[Buddha-l] Are the Pali Sutta's really ancient?

Bruce Burrill brburl at charter.net
Thu Feb 25 19:27:10 MST 2010


At 05:57 PM 2/25/2010, you wrote:
>I was just reading some of Gregory Schopen which has got me thinking.
>
>How do we know that the Pali Sutta that we have today is the same as the
>Sutta back in Buddhaghosa's time, or at the time they were committed to
>writing back in the 1st century?


So, none of the answers here

http://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=3297

addressed your question. Can you point to a sutta reference in 
Buddhaghosa that cannot be found in the suttas as we have them today?  



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