Language in Early Buddhism
and Other Articles of Interest in Buddhist Studies
The following is a list of interesting looking articles focused primarily on the language of early Buddhism but including some more general topics. The list was culled from the results of a much larger and more general and multi-lingual search done on ccbs.ntu.edu.tw. It would be most helpful to one and all if those finding these articles on line or finding names of publishers, journals, etc and dates of publication would get back to me with the information.
Bagchi, P.C., On the Original Buddhism, Its Canon and Language, Sino-Indian Studies, (Vol. II Parts 3 and 4).
Barrett, Timothy Hugh, Ji Xianlin on the original language of Buddhism
Bechert, Heinz, Methodological Considerations Concerning the Language of the Earliest Buddhist Tradition
Bucknell, Roderick S., Stuart-Fox, Martin, Nordstrom, Lou, The twilight language; explorations in Buddhist meditation and symbolism
Cabezon, Jose Ignacio, The development of a Buddhist philosophy of language and its culmination in Tibetan Madhyamika thought 1956-
Caillat, Colette, Some Idiosyncrasies of Language and Style in Asoka's Rock Edicts at Girnar
Chiang, Gary, Source materials in Buddhist studies in western languages (from late 19th century to 1989)
Chinchore, Mangala R., Lost Buddhist Texts: The Rationale of Their Reconstruction in Sanskrit
Cousins, Lance S., Vitakka/vitarka and vicara: stages of samadhi in Buddhism and Yoga [tables]
Davis, Jonathan, Ego development of Buddhist meditators: a qualitative study
Daye, Douglas Dunsmore, Reflexivity and metalanguage games in Buddhist causality
Dhammaramo, Bhikkhu Vipassi, The Dhammapada in the Languages of Nepal
Dreyfus, Georges Bernard Jacques, Ontology, philosophy of language and epistemology in Buddhist tradition: a study of Dharmakir' ti. philosophy in the light of its reception in the later Indo-Tibetan tradition
Eliade, Mircea, Mythologies of memory and forgetting
Fader, Larry Allen, The philosophically significant Western understandings of D. T. Suzuki's interpretation of Zen and their influence on occidental culture examined critically in relation to Suzuki's thought as contained in his English language writings
Fairchild, Patricia Shea, Chinese Buddhism and language: an investigation of language and translation in the study of Chinese thought
Gomez, Luis O., Language: Buddhist Views of Language
Gray, C.E., Buddhism as a language of images, transtextuality as a language of power (Reprint)
Griffiths, Paul J, Buddhist jhana: a form-critical study
Halbfass, Wilhelm, Early Indian references to the Greeks and the first western references to Buddhism [Sanskrit yavana]
Hodgson, B. H. (Brian Houghton), Essays on the languages, literature, and religion of Nepal and Tibet together with further papers on the geography, ethnology, and commerce of those countries
Hodgson, B. H. (Brian Houghton), Illustrations of the literature and religion of the Buddhists. The sutra of the sixth patriarch on the pristine orthodox dharma. Hui-neng, 638-713.
Hodgson, Brian H., European Speculations on Buddhism
Hsiao, Shih-ping, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: Suffering and Emptiness -- An Interpretation in the Light of Buddhism
Jose, Ignacio Cabezon, Buddhism and Language
Karunatillake, W. S., A Trace of the Palatal /s/ in Pāḷi
Kleppe, Judith Anne, Language, reality, and the perfection of wisdom : examining the role of language in Buddhist experience
Klostermaier, Klaus, Dharmamegha Samadhi: Comments on Yogasutra IV, 29
Lehman, F. K., On the vocabulary and semantics of "field" in Theravada Buddhist society
Masefield, Peter, The nibbana-parinibbana controversy
Matilal, Bimal Krishna ed., Buddhist logic and epistemology: studies in the Buddhist analysis of inference and language
Minaev, I. P. (Ivan Pavlovich), Pāḷi grammar: a phonetic and morphological sketch with an introductory essay on Pāḷi Buddhism, 1st Indian ed. 1840-1890
Muller, F.Max, The Meaning of Nirvana
Nagatomi, Masatoshi, Gratitude as thanksgiving and thanksgiving as gratitude anumodana, krtaj, pao-en
Nanamoli, Bhikkhu, A Pāḷi-English glossary of Buddhist technical terms
Norman, K. R., The Language in Which the Buddha Taught
Norman, K. R., The Languages of Early Buddhism
Norman, K. R., The Origin of Pāḷi and Its Place among the Indo-European Languages
Norman, K. R., The Pāḷi Language and Scriptures / Norman, K. R.
Norman, K.R., Pāḷi and the Language of the Heretics
Norman, K.R., The Dialects in which the Buddha Preached
Norman, Kenneth R., Mistaken ideas about nibbana
Nyanatiloka, Manual of Buddhist terms and doctrines [4th rev. ed.]
Oldenberg, Hermann, Ancient India: its language and religions, 2d ed.
Oldenberg, Hermann, Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro, Ancient India: its language and religions, [2d ed.] The awakening of Zen 1870-1966.
Oliver, Mary, The Buddha's last instruction
Payne, Richard K., Language conducive to awakening : categories of language use in East Asian Buddhism; with particular attention to the Vajrayana tradition
Phelps, Dryden Linsley, A study of the origin and earley development of CH'AN Buddhism based on documents in the CH'IN TING KU CHIN T'U SHU CHI CH'ENG and sources primarily relating to bodhidharma
Piatigorsky, Alexander, Some observations on the notion of Tathāgatagarbha
Pyysiainen, Ilkka, Beyond language and reason-- mysticism in Indian Buddhism
Saddhatissa, H., Pāḷi studies in Cambodia
Sasaki, Genjun, Linguistic approach to Buddhist thought 1915-
Silva, Lily De, Pāḷi Primer
Sivaraksa, Sulak, Buddhism and development: a Thai perspective [Samma Ditthi]
Skilling, Peter, An Arapacana Syllabary in the Bhadrakalpika-Sutra
Smith, R Morton, What was one's own language? Vinaya 2. 139
Smith, Roy Brabant, The place of dana (giving or generosity) in Buddhism [ assisting a temple or bhikkhu]
Soothill, William Edward (comp.); Hodous Lewis (comp.), A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms
Streng, Frederick J., Gratitude and thankful joy in Indian Buddhism anumodana and krta-jna in Pāḷi literature; bibliog
Takakusu, Junjiro, A Pāḷi chrestomathy
Tang, Jian, Medieval Chinese and Sanskrit: historical linguistic contacts through translation of Mahayana Buddhism scriptures
Tilakaratne, A., The Development of "Sacred Language" in the Buddhist Tradition
Tilakaratne, Asanga, Nirvana and ineffability: a study of the Buddhist theory of reality and language
Unknown, Transformation and Healing: The Sutra on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness = Tipitaka. Suttapitaka.
von Hinuber, O., From Colloquial to Standard Language. The Oral Phase in the Development
Waldschmidt, Ernst, Central Asian Sutra Fragments and their Realtion to the Chinese Agamas
Walter, Michael L., The role of alchemy and medicine in Indo-Tibetan Tantrism
Watts, Alan, Limits of language
Wayman, Alex, Is it a crow (Pāḷi: dhamka) or a nurse (Sanskrit: dhatri)?
Yanagida, Seizan, The Li-tai fa-pao chi and the Ch'an doctrine of sudden awakening
Younger, Paul, Concept of duhkha and the Indian religious tradition
Zeuschner, Robert B., The concept of li nien ("being free from thinking") in the Northern line of Ch'an Buddhism