Dear Yong Peng ,
Please reply to ven.Kumara that it is useless to obtain that 40 vol of sixth council tipitaka with milindapanha,petakopadesa and netti in Roman script.A scholar still cannot use this set because he still has to obtain the original in burmese script in case any mistyping in this set.It will be about 800 usd for burmese bookshop to photocopy out in hard cover.

Ong Yong Peng <ypong001@...> wrote:
Dear friends,

below is a mail from Ven. Kumara.


metta,
Yong Peng

--- Kumaara Bhikkhu wrote:

> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:57:10 +0800
> Subject: Fwd: Re: New Pali Texts
>
> FYI
>
> >From: "Sujato"
> >Subject: Re: New Pali Texts
> >Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 17:28:01 +1000
> >
> >Hi Ven
> >
> >I spoke with Major Suratat a few weeks ago. It seems i misunderstood
> him when in Thailand to say that the new tripitaka was ready (ie
> printed) when in fact he meant ready (ie fully checked and collated
> but not printed). In fact the printed edition is not yet out. He
> still wasn't sure of exact dates, but was thinking of the Thai King's
> birthday as launch-date, ie soon after vassa. I'll keep you informed.
> The first edition is the royal edition of 1000 sets intended for
> premier institutions around the world. After that paperback editions
> will be made; digital versions are also intended. I too have had
> problems getting in touch with Major Suratat; it seems he's not all
> that diligent in replying to emails, etc. Anyway, even if he doesn't
> contact you, i will.
> >
> >I'm settling in now at Citta Bhavana Hermitage, and it looks like
> i'll be here permanently; hopefully we can make it into a good forest
> monastery for the Sydney region. I'm thinking of coming to Malaysia
> again, but have no dates yet; i'm cooking up some schemes with Hock
> Eng. My latest plan is to learn Chinese so i can do some more
> research in the early materials in the Chinese canon; i think this
> will be the most interesting area of research in Buddhist studies in
> the coming years.
> >
> >i don't have Bhante Aggacitta's email address, so cannot cc
> >
> >
> >mettaya
> >
> >Sujata
> >
> >
> >
> >> Dear Ven Sujato,
> >>
> >> Hope you're well, bhante.
> >>
> >> I'm writing to you about the new edition of the Pali scriptures.
> After writing to the major on the day you told Bhante about it
> (during GCB2002), we > got a reply saying that we would be kept
> informed. As we did not get any news long after that, we sent another
> mail to check. Till now, there's no > news from them.
> >>
> >> Bhante, I wonder if you have any knowledge as to how we can obtain
> a set of it. If any form of contribution is required, please let us
> know too.
> >>
> >> Thank you very much.
> >>
> >> gaaravena,
> >> kumaara
> >>
> >> p/s: Please cc your reply to Bhante Aggacitta too.

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