Re: Khmer edition; Lao libraries

Hey E.M. when you are back in Vientiane, the State Run
Bookstore near Nam Phu sells copies of EFEO editions (real
copies). They had plenty when I was there about a year ago.
Maybe they were bought up, but by whom? There I bought:
Bizot, François et Francois LaGirarde. La pureté par les mots.
Paris: L’École Française d’Extrême-Orient, 1996.

Bizot, F. Le chemin de Lankâ. Paris/Chiang Mai/Phnom Penh:
L’École Française d’Extrême-Orient,  1992.
and
Bizot, F et O von Hinueber. La guirlande de Joyaux.
Paris/Chiang Mai/Phnom Penh: L’École Française
d’Extrême-Orient,  1992.
Ask if they have any left. They sell them for about 20 USD
each which is a deep discount.
Best,
jm
P.S. I contacted my friends at Perendiniya and Columbo on your
behalf. They said they look forward to hearing from you in the
future if you are in the country.

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:03:59 +0600
>From: "navako" <navako@...> 
>Subject: [palistudy] Khmer edition; Lao libraries 
>To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
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>> I am holding in my hands volume three of Textes
>> Bouddhiques du Laos: La puret?par les mots, introduced,
edited, and
>> translated by F. Bizot/F. Lagirarde, published by ?ole
francaise
>d?xtr?e
>> Orient, 1996. I wrote a small paper for this volume on an
interesting
>> historical problem concerning the indigenous interpretation
of Kacc 1.
>You
>> probably have access to that in Vientiane.
>
>I do not have access to any
>E.F.d'E.O. publications here in Meaung Lao.
>
>Aside from Manuscripts, the National Library has mostly Russian
>and Vietnamese communist materials; there is neither much in Lao
>nor English nor French.  The French books that are available are
>primarily novels, not scholarly materials.
>
>The only scholarly materials on Pali, etc., that the National
Library
>has amassed (I believe) the ones that I donated myself.  I
gave them just
>about
>all the books that I owned some time ago --and I haven't seen
them since.
>They don't have any empty space on the bookshelves, so it may
be that
>my donations were put on top of the rotting pile of textbooks
that the U.S.
>consulate gave them not too recently.  I think there are a few
>scholarly reference books in the desk of the MS librarian --but
>not for general use or circulation.
>
>Library infrastructure in Lao is primarily aimed at providing
>support for basic education and literacy.  Neither Luang Pabang
>nor Vientiane have much in the way of contemporary library
>collections; I've just seen the new library in Pakse --it is
>very nice, but has relatively few books.  I'm writing this from
>Champasak --where the availability of books of any kind is
>(as in rural Lao beyond) almost nil.
>
>The NUOL / Dong Dok University library is a nice place to read
> --but, again, one has to bring one's own books for the occasion.
>There aren't many on the shelves, and I am told by
scandalized foreigners
>that
>the books are often missing pages that the professors considered
>offensive.
>
>I have spoken to two Lao professors (who happen to speak
>german) from NUOL / Dong Dok U, and they assured me that
there were
>no books or resources pertaining to Pali, etc., anywhere in the
>university system since it had been removed from both the
high-school
>and university the curriculum (in the early 1980s?).
Whatever limited
>Pali/indological resources exist have been concentrated in
the Sangha
>College (Vientiane), and in a few odd Wats.  This is particularly
>unfortunate for women's education, as (1) these areas are
difficult or
>prohibitive for women to enter, (2) women's education in Pali and
>Buddhist doctrine seems to be a growth industry everywhere
else in
>Asia, and (3) over 80% of the actual sermon attending/active
Buddhist
>population in Urban Lao is female.  The statistics I've seen are
>purely for Vientiane, it may be that there's more male
participation
>in the rural districts; however, in "the big city", actually
>practicing Buddhism seems to be a predominantly female passtime.
>
>Justin McDaniel can describe the collections at the Sangha
College;
>as I neither wear a robe nor speak much Lao, I would have trouble
>insinuating myself into their library.
>
>E.M.
>
>
>--
>A saying of the Buddha from http://metta.lk/
>View Streaming Dhamma Video http://dharmavahini.tv/
>He who delights in subduing (evil) thoughts, who meditates on
"the
>loathsomeness" (of the body), who is ever mindful, - it is he
who will make
>an end (of craving). He will sever Mara's bond.
>Random Dhammapada Verse 350
>
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