Dear friends, During the holy-day :-) season i set up this little site, for those of you who like to enjoy a contemplative session with the Maha-Satipatthana...
Dear Bhante Jothiko, The history of writing in India is described in the book "Buddhist India" by T.W. Rhys Davids http://fsnow.com/text/buddhist-india/ Metta,...
Dear All, I would be happy to hear your knowledgeable opinion about "tracking"; a Pali word from the Sanskrit one for understanding it meaning better. I see...
Dear Bhante Jothiko, I notice you have been posting to the group more than a year now. Can you give us an introduction of yourself. Thank you. metta, Yong...
Dear Piya And friends I thank you all for the kind replies. An appologise is due for the way I treat spelling (and other matters...) I did explained awhile...
Dear Piya and all friends Thanks for your kind responses and apteciation, Alas, my utter anateurism has been exposed... ... helps ... because I feel ... proper...
Dear Johnny, It is actually "khamatu," "bear with me, forgive me, allow me," here it is a polite formality. In the monastic formal acts, it is a request for ...
Dear PG, Yes, you are right, it should be pa~n~naa here, which should be translated as wisdom. Again, as I said "discernment" can be rather amorphous, unless ...
Dear Piya Tan At the end of your post you wrote "Kamatu me Bhante" what does this mean. Is Kamatu the imperative of kamati? Also thanks both to you and Bhante...
Bhante Jothiko, Sadhu & thank you for you compassionate and balanced review, which helps fine-tune the little that I have known. My only comment is some of the...
Dear Piya, I was reading through everything again. I just noticed that Thanissaro Bhikkhu uses the phrase "well-tuned ('penetrated') by means of discernment"...
Dear Jothiko Bhikkhu, I thank you and your senior monks from the bottom of my heart. You are indeed modest (refer PS to your message). Incidentally, I was...
With regard to the specific question about newer finds of early Brahmi inscriptions, etc., in southern India, here are some relevant links on the topic below....
IddhiPada Vibhanga Namo tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sama Sambhudassa Idddhii are spiritual powers, these are connected with Samatha - composure and `Ceto...
Greetings to Jacques Huynen, Piya Tan, and Ong Yong Peng. Thank you for your replies to my post about brahmi. What I wrote in my post was just a synopsis of...
Hello Group, Could someone explain the difference between the pali verbs, Modati and Pasiidati. They both seem to mean "to be happy". Mettacittena Johnny...
Dear Konrad, I would also like to know the references for your reply. Thanks. metta, Yong Peng. ... Could I have some sort of documented study in the statement...
Dear Konrad, This is most interesting: that the Brahmi script and writing is available during the Buddha's time. We have names like Ga.naka Moggallaa.na, who...
Hello Konrad, Would you have any precisions, and possibly references, to these discoveries in Southern India that would push back Brahmi syllabary up to he...
Thanks a lot, Piya. Rahula kindly posted the extract referred by you from "Connected Discourses of the Buddha" tr Bhikkhu Bodhi page 1946 n.272:, which was...
Ashoka used the Brahmi script in his inscriptions, which was usual in India at the time. Brahmi was probably originally invented to write Sanskrit and dialects...
Thank you so much, Rahula. Things are a lot clearer now. Metta, PG _______________________________ ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Correct! The nidaana includes the introductory prose. Ole Pind _____ Fra: Pali@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Pali@yahoogroups.com] På vegne af johnny pruitt Sendt:...
In the samyutanikaya there is an often reapeated word compound. The compund is savatiyanidana. I believe that it is composed of the place name Savati and...
Dear PG, As I often find Thanissaro's translation tedious reading, I have checked the Pali myself and finally come up with a provisional translation. The...
Dear Piya Tan, Thank you very much, your website is such a valuable source for study! Happy New Year, May you and everyone will have a wonderful and peaceful...
Thank you, Piya. I look forward to the translation. Do let me know when it's done. I appreciate and share your concern about entering upon an intellectual ...
... Why Devanagari? As far as I know, Devanagari has been used for Pali only for a very short time, and only locally in India. Devanagari became standard...
