Dear friends,

as we welcome and celebrate the new year, I like to take the opportunity to thank everyone for your generous contributions of knowledge and time to our discussions. We have made good progress this year, with the completion of The New Pali Course Part II, and also with several important ongoing discussions,

(a) The New Pali Course Part III by Ven. A. P. Buddhadatta
(b) Introduction to Pali by A. K. Warder
(c) Anguttara Nikaya: Duka Nipata
(d) Saddaniti

I hope that we can make similar advances in these discussions in the new year. In particular, I hope that we can at least get some discussions going for the middle section of Introduction to Pali. At the moment, I am still preparing myself for the exercises. I will be making the first post in the early weeks of the new year.

I wish everyone a happy holiday, and the very best in 2010.


With metta,
Yong Peng.