Dear List Members, My name is Michael and in my academic work I am examining the role of the mindful observation of vedana as a means to awakening in the ...
Hi Nina, Thank you much for your time in answering my questions. It is very helpful, indeed very much so. Metta, Michael Nina van Gorkom <vangorko@...>...
Dear friends, can someone please help me to translate into Pali the following sentence. I am stuck with the first part, "whether the young prince become a...
Dear friends, after another read of the text, I have found the treatment for "whether...or" in Pali. Thanks again. metta, Yong Peng. ... 103. The following...
Exercise 11 Translate into Pali 1. One should develop a loving heart towards all beings as a mother protects her own son. eko / bhaavetu / metta-citta.m /...
Hello, as a member of the Western Buddhist Order I use a lot of Pali coin words without knowing the language. At the moment I give very short talks concerning...
Dear Venerable Sraddhabandhu, ... pamojja: delight, gladness. The tenth step, perhaps meant is what the Visuddhimagga quotes: < As regards the words in the...
Nina, ... The Western Buddhist Order has both celibate and non-celibate members. Piya ... -- The Minding Centre Blk 644 Bukit Batok Central #01-68 (2nd flr) ...
I have some questions about editions of the Tipitaka. First of all, does this chart (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhammasociety/2167777935/sizes/o/) represent...
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Dear Piya, thank you for the compliment. :-) Actually we see ourselves as neither lay nor monk, which is a unusual concept if you don't know Sangharakshitas...
Dear Andrew, thank you for your question. I shall try my best. 1. As the chart indicates, the list contains only those Tipitaka editions which were referenced...
Dear Friends, I'm new to the group and interested to learn Pali online. By reading the recent posting, you're on "The New Pali Course" Part II already. Is ...
Dear Pali friends, I am trying to figure out the yena/tena construction in Ch.5 and 6 of Warder as it is used with the nominative case. In both of the ...
Dear Natalie, ... N: We have to think of a relative sentence with the nominative: Then, by which way those nobles were, by that way went Mahaagovinda the ...
Dear friends, Here are the answers for exercise 12. I must say that I found the 2 verses from the Hatthavanagalla Viharavamsa (11 and 12) quite obscure! ...
Dear Natalie, I remembered that you had raised a similar question here before. That was late last January from my search of the messages. Buddhaghosa's Vinaya...
Dear Natalie, Nina and Jim, Natalie asked why not 'khattiye'. Why did she ask this? Probably she thought of the English equivalent: "Mahagovinda approached...
Dear Jessica and Mark, the suggested solutions to the exercises for Part I had been generously offered to the group by Florent. These are found in the group's...
Dear Mahinda, Thank-you very much for taking it further. You have a wonderful way of explaining such matters in terms that are easy for Pali students to ...
Dear Jim, I will be glad to try my hand at it once you have posted your message. Regards. Mahinda ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Dear Pali list lovely people, ... That was late last January from my search of the messages. I thought I had asked this before but could not find it when I ...