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Linguistic Ambiguities, the Transmissional Process, and the Earliest Recoverable Language of Buddhism
The Buddha's teachings have been handed down in different Middle Indic forms (Pāli and Gāndhārī), in Sanskritized Prakrit and in Sanskrit itself, and various non Indo-Aryan languages like Tibetan and Middle Chinese. Comparing corresponding passages in the surviving witnesses uncovers linguistic …