[palistudy] Re:Re: moderator's note

Dear Ven. Pandita,

I don't think you are right to think this. You must remember that at
this time Ven. U Thittila (if it is him) would have been a fairly
junior monk. (I don't have his date of birth to hand.)

Prof. Joshi probably doesn't give his name because he didn't know it.
The transcript would have been organized and sent by Mrs Rhys Davids,
the then President of the PTS.

I presume that in fact she will have herself paid for this, most
probably out of her own pocket. In part this will no doubt have been
in order to help the monk in question. She would not have wished to
mention this. (The English tradition is of doing good in secret or in
a low key manner - different to the general tradition of the Buddhist
countries.)

Of course, this is only my interpretation, but it is based upon some
knowledge of how things were done in those days.

Lance Cousins

>I myself think that it must be Sayadaw U Thittila but I cannot be
>sure, for, as you may notice, it is not an acknowledgement worthy of
>him. I feel that it is only a thinly veiled insult, probably the
>result of a personal conflict. It may be nothing to those outside
>Burma; but for Burmese people, especially for Burmese monks, it may
>warp the image of PTS in their eyes. I feel rather sad for it.
>
>with metta
>
>Ven. Pandita