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| | AllRefer.com - Pali canon (Buddhism) - Encyclopedia |
 | | The texts in the Pali canon are the earliest Buddhist sources, and for Theravada Buddhists, who claim to conserve the original teachings of the Buddha, they are still the most authoritative sacred texts. | | | Pali, the language in which the canon is written, is a Prakrit (vernacular dialect) of classical Sanskrit (see Prakrit literature). | | | Pali is still written in Sri Lanka and to a lesser extent in SE Asia. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/P/Palicano.html
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| | Pali language |
| | Glossary of Pali Buddhist Terms Pali words used in Buddhism. | | | Pali Language Sources and Resources Original language of Buddhist sutras. | | | Pali Campion Produzione e commercializzazione pali e torrifaro monotubolari in acciaio per illuminazione stradale, trasporto e distribuzione di energia elettrica. |
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http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Pali_language.html
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| | Buddhist Scriptures: The Canon |
| | ] [Pali: Tipitaka] is the Canon of the Buddhists, both Theravada and Mahayana. | | | Hence we speak of a Pali Canon, i.e., the literature of the Sthaviravadins which is believed to be the original word of the Buddha. | | | Besides this Pali recension of the Sthaviravada school there are fragmentary texts of the Sarvastivada or of the Mulasarvastivada which are preserved in Sanskrit. |
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http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/s_canon.htm
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| | PÄli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is most famous as the language in which the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism (also known as the PÄli Canon or in PÄli the Tipitaka) were written down in Sri Lanka in the 1st century BCE. | | | After the Pali Canon was transmitted to Sri Lanka, it continued to be preserved entirely in PÄli, while the commentarial tradition that accompanied it (according to the information provided by Buddhaghosa) was translated into Sinhalese and preserved in local languages for several generations. | | | The Pali Text Society was in part founded to compensate for the very low level of funds allocated to Indology in late 19th century England; incongruously, the English were not nearly so robust in Sanskrit and Prakrit language studies as Germany, Russia and even Denmark --a situation that many would say continues to this day. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_language
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| | Pāli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | After the Pali Canon was transmitted to Sri Lanka, it continued to be preserved entirely in Pāli, while the commentarial tradition that accompanied it (according to the information provided by Buddhaghosa) was translated into Sinhalese and preserved in local languages for several generations. | | | The Pali Text Society was in part founded to compensate for the very low level of funds allocated to Indology in late 19th century England; incongruously, the English were not nearly so robust in Sanskrit and Prakrit language studies as Germany, Russia and even Denmark --a situation that many would say continues to this day. | | | It is most famous as the language in which the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism (also known as the Pāli Canon or in Pāli the Tipitaka) were written down in Sri Lanka in the 1st century BCE. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali
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| | Pali language |
| | Pali is interesting for its vocabulary which is totally unnatural and is created only in order to reflect the ideas of the religion. | | | Pali phonetic laws prohibit the usage of a great number of fricative consonants together, all words end in a vowel. | | | Pali is one of ancient Indic languages, spoken in the Middle period. |
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http://indoeuro.bizland.com/tree/indo/pali.html
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| | A Guide to Learning the Pali Language |
| | A Pali Grammar, by N.C. Vidyabhushan and M.K. Ghose | | | Pali and Sanskrit scholars have since adopted it as a standard technique in Internet correspondence (see, for example, the » Pali Text Society and the » Journal of Buddhist Ethics). | | | Pali is a phonetic language with no written alphabet of its own. |
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bullitt/learningpali.html
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| | Pali Language Study |
| | Pali Language Study Pali was a language spoken in Northern India during the time of the Buddha. | | | She is the editor of the Digha-nikaya Atthakatha-tika, (Pali Text Society, 1970) as well as several titles from the Buddhist Publication Society including One Foot in the World:Buddhist Approaches to Present-day Problems (Wheel 337/338, 1986), The Buddha& Christ as Religious Teachers (Wheel 380, 1992), | | | Pali terms arranged in Roman-script alphabetical order; definitions include longer discussion of certain complex concepts; source references. |
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http://www.dhammabooks.com/Pali_Language_Study.html
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| | Dhammakaya Foundation / World Meditation Day - August 5, 2001 |
| | Pali is the language used to record the teachings of the Buddha. | | | Pali is the key to understanding the recorded knowledge of Buddhism. | | | At first, the study of Pali language seems marginal as it is unlike other studies that focus on the progress in the future, for learning Pali is learning about the truth in the past. |
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http://www.dhammakaya.or.th/events/medday.htm
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| | Learn Pali... |
| | From the introduction: This booklet aims to assist new Buddhist Students who are unfamiliar with some of the Pali words often used in the study of Buddhism. | | | From the Preface: The word Pali means "the Text", though it has now come to be the name of a language. | | | From the Preface to the Third Edition: Most introductory Pali grammar books consist of lessons that teach the elements of the language in stages, but because of that they are also very difficult to use as a reference when you need to look up a noun's declension, or a verb's conjugation. |
