Steven Collins
Contributor
LOCATION: Chicago, IL, United States
Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. Author of Selfless Persons: Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism, Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities, and others.
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Pali literature, body of Buddhist texts in the Pali language. The word pali (literally, a “line”) came to be used in the sense of “text”—in contrast to atthakatha (“saying what it means”), or “commentary”—at some time during the early part of the 1st millennium ce. Modern scholarship usually…
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