At 07:31 05.02.2005 -0500, you wrote:

>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.

I see. Let us hope that one of those scholars will sitt down some day and
write a "Chinese Warder", an introduction that leads straight into the old
language of those texts, so that more people can get access to this
interesting literature.

Best regards,

Kåre A. Lie
http://www.lienet.no/