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The Dipavamsa: The Chronicle of the Island: An Ancient Buddhist Historical Record

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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,2 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 ...

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The Dipavamsa: The Chronicle of the Island: An Ancient Buddhist Historical Record 2018, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

ISBN-13: 9781983456879

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