A New Course in Reading Pali: Entering the Word of the Buddha - Tapa blanda

W. Gair, James

 
9788120814417: A New Course in Reading Pali: Entering the Word of the Buddha

Sinopsis

This book is intended and serve as an introduction to the reading of Pali texts. For that purpose, it uses authentic readings especially compiled for the purpose drawn largely from Theravada canonical works, both prose and poetry. The reading are in Roman script and carefully graded for difficulty, but they have also been selected so that each of them is a meaningful and complete reading in itself, so as to introduce some basic concepts and ways of thought of Theravada Buddhism. This book thus

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James W. Gair is a linguist in South Asian linguistics. He is a specialist in Sinhala, as well as in Pali, Tamil and Dhivehi. He teaches in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics of Cornell University (Ithaca, New York).

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