Bhante, Jon, and Pali friends,

I'm delighted that more and more Plai reference works are being made
available
online. This really facilitates Pali and Buddhist studies, esp translation
work.
In an important sense, this lengthens our lifespans by way of cutting down
the
time for retrieving of those materials that have been worked before. So we
need
mainly to focus on what needs to be done.

Andersen's Pali Glossary (for the Dhammapada) is another welcome entry.
However, the unique codings used have to be globally converted into the
standard diacritics or Velthuis. I have converted mine to standard
diacritics,
but still needs to check if all the diacritics has been converted.

If anyone wants this copy, please let me know. I also welcome a completely
diacritic-updated one, if any. This is in MS Word.

With metta,

Piya

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Jon Fernquest <bayinnaung@...> wrote:

> Dear Nyanatusita;
>
>
> "Did you try the Thesaurus of Pali Gatha on the same website? It
> seems to me that it is not finished yet."
>
> I have never heard about it before til I saw it on that site.
> If anyone knows about it, sure would be interesting in learning more.
> There is also the Pali Tipi.taka.m Concordance of 1952 by Woodward and
> others, dated to 1952 and "in progress" in Warder's bibliography.
> Wonder what this did and what became of it? Warder says it is a "basic
> tool for the study of the grammar and lexis of the canon" and
> definitely sounds like something that computers excel at.
>
> Seems like with a comprehensive online dictionary database, a
> thesaurus would be another useful reference work that could be created
> at least in a rough form, fairly quickly, and then be improved upon
> gradually.
>
> [Thank you again Piya Tan for the help. Will send personal thank you
> later when I am completely finished so as not to use everyone's bandwidth]
>
> With metta,
> Jon
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com <Pali%40yahoogroups.com>, Nyanatusita
> <nyanatusita@...> wrote:
> >
> > Nyanatusita wrote:
> > Dear Jon,
> >
> > Thanks for the info about Dines Andersen's glossary. My normal (un-)
> > zip program (called TUGzip, a freeware) had no problems opening it and
> > there was no need for a special Japanese program.
> > Did you try the Thesaurus of Pali Gatha on the same website? It seems
> > to me that it is not finished yet.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bh. Nyanatusita
> >
> >
> > Glossary for Dines Andersen Pali Reader available online:
> > http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~pali-bud/sub3.html<http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/%7Epali-bud/sub3.html>
> >
> > Need special Japanese unzip utility;
> > http://www.altools.com/Downloads/ALZip.aspx
> > >>
> > >
> >
>
>
>



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