/lit/ - Literature

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currently in the process of re-translating and re-formatting the samyutta nikaya for presentation under new name, edited down to its essentials, cutting out superfluous elements, with new commentary and other miscellanea.

just save the link. the site was made just to get it started, the work is done offline and will probably be updated in bulk at a later date, save for experiments.

no plans for official publishing - no personal belief in validity of copyright in the domain of religious texts - so it will probably remain just there on the site for free use.

to encourage the learning of pali there will be lots of romanized versions like the examples currently up. it is no mere copy and paste job as i have to go through editing it all into lower-case, as is my preference, and proof reading for errors in the source texts i currently have.

in short, it will eventually [within this year] become a very good, dependable resource for early buddhist philosophy.

my current idea is to present it all as one monolithically long page, for hypnotic effect, rather than blog-like links to this that and the other.

sort of like time-cube, except about buddhism, written by someone possessed of super sanity rather than hillbilly schizophrenia like gene ray [peace be upon him].