Derek,

I have the good fortune to having the CPD (still unbound mostly) up to Vol 2 fascicle
14 (ironically the very last entry is "ekaayana")!

Wow, I would like to know if any new complete Pali dictionary is out. Hope it will
be better than PED, but it is hard to beat the standard of the comprehensive CPD,
which for this very reason has taken longer than my own lifetime so far to finish!

Can anyone please suggest to me how I can get access to learned journals (like JIABS,
Philosophy E&W, Numen, etc) which often have articles related to Buddhism. Please
let me know other journals that carry articles even remotely connected to Buddhism.
I'm very a very keen student and geek for new developments in Buddhism.

Sometimes I have the good fortune of getting journal articles direct from the
scholars themselves, for example, Joy Manne's "Categories of Sutta in the Pali
Nikayas and their implications for our appreciation of the Buddhist teachingt and
literature" which throws interesting new light on an old lamp. According to her, the
Nikayas (Diigha, etc.) were not compiled according to length but for historical
reasons.

Keep me posted please.

Thanks.

P.

Derek Cameron wrote:

> Hi, Piya,
>
> > the jhaanas or brahmavihaaras. While the latter can lead to
> > Nibbaana, they do not
> > necessarily do so but can lead to sidetracks, whereas
> > satipa.t.thaana leads
> > invariably to the final goal.
>
> That seems to be an excellent and precise analysis to me.
>
> > CPD
>
> I'd heard of the CPD but thought it wasn't finished yet. I'd also
> heard that a new, complete dictionary is due out soon?
>
> > Vipassanaa, canonically, is "insight" or "wisdom".
> > The trend of taking Vipassana
> > as a "meditation practice", as the "only way" to
> > enlightenment started around the
> > late colonial times in South and Southeast Asia,
> > which saw a resurgence of Buddhism
> > there.
>
> Ah ha! That makes sense to me. Thank you for the historical
> background.
>
> > "The Origin of Insight Meditation" (Lance Cousins) in The Buddha
> Forum vol 4 (1996:
> > 35-58).
>
> I'll look out for that one.
>
> Derek.
>
>
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