>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

I'm getting a corrupt fonts message when I read these files.
Do you need to have certain fonts installed?
What version of Adobe's reader do you use?

Thank you for sharing this.

[BTW if you carried on your Pali conversation with English translation
underneath, it would be like teaching conversational Pali, wouldn't
it? I haven't studied enough to understand some of the grammar+vocab.
It would be interesting to see a transcript + translation of Pali
conversations]

Sincerely,
Jon Fernquest

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Piya Tan" <dharmafarer@...> wrote:
>
> 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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