Dear Patrick,

I have forwarded your mail to the group, making the discussion open, to
benefit those new to Pali.

metta,
Yong Peng


--- Zasetsu57 <zasetsu57@...> wrote:

> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 08:32:49 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Dear Sir....
> I subscribed to the Pali language group some time ago....and have
> been reading the posts with great interest....I have no knowledge of
> the language whatsoever and have no clue as to where to begin, but
> would love to begin learning....can you recommend a good starting
> point, perhaps some referee books for beginners?I have been seriously
> interested in and have been studying buddhism for a very long time
> now, but think it would round out my knwledge quite well to add Pali
> to my list of "can-do's"....I hope you can be of
> assistance....also....is there a written Pali? I have never
> encountered any samples of written Pali before and would be
> interested in seeing what the language loks like.
> I am a semi-professional artist and do abstracts with various
> buddhist terms in various languages (Chinese--Japanese--Tibetan
> scripts etc.) and think Pali would be a wonderful addition to my
> portfolio. In advance of your kindness and attention, I humbly thank
> you
> very very much....
>
>
> Metta-
>
> Patrick D. Poole
>
>
> May All Beings Be Free From Suffering!

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