Why Did the Buddhists Adopt Sanskrit?
Western scholarship has long wondered about the reasons that led the Buddhists, or, to be more precise, specific sectarian components of the Indian Buddhist communities (most conspicuously the [Mūla]sarvāstivādins), to abandon the Middle Indic vernaculars as their scriptural, scholarly and probably...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2017-08-01
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| Series: | Open Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2017-0015 |