Hi John,
If you're going to do a triliner version of
anything, I cast my vote for the dhammapada.
Everything in there is excellent, whereas the bhavana
vandana is only about 50% related to core buddhist
principles. The other half is somewhat superstitious
or related to peripheral nonimportant elements of
buddhist tradition, probably developed to cater to the
supporting laypeople (chants of blessings, protection,
mahayana-esque prayers). Not that this is wrong. I'm
all for buddhism doing some non-ideal "buddhist"
practices to ensure survival for future generations,
but no need to waste effort of the excellent trilinear
method on superstitious prayers IMHO.

-fk


--- John Kelly <palistudent@...> wrote:

> Friends,
> Having mentioned this in my previous email, I
> thought
> I would point out where you can find this excellent
> book on the web:
> http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/vandana.pdf
>
> This contains Pali on the left side of each page,
> and
> English translations on the right, and includes many
> of the most common devotional verses and suttas
> chanted by Theravadan monks around the world. This
> is
> used at the Bhaavanaa Society forest monastery in
> West
> virginia, where Bhante Gunaratana (a superb teacher
> and beautiful being) is the abbot.
>
> One of my planned future projects (when I have a
> little time) is to create a trilinear version of as
> much of this as I can.
>
> Metta,
> John
>
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