The strangest news about Pali I have heard recently - http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2013/05/wagner-opera-to-be-revived-in-a-dead-language.html ...
Dear Pali friends, Need your feed back with the words Pi.n.dapaata and Pi.n.daacaara. Monks who went for alms-round according to the A. P. Buddhadata Maha...
Dear friends and fellow practitioners of the Dhamma, I am very happy to announce that the Pali Text Society has generously released to the public for free...
Dear all, I recall hearing a meditation teacher saying that awakening/enlightenment happens when all path factors in the Noble Eightfold Path culminates ...
Need help here. I recall a sutta where Nigantha Nataputta was said to have recently died and his disciples began to quarrel about rules/vinaya. Ven Rahula...
Dear Pali friends, I am interested in the story of the Twin Miracle (Yamaka Patihara) that the Buddha showed in Sravasti (?). The story seems rather unusual,...
Dear Venerable Kumara, just in preparation of a travel, I am sorry that my response may be short of proper attention to your comment. In general I consider...
You mean this part? "Then take joy, Nanda. Take joy! I am your guarantee for getting 500 dove-footed nymphs." I don't see a lie there. I see it as a trick...
Hi Gerard and Ven.Kumara, I suppose the term absorption is differently understood, perhaps you may agree on following sense: The Buddha mentioned that the...
Hi Gerard (and Ven.Kumara) thanks for your comment. Please allow me first a few general remarks before I answer in detail. I just come back from a visit to a...
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 ...
Hi Dieter, I am not a specialist in these matters, but still I venture to make some observations: I think it is not true that "absorption" and "burning up"...
... You're not the first to notice this. I have this is my book: Among those who have written on this matter, the earliest I have found is Ayodhya Prasad...
... Wonder if anyone has managed to download the whole site. I was told that originally the plan as to have WT distributed in CDs (like CSCD) but somehow the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
