封興伯《巴利文獻手冊》：四部《尼柯耶》比《毘奈耶》古老

封興伯《巴利文獻手冊》第26頁51項第三段，提到四部《尼柯耶》內容提到的器物，其物質文化的年代，要比《毘奈耶》的年代古老一些。

帖主不知道封興伯老師怎樣得到此一結論，也不知道此一結論的意涵。僅僅將原文抄錄於此。

"Lastly, as far as the dating of texts is concerned, Buddhist literature can be compared to the development of the material culture in ancient India, which, e.g., shows that the culture environment of the first four Nikāyas of Suttapiṭaka is markedly older than that of Vinayapiṭaka."

von Hinüber, Oskar, (1996), A Handbook of Pāli Literature, Berlin/New York:de Gruyter.

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