THE BUDDHIST FORUM, VOLUME V A PHILOLOGICAL APPROACH TO BUDDHISM The Bukkyb Dendo Kybkai Lectures 1994 SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 1997 Published by the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), Tlion~liaugliStreet, Russell Square, London WClH OXG Contents 0K. R. Norman 1997 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for tlus book is available froill the British Library Foreword vii Abbreviations ix ISBN 0 7286 0276 8 Bibliography xi ISSN 0959-0596 I Buddhism and Philology 1 I1 Buddhism and its Origins 21 111 Buddhism and Oral Tradition 41 IV Buddhism and Regional Dialects 59 V Buddhism and Writing 77 VI Buddhism and Sanslcritisation 95 VII Buddhism and Aioka 113 VIII Buddhism and Canonicity 13 1 IX Buddhism and the Comrnentarial Tradition 149 X Philology and Buddhism 167 Word Index 185 Printed in the United Kingdom by Hobbs the Printers, Southampton Foreword The lectures contained in this book are slightly revised versions of those I gave as Bukky6 Dend6 Ky6kai Visiting Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies from January to March 1994. My thanks are due to the BukkyB Dend6 KyBkai for instituting the Professorship and for the authorities of the School of Oriental and Afiican Studies for appointing me to it. The lectures were intended for an audience which knew something about Buddhism but little or nothing about philology. The notes which I have added are intended for the general reader, rather than the specialist, to supply the sources for the information I give. Abbreviations Ardha-Magadhi A0 Acta Orientalia B.C.E. Before Common Era BIB Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit BHSD Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary BHSG Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar v BSO(A)S Bulletin of the School of Oriental (and African) Studies BSR Buddhist Studies Review BUP Brhad-&-anyakaUpanisad C.E. Common Era CP I-v K.R. Norman, Collected Papers, Volumes I-V (1990-94) CPD A Critical P91i Dictionary, Copenhagen CUP Cambridge University Press DEDR T. Burrow & M.B. Emeneau, Dravidian Etymological Dictionary (revised edition, 1984) DPPN G.P. Malalasekera, Dictionary of PZli Proper Names (1 937- 3 8) EV I, I1 K.R. Norman, Elders ' Verses I (1 969), I1 (1971) GD I, I1 K.R. Norman, The Group ofDiscourses I (1984), I1 (1992) GDhp G9ndhk-i Dharmapada IIJ Indo-Iranian Journal IT Indologica Taurinensia JA Journal Asiatique JBuRS Journal of the Burma Research Society JOI(B) Journal of the Oriental Institute (Baroda) JPTS Journal of the Pali Text Society JRAS Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society m.c. metri causa MIA Middle Indo-Aryan MRI Minor Readings and Illustrator MW M. Monier-Williams, Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1 899) OUP Oxford University Press PDhp Patna Dharmapada PE Pillar Edict PED The PTS's Pali-English Dictionary Bibliography Pkt Prakrit PTS Pali Text Society RE Rock Edict SBE Sacred Books of the East Adikaram, E.W., 1953, Early History ofBuddhism in Ceylon, Colombo. 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