Dear Bryan, Looks like you have listed the four most usable Tipitakas online. I'm also looking for the Laotian Canon, and also the Khmer Canon, not sure if...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
May 1, 2011 10:01 am
The New Pali Course Part III (1950) Prof. A. P. Buddhadatta Maha Nayaka Thera Chapter IV Analysis of Sentences (4) A phrase, (5) A compound noun, or (6) A...
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pgd2507
May 1, 2011 10:02 am
kb, If you said, "indulged in", yes, that would mean to gratify. without the "in", the meaning can have quite a different nuance. An example will help...
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Bryan Levman
bryan.levman
May 1, 2011 12:57 pm
Dear Piya, Yes I am familiar with the Sutta Central which is very useful for Pali-Tibetan-Sanskrit-Chinese correspondences. Thanks for mentioning it. I am very...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
May 1, 2011 1:19 pm
Dear Yong Peng, Thank you for the info. I have the Dhammapada commentary as 'Buddhist Legends", and since you gave the verse numbers, I can look up the ...
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Bryan Levman
bryan.levman
May 1, 2011 1:27 pm
Dear Yong Peng, ... He who has proclaimed wisdom to me, purified, I will praise him with my own mind (sena = svaya.m; see sa 4 in PED). (1) An adverb: "Sukha.m...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
May 2, 2011 3:12 am
Dear Nina and friends, "Aavuso"ti kho te bhikkhuu aayasmato saariputtassa paccassosu.m. friend / indeed / those / monks / to venerable / to Sariputta /...
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Piya Tan
piya.tan
May 2, 2011 1:49 pm
Dear Brian, Apparently, the Dhammakaya people took the liberty to digitize much if not all of the PTS materials. I'm not sure how it turned out later. As far...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
May 2, 2011 2:49 pm
Dear Yong Peng, Thank you very much. ... N: PTS has:< "Yes, reverend sir" replied these monks to the venerable Saariputta.> ... N: PTS has a different order :...
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Lennart Lopin
lenni_lop
May 2, 2011 3:20 pm
http://www.dhammakaya.net/news/481102_PaliText.php Originally, the Palitext Computerization Project was initiated in 1989 solely by the Dhammakaya Foundation....
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Bryan Levman
bryan.levman
May 2, 2011 9:37 pm
Hi Piya, According to WorldCat, the following libraries have a copy of the CDROM: The Claremont Schoolof Theorlogy Library Smith College Brigham Young...
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Bryan Levman
bryan.levman
May 2, 2011 9:41 pm
Thanks Lennart, Do you know when Version 2 is supposed to come out? the link on the page you sent doesn't seem to go anywhere? Bryan ... From: Lennart Lopin...
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Kumara Bhikkhu
venkumara
May 3, 2011 10:41 am
Hmm.... wonder if that might be a humorous usage, which may have become normal where you live. "Attend to" sounds reasonable. I'll consider it. Thanks!...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
May 3, 2011 11:03 am
Dear Bryan, thank you for the inputs. Please allow me to rewrite the phrase: "Yo me ~naa.na.m pakittesi pasanno sena cetasaa, Tam aha.m kittayissaami." ...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
May 3, 2011 2:46 pm
Dear Yong Peng and Bryan, ... N: Yes, I agree that pasanno sena cetasaa belong together. May I suggest: purified in mind I shall praise him. ... Nina. ...
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Bryan Levman
bryan.levman
May 3, 2011 8:37 pm
Dear Nina and Yong Peng, Thanks for the correction and it does sound better; I agree that sena cetasaa probably goes with pasanno (although the more normal...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
May 4, 2011 6:36 am
Dear Bryan, ... N: Could you please illustrate this with an example? I like to learn more about word order, I think it important. Thanks in advance, Nina. ...
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Bryan Levman
bryan.levman
May 4, 2011 10:56 am
Dear Nina, ...  I've been studying the Amba.t.tha sutta so here is the beginning of it (DN I, 87) 254 . eva.m me suta.m eka.m samaya.m bhagavaa kosalesu...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
May 4, 2011 2:43 pm
Dear Bryan, Thank you very much for the examples. That is very clear. Nina ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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bkhpali
May 5, 2011 9:30 pm
Dear Friends, I just stumbled upon this on Amazon: A Frequency Dictionary of Pali: Core Vocabulary for Learners[Paperback] Kurt Schmidt (Author) ...
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SARAH CONNELL
dhammasanna
May 9, 2011 12:08 am
Dear BKh, Nina and group, I only recently joined this group as I desire to learn to read the Pali texts. I just perused the Amazon site which allowed me to...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
May 9, 2011 1:31 am
Dear friends, this is from a recent message issued by the Pali Text Society: The Pali Text Society and Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
May 9, 2011 1:36 am
There appears to be some text display problem in the main body. So, I have made the corrections: The Pali Text Society and Department of Cross-Cultural and...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
May 9, 2011 1:39 am
Once again, List Price = 15 British Pounds metta, Yong Peng. ... ISBN 086013 482 2 List Price £ 15.00...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
May 9, 2011 4:58 pm
Dear Nina and friends, Buddhaana.m sammukha.t.thaane pana .thitaa vaa nisinnaa vaa ito vaa etto vaa na honti, [They] are not at a place in the presence of the...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
May 10, 2011 3:19 am
Dear Nina and friends, this is a harder one, so any positive inputs will be appreciated. Ta.m sunakho vaa kaako vaa amanusso vaa upasa`nkamitu.m naasakkhi*. ...
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Bryan Levman
bryan.levman
May 10, 2011 12:17 pm
Dear Yong Peng, Burlingame translates this as follows: (She took the child laid him in the bushes, and stood at one side.) But neither dog nor crow nor demon...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
May 10, 2011 1:59 pm
Dear Yong Peng and Bryan, It is Volume I, p. 258, of Burlingame, Buddhist Legends. ... N: Here ca would be: if. ... Bryan: I don't understand why...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
May 10, 2011 2:11 pm
Dear Sarah C, Welcome here, good to see you. Latin and Greek help as a foundation. One acquires a certain skill to look at constructions, looking at the verb...
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James Whelan
james.whelan...
May 10, 2011 2:13 pm
Dear All. May I suggest as follows: rakkhitaa is not the past passive participle, but the agent noun, meaning protector. Accustive rakkhitaaram. Skt...
