Re: Paali

Dear Jim,

Many thanks for your reply. As usual I have not made myself clear. Let me try to explain.

The first message was to indicate my approach to the study. It is a new approach. I am not aware of anybody who has used that approach. Only thing the method requires is to have clear-cut definitions about all the words we use in this discussion. If we don't have agreed definitions, we can keep arguing about things without ever coming to a conclusion.

The second message was intended to adopt a working definition to start the study. All I have done is to take away the words like sacred, for which no definition is availabe. [Some people will consider Tipitaka sacred while others may consider it ancient literature]. Then from a academic point of view we need agreed primary sources for the discussion. Of course, there is no need to use PTS Tipitaka. You can suggest any other Tipitaka, for example, CST4. I think my next task is to refine this definition; may be to forget about tipitaka and consider the five Nikayas.

I'll put that definition another way: The primary source material for the study is the Tipitaka published by the PTS. I hope I have clarified my proposal. By the way, I said "I propose..." The idea was to place it before the study group.

Best wishes

D.C.

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 9:42 AM, 'Jim Anderson' jimanderson.on@... [palistudy] <palistudy@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Dear D.C.,

Thanks for your two responses. I'm sorry to say that I'm not in agreement
with the way you define "tipitaka". This is not a discussion I want to enter
at this point and would prefer to stick to pāli/pāḷi and English Pali as the
main topic. Actually, I won't be able to continue this discussion much
further until I become better acquainted with the available source materials
in Pali and in English. Today I read a few pages of N.A. Jayawickrama's
interesting article on Pāli in the Encyclopedia of Buddhism.

Best wishes,

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dc Wijeratna dcwijeratna@... [palistudy]"
<palistudy@yahoogroups.com>
To: <palistudy@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: November 27, 2014 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [palistudy] Paali

Dear Jim
This is further to my previous message sent two hours ago.

<< I'm particularly interested in linguistic terms as used in

the Pali texts such as nirutti, vohāra, paññatti, attha, pāḷi>>

It is Ok with me. In fact I think it is good because that will help in the
division of the work load. However, I can help you with Sutta references. I
can think of few more words that are essential to understand the language
of the Tipitaka. [I use the term Tipitaka only for the time being.]

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