At 03:53 15.12.2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Pali is so hard. It's been a year I think I am still at practically the same
>place I started out with :p
>
>Does anyone know of a course you can take in Thailand? I'd prefer Pali
>in roman characters but if there's no choice i'll have to think again about
>trying a course with the Thai scripts. Its just for some reason its so
>much harder to understand pali with the Thai scripts. i can't even
>recognize by scanning the text, words like "tathagato" in the Thai script.

Once you start reading the Thai script, you will very soon get used to it.

Back in the eighties, before the Internet and CD roms, I bought the full
Tipitaka and several commentaries in Bangkok, in Thai script. These
editions were far less expensive than the PTS editions.

And now I really think I prefer to read Pali in Thai script. The Thai
writing has a very special beauty of its own.

Yours,

Kåre A. Lie
http://www.lienet.no/