The Pali Literature of Burma (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Pali Literature of Burma (Classic Reprint) written by Mabel Haynes Bode and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pali Literature of Burma The Pali literature of Burma owes its existence to the Pali literature of India. It is many years since the latter was first explored by the great scholars and pioneers - Fausboll, Lassen, Rhys Davids, Trenckner, Childers, Oldenberg - whose reward has been a gain to Oriental learning vast enough to content even them. With time a part of the material discovered has been brought within the reach of students by critical editing. Buddhistic literature is immense in quantity and bewildering in varied interest, and it was never more difficult than new to avoid being too much of the specialist. But the student of Buddhism who limits himself to one language or looks for solution of all questions in one literature risks slipping into an orthodoxy of his own. A sounder principle has long guided Buddhist studies; modern research has gone forth, like As'oka's missionaries, to Further India, China, Japan, Tibet, Siam, and French indo-china, armed with patience as they were with conviction, as resolutely determined to learn as they were to teach. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.