EM: Improved Pali Website, new mailing address in Laos
From: Eisel Mazard
Message: 1979
Date: 2006-08-27
Major improvements to my Pali website (http://pali.pratyeka.org/) including:
* I added a set of Unicode compliant etexts of the Vinaya and 4
Nikayas (sorry, no KN yet) wrapped up in well-formatted PDFs. These
are great for rapid text searches (due to technological change in the
past five years, searching PDFs has become preferable to searching TXT
files):
http://pali.pratyeka.org/#Canon-etexts
* I added my own mailing address (as an image, in Lao text) at the
bottom of the page, so that anyone who really (really) wants to get in
touch with me can print out the image, and glue the top half of it to
a package. This reflects the fact that I now have my own post-office
box number, etc., here in Vientiane. Thus, if Jim or Justin anyone
else now needs to send me books, they have a relatively easy way to do
it.
The next update will include the new edition of Duroiselle's
textbook (PDF) --now 95% complete.
For my own part: a recent three-hour interrogation by the Lao police
reminded me of the great importance of speaking the local vernacular,
and I have temporarily "dropped" all work on Pali to brush up on my
Laotian vocabulary. I probably will not work seriously on Kaccayana
for another two months, or until I've memorized another 2,000 Lao
monosyllables (whichever comes first).
E.M.