The Life and Work of Buddhaghosa

The Life and Work of Buddhaghosa by Bimala Charan Law, with a foreword by Mrs. C. A. F. Rhys Davids, is an important scholarly study of Buddhaghosa, the celebrated Pāli commentator of the Theravāda tradition. The book examines his life and traditional biographies, the development of Buddhist commentarial literature, his major works, his successors, and the philosophical and interpretative features of his writings. It also highlights the encyclopaedic range of Buddhaghosa’s scholarship and his enduring importance for the study of Pāli literature and Theravāda Buddhist thought.