Lily de Silva (1928–2005) was a Pali scholar at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, where she received a B.A. with First Class Honors in Pali and the Woodward Prize for Pali and, in 1967, her Ph.D. She stayed at the University to teach and quickly became Chair of the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies where she remained until her retirement in 1994.

~ From Access to Insight and her obituary in the Daily Mirror

Selected Works (in chronological order)

Ceto, Paññā, and Ubhatobhāga Vimutti (1978) – Lily de Silva

Buddhist Perspectives on the Ecocrisis (1987) – H. H. the 14th Dalai Lama, Lily de Silva, Padmasiri de Silva and others

Dāna: The Practice of Giving (1990) – Susan E. Jootla, Lily de Silva, Maurice Walshe, Nina van Gorkom, and Ācariya Dhammapāla

Featured in the course, " Buddhist Ethics"

Pāli Primer (2008) – Lily de Silva

An excellent primer introducing, step-by-step, the basic grammatical concepts essential to understanding the Pāli language.

Featured in the course, " The Pāli Language: Level 1"