Bhante,

It would be lovely to have Peter Skilling's work on "Maha Sutras" as I have been
looking for this work without success so far.

Sakkacca.m namakkara.m

Piya

Bhante Sujato wrote:

> Thanks all who have replied so far.
>
> Re the Chinese tipitaka, i know little, but have heard that the T
> Koreana is more primitive technologically than the CBETA. Anyway,
> the CBETA seems to be the standard (it is excellent to use, far in
> advance of the digital Pali canons; it has a handy 'copy and cite'
> button that saves a lot of time, and allows searching under various
> modes, eg page reference, volume number, character, etc).
>
> For Piya Tan, fantastic - actually we were going to ask you if we
> could use your material. There should be plenty of space.
>
> Stephen, that would be fantastic if you could offer us
> transcriptions of the Samathadeva quotes, starting with those from
> DA. When the project is up and running, we would like to approach
> PTS and Peter Skilling to see if we could use his Maha Sutras
> translations when they appear. I don't see that this would conflict
> with PTS's interests, as it would be a teaser for people to buy the
> full three volume critical edition. But we want to get the pilot up
> first, so that people can easily see exactly what we're about.
>
> Regarding the Arthaviniscaya, yes i have seen Samtani's edition, but
> since i know no Devanagari, i was limited to reading Samtani's
> notes. If you had a version in Roman, i'd love to see it.
>
> in Dhamma
>
> Bhante Sujato
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen Hodge" <s.hodge@...> wrote:
> > Dear Bhante,
> >
> > I'm glad to hear that this excellent project is moving forward.
> >
> > > at least one translation of a Digha Agama from Chinese available
> online.
> > Also, as you will know, there are quite a number of "orphan"
> translations
> > into Chinese of DA sutras, affiliation uncertain in most cases,
> which should
> > be included.
> >
> > > One of the things we would like to do is to link up with
> significant
> > > resources [snip]  So i'd like to ask the group if they've got
> any
> > > suggestions?
> > As far as I know there is nothing from Tibetan sources on-line --
> not
> > surprising since Tibetan Agama materials is very sparse apart from
> > Samathadeva's compilation.
> >
> > > What we are after is the links to:
> > > 1. Text, in Pali, Chinese, Sanskrit of any Digha sutta
> >
> > If the volume is not too excessive, I  would be happy to
> transcribe the DA
> > quotes in Shamathadeva that I can indentify as such -- there are a
> lot of
> > quotes without attribution but I think most of those are actually
> SA sutras.
> >
> > > 3. Maha Satipatthana Sutta
> > I have been meaning to ask you -- have you looked at the version
> included in
> > the Artha-vini'scaya & commentary, available in Sanskrit ?  If you
> do not
> > have access to the printed edition, I could scan the relevent
> pages for you.
> > Not sure about the lineage but most likely MulSA or SA.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Stephen Hodge
>
>
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