Thread for John Kelly’s Pāli Reading Group 2025 Session 11 (July 27th / 28th 2025).
**** Class cancelled ** Apologies to everyone, but due to my travel schedule and current health, I’m unable to go ahead with this Pāli Reading session as I had hoped. We will pick up the thread in about 4 weeks time, August 24/25.**
Meeting ID: 829 5896 1475
Passcode: anicca
You will need to remain in the “waiting room” until host lets you in.
** Preparation for this class **
Prepare your own translations for suttas 6 & 7 of the Aṭṭhakavagga (Snp 4.6 Jarā & Snp 4.7 Tissametteyya)
My name is Yaron. I’m new to this Web site. I have been reading Pali on my own for over 20 years. Can I join the reading group? If yes, do I need to preregister?
I graduated university in the late 90s where my major was Indian Studies with much Sanskrit, but only one course in Pali in my last year in university.
You’d be very welcome to join the Pāli reading group, as it seems your past experience with Indic languages would be very valuable to everybody.
I’m away travelling overseas at the moment and our class schedule is quite disrupted at the moment. As you can see above in this thread, I was hoping to conduct another session this coming Sunday/Monday, but at the moment it’s only about 50/50 whether I’ll be able to go ahead with that and I’ll be posting a message to this thread in the next 24 hours or so whether I can go ahead with that.
Meanwhile, please tell me where you are located (time zone).
I look forward to meeting you online in the near future.
@Yandes If you already know Sanskrit well you may wish to read my Sanskrit Translations of Pali suttas and compare them with their Pali versions for a more nuanced understanding of Pali’s grammatical and phonetic peculiarities.
