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SASANA VAMSA

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 225 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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history of the Buddhist See also:order in See also:Burma, which was composed, in that See also:country, by Paf is-sami in 1851. It is written in See also:Pali See also:prose; and is based on earlier documents, in Pali or Burmese, still extant, but not yet edited. The earlier See also:part of the See also:work deals with the history of See also:Buddhism outside of Burma. This is based on the Mahavamsa, and other well-known See also:Ceylon See also:works; and has no See also:independent value. The latter part of the work, about three-fifths of the whole, deals with Buddhism in Burma, and contains See also:information not obtainable elsewhere. Down to the 11th See also:century the See also:account is meagre, legendary and incredible. After that date it is sober, intelligible and in all See also:probability mostly accurate. This portion occupies about one See also:hundred pages 8vo in the excellent edition of the See also:text prepared for the Pali Text Society in 1897 by Dr Mabel See also:Bode. It shows a continuous See also:literary effort through the eight and a See also:half centuries, and constantly renewed ecclesiastical controversy. The latter is concerned for the most part with See also:minor questions See also:relating to rules of the order, there being a tendency, as relaxations of the rules crept in with the See also:lapse of See also:time, to hark back to the See also:original simplicity. Of See also:differences in matters of See also:doctrine there is no mention in this See also:manual. Dr Bode has prefixed to her edition a detailed See also:summary of the contents of the See also:book.

(T. W. R.

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