That work in turn led to an invitation to become involved with A Critical Piili
Dictionaly, based in Copenhagen. That involvement led eventually to becoming
Editor-in-Chief of that project, until the portion for which I had assumed
responsibility (to the end of Volume 11, i.e. to the end of the vowels) was
completed at the end of 1990, some 66 years after the first fascicle of the
dictionary was published by Helmer Smith and Dines Andersen in 1924. That
work for A Critical Piili Dictionary was also primarily a philological
undertaking, since it involved an analysis of the usage of each word listed and
the assignment of meanings for each usage, but not, for the most part, a
discussion of the doctrinal importance of each word and the part it played in
Buddhism.