Bhante & friends,

For those who know Chinese (I know almost none), in connection with the Chinese
Buddhist texts, this website might be interesting.

http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i02/Wittern/

Sukhi

Piya

Bhante Sujato wrote:

> Hi Piya Tan, Dr Oo, Thomas
>
> There is a Yin Shun Foundation in Taiwan that is undertaking a
> complete translation into English of Yin Shun's entire corpus - a
> considerable work. According to Rod Bucknell, though, they are
> mainly focussing on his more popular, humanistic Buddhism work
> first, rather than the serious scholarly researches. It would be
> worth enquiring with them as to their progress. Maybe we can lobby
> them to translate the 'Formation' quickly! Try asking Rod, or Choong
> Mun-keat about this.
>
> For Dr Oo, it's not that the GIST is out of print, but that some of
> the research and information is out of date already. You should be
> able to get copies from the Buddhist Fellowship in Singapore. Still,
> most of it is still sound, and i think the overall ideas have been
> substantially buttressed by several new bits of information.
>
> Probably the most important is the complete contents of the Skt DA
> (Sarvastivada), which i have just got details of. I dug around and
> found the scholar who's working on the new manuscript finds, Jen-Uwe
> Hartmann, and popped him off an email. He was kind enough to respond
> with an article giving the latest research findings. Very exciting!
> If anyone wants a copy, let me know offline and i'll forward the pdf
> file. Give me a few days and i'll be able to post the essential
> contents here.
>
> Re the sattapanni cave, it's strange that you mention it, but i had
> the same feeling. I'm not sure what the evidence is for identifying
> it, but it seems far too small, even allowing for the obvious rock-
> falls.
>
> And as a notice regarding monks funerals, i should mention that the
> funeral of Luang Po Pannavaddho has just taken place. He was the
> senior westerner monk in Thailand, the vice-abbot at Ajahn Maha
> Bua's monastery, and a highly respected practitioner. He died of
> cancer, passing away peacefully. Ajahn Maha Bua has kindly offered
> the relics to the western Sangha, and they will be distributed among
> the various branches over the world. Apparently some have
> crystallized already...
>
> in Dhamma
>
> Bhante Sujato
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Piya Tan <libris@...> wrote:
> > Dear Thomas,
> >
> > Do you (or anyone) know the pinyin version of Ven Yinshun's
> book "The Formation of
> > Early Buddhist Texts". I plan to buy this book and look for some
> people who might be
> > able to translate this book into English.
> >
> > I am looking for someone well versed in Buddhist Chinese. I will
> do the English/Pali
> > editing.
> >
> > Sukhi
> >
> > Piya
> >
> > ---------
> >
> > thomaslaw03 wrote:
> >
> > > --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Bhante Sujato" <sujato@...> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Junet, yes i did give a talk on the structure of the Buddha's
> > > > teachings, and published a book on the topic called The GIST.
> Alas,
> > > > it's already out-of-date and revisions are underway. I think
> that
> > > > certain ideas pursued by Ven Yin Shun and others are leading
> to one
> > > > of the great breakthroughs that Gombrich talked about in his
> book.
> > > > To sum up briefly: the large scale structure of the Dhamma
> (textual
> > > > teachings) in its earliest redaction was modelled after the
> > > > structure of the Dhamma (truth of reality) itself, the 4 noble
> > > > truths. This is approximately what we today call the Samyutta
> > > > Nikaya/Agama. I started pursuing such matters almost by
> accident,
> > > > and the significance of it is only just starting to become
> clear to
> > > > me.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I hope that one day we would have English translation of Ven. Yin
> > > Shun's works, particularly, _The Formation of Early Buddhist
> Texts_.
> > > At least a clear and critical introductory English article of the
> > > book should come to exist. So, the wider Buddhist communities in
> the
> > > world could know why and how the Samyutta-nikaya/Samyukta-agama
> is
> > > historically an earliest collection of the Nikayas/Agamas, which
> Ven.
> > > Yin Shun suggests.
> > >
> > > Thomas Law
> > >
> > >
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