Re: moderator's note

Dear Lance,
Glad it wasn't you that left (not that I want anyone
to leave of course!)
Just to add a note of appreciation for the PTS work.
I really like your revision of The Dispeller of
Delusion, my copies are almost falling apart, I've
read them so much .
Robert
--- "L.S. Cousins" <selwyn@...> wrote:

> Ven. Pandita enquires:
>
> >I would like to know the identity of the unnamed
> Burmese monk in the
> >following quotation from the Editorial Note of
> Saddhammappakaasinii
> >(Commentary on Mahaaniddesa), published by PTS. It
> was an Indian
> >professor's writing:
>
> You mean of course: (Commentary on
> Pa.tisambhidaamagga).
>
> >    " The source to which my vv.ll. footnotes refer
> are:
> >
> >    B = Burmese transcript made by a Burmese monk
> residing in London to
> >learn English, but left penniless by            his
> patron, and employed
> >by the P.T.S
> >
> >    BM =  vv.ll. quoted  by the transcriber of B
> from a MS., also lent by
> >P.T.S., which he is pleased to call Muula."
> >
> >
> >I would like to know who was the Burmese monk who
> made the Burmese
> >transcript B, even though the editor he had helped
> failed to record his
> >name.  It is a missing detail in the history of
> Burmese contributions to
> >the international Pali studies.
> >
>
> I have always assumed this to be Ven. U Thittila. He
> certainly took
> some employment as librarian in the Buddhist Society
> at one point.
> But I have no definite evidence.
>
> Lance Cousins
>