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| Mar 26, 2019 at 7:35 | comment | added | Gottfried Helms | Having a good Q&A-site means to find answers which adress the questions. It is a really clear formulated question, no place for misunderstanding... (downvote) | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 22:59 | comment | added | jambudipa.quora.com | The Tipitaka was written in Ola leaf and that is the original source. Almost 95% of the sources would be from Sri Lanka since that was where Buddha lived and his Dhamma existed and the Dhamma councils were conducted. British officers George Turner and Hugh Nevill who worked for the British civil service has taken it from Sri Lanka. its all documented and catalogued. The rest presumably from other countries. | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 22:50 | comment | added | ChrisW♦ | Yes that's what "oral tradition" means. But i'm not asking about the first few hundred years, this question is about the late 19th century, 130 years ago -- from what source[s] did the editor[s] of the PTS edition collect the Pali text for the suttapiṭaka which they published? | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 22:43 | comment | added | jambudipa.quora.com | So "oral tradition" means the monks recite the Sutta daily in order to retain the Sutta in memory. The 3 baskets were looked after by groups of monks. Each group would ensure its not forgotten. | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 22:29 | comment | added | ChrisW♦ | That explains it was oral tradition until 76 BC, and written after that: but not exactly what the source material was for the PTS editions. They were published starting in about 1890 -- was that from memory (I'm guessing not), from manuscripts (perhaps, but from where or from whom), or from an earlier printed edition? | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 21:59 | history | answered | jambudipa.quora.com | CC BY-SA 4.0 |