A New Course in Reading Pali Entering the World of the Buddha 6th Reprint 2017 by James W. Gair, W. S. Karunatillake
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 offers and opportunity to become acquainted with the ways in which the teachings of the Buddha are embodied in the language, a sense that it impossible to determine from English translations. The book contains 12 lessons. Each of them has three parts:
- Author:James W. Gair, W. S. Karunatillake
- Binding Type:Hard Bound
- ISBN:9788120814400
- Total Pages:230
- Publishing Year:2017
- Language:English