Hi Piya,


Here's my selection of texts. I'd like to use one of these, Nagara, as the mainline demonstration text. The others will be given out for the class to work on in groups. I anticipate around 30 people per workshop, so if they divide into groups of five or six, this will require six texts. 

For each text we should include:

Pali 
Chinese
Sanskrit
Translation from Pali.

The class will be asked to translate the Chinese with reference to the Sanskit, and make comparative notes. 

Of course, i don't expect them to finish the sutta, even a few lines will give them an idea what's involved. In some of these, especialy Nagara, you will probably want to give just an excerpt rather than the whole thing. I will leave the editing details to you, but i should think it will usually be easy enough to pull out the most interesting passages to present. The easiest is Kulaputta - i think this is about the right length. 

The bias towards the Nidana samyutta, by the way, is only because there happens to be a large section of that available in Skt.

If possible, i'd like to collect in Singapore enough copies of the quadrilinear texts to use in KL and Penang. If this is too many, best to email a pdf file to Dr Oo in Penang and Benny Liow in KL, so they can prepare for those workshops.

Please let me know if there's anything else i can do to help with this. 

in Dhamma

Bhante Sujato