From: Piya Tan
Message: 12090
Date: 2008-02-03
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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