Dear Piya and friends,

thanks. I am referring to PTS English edition of Digha Nikaya -
Dialogues of the Buddha, and there is actually numbering for the
paragraphs. Metta Net (the site is down at the moment, so I can't
provide the exact document location), http://www.metta.lk/ has the
whole PTS Digha that I refer to.

Also, I wonder if we should be following a Pali Tipitaka such as CSCD
for reference, rather than an English one, which is bound to cause
confusion, further more, CSCD is more readily accessible and it is
free.

As for the website, yes, it is similar to CSCD. I don't think you can
download it in the conventional way. [However, you may copy the
entire CSCD to your harddisk, and trick your PC to use it as though
it is accessing a CD-ROM drive. I'm not sure if this work, but you
may try it out.]

metta,
Yong Peng

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Piya Tan wrote:
> For standard paragraph numbering (actually given in one of my
earlier emails), it's best to follow the PTS ed, since it is the most
referred to amongst scholars. However, where the PTS ed do not have
such a numbering (as in the Digha), you can find these numberings in
the good translations (in the case of Digha, in Walshe's tr.)
>
> For the Majjhima, use the Nyananoli.Bodhi tr.
> For the Samyutta, use the Bodhi tr.
> For the Anguttara and others, we only have the PTS translations.
>
> These numberings are useful to cross-check translations, too.
>
> BTW the Pali Canon you from
> http://www.tipitaka.org/tipitaka/booklistframe2.html must be the
CSCD version.
> Anyway, how do I download this Canon: is there a zip file? This
would be easier to use if I can install this on my computer so that I
do not have to use the CD each time.