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Monday, May 26, 2003 9:17 PM
A new section has been added to the graphical version of The Gradual Course. This is The 10 Questions -- aka The Boy's Questions. This was an original part of the Little Magic Kitbag mentioned below and formed the basis for the second part of the current text version of The Gradual Course.

Wednesday, May 14, 2003 3:43 PM
The Plain Text version of BuddhaDust has been removed. Because of space and maintenance considerations, and because the whole site has been coded such that there was hardly any difference in download times between the Plain Text version and the regular version and because usage statistics indicate that this fact is pretty well recognized by users, the Plain Text version of BuddhaDust is being taken off line. It served it's purpose as the transition between the excessive coding and download times of Front Page generated sites and the hand-coding and Cascading Style Sheets I now use for the site.

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 10:09 AM
The Little Magic Kitbag The Gradual Course, Graphical Version, has been completely revised. At one point in time, round about 1980, I sat down to put together what I understood to be the Buddha's system. The end result was The Pali Line plus a few other things, including the The Root of All Evil (The Mulapariyaya Sutta) all jumbled together in one massively complex "sutta". This was also the time when I learned the method of lettering I call American Pictogram, which had it's origins in visions of the dhamma I was seeing in meditation where the letters were all organic forms made from flames. When this work was first completed (after about 2 years of intense nearly non-stop work) I became indifferent to the whole thing and put it away for another couple of years. Then I made a series of smaller books out of it, the first of which, The Little Magic Shitbag, looked very much like, but not identical to this material I now present here.
In this case one new feature is a background which is supposed to represent the gold "plates" on which the Dhamma was sometimes "scratched" in the early days of writing.
This section is graphically intensive, and I have emphasized quality of the image over optimized download. Be warned.

Saturday, April 19, 2003 1:01 PM
Did you notice? Short descriptive lines added to DhammaTalk contents page.

Wednesday, April 16, 2003 12:18 PM
Vesali: A new sutta constructed from parts of other suttas covering The Meditation on the Foul, Meditation on In- and Out-breathing, the story of the mass suicide of Bhikkhus studying the Meditation on the Foul, and the story of the Third Rule (against taking human life).

Sunday, April 13, 2003 6:04 PM
The story of Upaka the Naked Ascetic, the first human to speak with the Buddha after his enlightenment. Nothing outstanding, but points out the difficulty rendering indriyani as "sense organs or faculties" in at least this case. I have always had a liking for Upaka, seems like the sort of fellow I might have been...face-to-face with the Buddha, he is not convinced. Happy ending.

I finally reached the point where link-checking made some sense. I downloaded a freeware link-checking program:

XENU Link Sluth (recommended to webmasters!), and generated a report. I have 2098 links on BuddhaDust and had some 150 broken links and have eliminated, to the best of my knowledge, all of them. There remain broken links in downloadable files, and there will be the occasional failure due to server problems. I dislike getting broken links myself, so apologies to one and all for the grief caused by them on this site to this point. In future this problem should be under control.

A Riddle for you. What would you answer, friends, were you to be asked by seekers:

'What, friend, is the root of all things?
What brings all things to life?
What is the support of all things?
What is the confluence of all things?
What is at the interface of all things?
Ruled over by what are all things?
Directed at what are all things?
What is at the heart of all things?
What is the pitfall of all things?
What is the end of all things?'

Thus questioned by seekers, friends, what would you answer, what explanation would you make of this?

For the Buddha's answer, see: The Root Try to answer for yourself before looking up the answer.

The search engine has been slightly modified. It will now no longer ignore common words (the, etc.). With only slightly more disk usage (.16Mb) all words were able to be indexed. This makes search results much more comprehensible. I urge everyone to use this tool as it is both quick and accurate, and now that the materials in the forum are on the main site, all resources available on BuddhaDust are being indexed. Plus...it recognizes the MozPali font.

Dialogues of the Buddha, Volume 1

T.W.Rhys David's translation of the first 13 Suttas of the Digha Nikaya, published by the Pali Text Society. These are files of the html pages of the suttas from this volume. You will need the MozPali Font to view Pali words with diacriticals.
The links between dialogues in this file have been converted to correctly link between off-line suttas (cross-fingers); links to external URLs will attempt to bring up your browser and go on line.
Anyone who wants to make a project of setting up the index, and making the linking to BuddhaDust and other on-line resources comprehensive, should contact me.

Files and Downloads	Windows	Mac
The Dialogues of the Buddha, Volume 1	Download .30MB	Download .30MB

Sunday, March 23, 2003 7:20 AM
[21 March 2003] Access to Insight turns 8!

This month Access to Insight begins its ninth year on the World Wide Web.

[21 March 2003] Print edition of Thanissaro Bhikkhu's sutta translations

A print edition of Thanissaro Bhikkhu's sutta translations is available in a four-volume book entitled, Handful of Leaves. Volume 1, which includes suttas from the Digha and Majjhima Nikayas, is available free of charge upon request from:

Sati Center for Buddhist Studies
PO Box 2021
Santa Cruz, CA 95063-2021
USA
Volume 2 (Samyutta Nikaya) is expected by the end of March, 2003.

Sunday, March 09, 2003 6:01 AM
I have merged the DhammaExaminations section with the DhammaTalk section as their functions overlaped completely. For a time this is going to result in broken links and links that refer to the new sections (meaning extra clicks to get to the topic). Apologies ahead of time. I am doing this merge in a similar way to the way I migrated the topics from the forum -- one discussion at a time.
In the end I believe we will have a much more useful BuddhaDust. I have been doing considerable editing to the topics, and I am able in straight html to do much more linking to relevant side-trips and reference materials.

Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:53 PM
New Sutta Translation: SN.III.93: Nadi -- The River, or Grasping at Straws, together with the Pali.
River -- Translation
Nadi -- The Pali

Sunday, February 09, 2003 2:11 PM
The material from DhammaTalk Forum/Give Ear/Buddha's First Sutta has been moved to the main site. It can now be found at: http://www.buddhadust.org/dhammatalk/give_ear/first_sutta.htm
In revising this thread I added several new versions of this sutta. This is now more like a Resources Table of Contents for the First Sutta.