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- L. S. Cousins, 'Pali Oral Literature', in Philip Denwood and
Alexander Piatigorsky ( eds. ), Buddhist Studies: Ancient and Modern
(London, I983), I-n; Rupert Gethin, 'The Matikas: Memorization,
Mindfulness and the List', in Janet Gyatso (ed.), In The Mirror of
Memory (Albany, NY, 1992), 149-72.
9· Graham, Beyond the Written Word, and Wendy O'Flaherty, Other
Peoples' Myths (New York, I988), s6-64.- Vinaya ii. I39; see K. R. Norman, Piili Literature (Wiesbaden,
I983), 3; Lamotte, History of Indian Buddhism, S49-93·
I I. On the absence of evidence for the influence of Sinhalese Prakrit
on the language of the Pali canon seeK. R. Norman, 'Pali and the
Language of the Heretics' in his Collected Papers, i. (Oxford, I990),
238-46~I2. Lamotte, History of Indian Buddhism, IS6~
I3. Ibid., IS6-64.- Louis Renou and Jean Filliozat (ed.), L'Inde classique, 2 vols.
(Paris, I947-S3), ii. 392 (§ 2037), 440 (§ 2I24); Lamotte, History of
Indian Buddhism, I6S-79·
IS. Richard Gombrich, 'How the Mahiiyiina Began' in The Buddhist
Forum, I (I990), 2I-30 (22)..
I6. Or alternatively: 'Thus have I heard at one time. The Lord .. .'-
the Buddhist tradition recognizes two ways of punctuating this
phrase. See Brian Galloway ' "Thus Have I Heard: At One Time
... "',Indo-Iranian Journal, 34 (I99I), 87-104.
I7. Vinaya ii. 289-90.
r8. Digha Nikaya ii. I23-6.
- See Gethin, 'The Matikas'.
- ManorathapuraJ:li i. I23 (Cousins, 'Pali Oral Literature'); cf. Vinaya
iv. IS. See also Ronald Davidson, 'An Introduction to the Standards
of Scriptural Authenticity in Indian Buddhism', in Robert E.
Buswell (ed.), Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha (Honolulu, I990), 29I-
32S, and Etienne Lamotte, 'The Assessment of Textual Authentic-
ity in Buddhism', Buddhist Studies Review, I (I984), 4-Is. - Majjhima Nikaya i. 292-8.
- J. McDermott, 'Scripture as Word of the Buddha',Numen,3I (I984),
22-39; G. McQueen, 'Inspired Speech in Mahayana Buddh\sm',
Religion, u-12 (I98II2), 303-I9, 49-6s.
- Cf. Gombrich, Theraviida Buddhism, IIO-I2.
- Gombrich, Theraviida Buddhism, 104. The relevant rules are
Pacittiya 68-9 of the Theravada Vinaya (Vinaya iv. I34-s); see Mohan