Chapter

 1  Int |              and strength. The ancient texts are not especially clear
 2 Notes|            Dhammapada/Dharmapada (Dhp) texts. To further complicate matters,
 3 Notes|               similarities among these texts, they contain enough discrepancies
 4 Notes|                triangulating among the texts themselves. This textual
 5 Notes|              standardization among the texts. Thus the conclusions drawn
 6 Notes| presuppositions than they do about the texts themselves. ~2) Assumptions
 7 Notes|              into the languages of the texts we now have. The textual
 8 Notes|        distrust for the early Buddhist texts, and the poetic texts in
 9 Notes|         Buddhist texts, and the poetic texts in particular. If the texts
10 Notes|            texts in particular. If the texts contain so many varying
11 Notes|                from the early Buddhist texts concerning the events and
12 Notes|           principles that shaped those texts -- we will see that it is
13 Notes|              somewhat irrelevant. ~The texts suggest that even during
14 Notes|                relevant with regard to texts like the Dhp, whose organization
15 Notes|          transmission are obvious: the texts are saved from the vagaries
16 Notes|              scribes to homogenize the texts, removing unusual variants
17 Notes|            have I checked the non-Pali texts to see which variant they