Lily de Silva was Professor of Pali and Buddhist Studies at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka and a regular contributor to Buddhist scholarly and popular journals.
She is also the editor of the subcommentary to he Digha Nikaya and several other translations and a Pali language primer published by the Pali Text Society of London.
Giving in the Pali Canon
Lily de SilvaDana, giving, is extolled in the Pali canon as a great virtue. It is, in fact, the beginning of the path to liberation. When the Buddha preaches to a newcomer…
One Foot in the World: Buddhist Approaches to Present-day Problems
Lily de SilvaThe dispensation of the Buddha includes not only monks and nuns, but male and female lay followers as well. All these four groups comprising the Buddhist…