Re: Meeting with Peter Skilling; Lampang

Dear Eisel and Tadao,

Eisel, thanks for reporting on your interesting meeting with Peter
Skilling and about the Pali centre in Lampang which I first heard
about only this past January and it's come up a few times since then.
I'm not sure of its right spelling but Wat Ta Ma O is the one I have
in mind. If you get a chance to visit this place, it would be good if
you could check out their bookstore for traditional Pali grammars and
find out if they handle book orders from abroad.

Tadao, welcome back and thank-you for the interesting details on the
method of learning Pali at the Wat. I believe the name of the elderly
Burmese Pali teacher you refer to is Ven. Dhammanando--not the same as
the one subscribed here although I believe the latter has studied Pali
with the older one.

For newcomers, Tadao used to teach at the University of Victoria,
British Colombia as a professor of linguistics and even taught Pali
there as a summer course a few times. At the beginning of April he
took up a new position at the Graduate School of International
Cultural Studies at Tohoku University in Japan.

Best wishes,
Jim

> Just reporting that I met for a few hours with Peter Skilling.  He
was kind
> enough to give me a free copy of his recent book (Pali & Vernacular
sources
> from Central Thailand, etc.) and also of a recent survey of Pali
manuscripts
> in Cambodia under the same imprint (under his editorship, perhaps?).
In
> return, I could only offer him a few pages of my "forthcoming" book
(we had
> a few jokes about the use of the word "forthcoming" in this line of
> work...).