School
Pali
Overview
Pāli (; IAST: Pāḷi) is a Middle Indo-Aryan language that is widely studied as the sacred language of Theravada Buddhism and the language of the Tipiṭaka. Pali was designated a classical language of India by the Government of India on 3 October 2024.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Pali
- Mircea Eliade
- Walpola Rahula Thera
- Prakrit
- Sanskrit
- Short story
- Buddhaghosa
- Buddhism
- The Buddha
- K. N. Jayatilleke
- Purana Kassapa
Related ideas
- Ashoka
- Grammatical tense
- Grammatical gender
- Hebrew language
- Sarvastivada
- David Kalupahana
- Latin
- Laos
- Visuddhimagga
- Myanmar
- Phoneme
- Grammatical mood
- Brahmin
- Prakrit
- Sri Lanka
- Dhammapada
- Sanskrit
- Sangha
- Buddhaghosa
- Bhikkhu Bodhi
- Theravada
- Buddhism
- Cambodia
- The Buddha
Place in the tradition
Part of Buddhist philosophy.