2006/3/16, Gerard <gmblok@...>:

>
> I sincerely want to start with Pali.
> There is no possibility to do a course in Pali, in Holland, so I have to
> do in on my own.
> Could anyone advice me about how to proceed? Is there maybe a
> correspondenc course that you can follow? What book should I study, for
> instance, and maybe there will me more tips about studying Pali?
> Just to inform you: I studied greek and latin in my younger years.
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> Gerard Blok, Amsterdam

Hoi Gerard,

you might want to begin with Warder's Introduction to Pali (PTS). Your
knowledge of Greek and Latin will serve as a good basis for you learning the
various cases and verbs in all their forms. Rune Johansson's Pali Buddhist
Texts (Curzon) can be used too as an introduction. You can pose question on
this forum.
Coulson's Teach yourself Sanskrit does Buddhist Sanskrit, but can do a job
as a more general background (or sideground) of Sanskrit and its relation to
Pali.
A good grammar is Charles Durouselle's A Practical Grammar of the Pali
Language, which can be found in PDF at www.buddhanet.net.

Best wishes,

Stefan
Leuven, Belgium


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