--- In bodhimail@..., "SD" <sdjaya@...> wrote:
t:
[BNC] Some wonderful news from Bante Mettavihari about the
Buddhist
Encyclopedia!
Date:
Tue, 04 Jun 2002 12:10:30 -0000

Dear Friends in Dhamma

Today Bante Mettavihari sent this email containing some wonderful
news to be forwarded to those who would be interested. Hence I am
forwarding it to the DAYA & BNC eGroups.

Please note in order to make this wonderful opportunity a reality
YOUR HELP is required!

Those interested are kindly requested to email Bante Mettavihari at
daya@... or contact the

Narada Centre
Sarana Road
(Off Bauddaloka Mw - adjoining the Dharmavijaya Foundation)
Colombo 7

Yours in the service of the Buddha Sasana

Kavee

---------ORIGINAL MESSAGE-----------

Kavee and I had a discussion about a year ago about putting the
Encyclopedia on the Internet and I also remember, Kavee, you spoke
about getting started on the Encyclopedia on this list some time ago.

Today I had a meeting with the Minister of Buddha Sasana, and was
granted permission to put up the Encyclopedia on www.metta.lk

This need a carefully coordinated action as I intend to finish the
job in 4-5 month.

We have 5 Vol of 750 pages = 3750 Pages

I remember when we where doing the English Tipitaka that one can scan
approximately 200 pages per day, inclusive of running OCR on the
scanned object.

I will do the Job of Scanning the text and running the OCR.

I would like to know who and who would like to help with the proof-
reading of this project.

with metta
Mettavihari

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A saying of the Buddha from http://metta.lk/
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By sustained effort, earnestness, discipline, and self-control, let
the wise man make for himself an island, which no flood overwhelms.
Random Dhammapada Verse 25



~All it takes for the Dhamma to disappear is for Buddhists to do
nothing~

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