This anthology includes several canonical and post canonical books that are part of the great Buddhist tradition of South East Asia. In this particular bilingual format a reader with a background in Buddhist philosophy will find an intriguing and direct access to one of the most import textual traditions of the world. Through the medium of approaching the ancient Indian language mirrored one-to-one with English an unprecedented meditation upon the original and most essential Buddhist concepts is achieved. This anthology is therefore not just a Pali primer, a historic travel guide, a...

The "Questions of King Milinda" or Milindapanha is an amazing and unique ancient Buddhist text. It records the encounter between a Greek king and a Buddhist monk around 200 BC and reads like a modern dialogue between East and West. The Greek schooled king, whose world view echos some of the views and reasoning which built our Western civilization approaches the Buddhist philosophy like a typical "Westerner." To see the intriguing relevant replies by the Buddhist monk feels like a mirror of our own times. This book contains a "word by word" (interverbal or paraphrased) translation of the...