book or sutta club??

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Dhammanando wrote:Hi JC,
jcsuperstar wrote:we could ask Dhammanando to lead it. maybe he knows some sutta learning scheme or what not so we'd have an order to do them in. also he could help with pali terms.
Due to the very limited time at my disposal, I would prefer to stick to chiming in rather than leading discussions. If leading, I would feel obliged to be online every day and to reply to every question, which I don't anticipate will be possible in the coming months.

I do, however, have one suggestion for group study: Ñāṇamoli's Life of the Buddha. This would be a good complement to Bhikkhu Bodhi's In the Buddha's Words, consisting in like manner of passages from the Suttas, but with the first rather than the second refuge as its focus.

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Dhammanando Bhikkhu
Too bad your idea was ignored Bhante. I had the impression that it was part of a Bhikkhu's job description to guide lay folk and our job to follow the Bhikkhu's lead.

It would help clear up a lot of odd notions folks have about the Dhamma if we spent time drawing close to Buddha, which study of his ife would do.

I did not find the biography online though - will have to buy the book, I reckon. I do have In the Buddha's Words though. Perhaps, if enough interested folk have that title, that can be studied also.

Bhikkhu Bodhi's outline of MN study will be helpful too, of course
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Bhante, like many other bhikkhus has many, many other duties that are off-line that we do not see, such as pastoral duties at his temple.

I am happy about the wealth of time that we do get with great monks like Bhante Dhammanando and the others who post here. We cannot expect the monks here to take on even more time than they already give us.
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HI Bhente,
Maybe you know of a couple of very good sites which translates selected words thoroughly so if you are unavailable these can be looked at?
and do you know a link to the book By Nanamoli ? I have heard some good things about this book but keep forgetting about it!
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Dhammanando wrote:Hi JC,
jcsuperstar wrote:we could ask Dhammanando to lead it. maybe he knows some sutta learning scheme or what not so we'd have an order to do them in. also he could help with pali terms.
Due to the very limited time at my disposal, I would prefer to stick to chiming in rather than leading discussions. If leading, I would feel obliged to be online every day and to reply to every question, which I don't anticipate will be possible in the coming months.

I do, however, have one suggestion for group study: Ñāṇamoli's Life of the Buddha. This would be a good complement to Bhikkhu Bodhi's In the Buddha's Words, consisting in like manner of passages from the Suttas, but with the first rather than the second refuge as its focus.

Best wishes,
Dhammanando Bhikkhu
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Hi Manapa,
Manapa wrote:Maybe you know of a couple of very good sites which translates selected words thoroughly so if you are unavailable these can be looked at?
There is the PTS Dictionary, but I don't know the link. I'm sure someone here will know it. Other than that I'm not very familiar with what's available online and would be relevant to your question. When I want to ascertain a word's meaning I prefer to go to the primary sources — the Tipitaka and its commentaries.
and do you know a link to the book By Nanamoli ? I have heard some good things about this book but keep forgetting about it!
Yes, everyone should get a copy of it. Unfortunately, as far as I know it's not one of the books that the BPS has permitted to be placed online.

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Pali Text Society's Pali Englih Dictionary:

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/pali/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Greetings Will, all,

I was thinking we could do a sutta weekly, and in parallel, a book monthly for those who were interested.

Best I think for us to make the first book we review one which is also available to read online because sometimes books take a while to order and post. For the second text onwards it won't matter so much.

Anyhow, I'm going to close this thread now, so that future brainstorming can take in...

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Hi Manapa,

I should add that chapter 12 of Ñāṇamoli's book — the one giving a summary of the Buddha's teaching — is available:

http://www.buddhanet.net/cmdsg/bt-1.htm

Best wishes,
Dhammanando Bhikkhu
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tato taṃ hoti aññathā.


In whatever way they conceive it,
It turns out otherwise.
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