Authors / K. R. Norman The former president of the Pāli Text Society, Kenneth Roy Norman (1925–2020) was a Cambridge professor famous for his precise, literal translations of Pāli texts. Selected Works by year 1982 • 1988 • 1990 • 1992 • 1993 • 1997 1982 On Translating from Pāli The Four Noble Truths 1988 The Origin of Pāli and its Position among the Indo-European Languages 1990 The Metres of the Lakkhaṇa-suttanta (DN 30) Why Are the Four Noble Truths Called “Noble”? 1992 The Group of Discourses Theravāda Buddhism and Brahmanical Hinduism: Brahmanical Terms in a Buddhist Guise 1993 External Sandhi in Pāli: with special reference to the SuttaNipāta 1997 A Philological Approach to Buddhism
