Re: Buddha Jayanthi Tipitaka being scanned in as picture files

Dear Ong,

Thank you for your courteous messages.
Our only aim is to make the Tipitaka and other Pali books available to
scholars who otherwise have no or limited access to the books. I don't
see anything unwholesome and disharmonious in that and I don't think
that anyone will be affected negatively by it. The printed books are
mostly used for adorning Sri Lankan monastery libraries.
  The publisher, the government of Sri Lanka, has no commercial interest
in these books. As I wrote already, it is very difficult, or impossible,
to order the books from Sri Lanka even if one has the money.

Best wishes,
                   Bh Nt



Ong Teng Kee wrote:
>
> I didn't buy with 400000 rupee. Anyway what is 400 usd for a set of
> tipitaka.This is a reasonable price to pay.Can I ask all PTS books to
> be free online simply because the  price is too high?Let the dhamma
> books be something we have to pay for or we can just read it in the
> library if we can't afford it.I find that most people throw away free
> dhamma books  in malaysia.They won't do this to dhamma books they
> bought in store like majjima,etc.
>
> The books are for sale and you come out talking about free scanning.I
> just don't know what to say.Let people sell their books
> peacefully.Write your own original book if you can.
>  
>
> --- On Thu, 3/26/09, Nyanatusita <nyanatusita@...
> <mailto:nyanatusita%40gmail.com>> wrote:
> From: Nyanatusita <nyanatusita@... <mailto:nyanatusita%40gmail.com>>
> Subject: Re: [palistudy] Buddha Jayanthi Tipitaka being scanned in as
> picture files
> To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com <mailto:palistudy%40yahoogroups.com>
> Received: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 8:00 AM
>
> Dear Ong,
>
> The whole Buddha Jayanthi Tipitaka set costs, if I remember correctly,
>
> about Rs. 40000, which corresponds to about US 400,- or more. Then the
>
> mailing could be more than double the amount… The whole set weights more
>
> than a 100 kilos. I recently got a set and two strong men had to carry
>
> the crates with books. The Simon Hewavitarne series is apparently being
>
> reprinted too by the same publisher who reprints the Buddha Jayanthi,
>
> but it will also be difficult and expensive to order. The original Simon
>
> Hewawitarne books is indeed quite cheap, but it also looks quite cheap.
>
> It is difficult though to find all of them because some are out of print.
>
> Bh Nt
>
> Ong Teng Kee wrote:
>
> >
>
> > No,No,No .I was talking about Lanka rupee not us dollars.Simon series
>
> > are still available in hard and soft copies. You can say you are from
>
> > asia and there won't be any us dollars or pounds .I only pay them
>
> > Lanka rupee for whole jjayanthi series .
>
> >
>
> > --- On Thu, 3/26/09, Nyanatusita <nyanatusita@ gmail.com
>
> > <mailto:nyanatusita %40gmail. com>> wrote:
>
> > From: Nyanatusita <nyanatusita@ gmail.com <mailto:nyanatusita
> %40gmail. com>>
>
> > Subject: Re: [palistudy] Buddha Jayanthi Tipitaka being scanned in as
>
> > picture files
>
> > To: palistudy@... ps.com <mailto:palistudy% 40yahoogroups. com>
>
> > Received: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 6:03 AM
>
> >
>
> > Dear Ong,
>
> >
>
> > The books have been reprinted recently, but it is quite difficult to get
>
> > the Buddha Jayanthi Tipitaka books abroad unless you have a reliable
>
> > contact in Sri Lanka who is willing to help sending them to you. The
>
> > publisher is not helpful at all in this respect. Recently I helped
>
> > someone in Thailand to get the books and it cost him $ 400– to get only
>
> > the Sutta Pitaka, not including the Jatakas and some other books of the
>
> > Khuddaka Nikaya. To get a whole set, including the Jataka, Abhidhamma
>
> > and Vinaya, to, let's say, the USA would probably more than US 1000-
>
> > including mailing. I don't think many people can afford that.
>
> >
>
> > The Buddha Jayanthi books are quite large in size and include the
>
> > Sinhala translation (in such high language that it is even unreadable
>
> > for most educated Sinhalese). To make it available as picture files
>
> > gives scholars the opportunity to have easy access to the official
>
> > edition of the Pali text.
>
> >
>
> > It is already freely available online and useful for searching, but, as
>
> > I mentioned, not yet properly proofread. Whole paragraphs are apparently
>
> > missing, etc.
>
> >
>
> > Best wishes,
>
> > Bh Nt
>
> >
>
> > Ong Teng Kee wrote:
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> > >
>
> > > 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.
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