[Buddha-l] Vinaya Texts trans/ed. by Oldenberg

[Weng-Fai Wong]

By the way, in Chinese Buddhism (not sure if this is the case in Tibetan
Buddhism), lay people are NOT to read the Vinaya. I was told that the same
is true in Theravada Buddhism - till the "red hair devils" came along.

W.F. Wong

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> Not very much of the vinaya is on Access to Insight. A few
> summaries and excerpts are there, but the none of the historical
> parts that provide the context for the rules and the evolution of
> the early monastic sangha. The complete vinaya has been
> translated several times. The best translation is the one
> currently available through the Pali Text Society in six volumes
> by I.B. Horner from 1938 to 1966.
> 
> Richard
> ===============
> Too bad--I can't afford to buy the 6 vols., and no library around
> here has them.
> But have you ever seen the Oldenberg translations? It would be
> worthwhile to see the topics of the books he covered, or whatever
> they come as.
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