George,

The book is written by AP Buddhadatta, a monk. From my dealing with monks, I
know
the practitioners do not even accept royalty. However, they would naturally
feel good
if we at least acknowledge their work/s.

Take Analayo Samanera's "Satipatthana: The direct path to realization" (it
is the best
modern book on the Satipatthana Sutta): you can get it free (eg from
Malaysia, if there
is still stock) or buy one. Sadly many Buddhist books are simply exorbitant
today.

On the bright side, a book seller from India wants a set of the hard copies
of my Sutta
Discovery translation series, and I thought it would be a good idea for an
exchange. We
agreed, and in fact the packages of books just arrived from India this week
in time for me
to have a happy Dharma bookworm's holiday :)

I also know a growing number of "enlightened" scholars who would put their
articles online
for all, and also serials like the Journal of Buddhist Ethics which is
available free online.
That is one reason why I have uploaded my own translations into the
Dharmafarer Website,
and we do not compete for cyber attention too much, we can together do great
service for
other seekers and lurkers like you.

Can we this year resolve to try to make this website an even warmer
human-centred nut-free
Pali for Dharma and liberation website? (Operative word, "try".)

Pali for Dharma always,

Piya Tan

On Feb 7, 2008 10:58 AM, gdbedell <gdbedell@...> wrote:

> Yong Peng,
>
> Recently a got a copy of Buddhadatta's Aids to Pali Conversation and
> Translation (1951).
> It is a small book (228 pp.) with five components: Words in groups (pp.
> 1-46),
> Conversations (pp. 47-86), Aids to Translation (pp. 87-133), Pali-English
> Vocabulary (pp.
> 134-79), English-Pali Vocabulary (pp. 180-228). There are no exercises as
> such, but the
> translation passages could be used (fairly difficult, though). How helpful
> it would be to
> those interested in spoken Pali I cannot say, but I would be willing to
> type it out as you
> have been doing for the New Course II. I would need a few pointers about
> format, and the
> copyright question is also pertinent.
>
> George Bedell
>
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com <Pali%40yahoogroups.com>, "Ong Yong Peng" <
> pali.smith@...> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Jon and friends,
> >
> > thank you for the introduction. You are right that I am an electrical
> > engineer, and computer programming is a great hobby to me. It is a
> > great pleasure to know you.
> >
> > I also like to extend a big welcome to all new members of the list.
> >
> > In the next few days, I will provide the list with a plan for 2008,
> > within which I hope to include a programming project, so that the
> > "builders" among us can have something to work on. ;-)
> >
> > metta,
> > Yong Peng.
> >
>
>
>



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