--- Barry Wadsworth <barry@...> skrev:

> I learned from studying Chinese that it is very
> important to first
> study proper pronunciation.

A little beside Pali - but what is "proper
pronunciation" when chanting Chinese sutras? Is it
modern Mandarin or modern Cantonese (which I don't
think existed when those sutras were composed), or is
it some attempt to reconstruct the actual
pronunciation of those times?

Gunnar