Old News Archive: July 1998

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[24 July 1998] From the Majjhima Nikaya:
- Culavedalla Sutta (MN 44) — The Shorter Set of Questions-and-Answers. Dhammadinna the nun fields a series of Dhamma questions put to her by her former husband: questions on self-identification, cessation, penetration into the true nature of feeling, and the attainment of Nibbana.
Magandiya Sutta (MN 75) — To Magandiya (excerpt). In this passage, the Buddha discusses the nature of true pleasure and true health with a wanderer belonging to a hedonist sect.

[23 July 1998] Bodhi Leaves are now readable online
Access to Insight's catalog of Bodhi Leaves booklets, from the Buddhist Publication Society, is now available for you to read online. You can also download this collection in a single archive . Some highlights include:

These Wheel Publications are also now available for online reading:

Buddhist Women at the Time of the Buddha, by Hellmuth Hecker (WH 292; 1982)
The Essential Practice: Dhamma Discourses of Venerable Webu Sayadaw (Part 1), by Webu Sayadaw; translated from the Burmese by Roger Bischoff (WH 375; 1991)
The Essential Practice: Dhamma Discourses of Venerable Webu Sayadaw (Part 2), by Webu Sayadaw (WH 384; 1992)
Lay Buddhist Practice, by Bhikkhu Khantipalo (WH 206; 1982)
More are on the way...

[15 July 1998] Complete set of essays by Bhikkhu Bodhi
The complete set of BPS Newsletter cover essays (1985-1998), by Bhikkhu Bodhi, are now available for reading online. These short, crisp essays offer valuable reflections from a classical Theravada viewpoint on topics of importance to all students of Dhamma. There is something here for everyone. I've written short blurbs (2-3 sentences) about each essay to help you decide which ones to read first.
[6 July 1998]
By popular request, I've put together a short note explaining how to decipher some of the various sutta numbering conventions that you might encounter in your Dhamma readings.
[5 July 1998] Reorganization of the Theravada Text Archives
As part of the process of preparing the CD-ROM, I've been streamlining the file hierarchy of the Theravada Text Archives and tying up a number of organizational loose ends. Some of your bookmarks to these files may therefore need to be updated. Please let me know of any bad links that may have emerged as a result of these changes. I apologize for any inconvenience.

Here are some of the new URLs to be aware of:

Theravada Text Archives: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/
Dhamma Dana Publications: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/ddp/
Buddhist Publication Society: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/bpslist.html
Lay Buddhist Practice: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/khantipalo/wheel206/
Wings to Awakening: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/wings/

Also, the Czech language translations of Dhamma essays have moved back to the Friends of Dhamma website (http://wwwṭrailerpark.com/phase2/bartovsk/) , which has a fine selection of Dhamma texts in Czech.