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Vimalajāti Veteran
About
- Username
- Vimalajāti
- Location
- Whitby, Ontario
- Joined
- Visits
- 1,612
- Last Active
- Roles
- Member
- Points
- 568
- Location
- Whitby, Ontario
- Languages Spoken
- French, English, Chinese, very bad Japanese
- Affiliation
- Mahayana
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Re: Triratna - language question (Pali)
You don't have to learn to speak it unless you want to be able to communicate with Chinese Buddhists who don't speak English. Traditional characters is the way to go for Buddhist texts. Pinyin is onl… (View Post)
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Re: Triratna - language question (Pali)
Before we begin, although I have a passion for linguistics, I have no special training in it. Consider these the words of a fellow amateur. (Quote) Speaking of Catholics, this is a good segue. Pāli i… (View Post)1 -
Re: Triratna - language question (Pali)
A couple mistakes made their way into my post anyways. When you put a bunch of IAST and IPA into your post, then it's wrong at that, it's double bad (not that people notice necessarily). (Quote) I di… (View Post)1 -
Re: Triratna - language question (Pali)
There's actually a mistake. I forgot the cluster "tr" expands to "tir," and that "tn" expands out to "tan." Tiratanaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi (View Post)1 -
Re: Triratna - language question (Pali)
Triratnaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi EDIT: this one is too Sanskritized. (View Post)1