Dear Venerables; Hi group; First, an apology to people waiting off-list for replies. I've spent the week doing some thinking about the best use of my time. ...
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Kumaara Bhikkhu
venkumara@...
Jun 4, 2002 10:46 am
Dear Pali group member, I've been deliberating on how to translate this to English: [in VRI font code:] citta½ pas²dati [in transliteration (Velthuis...
... t: [BNC] Some wonderful news from Bante Mettavihari about the Buddhist Encyclopedia! Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 12:10:30 -0000 Dear Friends in Dhamma Today...
Dear John, JK> I have just posted to our files section my answers to JK> the exercises from chapter 5 of "The New Course in JK> Reading Pali" by Gair &...
Hello everyone, i'm new to this mailing list, i don't know Pali or Sanskrit or Chinese, even though i have a few friends who do. i was inclined to join this...
Dear Pali friends, recently, there are several posts in queries of the differences of Buddhist and Jain concepts, in particular the idea of soul. I am writing,...
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Kumaara Bhikkhu
venkumara@...
Jun 8, 2002 10:33 am
Dear All, I would just like to let you know that I've revived an old website of mine with a new name: eVinaya. (It used to be called VinayaNet.) You can access...
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Ong Teng Kee
otengkee@...
Jun 8, 2002 11:47 am
I think you are unaware that pts former president has a new tran. on patimokkha (K norman )and the khankavitarani will be out soon. I.Horner didn't refer to...
What do you mean by accent? Are you referring to pronunciation or to stress/emphasis? Best wishes, Robert...
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Andy
721910352@...
Jun 10, 2002 4:31 am
Dear Venerables; Hi Group; Dear Dimitry; You might wish to contact Bill Pruitt at the Pali Text Society. I know that he has been working away at a study of the...
RE> What do you mean by accent? Are you referring to pronunciation or RE> to stress/emphasis? Stress/emphasis - where it is placed in Pali words? Best wishes, ...
... In the old grammars rules governing stress are only given for verse, not for prose. The main source is the Vuttodaya by San.gharakkhita, but the rules are...
... Welcome to the list. ... In fact both usages are found in Buddhist texts. The only difference is that when it is used in Buddhist texts to mean soul it...
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Andy
721910352@...
Jun 10, 2002 8:08 pm
Dear Venerables; Hi Group; WARNING: Just some "untraditional thinking" from one guy who is *not* an expert in Pali and *not* and expert in languages! Dear...
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Piya Tan
libris@...
Jun 11, 2002 1:21 am
Robert, Thank you for your insightful answer, which I really enjoyed reading and agree with. P....
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Piya Tan
libris@...
Jun 11, 2002 1:24 am
Andy, Thanks for the refreshingly original look Pali. Interestingly, Sanskrit, the final .m is generally pronounced an "-m" (accented I suppose). And...
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Andy
721910352@...
Jun 11, 2002 4:53 am
Dear Venerables; Hi Group; Dear Robert; Thanks for the lovely and clear answers to the questions! In practical terms, I really like Ven. Maha Boowa's words on...
Dear Piya Tan & Andy, Thanks for you replies and encouragement. Also for the Acharn Maha Boowa reference. I will have a look at it when I have the time. Best...
... Thanks man ! :) ... difference is ... generally be ... in a Jain ... few of ... the soul, ... Um... From what i gather from the translations i've read...
Dear Samatha, Robert, Andy, Piya and friends, as I am away from home, I am quite short of useful references, this is what I have got from the Web. #1....
Dear Robert, I congratulate you for the precision and intelligence of your answer, it is a very enlightening and useful clarification of the Buddhistic notion...
Dear Samatha Savaka (and Robert Eddison),-- In ... were ... Dear Friend, Just in case Robert Eddison is busy this quotation from The Visuddhimagga might help: ...
Dear Samatha and friends, ... with ... death ... The definition DOES come from the authoritative Britannica. I put it as the first quote merely to illustrate...
An excellent book to study concerning these issues would be Steven Collins' SELFLESS PERSONS. It is a very careful, considered look at the Pali text....
... Hi SS: Courtesy of Tang Huyen over on usenet, responding to the claim that the ... "The Buddha says: "There are four stations for consciousness. What are ...
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Andy
721910352@...
Jun 12, 2002 4:24 am
Dear Venerables; Hi Group; From the Access to Insight web site. I think that SN IV.3 summarizes nicely why there is so much discussion about "soul" vs....
Dear Samatha Savaka, Thanks for your reply. I gave no personal interpretation: the quote came from Buddhaghosa and is simply a succint summary of reality ...
