Dhivan has done a great paper on "Why did Brahma ask the Buddha to teach?"

Those interesting in reading about the problem passage that Dhivan and I are
talking about,
can read a bit of what I have done here:

http://dharmafarer.googlepages.com/S6.1_Ayacana_S_sd12.2.pdf

http://dharmafarer.googlepages.com/M26_Ariyapariyesana_S_sd1.11.pdf

http://dharmafarer.googlepages.com/sd12.1_Why_the_Buddha_hesitated.pdf

This is still an interesting open research, so your views and suggestions
are welcome.


With metta,

Piya Tan

On Feb 11, 2008 12:52 AM, dkotschessa <dkotschessa@...> wrote:

> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com <Pali%40yahoogroups.com>, "Jon Fernquest"
> <bayinnaung@...> wrote:
> >
> > Dear List;
> >
> > "King's of the Buddha's Time" (1983) by Bhikkhu Amritananda of Nepal
> > (now deceased)
> >
> > This is a really fantastic book that I would recommend to anyone
> > interested in Pali literature.
> >
> > It is full of useful background information and puts Jataka stories
> > into context.
> >
> > Often you hear names when reading the Tipitaka that can sometimes
> not
> > have meaning for the reader due to limitations in knowledge. This
> book
> > weaves together disparate parts of the Tipitaka into biographies and
> > narratives and provides this background info.
> >
> > It only cost 80 baht (2.5 US dollars) at the bookstore across from
> Wat
> > Benjamapopit (sorry for spelling) which leads me to believe that the
> > price was set more to cover the cost of paper than to make any
> profit,
> > with an aim to disseminating this work as widely as possible.
> >
> > Which leads me to conclude that a lot of authors of works probably
> > would be open to making their work available on the internet, if
> asked
> > politely with objective of non-profit dissemination made clear.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Jon
>
> Jon,
>
> How would somebody from the U.S. go about getting a copy? When I
> search for it online it leads me back here to this post!
>
> -DaveK
>
>
>



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