The Life of the Buddha

This volume is published from the posthumous papers of the late
Venerable Bhikkhu Nacyamoli, whose life sketch appears at the end
of this book. The bulk of the book had received its final form by
the author himself and the typescript had been carefully and neatly
prepared by him. The introduction, however, was marked as a draft
and appendices mentioned in the manuscript were not found among
the author's papers. More than half of the texts in this book had been
published before, in serial form, in a fortnightly Buddhist periodical,
Buddha }ayanthi (Colombo, 1954-1956), though some renderings
were different. For the present version, the late author had revised
and considerably expanded his translation of canonical texts and had
added the ingeniously devised framework of the book, incorporating
ample material from non-canonical sources. This arrangement of the
book is explained in the prefatory section, "Voices."
He had also experimented with new renderings of a number of
doctrinal and other terms. But in the case of five of these, the editor
thought it advisable to return to the author's earlier renderings as they
appeared in Buddha jayanthi and in his translation of the Visuddhimagga.
References to some of these few alterations have been made in
the editor's footnotes. As shown by handwritten changes in the manuscript,
the author had found that some of his new renderings could
not be consistently applied in all contexts-a fact that contributed to
the editor's decision to prefer the author's earlier renderings in those
few instances.
Forest Hermitage

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