Dear Dhamma Friends, The following post is my reply to Dr Desmond Chiong who kindly shared important information with us regarding Mahakassapa and Ananda from ...
Dear Pali Moderator and Group, Thank you for the welcome. I've been out of town on retreat, so this is the first time I've had to respond. Here's some brief...
My name is Chung Nguyen. I would like to learn Pali so that I can read the Tipitaka. I would like very much to receive guidance on how to start, what to do in ...
Dear Dhamma Friends Sergei asked the following. "Does anyone know of a story that runs like this: The master is teaching in a grove of trees somewhere. A...
Hello again. Is there a difference between Brahma and Brahma' or Brahmaa? A fellow says the former is masculine whereas the latter is neuter. And, if so, what...
Dear Dhammafellows When I read the section of Sobhanacittam in "Abhidhammatthasangaho", I find it used 'catuviisali' and 'catuviisati' for the same meaning...
Dear dhammafellowsF When I was reading a sentence in Dahara Sutta in Samyuttam Nikaya , tepi mayaa anuttaram sammaasambodhim abhisambuddhoti pat.jaanaathaa ...
Hi Pali mitras, In the late 1970s Ven. B. Ananda Maitreya published an very good series on "Pali Grammar and Composition for Beginners" in the Pali Buddhist...
Dear Pali friends, Both saha and saddhi.m are used with instrumental case nouns to mean "with." Are these two words entirely interchangeable, or are there ...
I am interested in learning some basic Pali and it has occurred to me that it would be very helpful to me, and probably countless others who have no access to...
Dear friends, I have just updated our files section, at this location http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/files/Gair/ with one file containing the answers I...
Hi there Tzungkuen, It means (lit.) beginning-talk on book(s) As this term is still in use in Sinhalese (religious) language and is found in medieval Sinhalese...
Hi Andy & friends, I wonder if Andy's Pali Website is still available. I've recommende it to my students, but now I find it inaccessible. Fortunately I have...
Dear dhammafellows Please help me I have a question: There is a phrase under the Abhidhammatthasa.ngaho¡¦title Ganthaarambhakathaa, this compound can be...
Hello. I`m Jampa Tashi, a Gelukpa monk ordained by Geshe Jampa Tekchok of Sera Je in south India in May of 2001. I think you may have heard of a guy called...
Dear Pali friends, This following phrase is one that comes up a lot in the suttas (generally where Dependent Origination is being discussed): "Katamaa ca...
Dear friends, I'll restart my personal study of Pali this week. I will try to be consistent this time round. At the same time, I decide to summarise and...
I recently read in Buddha's fire sermon (thanissaro bhikkhu translation) this: He grows disenchanted with the intellect, disenchanted with ideas, disenchanted...
Hi Pali friends, You might be interested in this important and useful course, or you might like to inform your friends about it. Sukhi, [Non-text portions of...
All members, Being a new member of this group, I just had a look at the files section and found the zip file of pali pronunciations by Ven. Mettavihari....
Dear friends, I have just posted to our files section my answers to the exercises from chapter 5 of "The New Course in Reading Pali" by Gair & Karunatillake. ...
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, ...
Dear Pali Friends, A few days ago, the postman delivered a copy of the Gair book, "A New Course in Reading Paali." Recently I've been working with the Lily de...
Dear Samatha Savaka, I was not keen to participate in this thread as experience tells me that it can be rather unnecessarily wearisome. I think for most...
Dearest Venerables and Friends, The moderator has kindly allowed me to reframe my question regarding the terms atta/attan as they relate to being translated ...
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Dear Venerables; Hi Group; Dear Samatha Savaka; (Tech note: should you be addressed as Savaka Samatha? ie are you a formal Savaka?) (Tech note 2: Would it be...
Here's some things you might find helpful:
There is no Tathagata inside, outside, as, without or in any one of the aggregates:
"How do you construe this,...
Dear Group, Does anyone have a program that allows the copying of short extracts to be done direct from the CSCD Chattha Sangayana CD? At the moment we can go...
