It would be really friendly and polite if you use your real name. Wisdom
best
comes to those true to themselves and to others.

With metta,

Piya Tan

On Feb 3, 2008 1:17 PM, gnosis.panya <gnosis.panya@...> wrote:

> Hi there everyone
> how are you all going?
>
> I just want to ask some questions and get some opinions.
>
> Some background first.
>
> I am 23 year old from Australia.
>
> I am self taught in mostly everything I do but help is great aswell.
> I wish to teach myself many ancient and modern languages.
> Particularly religious languages.
>
> One of my areas of great interest is the tipitaka and palibhasa.
> I wish to learn enough of indian languages and textual criticism to
> study these texts deeply.
>
> As a buddhist i feel that a great gift is to think, speak and act
> with love, charity and wisdom.
>
> I also feel that the mind can be sharp and with those ingredients and
> charity much learning for the good of this world can take place.
>
> The text has many difficulties (life also) that are hard to work out.
> Such as:
> is the j a 'z' sound?
> why are there a lot of 2 vowel pairs even though it is not proper
> pali.
> meaning may well be worked out without solving all of these problems
> but sometimes we may have great difficulties.
>
> I wish to memorize also so these problems make it troubling.
>
> If one is to memorize, must one go with one variant over another?
>
> I have many more questions but for now I will leave with one more.
>
> Where can I find each of these textual tradition for download?
>
> Thai edition
> Sixth Council edition
> Sinhalese (Buddha Jayanti) edition
>
> any older texts such as kharosthi, or gandharan?
>
> I am in the process of creating a nicely organized version of the one
> at tipitaka.org
>
> painful to download xml files so I am familiarizing myself with the
> cannon as well at converting to html by hand.
>
>
>



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