Gunnar, I'm really sorry to hear you have difficulty getting into the World
Tipitaka. I had the same difficulty at first.

The AC Muller website for Mahayana texts, too, is like this: in fact, there
are times when I cannot get in at all, probably due to heavy traffic.

The username and password is to keep our malicious lurkers I think: I know
some Buddhist websites are totally bombed that they have to restart
elsewhere.

Keep trying a simple user name and password (as they ask for). It works for
me. The site is superb, but one setback is it does not have the PTS paging
that CSCD has.

When I need the Pali text I get it from WT, but if I need the PTS paging, I
use CSCD.

Even the CPD is online, too.

With metta,

Piya Tan

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 4:54 AM, Gunnar Gällmo <gunnargallmo@...>wrote:

> I have just been informed that the new Thai Pali Tipitaka, that was
> introduced so emphatically some years ago, is finally available on-line -
>
> http://www.tipitakastudies.net
>
> However, if you enter that web-site and try to read, for example, the Sutta
> Nipata, you are met with the message:
>
> "We're sorry, but yu must have permission to view the page you requested"
>
> Closed fist of the teacher?
>
> There is an offer to register; I have tried to do that, but I am still not
> able to enter.
>
> The VRI edition -
>
> http://tipitaka.org/
>
> which I, as a translator, has used for some years now, makes no such
> difficulties.
>
> The marketeers of the Thai edition are proud to claim that their edition is
> much better checked up that the VRI version, but I wonder:
>
> Are the differences important enough to actually change the meaning of the
> texts?
>
> Are they important enough to try to get inside the Berlin Wall of the Thai
> edition instead of continuing to use the VRI one?
>
> Gunnar
>
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