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On 06/14/2002 at 6:14 PM NamoAmituofo <amituofo@...> wrote:

>From: "Kaveenga" <kaveenga@...>
>
>Dear Friends
>
> Please see if u can help in this project and forward this email to
> those who would be interested.
>
> The Project: Publishing the Buddhist Encyclopaedia (BE) online at
> http://www.metta.lk
>
> The Buddhist Encyclopaedia (BE) edited by Prof Malalasekara and
then
> by Prof Jothiya Deerasekara (now Bante Dhammavihari) is probably
the
> largest reference work on Buddhism. This work was compiled into 5
> large volumes. We have been trying to get permission to publish it
> online, so that it could be dynamic, updateable, easily accessible
> and with multimedia, like the MS Encarta and Britanica which are
> available online and on CD. However, previously permission was
denied
> saying that the online version would impede the sale of the printed
> volume (even when the printed sales was dismal!). Now that we have
> got permission we need as many ppl to work on it.
>
>Bante Mettavihari (who resides with Bante Dhammavihari) at the
Narada
> Center in Colombo, has received permission to publish the BE online
> in the Metta.lk website. (Bante Mettavihari was also reponsilble
for
> the publishing of the entire Pali Text Society (PTS) tripitaka
> online.)
>
> Publishing the BE online is a monumental task and needs all help
> possible. Even those not in Sri Lanka can help.
>
> Please forward this msg to those on your list and ask them to join
> the eList created especially for this, by sending an email to
> encyclopaedia-subscribe@...
>
> with Metta
>
> Yours in the service of the Buddha Sasana
>
> Kavee
>
> Kaveenga Wijayasekara
> Sydney
> kaveenga@...
> 02-98908734
>
> ________________________________________________________________
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <encyclopaedia@...>
> To: "Kaveenga" <kaveenga@...>
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 3:48 AM
>
>
> Dear Kavee,
>
> Good News
> ---------
>
> The Encyclopaedia is now under its way.
>
> I have started to scan in the first volume and anyone who wants to
> help can drop in at the Narada Center Bookshop (Sarana Rd, off
> Baudhaloka Mw, Col 7 - adjoining the Dhammavijaya Foundation), to
> collect 16 pages for correction with the fonts on a diskette.
>
> Please send the notice around
>
> I have also created a mailing list on metta.lk
> encyclopaedia-subscribe@...
> will get you on the list.
>
> I am thinking that persons overseas can have the .jpg images and
the
> OCR file and they can proof-read from where they are.
>
> with metta
> Mettavihari
>
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> A saying of the Buddha from http://metta.lk/
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> Your life has come to end now. To the presence of death you are
> getting out. No halting place is there for you by the way.
Provision
> too there is none for you.
> Random Dhammapada Verse 237
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