian poetry was the fountainhead of a later growth in the Urdu literature produced for the Mughal court, and elaborate Urdu verse on set themes was produced in abundance.
		Today there is a written literature in all the important languages of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as a large literature in English intended to reach all the university-educated public regardless of native language.
	www.infoplease.com /id/A0825109 (388 words)

	The New Pali Course III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		After the publication of The New Pali Course the need for a higher Pali Course was keenly felt by students.
		This Higher Pali Course is to be considered as Part III of The New Pali Course, but I have changed the name as this portion is meant only for the advanced students and not for the beginners.
		As there is no mention of analysis in any of the old Pali Grammars I have had to follow the way of the English Grammars and to invent a new method of treating Pali sentences.
	www.maithri.com /addme.asp?bid=110 (543 words)

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