The Pali Literature of Ceylon (The Pāli Literature of Ceylon)
Pāli literature written in Sri Lanka: arrival of Buddhism, commentaries (Buddhaghosa, Dhammapāla), chronicles, Polonnaruva-period scholastics, later literature to the 19th century.
- Language
- English
- Author
- G. P. Malalasekera
- Extent
- 1,315 passages, 105,989 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · London: Royal Asiatic Society (Prize Publication Fund 10), 1928; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash… · In copyright (G. P. Malalasekera †1973); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 8 parts
- c2 Prefatory Note — 3 parts
- c3 Contents — 2 parts
- c4 Introduction — 40 parts
- c5 Chapter I. The Conversion of Ceylon — 66 parts
- c6 Chapter II. The Writing Down of the Books — 76 parts
- c7 Chapter III. The Development of Buddhist Culture — 51 parts
- c8 Chapter IV. The Beginnings of Literary Activity — 53 parts
- c9 Chapter V. Buddhaghosa — 89 parts
- c10 Chapter VI. Buddhaghosa's Successors — 114 parts
- c11 Chapter VII. The Pāli Chronicles — 63 parts
- c12 Chapter VIII. The Dawn of the Golden Era — 137 parts
- c13 Chapter IX. The Augustan Age — 84 parts
- c14 Chapter X. Sāriputta's Circle — 121 parts
- c15 Chapter XI. The Age of Paṇḍita Parākrama — 78 parts
- c16 Chapter XII. The Twilight Glow — 77 parts
- c17 Chapter XIII. The Dark Age — 74 parts
- c18 Chapter XIV. The Modern Period — 90 parts
- c19 Bibliography — 42 parts
- c20 Index — 29 parts