Why Study Pali ?

[@MsLeenite]

Thank you, Bhante. Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu.

[@liamnonig5717]

Currently learning pali with "Pali Made Easy" and the "Learn pali" KZbin channel. ChatGPT can translate pali, and it has been almost a tutor - being able to ask questions and get my translations graded. ChatGPT has some issues tho, so it isn't 100% reliable but probably 90%.

[@Samana-Recluse]

I think ChatGPT is mainly based on few Western Scholars' translation work available online. But Pali is much more complicated when it comes to words that are not used many times in the Suttas and some other complicated Sandhi. I am studying Pali at ITBMU in Yangon now. Our Pali Language textbook is "Pali Made Easy".

[@liamnonig5717]

@@Samana-Recluse The author is Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya. It is published by Buddhist Cultural Centre. I'm only 20 lessons in, but it has been a good experience so far. ChatGPT has a lot of room to improve in this fashion, but 4o is quite usable right now. It has been really useful to feed it suttas in Pali and ask it to break it apart and explain piece by piece. I'll interrogate it on what the Pali word was it chose to translate as some English word. It is very much based off of the online information - that is where one needs to be careful. If you interrogate it to define some words - such as sati - it will be a lot of the McMindfulness types of explanations. It also will hallucinate most of the time if you ask it to reference other suttas - it'll just make up names and argue that they are canon. I would really like to see one of these models fine tuned on the complete canon and commentaries.

[@lizzardbrain8142]

Thank you Ajahn!!

[@rebeccafoxstoddard]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@fodizi]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu 🎉!

[@adamdacevedo]

Great teacher. But why is the video resolution not as good as in the past….?

[@ceeemm1901]

I was once told that "Pali to Sanskrit" was like "Italian to Latin"...one was the vernacular and the other was the traditional "sacred" language. Was that a fair comparison?

[@smlanka4u]

Sanskrit (con-sound-act) developed in 5th century BCE. Early Sanskrit and Pali Prakrit are similar. Sanskrit is modified.