Re: audio tipitaka?

Dear Frank,

We had tried a couple of times (locally) to get some Sri Lankan monks (esp.
because of their Indian pronunciation) to recite or even just read Suttas,
have someone record that, and upload it - it would solve the mystery once
and for all for many of those who pick up Pali and are at a loss how to
pronounce properly. Especially are larger body of sound recordings would be
very helpful in letting the proper pronunciation "sink in".

I guess, one day, someone will do it :-) At least from Sri Lanka I know that
(in some forest monasteries) they actually try to make the pronunciation as
"authentic" as possible (well, as far as you can reconstruct it anyways -
Bhante Sumedha Bhadra comes to my mind, for example)

metta,

Lennart

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:44 AM, frank <fcckuan@...> wrote:

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> An idea occurred to me today, as I was lamenting that the most recent
> sutta readings recorded on this site
> http://www.suttareadings.net/audio/index.html were from 2006.
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> If we were to crowdsource and wikify a similar project, it would not be
> hard to quickly have an audio tipitaka in both english and pali (audio
> recitation).
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> For example, suppose 50 english speakers spent an hour a week to read
> one sutta and record an .mp3 of it. In 3 weeks, we could have the entire
> majjhima nikaya in audio. Similarly with the pali MN.
>
> Has this already been done in pali? I imagine audio recordings of monks
> reciting the tipitaka are likely to exist already.
>
> -Frank
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