Dear Caley, > In an oral tradition you will never encounter a "dead text" like > a book that merely contains information
on that note, Ñāṇamoli in his translations of the Nettippakaraṇa and Peṭakopadesa (two Pali texts not unrelated to the Gāndhārī exegetical tradition) renders sutta as “Thread, Thread-of-Argument (presenting the Buddha’s teaching).” George Bond has also written extensively about the method of the Nettippakaraṇa in particular (and the view of sutta embodied in in it). All best, Stefan -- Stefan Baums, Ph.D. Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität München _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
