[Buddha-l] Re: New trans. of petry of the Sixth DL

[jkirk]

Thanks-----oddly when I tried searching amazon under his name I got more 
than a thousand hits of all kinds of authors by that name, but his books 
became accessible after I got a title, like Selfless Persons. I'm going to 
read this one. Thanks.
Joanna
========================================================
> To start at the beginning, he was born in 1951. After a childhood and
> adolescence, he trained in Pali studies at Oxford. He has been teaching
> at University of Chicago for some time. He wrote a fine book on no-self
> theory called <cite>Selfless Persons</cite> and another called <Nirvana
> and other Buddhist felicities.</cite> He has also written a number of
> interesting articles, including one called "The very idea of the Pali
> canon," which challenges some of the myths about the earliness of the
> Pali canon. It has been a long time since I read it, but as I recall his
> argument, it is that the Pali canon was formed largely in reaction to
> Mahayana Buddhism as an act of sectarian self-definition. Somebody who
> has read it more recently can probably offer a more accurate summary; my
> summaries of almost everything I have ever read are notoriously
> unreliable.
>
> -- 
> Richard Hayes
> http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes
>
> _______________________________________________
> buddha-l mailing list
> buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com
> http://mailman.swcp.com/mailman/listinfo/buddha-l
>
>
> -- 
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
> Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.1/28 - Release Date: 6/24/2005
>
>