Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the publication of the Journal of the Pali Text Society, Volume 35 (2024), edited by Rupert Gethin and Petra Kieffer-Püz.
CONTENTS
1. Eivind Kahrs: K.R. Norman, 1925-2020, 3–6.
2. Aruna Gamage: Convention of Speech (rūḷhi) in Theriya Buddhism: The Law of Generalization, 7–56.
3. Petra Kieffer-Pülz and D. Christian Lammerts: Two Legal Judgments on Monastic Boundaries from Nineteenth-Century Burma: Khaṅ ma kan charā tau Maṇijota’s Sīmāvinicchaya with an appendix on Aoṅ mre rhve bhuṃ charā tau Ketudhamma’s Sīmāvinicchaya, 57–116.
4. Peera Panarut and Silpsupa Jaengsawang: Princess Bualai’s Embroidered Kammavācā Manuscripts from Thailand, 117–64.
5. Javier Schnake: Two Systems of Numerical Notation in Pali Buddhism, 164–193.
The Journal is open access. Individual articles are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY) and can be downloaded via the following link:
Hard copies of the Journal can be purchased (£25) via the following link:
Articles from previous issues can also be downloaded from the PTS website.
With the publication of volume 35 in a new format, the Council of the PTS Council wishes to relaunch the Journal with a view to publishing one volume annually. The next volume (36) will be published before the end of June 2025.
The editors invite submissions of scholarly articles relevant to any aspect of Pali studies. Particularly welcome are submissions related to the following areas:
– the study of individual texts or parts of texts,
– editions and/or translations of short texts or parts of texts,
– the study of genres of Pali literature,
– studies of particular Pali terms or expressions,
– the grammar of Pali,
– the history of Pali literature.
– the relationship of Pali texts to texts in other languages,
– the history of Pali textual transmission,
– the history of Pali manuscripts,
– the history of the Pali language,
– the history of Pali studies.
All submissions are peer reviewed by two scholars familiar with the field.
Submissions should be sent to the editors by email at <info@palitextsociety.org>.
Best wishes,
Rupert Gethin
Professor Emeritus of Buddhist Studies
University of Bristol