Dear friends, Death and Rebirth. What is birth, and what is it actually that is born? We speak about the birth of a child, but in fact, there are only nåma...
Dear friends, the Pali Text Society has made available volumes I to VIII of the Journal of Pali Text Society (JPTS) in PDF format for open access. This is a...
Dear Yong Peng and Jim, ... N:It is not easy to translate. I think Paali here means just the text. The Co states that the two words:pada bya~njana, just mean: ...
Dear Yong Peng and Nina, ... I don't think "letter" is the right translation for "bya~njana.m" here which is explained by "atthassa bya~njanattaa" (from the...
Dear Nina I am taking the liberty to send you a couple of questions IN CAP LETTERS in reference to this message you posted several days ago. Many thanks in...
Dear Luc, I appreciate your interest and questions. ... N: We fail to see what is really there: there are citta, cetasika and ruupa, but we are taken in by our...
Dear Jim, Thank you for your help. I still have trouble with the translation, but I wait for Yong Peng. Nina. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Dear Yong Peng, Nina and Jim, ... To me the commentary is explicating the phrase from the suttta “with correctly arranged letters and words (Sunikkhitta~nca...
Dear Bryan, thank you for your help. To me your translation makes sense, it is clearer now. Nina. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Dear friends, Rebirth in different planes of existence. (part 1) Akusala kamma and kusala kamma of different beings can produce nineteen different types of...
Dear I just wanted to remind you of the 20th type of rebirth linking. THis occurs but without any rebirth linking consciousness. I am sure you know about this...
Dear all Could someone explain in clear and brief terms how the Abhidhamma theory of rebirth linking consciousness fits with the Sutta explanation that there...
I am translating a chanting book of a local Sri Lankan community. Most of the verses are well-known, so there were no problems in translating them. However...
Dear Khantibalo, There are numerous problems in the text with orthography and compounds and cases which don't match, so any translation has to be tentative. ...
Does anyone on the list have the pali lookup 4.0 set up file? I have looked all over the net and it seems to have dissapeared. All the links i found were...
Dear Lennart, Thanks for clearing up ugghosayu.m (causative of ud + ghu.s). All is clear now, Metta, Bryan ________________________________ From: Lennart Lopin...
Wow! Thank you all! Now we have only one passage left from Da.ladaa vandanaa: Lokekanaatha vadanambuja raajaha.msa.m Veneyya komuda vana.m kumudaakaranta.m ...
Dear Dhammadarsa, I will pay attention to your good question soon, but I am just back from a trip, Nina. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Dear Nina, Jim and Bryan, thanks for your informed discussion. It is very interesting to note how the commentary uses bya~njana twice with different meanings,...
Venerable Bhikkhu Dhammadarsa, Excuse me please for addressing you wrongly in my previous post, I saw this too late. ... N: It is right that in the suttas we...
Venerable Bhante, Op 10-jun-2010, om 19:57 heeft sakyaputtiyo_samana het volgende ... N: Thank you. This is rebirth in the asa~n~nasatta plane. For those who...
Dear Nina and friends, I agree with Nina. Our focus on this list is Pali and the Nikayas (as in the Sutta Pitaka). However, I believe we should have a "fuller...
Dear friends, Rebirth in different planes of existence. (part 2). Rebirth-consciousness does not only arise in sensuous planes of existence, kaama-bhuumi, it...
Dear Piya Tan and friend ... I have one passage below that interests me. I try to translate it. But it is not clear to me particularly the phrase of "Cittassa...
Venerable Phra Kaset, ... N: the word dhamma has many meanings. It can also stand for reality. Sometimes it is translated as 'thing'. Ven. Bodhi (The Connected...
Dear friends, I have set up a new folder in the Links section, Ron's List: Understanding misconceptions of Buddhism Earlier this year, I have posted a few...