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http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/pali.html
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| | The Military in the Pali Canon |
| | In an attempt to better understand this paradox, I studied the treatment of the military in the Pali Canon.[2] The general focus of my studies is the interaction between a pacifist religion, in this case Theravada Buddhism, and the military apparatus that protects the country within which this religion is found. | | | Here are the references in which the Pali Canon places the military in the mundane; thus, military actions are the performance of mundane actions as opposed to being the performance of otherworldly or transcendental actions. | | | My study had three objectives: first, examine how the Pali Canon treats the subject of the military; second find the attitude, whether implicit or explicit, expressed by this treatment; and third, verify the accuracy of the Pali Canon's description of the military by comparing it to contemporary sources also treating the ancient Indian military. |
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http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma6/militarycanon.html
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| | Pali Canon |
| | This is the Pali term for the earliest Buddhist scripture known as the Pali canon. | | | The early Buddhist scriptures, the Tipitaka, were written in the Pali language. | | | The Tipitaka into which the Pali Canon is systematically divided and handed down from generation to generation together with commentaries forms the huge collection of literary works which the bhikkhus of the Order have to learn, study and memorize in discharge of their duty of study (gantha dhura). |
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http://www.cezwright.com/dhammapada/pali_canon.htm
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| | Pali -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Pali is a western Indian dialect that was adopted by the Theravada school of Buddhism, and it is often identified with Buddha's own speech. | | | Written in the Pali language and called collectively the Pali canon, the texts of early Buddhism originated in the first few centuries after the death of Buddha in 483 BC. | | | Jataka is a Pali and Sanskrit word that means “birth.” The Buddha, it is believed, used these tales to stress the importance of human values, which contribute to harmony and progress, and to explain concepts such as rebirth. |
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http://0-www.britannica.com.library.unl.edu/eb/article-9058101
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| | Pali |
| | Pali: Pali Chanting in the Theravada Buddhist Tradition | | | Pali : Ancient language use d by the Mahayana, because it was the vernacular language. | | | The Buddhist Scriptures are all writt en in this language. |
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http://www.experiencefestival.com/pali
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| | PALI - Online Information article about PALI |
| | The Pali books written in Ceylon, Burma and Siam will be our best and oldest, and in many respects our only, authorities for the sociology and politics, the literature and the religion, of their respective countries. | | | The present writer has suggested that the word Pali should be reserved for the language of the canon, and other words used for the earlier and later forms of it;1 but the usage generally followed is so convenient that there is little likelihood of the suggestion being followed. | | | PALI, the language used in daily intercourse between cultured people in the north of India from the 7th century B.c. |
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http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/PAI_PAS/PALI.html
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| | HiddenMysteries Author's Corner |
| | Besides, Maha-padhana, unlike Maha-apadana, is a recognized pali term of the first rank in early Buddhism, where it is also specially applied in the canonical Dhammapada(1) to Buddha himself in connexion with his attainment of Arhatship, the ideal of Primitive Buddhism. | | | In the Sanskrit Canon, as preserved in its Tibetan translation, the text corresponding to the discourse in question forms the first volume of Buddha's "Discourses" (Sutranta, in Tibetan mDo-sde),(1) and it is continued into the second volume,(2) thus preceding all the other doctrinal "Discourses " (Sutras), as in the Pali version. | | | These considerations lead me to conclude that the words in the pali texts in question were probably still used by the primitive Buddhists in their true original values, and that the word padhana in these pali texts does not mean "striving", but designates Buddha himself as "The Supreme One", or Arhatship as "The Supreme Thing". |
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http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/author/waddell/suttanta.html
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| | The Dharma - The Teachings |
| | Canons compiled in Mahayana countries contain much of the material of the Pali canon, but they also include Mahayana sutras and other texts not found in the Pali canon. | | | This canon was written in a language called Pali, which is believed to have been derived from a dialect used in the region of Magadha. | | | Tibet and Mongolia both follow the Tibetan canon, which according to tradition was redacted and codified by Pudön (1290-1364). |
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http://www.omplace.com/omsites/Buddhism/dharma.html
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| | Literature - Pali |
| | The word 'Pali' primarily signifies 'Text' or 'sacred texts' or the text of the Buddhist canon' as opposed to the connentaries, but gradually it bacame the name of the language in which the canon (Tripitika) of the Theravada Buddhism and the ancillary texts were written. | | | It is, however, certain that the Pali Tipitika grew out of this oral tradition to be modified during the next two centuries in which form it was finally written down in the literary Pali language in the Fourth Council. | | | The Tipitika contains the teachings of the Buddha (Buddhavachana) though the tradition of Sri Lanka and Burma insists that Pali Tipitika is the original Buddhavachana. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/radha/rpub003.htm
