Dear friends, The Seven Books of the Abhidhamma (part 1). The Abhidhamma consists of the following seven books: 1.Dhammasanga.nii (translated as 'Buddhist...
Ven/Kind Sirs and Ladies Please see the links below for information on this edition. Kind Regards <http://www.vicnet.net.au/~dhammadarsa> Integrating Emotion...
Dear Friends, As I am seeing some discussion about Pali Tipitaka, I want to share my experience and it may be helpful or it may old news for you. I have been...
Hello, I want to learn Pali in order to compare English translations in order to avoid as much as possible the translators39; biases. I like to memorize verses...
Dear friends, The Seven Books of the Abhidhamma (part 2). The second book of the Abhidhamma is the Vibha”nga, the Book of Analysis, and its commentary is the...
Can anyone provide me with a reference to one or more of the standard Pali grammars to support footnotes in translations from both Horner and Warder...
hello, I just joined the group...I'm not yet learning Pali but it is the reason why I joined..I've wanted to learn for a long time and as I'm watching the...
... <i'm new in here and i'm looking for a translation to pali. i would like to translate this sentece: you are buddha> buddho'si <i would like to have in in...
Hello. I have a question about the very frequent and obviously fundamentally important formula: neta.m mama, nesoham asmi, na meso attaa which I read: na eta.m...
Hi Pali Moderator, I am a new member of the Pali group and I live in Hong Kong. I attended two Mahayana Buddhism classes a few years ago. Early this year, I...
Dear friends in Dhamma, This web site contains a collection of links(URLs) to many Buddhist web sites containing: Dhamma Talks, Books and Articles, Tipitaka,...
Greetings to all. My name is Steven Donald. I am an American living in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. I attend Wat Phrasriratanamahadhatu, located here in Chicago,...
Dear friends, The Four Planes of Consciousness (part 2). As we have seen, there are four planes of citta: the sensuous plane of consciousness, the plane of...
Dear friends, The Four Planes of Consciousness (part 1). There are many ways of classifying citta and one way is the classification by way of plane of...
Dear Friends, Are there any references in the nikayas (such as Samyutta Nikaya) indicating the Buddha says that there is nothing outside the five khandas? ...
Does anyone have a style guide for Pali terms and phrases, appearing within an English language journal? In particular, a list of terms that have been ...
Dear friends, I have set up a new folder in the Links section, Ron's List: Understanding misconceptions of Buddhism Earlier this year, I have posted a few...
Dear friends, Accumulated inclinations. The first citta in a life span is the rebirth-consciousness or pa.tisandhi-citta. It is a vipaakacitta produced by...
Hello, Would anyone be able to send me (or point me to) traditional pre-meal and post-meal prayers/chants in Pali? (I'd love to see both the Pali and the...
Dear All, I thought I would forward this. Anybody based in the UK interested this intensive course ? It is very reasonably priced. Note that "Pali can be ...
Dear Piya Tan and friend ... I have one passage below that interests me. I try to translate it. But it is not clear to me particularly the phrase of "Cittassa...
Dear friends, Rebirth in different planes of existence. (part 2). Rebirth-consciousness does not only arise in sensuous planes of existence, kaama-bhuumi, it...
Dear friends, Rebirth in different planes of existence. (part 1) Akusala kamma and kusala kamma of different beings can produce nineteen different types of...
I am translating a chanting book of a local Sri Lankan community. Most of the verses are well-known, so there were no problems in translating them. However...
Does anyone on the list have the pali lookup 4.0 set up file? I have looked all over the net and it seems to have dissapeared. All the links i found were...
Dear friends, no 16. The World. The study of the different kinds of naama and ruupa will help us to understand more clearly the various conditions for the...
Dear friends, the Pali Text Society has made available volumes I to VIII of the Journal of Pali Text Society (JPTS) in PDF format for open access. This is a...
Dear friends, Death and Rebirth. What is birth, and what is it actually that is born? We speak about the birth of a child, but in fact, there are only nåma...