BUDDHAGHOSA'S TREATISE ON BUDDHISM, 

 ENTITLED THE WAY OF SALVATION. 

 ANALYSIS OF PART I, ON MORALITY. 



By Charles Rockwell Lanman. 

 Presented January 11, 1911. Received January 2.5, 1913. 



Among the great Buddhist writers upon Buddhism, Buddhaghosa 

 stands preeminent. His most important works are the treatise on 

 Buddhism entitled The Way of Salvation or Visuddhi-magga, and 

 his four commentaries, one upon each of the four principal Nikayas 

 or 'Collections' of the canonical scriptures of Buddhism, the Dlgha- 

 nikaya, the Majjhima, the Saijyutta, and the Anguttara. Of these his 

 chief works, the Visuddhi-magga stands first in importance as also in 

 order, and is presupposed by the others and referred to by them. 

 It was composed in the sacred language of Buddhism, the Pali, and 

 was written by him at the Maha-Vihara or Great-Monastery of Ceylon 

 in or about 410 A. D., that is, some nine centuries after the death of 

 Buddha. For a millennium and a half it has maintained itself as a 

 masterly and authoritative work. It has been copied upon palm- 

 leaves times without number; and the entire text has recently been 

 edited by the Saya U Pye, and published in Burmese letters in Ran- 

 goon, once in 1901, and again in 1909-1910; and a part of it, books 

 1-13, has been issued in Cingalese letters by Dhammaratana at Co- 

 lombo, Ceylon, 1890-1909. It is a lengthy treatise. The Saya's first 

 edition extends over 618 large octavo pages of 30 lines to the page. 

 It was the hope of my beloved and unforgotten friend and pupil, the 

 late Henry Clarke Warren, to make an edition and translation of the 

 work, and it has fallen to me to endeavor to finish the large and diffi- 

 cult task interrupted by his death. 



