19th c. Pali articles, now on-line
From: Eisel Mazard
Message: 2106
Date: 2006-12-12
Although there is much on this web-site that we would all like to
avoid, I will stoop to mentioning that there are some useful (19th c.)
Pali articles now available through the "Sacred Texts" programme:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/etc/index.htm
A few old translations by Fausboll, etc., that are certainly useful
for a man living in my difficult circumstances --aside from a few odd
copies of "Bodhi Leaves", I don't think I own (or have access to) a
single sutta in translation here.
Under the dubious heading of "Southern Buddhism", the same site has a
number of major works by Rhys-Davids now in the public domain (in
defiance of the PTS's wishes, I'm sure):
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/index.htm
P.S. to Jim: given your own former requests that I write less
frequently, and less politically, I am not about to provide you with a
hair-raising account of the British "burn, loot, and pillage" policy
in Burma --despite your request that I do so. It is really outrageous
for a western author to "lament" that the British did not steal more
texts --i.e., presumably to protect them against predation by the
British themselves?
E.M.