Does one pronounce ññ (as in Dhp. 165: "n' aañño añña'm visodhaye") by doubling the length of time used to pronounce a single consonant? On the other...
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rett
rett_thiele
Jul 1, 2006 8:03 am
... Hi, I''m not sure what you mean by staccato, but with .t.t or other doubled stops you get the speech organs into position (thereby stopping the air flow in...
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John Kelly
palistudent
Jul 2, 2006 8:35 am
Hi Paul and Rett, My understanding is the same as yours, Rett, that there is just a lengthening (actually a doubling) of the length of time one lingers on a...
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Paul Allan
urbanockham
Jul 6, 2006 11:14 am
Rett & John, Thanks for your replies. So we have: .t.t => like "hot tap", not "hot-ta tap" ññ => like "aañ ño", not "aañ-ñ ño" "Aañño" sounds like...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Jul 7, 2006 8:47 am
The Meaning of dhamma 11. words: sata.m: existing, being, true (from sant). upeti: approach, obtain. icceva.m: iti+eva.m: thus indeed koci: someone (pl: keci) ...
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Jim Anderson
jimanderson_on
Jul 8, 2006 3:58 pm
... soul.> ... in ... relation... ... following ... a ... also ... and ... pariccheda.m ... own...
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Erwine Lee
lie_3rwin3
Jul 9, 2006 12:17 am
Hi members... Currently, im interested in devanagari, an ancient script used for Pali. Does anyone know how to write sabbe satta bhavantu sukkhitatta in ...
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Frank Snow
fesnow
Jul 9, 2006 1:37 am
Hi Erwine, I've put a graphic of "sabbe satta bhavantu sukhitattaa" in Devanagari here: ...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
Jul 9, 2006 1:58 am
Dear Nina and Dmytro, thanks for the interesting discussion on 'kasi.na'. The word 'kasi.na' as an adjective means whole or entire. However, in this case, in...
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oselok
Jul 9, 2006 9:22 am
Dear Yong Peng, ... anything close to a 'totality-dimension' as Ven. Thanissaro translated. "Kasi.na" in meditation practice does mean "totality";, according to...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Jul 9, 2006 9:51 am
Dear Yong Peng, What you suggest seems good to me. It keeps the wording more simple. Nina. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
Jul 9, 2006 10:22 am
Dear Dmytro, thanks for the link to the discussion of kasina colors, it does provide better understanding as to what the color niila is. Your analysis of the...
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Jim Anderson
jimanderson_on
Jul 9, 2006 2:45 pm
My previous reply wasn't the one I thought I'd posted to the group. This is my second attempt. --Jim ... Dear Nina, The "sata.m" in "sata~nca"; is not an...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Jul 9, 2006 6:39 pm
Dear Jim, thank you very much. I shall make another corrected post of meaning of dhamma, no 11. I had some trouble with sata.m and thought of neutre: the...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
Jul 11, 2006 8:38 am
Dear friends, I have posted this message more than 24 hours ago and it doesn't turn up, so I guess it would have been lost in cyberspace. As such, I am...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Jul 11, 2006 8:44 am
The Meaning of Dhamma no 11, corrected. words: upeti: approach, obtain. icceva.m: iti+eva.m: thus indeed koci: someone (pl: keci) vattati: turn, proceed, take...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Jul 11, 2006 8:54 am
Dear Yong Peng, Thank you. the link to photo did not work. I have firefox now, but it did not accept the link. Nina. ... [Non-text portions of this message...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
Jul 11, 2006 2:43 pm
Dear Nina, I also have Firefox installed, and it is working fine. If you get a Sign-in page after clicking the link, it means that you have to log in with your...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Jul 11, 2006 3:20 pm
Dear Yong Peng, I gave my password, etc. but they say: dowloading not possible. Cookies can be in the way, but I have a new computer (Mac OS 10). Nina. ... ...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
Jul 11, 2006 10:23 pm
Dear friends, I am glad to meet up with Florent on June 30 in Brisbane, Australia. Florent has been sharing with us his solutions to the text The New Pali...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
Jul 12, 2006 9:03 am
Dear Nina, the photos are in jpeg format and the larger one is only 37KB big, so there shouldn't be any problem. I am not familiar with Internet applications...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Jul 12, 2006 3:04 pm
Dear Yong Peng, yes, now I succeeded, a very nice photo. Nina. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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John Kelly
palistudent
Jul 13, 2006 8:24 am
Dear Florent, ... I think it makes more sense to translate hari.msu as "brought" or "led" in this case. The vision of all those people carrying the cows makes...
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rasoolpuri
Jul 14, 2006 11:36 pm
I am a student of south asian languages .I am intrested in Pali .I want to ask some questions .Any one 'kindly 'reply me' thanks 1-What is origin of Pli...
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John Kelly
palistudent
Jul 15, 2006 6:36 am
Dear Florent, While these translations all look technically correct, the language in a couple of them sound a little awkward to my native anglophone ears. May...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
Jul 15, 2006 12:42 pm
Dear Nina, Dmytro and friends, here is the last instalment of the vagga. 82-91. Aniccasa~n~na.m bhaveti... anattasa~n~na.m bhaveti... mara.nasa~n~na.m...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Jul 15, 2006 2:23 pm
Dear Yong Peng, thank you very much. ... 82-91. Aniccasa~n~na.m bhaveti... anattasa~n~na.m bhaveti... mara.nasa~n~na.m bhaveti... aahaare pa.tikuulasa~n~na.m...
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John Kelly
palistudent
Jul 16, 2006 1:49 am
Dear Yong Peng, * siilaanussati (f) recollection of precepts. - siila (n) precept. I think that 'precept' is a too narrow translation of this very important...
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Dmytro O. Ivakhnenko
oselok
Jul 16, 2006 6:00 am
Hello, ... May I recommend you the articles: http://www.zencomp.com/greatwisdom/ebud/ebsut059.htm http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=21924 ...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
Jul 16, 2006 7:10 am
Hi, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali All of your questions are answered there, except for No.3. Modern scholarship asserts that the Buddha spoke an...
