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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. The research team are cautious in accepting any specific claim that Dhammaloka makes about himself, a wise enough position to adopt, but it strikes us that, while Franck himself apparently has no expertise in Burmese history or Buddhist monastic practice, he yet records incidental details about Dhammaloka's ordination and contemporary historical events that are entirely consistent and convincing, features that Franck himself probably did not appreciate. It seems bizarre, and entirely consistent with this pattern of neglect, that the first complete edition and English translation of the Pā imokkha was published only in 2001 (Pruitt, W., and K. R. Norman. 2001. The Pā imokkha. Oxford: Pali Text Society). 2. J. F. Dickson published widely on the Pā imokkha, the monastic rulebook, and kammavācā (the texts that specify the wording for crucial actions within the monastic community, e.g. how monks are ordained, etc.) These texts are extra-canonical (i.e. not a part of the Tipiaka), and since this early foray into texts that Buddhists actually use, have been largely neglected by western scholars, despite them being the single most widespread category of Buddhist text to be found in manuscript collections worldwide. Dickson's publications include: ‘The Upasampadā-kammavācā: Being the Buddhist Manual of the Form and Manner of Ordering of Priests and Deacons, the Pāli Text with a Translation and Notes’ (London: Trübner, 1873; reprinted from The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1873); ‘The Paimokkha, Being the Buddhist Office of the Confession of Priests: The Pali Text, with a Translation and Notes’ (London, 1875; reprinted from The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland new ser., 8); and ‘Notes Illustrative of Buddhism as the Daily Religion of the Buddhists of Ceylon and Some Account of their Ceremonies Before and After Death: (Read 20th December 1883)’ (Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 8: 203–36).
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