A See also:

• A BUDDHAGHOSA

BUDDHAGHOSA  celebrated Buddhist writer . He was a Brahmin by See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth and was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born near the See also:

• GREAT

great Bodhi See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree at Budh Gaya in See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India about A.D . 390, his See also:

• FATHER

father's name being Kesi . His teacher, Revata, induced him to go to See also:

• CEYLON

Ceylon, where the commentaries on the scriptures had been preserved in the Sinhalese See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, with the See also:

• OBJECT

object of translating them into See also:

• PALI

Pali . He went accordingly to See also:

• ANURADHAPURA

Anuradhapura, studied there under Sanghapala, and asked leave of the fraternity there to translate the commentaries . With their consent he then did so, having first shown his ability by See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing the See also:

• WORK

work Visuddhi Magga (the Path of Purity, a See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of See also:

• SUMMARY

summary of Buddhist See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine) . When he had completed his many years' labours he returned tothe neighbourhood of the Bodhi tree in north India . Before he came to Ceylon he had already written a See also:

• BOOK

book entitled Nanodaya (the Rise of Knowledge), and had commenced a commentary on the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal psychological See also:

• MANUAL

manual contained in the Pitakas . This latter work he afterwards rewrote in Ceylon, as the See also:

• PRESENT

present See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text (now published by the Pali Text Society) shows . One See also:

• VOLUME

volume of the Sumangala Vilasini (a portion of the commentaries mentioned above) has been edited, and extracts from his comment on the Buddhist See also:

• CANON

canon See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law . This last work has been discovered in a nearly comtemporaneous See also:

• CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation (an edition in Pali is based on a comparison with that translation) . The See also:

• WORKS

works here mentioned See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, however, only a small portion of what See also:

• BUDDHAGHOSA, A

Buddhaghosa wrote .

His See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry must have been prodigious . He is known to have written books that would fill about 20 See also:

• OCTAVO

octavo volumes of about 400 pages each; and there are other writings ascribed to him which may or may not be really his work . It is too See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early therefore to See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt a See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism of it . But it is already clear that, when made acceptable, it will be of the greatest value for the See also:

• HISTORY

history of See also:

• INDIAN

Indian literature and of Indian ideas . So much is uncertain at present in that history for want of definite See also:

• DATES

dates that the voluminous writings of an author whose date is approximately certain will afford a See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard by which the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of other writings can be tested . And as the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original commentaries in Sinhalese are now lost his works are the only See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence we have of the traditions then handed down in the Buddhist community . The See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main source of our See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information about Buddhaghosa is the Mahavamsa, written in Anuradhapura about fifty years after he was working there . But there are numerous references to him in Pali books on Pali literature; and a Burmese author of unknown date, but possibly of the 15th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, has compiled a See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography of him, the Buddhagkos' Uppatti, of little value and no See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical See also:

• JUDGMENT

judgment . See Mahavamsa, ch. See also:

• XXXVII

xxxvii . (ed . Turnour, See also:

• COLOMBO

Colombo, 1837) ; " Gandhavamsa," p . 59, in See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal of the Pali Text Society (1886) ; Buddhghosuppatti (text and translation, ed. by E .

See also:

• GRAY
• GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
• GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
• GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
• GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
• GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
• GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
• GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
• GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
• GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
• GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
• GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
• GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)

Gray, See also:

• LONDON

London, r893) ; Sumangala Vilasini, edited by T . W . Rhys Davids and J . E . See also:

• CARPENTER, LANT (1780-1840)
• CARPENTER, MIRY (1807-1877)
• CARPENTER, WILLIAM BENJAMIN (1813-1885)

Carpenter, vol. i . (London, Pali Text Society, 1886) . (T . W . R .