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 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 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 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...
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,...
... 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 Pali group member, I've been deliberating on how to translate this to English: [in VRI font code:] citta½ pas²dati [in transliteration (Velthuis...
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. ...
Dear friends, I am continuing working through the Gair/Karunatillake book "A New Course in Reading Pali", and have now completed the exercises in lessons 3 and...
Dear Dhamma Friends How are you? The following modern commentary on Vittaara Suttam on Four Groups of Actions has been written in response to the requests made...
Dear Suan Lu Zaw, John and Dimitry, I am a bit late with my translation, having hurt my right hand while moving a stone. But there it is finally, albeit...
Dear Venerables; Hi Group; (Hi John: Thanks for posting the file and the warning to the group about your problems using the Times_Norman font. Could you send...
Dear all, Presently, we have a few starter books for learning Pali: 1. Pali Primer, Dr. Lily de Silva 2. A New Course in Reading Pali, James W. Gair and W. S....
Dear Pali Group Members: Over the past month or two, several newsgroups on usenet and the Tricycle Magazine bulletin boards have been flooded with posts...
Dear Pali Friends The following is a fresh translation of Vitthaara Suttam before I write a new modern commentary on it in response to requests from Dhamma...
Hello Andy, I'd be most happy too to get your software. I have just acquired a second-hand Pentium with Windows98, and I am trying to set up a LAN with my old...
Dear Venerables; Hi Group; I'm going to spend the next couple of days working on my software. a) Input Easy bug Hi John: it is a bug, and it is not fixed in...
Hello again, Andy, Can your Palitrans word processor be used to convert text in fonts other than LeedsBit PaliTranslit into the plain transliteration style...
Hi Andy, Back in November of last year (while you were off-line apparently) I sent you a message about a bug in Input Easy that I discovered while entering...
Dear Pali community, Excel 4 and 5 limit the numbers of rows to 16384. I have thus inadvertently left out the last part of Buddhadatta' Pali-English Dict. that...
Hi Pali friends, Chuck's Sanskrit Diacritical Autocorrect file is really great. I would like to add more words to it, but I am unable to, apparently because...
Andy's list of the Top 1000 words in the Pali Canon is now available in the Files section of the Yahoo site. Andy provided it in three formats: Microsoft...
I just uploaded the sound files to the Pali group site on Yahoo. They are compressed in a ZIP file. To decompress them, you will need a program like PKUNZIP...
svaagata.m! Today I emailed the software, sound files, top 1000 word form lists, etc to everyone who requested them. If I forgot something (or someone) please...
As Andy mentions, most(if not all) people who want to learn Pali do it to read the Cannon. The only hard copy of a Pali grammer I've got is "A New Course in...
Hi; Has everyone figured out how to set up MS-Word so that you can get the Pali special characters using Pali transliteration? If not, I can post the ...
