Re: the title 'Sayadaw'

Dear Bhante, that's a great idea...

Especially if our teachers/advisors would be Pancanikayikas, Dve- and
Tipitakadharas :-)

I'll volunteer to guide the Parayanavagga group ;-)

metta,
L.

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Noah Yuttadhammo <yuttadhammo@...>wrote:

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>
> Dear Friends,
>
> I had the idea we could start a Pali memorization club over the
> Internet, as a means of supporting each other in our memorization work.
> We could start on the Digha, and just keep tabs on who's memorized to
> what extent, setting goals, etc. I could set up a website for it. Any
> takers?
>
> Ready to go back to school,
>
> Yuttadhammo
>
>
> On 08/30/2010 06:47 PM, Jim Anderson wrote:
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> > Dear Bhante. Nyanatusita,
> >
> > Thank-you very much for the information on the memorization and
> > recitation of texts. I'm much in agreement with you on its importance.
> > In the educational environment I grew up in, in the 50s and 60s in
> > Canada, this way of learning a text seemed quite minimal. To find out
> > how children are doing these days, I asked my cousin who was then a
> > librarian-teacher at an elementary school if school children were
> > required to memorize anything. She said "no". Sometime after, I heard
> > in a CBC radio interview a professor of educational studies make the
> > comment that by the time students finish high school they retain very
> > little of what they were taught all through school.
> >
> > I would like to ask a question about the following Paacittiya IV rule:
> >
> > "Whatever monk should make one who is not ordained speak dhamma line
> > by line, there is an offence of expiation." (Horner, p. 190)
> >
> > Doesn't this rule prevent a monk from teaching Pali to the unordained?
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Jim
> >
> >
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