Re: 1. Logic of Pali grammar, 2. Decline of Pali education

Dear E.M

>1. I note the following from N. Ray's history:
>  "One [Bhante] Saddhammaguru wrote ... the Vaacakopadesa, which 'treats the grammatical categories from a logical point of view.'"
> This sounds like an interesting resource --especially for those of us who have wrestled with inconsistencies in Pali grammatical terminology.
> 
>

What can be those "inconsistencies"? It would be interesting to know.

>2. An interesting (and brief) article about Buddhist education in Burma & Thailand, highlighting the decline of Pali studies in both places --NB: almost all of the useful information is to be found in the foot-notes, as the main text is reproduced from a lecture.
>www.stanford.edu/group/scbs/Calendar/
>calendar2003-04/burma_conference/papers/dhammasami.doc
>
I have already gone to the site, but I found only the calender 2004-05.
I don't know why, maybe the page has been taken down, or I'm just too
dense to find it.

with metta

Ven. Pandita