I've started out learning with Gair & Karaunatillake's *A New Course in Reading Pali". It seems obvious that one is supposed to learn all of the grammar in a...
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Larry Rosenfeld
larryrosenfeld
Oct 7, 2012 12:26 am
Hey James - in case it might be of some initial use, I created a couple of quizlet quizzes for the first two G & K chapters at ...
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frank k
fcckuan
Oct 23, 2012 10:48 am
Venerable Ānandajoti recently made ebook versions of his translations from his website. Line by line Pali + English translations of many suttas in epub and...
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frank k
fcckuan
Nov 2, 2012 2:08 pm
I imagine many people have partial pali dictionaries for spell checking on microsoft word. I'm wondering if anyone has attempted a full scale complete pali...
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Stephen Hodge
kiciyel
Nov 2, 2012 2:54 pm
Dear Frank, I presume you mean some thing that checks your spelling, not spells for witches. The problem with this is that one would need to note all the...
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John Kelly
palistudent
Nov 3, 2012 1:59 am
Dear Pali friends, Below, I'm forwarding (with permission) a very useful Pali study tool created by Ven. Yuttadhammo. He stresses that it is draft only, and if...
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Kumara Bhikkhu
venkumara
Nov 3, 2012 10:42 am
Yes, and so it would probably be significantly larger than the in-built English spelling dictionary. Wonder if having that loaded onto the memory would slow...
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frank k
fcckuan
Nov 9, 2012 1:10 pm
Dear Stephen, How complete is CPED as far as the lemmitizations? There are digital versions of CPED, I imagine it wouldn't be hard to convert it into an MS ...
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Tomoyuki Kono
mans0381
Nov 17, 2012 11:08 am
Dear all, I am delighted to announce the online publication of the third volume of the Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies (JOCBS). As before,...
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dymaxion
oxydymaxion
Dec 8, 2012 2:27 am
A short note about the name of a Buddhist language. The name of the language might have been 500-600 old, but not older. I am not absolutely sure , but I think...
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Bryan Levman
bryan.levman
Dec 8, 2012 12:59 pm
Dear Oxy, According to Norman, Pāli Literature (1983: 1): "The word pāli is found in the chronicles and the commentaries upon the canon, but there is has the...
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Dhivan Thomas Jones
dhivanthomas...
Dec 8, 2012 8:23 pm
Dear Oxy and Pali group, Just in case you haven't come across it, there is a relevant article by Kate Crosby (2003) 'The Origin of the Language Name Pali in...
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dymaxion
oxydymaxion
Dec 15, 2012 11:31 am
... The first usage of "Paali" to mean a particular language in Europe was not the first usage of "Paali" to mean a particular language in Asia. Besides, he...
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Bryan Levman
bryan.levman
Dec 15, 2012 12:30 pm
Dear Oxy Thanks for the reference to La Loubère's book; I didn't realize it was available on line from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, - and yes it...
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Stephen Hodge
kiciyel
Dec 15, 2012 2:27 pm
... It's shorter in English: "They are also taught Pali" Best wishes, Stephen Hodge...
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Gerard
gerard_blok
Dec 16, 2012 3:17 am
Dear Pali friens, could someone tell me where I can find trilinear translations of pali suttas? Kind regards, Gerard Blok [Non-text portions of this message...
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gerard_blok
Dec 16, 2012 3:17 am
Dear Pali friends, Could someone tell me where on the internet I can find trilinear Pali suttas? Thanks in advance, Gerard...
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Piya Tan
piya.tan
Dec 16, 2012 3:36 am
Hi Gerard, Trilinear translations such as those on the Anapanasati Sutta and the Satipatthana Suttas can be found at http://dharmafarer.org. With metta, Ratna...
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Gerard
gerard_blok
Dec 16, 2012 1:52 pm
Thanks all for your information. By trilinear is meant a version consisting of three lines: one line for the original Pali text, one line with a literal...
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Bhikkhu Analayo
analayo@...
Dec 20, 2012 4:06 pm
a relevant publication regarding the topic of Paali as the name of a language would also be Crosby, Kate 2004: "The Origin of Paali as a Language Name in...
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Frank K
fcckuan
Dec 23, 2012 7:36 am
Dear Pali friends, This part is interesting. I'm reading B.Bodhi's new AN translations book right now. from AN 1.382 to AN 1.554, it seems to qualify many...
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Chanida
jchanida072
Dec 29, 2012 4:08 pm
Dear Frank, This is interesting. I think that in each of such practices, the practitioner's mind must be in some state of concentration, otherwise the practice...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Dec 31, 2012 5:36 pm
Dear Chanida and Frank, ... N: As I understand, it is always right understanding that is foremost, also when developing samatha to the stage of jhaana. If one ...
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Bryan Levman
bryan.levman
Jan 4, 2013 5:08 pm
Dear Friends, In the Paramatthajotik commentary on the origin of the Cundasutta (Sn vv 83-90) , there is a long compound which I can not make sense of ...
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Chanida
jchanida072
Jan 5, 2013 9:28 am
Dear Nina and Frank, Thanks for your comment, Nina. If you have access to a PTS edition of the Pali canon, I give book and page reference below so that you...
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Frank K
fcckuan
Jan 5, 2013 9:58 am
Dear Chanida and NIna and all, Earlier in AN 1.53 (English is bodhi trans.) AN 1.53: “Bhikkhus, if for just the time of a finger snap a bhikkhu pursues a...
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Kumara Bhikkhu
venkumara
Jan 5, 2013 10:41 am
The reason is clear to me, since (for me) jhana simply means meditation. I've included this in my book on jhana and samadhi. It's still growing as more...
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Kumara Bhikkhu
venkumara
Jan 5, 2013 10:56 am
I was confused by your referencing though. How did you get "1.382" for example? On NDB, it's AN 1.53. Going by PTS, it's A I.11. kb...
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Kumara Bhikkhu
venkumara
Jan 5, 2013 11:01 am
Never mind... I found out that you're using CS reference, which is correctly 1.382. On NDB it's 1.394. I also referred it to the wrong place. Anyway, the one I...
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Piya Tan
piya.tan
Jan 5, 2013 11:52 pm
Dear Pali friends, A very happy new year. You can also read something about what Chanida has stated below in Gethin, "The Buddhist Path of Awakening," 2001:...
