Dear DaveK;

> I would like to specifically address "technical" terminology drawn
> from the numerous lists - the five aggregates, dependent origination,
> 7 factors of awakening, 5 hindrances, etc. Just those lists alone
> should keep us busy.

Sounds great. I'm preparing a paper on lists in Burmese history and
literature right now, and many of these lists originate in the Anguttara
Nikaya, so I am very interested in delving more into this part of the
Tipitaka which oftens summarizes points make in other parts of the
Tipitaka, for example in the seven "aparihaniya" or "ways to avoid
decline."

> Benefit for the beginner would include simply learning the word and
> it's meaning. Benefit to intermediate and more advanced students
> would include maybe a discussion on the word entymology, alternate
> english translations, comparisons to other languages (Hindi,
> sanskrit, singalese, Thai(?) and other indo European languages).

Sounds great. Might I suggest including many example sentences from
which one may also infer common collocations. This is what I do
everyday at the newspaper I work at:
http://www.readbangkokpost.com/businesswords/

I use the British National Corpus:
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/

Since there are so many Pali texts online they could easily be made into
a corpus. The concordancer that extracts all instances of a word would
be a little difficult since Pali is so heavily inflected, but someone must
have looked at this problem in either Pali or Sanskrit.

Sincerely,
Jon Fernquest