Dear Yong Peng,

One of the first things I learned from monastic Buddhism in Thailand when I
was there is that the Buddha did not speak Pali for the simple reason there
was no such language then. It was never a spoken language. Please look up
the works of especially KR Norman, Bechert and others like him, or perhaps
some enligtened ones amongst us might give you a better answer.

Sukhi

Piya

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ong Yong Peng" <ypong001@...>
To: <Pali@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 9:11 AM
Subject: [Pali] Re: Can anyone help with Pali Script?


> Dear Matthew and friends,
>
> of course, the reason why Buddha used Pali to speak to the masses and
> not the higher-class ancient Sanskrit is another story. You can
> imagine them as the common English and Queen's English. Btw, I am not
> a language expert, and do not know much of the details.
>
> metta,
> Yong Peng
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Ong Yong Peng wrote:
> Pali was a vernacular which did not necessary have a script...
>
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