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Kare
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Hi,

My name is Kåre Albert Lie, and I live in Norway. I first got interested in buddhism around 1970. I studied Pali on my own (using mainly Warder), and later Pali and Sanskrit at the University in Oslo. I got my first real introduction to meditation from the Burmese teacher U Janaka.

I have translated several Pali and Sanskrit texts into Norwegian, and I have also written some books on different aspects of buddhism ... also in Norwegian. At present I am writing an anthology of Pali texts (translated into Norwegian), in cooperation with The Buddhist Association of Norway, where we are trying to present a condensed, but also comprehensive picture of the life and teachings of the Buddha - a kind of Mini-Tipitaka in one volume.
Mettāya,
Kåre
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Hello Sir, welcome :namaste:
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Welcome on board, I hope you can share some of your knowlege with us!
With metta :bow:
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Great to have you here

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Welcome Albert

It is good to have you here at Dhamma Wheel!
I wish you all the very best with the great Dhamma-work you are doing and I look forward to hearing how your project progresses!
Metta

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Ben wrote:Welcome Albert

It is good to have you here at Dhamma Wheel!
I wish you all the very best with the great Dhamma-work you are doing and I look forward to hearing how your project progresses!
Metta

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Thank you for the friendly welcome - both from yourself and from the others who have replied here.

Parallell with the anthology I am also translating Vol. 3 of the Digha Nikaya into Norwegian. Vol. 1 was published in 1992, Vol. 2 in 2005, and I hope to finish Vol. 3 this spring and maybe have it published in the autumn or the winter - unless the financial crisis has scared the publisher from publishing this kind of literature, which admittedly has a rather limited number of potential buyers.
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Sadhu Kåre!

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Greetings and welcome, Kåre.

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Retro. :)
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Many thanks for your efforts, translating the Dhamma and presenting it in a different language is a tremendous service!

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