[Buddha-l] Age of the Sutta Nipata

[Piya Tan]

Franz,

Much of it is very ancient. KR Norman's "Pali Literature" (1983) has
something on this, passim.

Piya

On 5/13/07, Franz Metcalf <franzmetcalf at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Richard et al.,
>
> I vaguely recall reading that the Sutta Nipata was likely to be from
> the earliest stratum of the Pali canon. Or am I making that up? Do you
> recall something similar, and, if so, why it is thought to be so?
> (Sorry to be asking you to think like a historian. Perhaps someone else
> knows...)
>
> Franz
>
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