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A list of key readings about Buddhist councils.

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## Contents

* 1 General
* 2 First Council
* 3 Second Council
* 4 Mahāsāṅghika Council and Third Council
* 5 Fourth Council
* 6 Fifth Council
* 7 Fifth and Sixth Councils
* 8 Sixth Council

## General[edit]

* Charles S. Prebish, "Councils, Buddhist", in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Buddhism, 2004 (Volume One), pages 187-9
* ditto, "A review of scholarship on the Buddhist Councils", Journal of Asian Studies, 33, no. 2 (1974), 239-54
* Charles Hallisey, "Councils", in Routledge Encyclopedia of Buddhism, 2007, pages 250-252
* ditto, "Councils as ideas and events in the Theravāda", Buddhist Forum 2 ([1]), pages 133-48
* André Bareau, Les Premiers Conciles bouddhiques, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1955
* Etienne Lamotte, Histoire du bouddhisme indien, 1958, English translation History of Indian Buddhism, Peeters Press, Louvain, 1988
* chapter on councils in 2500 Years of Buddhism, ed P. V. Bapat: [2]
* Amarnath Thakur, Buddha and Buddhist Synods in India and Abroad, Abhinav, Delhi, 1996
* [Louis de la Vallée-Poussin] "Pro Minayeff. I: Les deux premiers conciles", Le Muséon, nouvelle série VI (1905), 215-312
* Frauwallner, Erich. 1952. ‘Die buddhistischen Konzile’, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, CII (N.F. 27), 240-61

## First Council[edit]

* Jean Przyluski, Le Concile de Rājagṛha, Geuthner, Paris, 1926: [3]

## Second Council[edit]

* M. Hofinger, Etude sur le concile de Vaiśāli, Louvain, 1946

## Mahāsāṅghika Council and Third Council[edit]

* Bhikkhu Sujato in Buddhist Studies Review, volume 25, number 2, pages 210-31
* J. J. Nattier & C. S. Prebish, "Mahāsaṅghika origins", History of Religions, 16 (1976-7), 237-72

## Fourth Council[edit]

* L.S. Cousins, The Early Development of Buddhist Literature and Language in India, Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 2013(5), 89-135 gives a different theory of the Fourth Council

## Fifth Council[edit]

* W. Bollée, "Some less well-known Burmese Pali texts", in Pratidanam (Kuiper Festschrift), Mouton, The Hague/Paris, 1968, pages 493-9
* Maung Tsain, "Lokamarajin and the Fifth Great Council", Burma, 1 (4), 15-20
* Erik Braun, The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw, University of Chicago Press, 2013, pages 23-8
* Mark Allon, Wendy Reade, Chris Clark, Ian McCrabb, Tamara Ditrich, Royce Wiles, Bob Hudson, "The Kuthodaw Pagoda Marble-stelae Inscriptions, Mandalay, Myanmar: Conservation, Photographing, and Study of a Neglected Recension of the Pali Buddhist Canon", Bulletin of Chuo Academic Research Institute (Chuo Gakujutsu Kenkyūjo Kiyō), No. 45 (Nov. 2016), pages 222ff: [4]

## Fifth and Sixth Councils[edit]

* paper in Journal of the Pali Text Society, volume XXXIV / [5]
* [6]

## Sixth Council[edit]

* The Chattha Sangayana Souvenir Album, Union Buddha Sasana Council Press, Yegu, Rangoon [1956]
* The Nation (Rangoon), May 21, 1956: page 1, columns 3 & 4; page 4, column 3
* E. Michael Mendelson, Sangha and State in Burma, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1975, pages 270-95
* D. E. Smith, Religion and Politics in Burma, Princeton, 1963, pages 157-165
* Chris Clark, "The sixth Buddhist council: its purpose, presentation, and product", Journal of Burma Studies, volume 19, number 1, June 2015, pages 79-112: [7]
* Sangayana Monthly Bulletin, an English-language periodical published in Burma in the run-up to the Council, reporting on plans and preparations: [8]