[INDOLOGY] Buddhavacanam

[Stella Sandahl]

I cannot provide the article right now, but the point Prof. Smith was making  was that
the Buddha wasn't talking about languages at all. He was mainly saying the his disciples and followers should
render his words as they were spoken by him and refrain from all interpretations, additions, 'explanations'  etc.
It is quite a sensible point in my view. And it makes all discussion about what language the Buddha himself actually
spoke rather irrelevant, however interesting per se.
Best
Stella Sandahl
P.S. I'll get the article in question when I can go in to the library.

On Mar 20, 2017, at 3:23 AM, Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> Might anyone be able to share a pdf of the article mentioned by Prof. Sandahl?
> 
> with thanks as ever,
> Matthew
> 
> Matthew Kapstein
> Directeur d'études,
> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
> 
> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
> The University of Chicago
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Stella Sandahl [stella.sandahl at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 5:29 AM
> To: alakendu das
> Cc: Matthew Kapstein; indology at list.indology.info
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY]  quote search
> 
> The most original interpretation of this famous passage is by the late Ronald Morton Smith.
> "What Was One's Own Language? Vinaya 2.139". The article can be found in
> Contacts between Cultures: South Asia 2 (Selected Papers  from the 33rd International Congress
> of Asian and North African  Studies (Toronto, Aigust 15-25, 1990). Ed. by  K.L. Koppedrayer,
> Lewiston 1992, pp, 240-241
> 
> Best regards to all
> Stella Sandahl
> University of Toronto
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 17, 2017, at 5:42 AM, alakendu das via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info<mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
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> To: mkapstei at uchicago.edu<mailto:mkapstei at uchicago.edu>
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] quote search
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> From: "alakendu das"<mailmealakendudas at rediffmail.com<mailto:mailmealakendudas at rediffmail.com>>
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] quote search
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> 
> In fact, Buddha always insisted on delivering his teachings in Ardha-Magadhi Prakrit ,which was
> the local vernacular in around Magadha.
> 
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> ALAKENDU DAS.
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> Dr. Stella Sandahl
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> andhaµ tama˙ pravißanti ye ‘vidyåm upåsate tato bhËya iva te tamo ya u vidyåyåµ ratå˙ ||
> B®hadåraˆyaka Upanisad IV.4.10
> “Those who worship ignorance enter into blind darkness.  Those who are devoted to knowledge enter, as it were, into a greater darkness.”
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Dr. Stella Sandahl
9 Craftsman Lane
Toronto ON  M6H 4J5
stella.sandahl at gmail.com
Tel. (416) 530-7755

andhaµ tama˙ pravißanti ye ‘vidyåm upåsate tato bhËya iva te tamo ya u vidyåyåµ ratå˙ ||
B®hadåraˆyaka Upanisad IV.4.10

“Those who worship ignorance enter into blind darkness.  Those who are devoted to knowledge enter, as it were, into a greater darkness.”

 



 



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