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- Tue Jul 15, 2014 2:06 am
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Learning Sanskrit
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4800
Re: Learning Sanskrit
After working your way through an introduction, a good grammar, I would recommend Lanman's reader.
- Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:57 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: The Prajñāpāramitā in One Letter
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5029
- Tue Feb 18, 2014 3:46 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: The Prajñāpāramitā in One Letter
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5029
Re: The Prajñāpāramitā in One Letter
That sutra is not so bad, but I find it a little too long and garrulous.
- Tue Feb 18, 2014 12:14 am
- Forum: Language
- Topic: CamelCase as a possible solution to Sanskrit Compound issues
- Replies: 29
- Views: 8087
Re: CamelCase as a possible solution to Sanskrit Compound is
The original texts themselves, like the Commentary on the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra , were being creative with the etymologies they listed for traditional Sanskrit words like bhikṣu or arhat, for example. They are justifying exegesis with fanciful compounds. The same can be found in the Pali commentarie...
- Sun Feb 16, 2014 9:04 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Why theravada reject mahayana sutra
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8122
Re: Why theravada reject mahayana sutra
They only accept the texts written in the Pali Canon. They believe that the later texts and traditions are corruptions of the original. Specifically they think Vajrayana is a Buddhism contaminated by centuries of proximity to Hinduism. I would not use words as "corruptions" or "conta...
- Sun Feb 16, 2014 4:49 pm
- Forum: Language
- Topic: CamelCase as a possible solution to Sanskrit Compound issues
- Replies: 29
- Views: 8087
Re: CamelCase as a possible solution to Sanskrit Compound is
So it seems we should be translating tahtāgatha as "{thus/truth}-{gone/arrived}" ! :tongue: Joking aside, Kare that is an interesting interpretation. Zhen Li suggests that most Sanskrit commentators seem to read it as both "thus-come" and "thus-gone" is that your under...
- Sun Feb 16, 2014 10:58 am
- Forum: Language
- Topic: CamelCase as a possible solution to Sanskrit Compound issues
- Replies: 29
- Views: 8087
Re: CamelCase as a possible solution to Sanskrit Compound is
tathāgata, could be, Thus–ComeGone–One, or Thus ComeGone One, or Thus–ComeGone One. All these versions, reading the first element in the compound as tathā (thus), need some very fanciful interpretations that bring us rather close to the Department of Silly Walks (Monty Python). There is another and...
- Sat Sep 28, 2013 8:17 pm
- Forum: Language
- Topic: bodhisattva vs bodhisatva
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11803
Re: bodhisattva vs bodhisatva
Here's a passage from Dayal's "The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature": Now bodhisatta in the Pāli texts seems to mean "a bodhi -being ". But satta here does not denote a mere ordinary creature. It is almost certainly related to the Vedic word satvan , which me...
- Tue Jul 23, 2013 3:30 pm
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Best Places to Study Pali in Southeast Asia?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4109
Re: Best Places to Study Pali in Southeast Asia?
There is a place called Sri Lanka Buddhist & Pali University: http://www.bpu.ac.lk/
I don't know anything about them except for what you can read on their website. But maybe they can give you some good advice, if you get in touch with them.
I don't know anything about them except for what you can read on their website. But maybe they can give you some good advice, if you get in touch with them.
- Mon Jul 15, 2013 9:06 am
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: Which Sutras make the Best Reading?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 11191
Re: Which Sutras make the Best Reading?
Or are you trying to imply that Hinayana sutras exist? If so, kindly tell me which scriptures name themselves 'Hinayana'. The Chinese didn't name their land China, nor did everyone to the east of the Indus start calling themselves Hindus. Let's not even talk about American Indians. Just so, the wor...
- Sun Jul 14, 2013 11:10 pm
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: Which Sutras make the Best Reading?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 11191
Re: Which Sutras make the Best Reading?
There are no Hinayana sutras. So don't worry. :) http://www.lienet.priv.no/hinayan1.htm Isn't it a bit short sighted to base such a statement on lexical analysis alone? Your reply is a bit unclear. Did you not understand the analysis? If you want to understand a word, you need a linguistic analysis...
- Sat Jul 13, 2013 5:51 pm
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: Which Sutras make the Best Reading?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 11191
Re: Which Sutras make the Best Reading?
The Hinayana teachings one does hear from Mahayana masters are almost always stripped of their mythology, or clothed in a fantastic one. Its like they're afraid for you, that you might fall into the trap of believing in a mechanical and perfectly understandable world. They're concerned you might ac...
- Mon May 13, 2013 3:00 pm
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Brahma viharas in sanskrit?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3667
Re: Brahma viharas in sanskrit?
Thank you for finding it online, ratna. I have the printed version, but I didn't know it was to found online.
- Mon May 13, 2013 1:46 pm
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Brahma viharas in sanskrit?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3667
Re: Brahma viharas in sanskrit?
You can find them in the Arthaviniscayasutra, published in 1971 by the K.P. Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna. (Tibetan Sanskrit Works Series vol. XIII).
- Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:10 pm
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: Access to Insight: An Incomplete Canon
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14238
Re: Access to Insight: An Incomplete Canon
Thank you VERY much Kare! :namaste: PS What part of Norway are you from? I spent a month in Bergen about 10 years ago. Loved it! I live in Eastern Norway. Usually the nasty weather comes in from the west, empties the clouds and pours down its rain over Bergen, while we to the east of the mountains ...
- Mon Mar 25, 2013 8:14 pm
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: Access to Insight: An Incomplete Canon
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14238
Re: Access to Insight: An Incomplete Canon
Let me first say that personally I prefer to have a book in my hands. But it is also good that texts are available online for free. Access to Insight is a good resource. But I would also recommend another resource that maybe is not so well known, The Sutta Central: http://suttacentral.net/disp_divis...
- Mon Mar 25, 2013 1:26 am
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: Sutras by Length
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4329
Re: Sutras by Length
I think this probably is the shortest sutra ever: Single Letter Transcendent Wisdom Sutra: Prajnaparamita Ekashari Sutra Homage to Prajnaparamita! Thus have I heard: At one time the Lord dwelt at Rajagrha, on the Vulture Peak, together with a large congregation of renunciates, with 1,250 renunciates...
- Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:17 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The Ultimate Troll...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1576
Re: The Ultimate Troll...
But can they also smell Buddhists?
- Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:44 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: names and titles of Buddha
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1330
Re: names and titles of Buddha
The old Pali Dictionary Abhidhanappadipika has 31 synonyms for Buddha and 6 more for Gotama.plwk wrote:This?
12? I thought it was the standard 10 Titles/Attributes?
I recall in the Pali version there's 9...
- Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:10 pm
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Learning Buddhist Sanskrit !
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4312
Re: Learning Buddhist Sanskrit !
Look for Franklin Edgerton: Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary (2 vols), and his Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Reader . They can be found here: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?kn=Buddhist+Hybrid+Sanskrit&sts=t&x=36&y=16" onclick="window.open(this.href);ret...