Re: Meeting with Peter Skilling; Lampang

Hi, Jim:
Yes, the name of the temple is "Wat Tamao". (I can cearly visualize the entire temple.)
I do not recall the name of the Burmese teacher. But he had very heavy Burese accent
when he spoke in Thai. When I firts visited the temple, I felt very odd to see (and hear)
young novices memorizing the entire Pali grammar book without undestanding
even a single word in it. However, it is the traditional Indian method, which is quite
effective in a long run.
tadao





--- Jim Anderson <jimanderson_on@...> $B$+$i$N%a%C%;!<%8!'(B
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> Dear Eisel and Tadao,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Best wishes,
> Jim
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> > Just reporting that I met for a few hours with Peter Skilling.  He
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> > enough to give me a free copy of his recent book (Pali & Vernacular
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> > from Central Thailand, etc.) and also of a recent survey of Pali
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> > in Cambodia under the same imprint (under his editorship, perhaps?).
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> > 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...).
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