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Bhikkhu Pesala

The Debate of King Milinda

New PDF Edition

I have uploaded a New PDF edition, adding improved graphics, renaming the chapters to follow the Pali Text more closely, and adding PDF bookmarks. This edition is fully indexed, and includes the glossary and list of Pali Quotations. (1.28 Mbytes) Updated 3/3/2005 with minor corrections.

Paperback Edition

May, 2001

ISBN 983-9439-50-2

Inward Path Publishers

P.O. Box 1034
10830 Penang
MALAYSIA
Tel/Fax: 04-659-6696

Download an archived copy of this Inward Path edition (686 Kbytes), which is formatted in large print to allow printing 2-up on A4. More suitable for browsing on a computer. To make a small book, download the pocket-sized edition below. Inward Path are having problems at the moment. They lost their premises and the editor has to care for his aged mother. You may therefore not get any response from them. They have published some beautiful books. Hopefully, they will be available again later.

Hardback Edition

Reprinted twice (1991 and 1998) by Motilal Banarsidass:

Available from: »» Wisdom Books

Available from the Motilal Banarsidass (UK)

Motilal Barnarsidass in India is a big, and long established publisher.

A search for “Pesala” will soon find my book.

The Milinda Pañha is, with good reason, a famous work of Buddhist literature, probably compiled in the first century B.C. It presents Buddhist doctrine in a very attractive and memorable form as a dialogue between a Bactrian Greek king, Milinda, who plays the ‘Devil’s Advocate’ and a Buddhist sage, Nagasena. The topics covered include most of those questions commonly asked by Westerners such as “If there is no soul, what is it that is reborn?” and “If there is no soul, who inherits the results of kamma?”

This abridgement provides a concise presentation of this masterpiece of Buddhist literature. The introduction outlines the historical background against which the dialogues took place, indicating the meeting of two great cultures—that of ancient Greece and the Buddhism of the Indus valley, which was a legacy of the great Emperor Asoka.

Pocket-sized Edition

With a little patience, you can make your own A6 edition from my PDF file. Full instructions for binding are on the second page of the PDF file (874 Kbytes). This edition does not contain the glossary or Pāli quotations.