It is too hard to read them even for chinese who know
putonghua and many chinese dialects.He or she must
learn proper old chinese grammar which is not easy.
However,it can be done if you are a fulltime scholar
but not some guys who can only spend one hour per day
for buddhist studies.
--- "K�re A. Lie" <
alberlie@...> wrote:
>
>
> Now that the Chinese Tripitaka is becoming available
> on the net, another
> form of tanha is lifting its head: It would be
> interesting to be able to
> read those texts!
>
> But how can I learn to read them?
>
> My gut feeling says that this would probably take a
> lot more work than
> learning to read Pali, but my gut feelings have been
> wrong before, and may
> be so this time too.
>
> For those who want to learn Pali, we have
> somexcellent tutors available,
> like Warder. Is there some similar tutor for those
> who would like to have a
> look at the Chinese Tipitaka? Is it necessary to
> start with some
> introduction to modern Chinese? I suppose the
> Tipitaka is written in some
> older forms of the language. Is it possible to start
> directly learning the
> old forms?
>
> Lots of questions .... Maybe I'd better give this
> tanha a solid whack on
> its head and stick to the Pali and Sanskrit texts
> ...
>
> Yours,
>
> K�re A. Lie
> http://www.lienet.no/
>
>
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