Acknowledgements

I acknowledge with gratitude help received from these monks:

• Thanissaro Bhikkhu: Buddhist Monastic Code, and many offerings to the Access to Insight website
• Bodhi Bhikkhu: translations of Majjhima Nikaya and Samyutta Nikaya and The First Sanghadisesa Rule for Bhikkhus
• Dhammajoti Bhikkhu: for many acts of kindness
• Thiradhammo Bhikkhu: The Heritage of the Sangha (unpublished document)
• Brahmavamso Bhikkhu: for many vinaya notes, all unpublished
• Mettavihari Bhikkhu: for the Mettalanka website, and the utfp Pali (www.metta.lk)

I acknowledge with gratitude help received from these laypeople:

• Miss I.B. Horner: for Vinaya studies (Books of Discipline) and translations (Middle Length Sayings)
• John Bullitt: for the Access to Insight website (www.accesstoinsight.org)
• Peter Harvey: Signless Meditations in Pali Buddhism (Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 1986)
• Vipassana Research Institute: Chaṭṭha Sangāyana CD-ROM (www.vri.dhamma.org)
•  The Sri Lanka Tripitaka Project and the Journal of Buddhist Ethics for the free public-domain digital edition of the Sri Lanka Buddha Jayanti Tripitaka

I express much gratitude to the following translators:

• T.W. Rhys Davids: Dialogues of the Buddha
• T.W. Rhys Davids & Stede W: Pali-English Dictionary
• Ireland, J.D: Udana and Itivuttaka
• Walshe M.O’C: Long Discourses of the Buddha
• Norman K.R: Group of Discourses
• Woodward F.L: Gradual Sayings
• Hare E.M: Gradual Sayings

For their friendship and support, I thank the monks and laypeople of

• Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, U.K.
• Mahamevnawa monasteries, Sri Lanka

 

 

Having admirable friends
has been praised by the Sage
with reference to the world.
Associating with an admirable friend,
even a fool
becomes wise.
Kalyāṇamittatā muninā lokaṃ ādissa vaṇṇitā,
Kalyāṇamitte bhajamāno api bālo paṇḍito assa.
(Thi.143. Tr. Thanissaro)