Re: Buddha Jayanthi Tipitaka being scanned in as picture files

People in Sri lanka do print dhamma books and they have the money as well..Why not collect the money and reprint it?I am the guy who totally against the idea of making it free .Anyone in the west and east can afford any books selling from lanka.I am very sure about that.

--- On Thu, 3/26/09, Ong Teng Kee <ongtkee@...> wrote:
From: Ong Teng Kee <ongtkee@...>
Subject: Re: [palistudy] Buddha Jayanthi Tipitaka being scanned in as picture files
To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
Received: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 3:51 AM











    
             The simon series are so cheap in lanka rupee.Why is the point of scanning it.Maybe I am wrong the books are all sold out.



--- On Thu, 3/26/09, Nyanatusita <nyanatusita@ gmail.com> wrote:

From: Nyanatusita <nyanatusita@ gmail.com>

Subject: [palistudy] Buddha Jayanthi Tipitaka being scanned in as picture files

To: palistudy@... ps.com

Received: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 3:36 AM



Dear members,



For your information. A volunteer at the BPS has started to scan in the



Pali of the Buddha Jayanthi Tipitaka. The picture files will be put as



PDFs on the internet. In this way the original text can be accessed by



scholars who know Sinhala script.



As you might already know, the typed in version which was put online



some years ago was for the most part not properly proofread.



The DN has already been scanned in. The whole Tipitaka might take quite



a while, it takes about a book a week, but after it is finished we hope



to continue with scanning in the Simon Hewawitarne



edition of the commentaries, and also the Tikas and other Pali texts



published in Sri Lanka. Some old, 19th century, editions of Pali texts



have never been reprinted and are in danger of being lost because the



books are disintegrating.



Each page is being scanned in at 200 DPI grayscale, which gives a well



readable page onscreen.



With metta,



Bh Nyanatusita























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