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| | Pali language -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Pali's use as a Buddhist canonical language came about because the Buddha opposed the use of Sanskrit, a learned language, … | | | Written in the Pali language and called collectively the Pali canon, the texts of early Buddhism originated in the first few centuries after the death of Buddha in 483 BC. | | | Guide to learning the Pali language and the essentials of this school of Buddhism. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9058102
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| | Literature - Pali |
| | The word 'Pali' primarily signifies 'Text' or 'sacred texts' or the text of the Buddhist canon' as opposed to the connentaries, but gradually it bacame the name of the language in which the canon (Tripitika) of the Theravada Buddhism and the ancillary texts were written. | | | It is, however, certain that the Pali Tipitika grew out of this oral tradition to be modified during the next two centuries in which form it was finally written down in the literary Pali language in the Fourth Council. | | | The Theravada tradition, however, mentions the language as Magadhi and claims that it was the actual speech of the Buddha. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/radha/rpub003.htm
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Pali |
| | Pali belongs to the Indic sub-branch of the Indo- Iranian sub-branch of the Indo-European branch of the Indo-Hittite family of languages. | | | You have reached the Pali language file, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana. | | | It is the language in which the Buddhist canon is preserved. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/palih.htm
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| | Dictionary of the Pali Language |
| | There is no reason to reject the Buddhist tradition that Pali was the dialect of Magadha, and that it was the language in which Gautama Buddha preached. | | | Originally, a more provincial idiom, the Magadhese tongue was raised by the genius of a great reformer to the dignity of a classic language, and is regarded by Buddhist with the same feelings of veneration with which a Jew of the present day looks upon the language of the Pentateuch. | | | It was spoken in the sixth century before Christ, and has therefore been a dead language for considerably over two thousand years. |
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http://www.coronetbooks.com/books/dict150x.htm
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| | Journal of Buddhist Ethics |
| | The input of the entirety of the words of the Buddha and his immediate disciples, as preserved in the Sri Lankan version of the Pali "Tripitaka," was completed at the "Sri Vajiragnana Dharmayatanaya," Bhikkhu Training Center, Maharagama, Sri Lanka in 1994. | | | Head of the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies, University of Peradeniya. | | | In association with the Sri Lanka Tripitaka Project SLTP the Journal of Buddhist Ethics is pleased to act as the primary distributor for the first public domain electronic version of the Pali Canon. |
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http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/palicanon.html
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| | Tipitaka Network: Learn Pali Today |
| | The Buddha is named Siddhattha Gotama (in Pali) or Siddhartha Gautama (in Sanskrit). | | | This central teaching of the Buddha is conveyed through the Buddha's Four Noble Truths, first expounded in 528 BC in the Deer Park at Sarnath near Varanasi and kept alive in the Buddhist world ever since. | | | The Buddha knew that he was almost succumbing to his defilements, but he did not reproach him, he did not tell him that he should not have such thoughts. |
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http://www.tipitaka.net/pali
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| | Pali |
| | Pali canon - Pali canon, sacred literature of Buddhism. | | | Pali, language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. | | | The texts in the Pali canon are the earliest Buddhist... |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0837359.html
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| | Journal of Academic Indology On the Origin of the Pali Language |
| | The fact seems to be that, side by side with Sanskrit, the language of the elite, there was a spoken language which was corrupt Sanskrit language and, in some cases, Pali. | | | I had avoided the question of Palis origins in my own researches as long as it was possible to do so, but, in the composition of a new edition of the Kaccáyana-vyákarana (accompanied by a general grammar) I found myself adding various footnotes that relied uneasily on authorities from the centuries-old debate. | | | The language of the inscriptions was at first believed to be Páli. |
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http://www.indology.net/article36.html
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| | Tipitaka Network: Learn Pali Today |
| | The Buddha is named Siddhattha Gotama (in Pali) or Siddhartha Gautama (in Sanskrit). | | | This new translation of the entire Majjhima Nikaya-- one of the most important collections of suttas in the Pali Canon -- is based on the posthumous manuscripts of Bhikkhu Nanamoli. | | | This anthology is both a treasure-house of important passages from the Canon covering the key points of the Buddha's teachings, as well as a practical manual to help the serious meditation student navigate through some of the most fundamental and profound points of Dhamma. |
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http://www.tipitaka.net/pali
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| | 11.30.94 - Buddhist Canon Goes High-Tech |
| | The canon comes in several languages --Pali, which is used by the Theravada Buddhists of South and Southeast Asia, Chinese, Tibetan, Manchu, and Mongolian. | | | The Pali version, which runs more than 50,000 pages, was computerized by Mahidol University in Bangkok in honor of the Thai king's 60th birthday. | | | One of the these advantages is cost, since the disk for the Pali canon has a price of $299, while the complete set of the printed texts contained in the database can run as high as $12,000. |
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http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1994/1130/buddhist.html
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