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Society, dedicated not only to the translation of the Pali Canon, but to the publication of a variety of Buddhist literature, the teaching of the Pali language, and to spread their publications to libraries across Europe. The Pali Text Society, specifically its founder, Thomas William Rhys Davids, and his wife, Carolina Augusta Foyley Rhys Davids,  have been attributed to creating the discipline of Buddhist studies. Scholar George D. Bond writes that the historical significance of the Davids' family work, as well as the Society's work, "contributes

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