Lennie,

Kohumada. Glad to know you have been an Sinhalese forest monk. I'm in touch with
Ajahn Brahmavamso, who belongs to the Thai Forest tradition (along witj Ajahn
Sumedho). I think they are doing great work with growing number of monasteries in
UK, Australia, NZ and other places.

Sukhi.

P.


Lennart Zieger wrote:

> Dear Renuka!
>
> So much thanks for your nice email!
> I am especially glad to know that Sinhalese people
> live here in the North of Germany - As I have been to
> Sri Lanka twice in my life (one time for three years,
> living there as an aranya-vasi monk) i cherish a deep
> love for the country and people. Kohomada Mahatmiya?
> Api eka davasak hamuvenne? Mage yahaluvek oba kittuyi
> jivat venne (Schwerin). Ehenem mama nävätte ingrisiyen
> liyanne:
>
> I started pali with the dictionary of Rhys Davids and
> with a simple German Pali grammar of Kurt Schmidt -
> thats all! Then jump into the matter (i.e. texts) and
> simply start translating .. thats the most
> straigtforward way of learning it i found..
>
> greetings to all your sinhalese friends in Luebeck
>
> mettaya
>
> Lenny
>
> --- Renuka Weerasekera <kotus123@...>
> schrieb: > Hi Lenny,
> >
> > Welcome to the group. I am not very active here
> > especially as I am waiting to buy the book by Lily
> > de
> > Silva when I am next in Sri Lanka or get it sent
> > over.
> > Or maybe buy on Amazon, but I am rather wary of
> > e-transactions. Plan to check out what you've got on
> > your site but couldn't resisit mailing you as I am
> > just a few miles away from you so to speak - I am in
> > Luebeck and know a doctor at the Rostock hospital. I
> > came here in 1999 from London to join my husband who
> > moved here from Canada, but we both come originally
> > from Sri Lanka; Kandy to be exact.
> >
> > I am very curious to know how you started off on
> > Pali-
> > what are the books you used? Hope you will share as
> > I
> > am also very interested in starting asap.
> >
> > Well enjoy the group - they are all very very
> > helpful
> > from what I've seen that I too am quite imaptient to
> > start my studies.
> >
> > With metta,
> > Renuka.
> >
> > _-------------------------------------------------
> > Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:02:15 +0100 (CET)
> > > From: Lennart Zieger <lenni_lop@...>
> > > Subject: hello to everyone!
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I just joined this group. In order to intoduce
> > > myself:
> > > My name is Lennart Lopin, Lenny, and my
> > nationality
> > > is
> > > German and I am a student in Rostock. I am 23
> > years
> > > old, reading German, English and Computer Science
> > at
> > > the local university and I study pali for several
> > > years by now (private).
> > >
> > > If anyone here needs pali texts, i started to
> > heave
> > > them online ... see
> > >
> > > http://geocities.com/lenni_lop/Palikanon
> > >
> > > for that.
> > >
> > > Looking forward to intensive co-studies,
> > >
> > > yours Lenny
> >
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