--- dhammanando_bhikkhu <dhammanando@...>
skrev:

> And there's the rub! The present list of discussion
> topics
> reads:
>
> > 1. Tipitaka and sutta study
> > 2. Pali language and literature
> > 3. Theravada Buddhism
> > 4. Samatha (Tranquillity) and Vipassana (Insight)
> meditation
> > 5. Sutta study tools and methodology
> > 6. Tipitaka translation theory and practice
>
> It seems to me that this list covers much too broad
> a range
> for the kind of specialist forum indicated by the
> name
> "Pali-L".
> As an alternative to the above list of discussion
> topics I
> propose the following:
>
> 1. Pali language: its history and grammar
> 2. Approaches to the study of Pali
> 3. Pali literature
> 4. Translation theory and practice as applicable to
> Pali texts
>
> What say ye? Any suggestions, comments, criticisms?

I am preliminarily positive to the proposal.
Especially the change from "Tipitaka translation
theory and practice" to "Translation theory and
practice as applicable to Pali texts" - I don't see
any principal reason why post-canonical texts should
be excluded.

I have a lot of opinions myself about the behaviour of
present Theravada bhikkhus in relation to ethnical
problems in Sri Lanka (e.g. that one fasting outside
the temple of the tooth in Kandy just now), and in
relation to monarchy in Thailand, and so on and so
forth ad infinitum; but perhaps this isn't the best
place to discuss such things.

--- rett <rett@...> skrev:

> Demands for
> sectarian conformity belong on some other list, but
> not this one, at
> least in my experience of the usual open and
> friendly climate here.

Especially since you don't necessarily have to be a
Buddhist to study Pali; some might be interested for
purely scholarly reasons, and they must also be
welcome to a list of this kind.

Gunnar


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