The Dipavamsa: An Ancient Buddhism Historical Record
Oldenberg, Hermann
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Book ID : 7158
ISBN-10 : 81-7854-328-1 / 8178543281
ISBN-13 : 978-81-7854-328-4 / 9788178543284
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2017
Edition : (Reprint)
Language : English
241p., Index, 23 cm. (First pub. in 1879, Berlin)
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
The Dipavamsa, an edition of which I here lay before the public, is a historical work composed in Ceylon by an unknown author. George Turnour, who first drew the attention of European scholars to the Dipavamsa declared it to be identical with a version of the Mahavamsa to which the Mahavamsa Tika occasionally alludes, the version preserved in the Uttaravihara monastery. This is certainly wrong. We must undertake, therefore, a research of our own as to the origin of the Dipavamsa and its position in the ancient literature of the Ceylonese.
