Dear Venerables and friends, To cope with my exams, which started today till 19 Nov, I would be taking a break from the Pali practice. Following that, I would...
Dear Yong Peng, Thanks for your ongoing work with creating a needed set of solutions to the exercises, in your Day by Day series. Good luck with your exams....
Dear John and friends, sorry for the late reply. But please allow me to insert the missing line for the trilinear portion: cha.d.detvaa puraa.naani ti.naani...
Dear Ven. Dhammanando and friends, Bhante: thanks for that note. metta, Yong Peng. ... In my PTS texts (mostly very old editions) ca is printed separately from...
Dear Rett and friends, thank you very much for your kind wishes, Rett. I would still be around. :-) I am only taking a break from the Pali series, and focus on...
More Pali - Every few days - [C176] Warder - Exercise 19 (page 145) Passages for Reading 1 (Part 12 of 15) eva.m bho ti kho te satthikaa tassa satthavaahassa ...
Dear Yong Peng, Thank you - good catch. I inadvertently missed a line of text. I'm glad to see somebody is actually reading my series posts! ;-) Also thank...
More Pali - Every few days - [C177] Warder - Exercise 19 (page 145) Passages for Reading 1 (Part 13 of 15) tañ ca sattha.m addasa.msu anaya-vyasana.m...
I am confused. How is it that scholars can provide correct pronunciation and correct grammatical structure, yet it is a "dead language" that was only a spoken...
Dear Ed and friends, Pali, not doubt, is a "dead language". But, it is still liturgical, i.e. used in chanting in Theravada countries, preserving its spoken ...
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Piya Tan
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Nov 8, 2004 4:19 pm
Dear Yong Peng, It is an academic question whether Pali is a dead language or not. Technically, a dead language was once a living spoken language. Pali however...
... I would like to re-formulate that: "Pali however was never anyone's first language. It was a Plansprache..." For two reasons: 1. Any language with a...
Apologies to all. I just accidentally sent a repeat of B207 - please ignore. Here is what I meant to send. Pali - Every few days - [B208] Gair/Karunatillake...
More Pali - Every few days - [C178] Warder - Exercise 19 (page 145) Passages for Reading 1 (Part 14 of 15) atha kho so satthavaaho satthike aamantesi: then /...
If Pali wasn't a lingua franca of northern India, then what language did the Buddha speak? ... I would like to re-formulate that: "Pali however was never...
... Dear Edward, It is sometimes said that the Buddha spoke the Magadhi language. The trouble is, we have no records of the Magadhi language, so simply saying...
Hi, All, This verse was posted for examination on the dhamma-list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dhamma-list since none of the translations at Access to...
Spoiler Alert... if you're trying your hand at translating the verse, don't read the below. ... Hi, Would it help if I posted KR Norman's translation? It's...
Dear Derek, Edward, Gunnar, Piya and friends, thanks for the interesting discussion. To the common beliefs that 1. the Buddha may have never spoken Pali, 2....
... That's my theory as well. Asokas edicts, also, were written in different local Prakrits. That was practical when dealing with texts cut in stone, and not...
More Pali - Every few days - [C179] Warder - Exercise 19 (page 145) Passages for Reading 1 (Part 15 of 15) eva.m bho ti kho te satthikaa tassa satthavaahassa ...
Meditation Retreat Wat Greensboro, North Carolina First Dec 18-26, 2004 Second Dec 26-Jan 1, 2005 A Meditation Retreat for all levels of practice led by Phra...
Dear Michael and friends, below are some points raised by Michael, who has given me the consent to forward it to the group, many of which I believe are...
