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Pali Text Society
organization
Quick Facts
- Date:
- 1881 - present
- Areas Of Involvement:
- history of publishing
- Theravada
- Pāli language
- translation
Pali Text Society, organization founded with the intention of editing and publishing the texts of the Theravāda canon and its commentaries, as well as producing English translations of many of those texts for an audience of scholars and interested readers. The Pali Text Society (PTS) was established by T.W. Rhys Davids in 1881. The output of the PTS in its early decades was plentiful, issuing editions of dozens of texts by the end of the 19th century. Rhys Davids was succeeded as president by his wife, Caroline, after his death in 1922. In 1959 I.B. Horner was elected president of ...(100 of 269 words)