Talk:Patimokkha

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I'm going to copy and paste the list from "Access to Insight edition" [1]

"Copyright © 1994 Thanissaro Bhikkhu Access to Insight edition © 1994 For free distribution. This work may be republished, reformatted, reprinted, and redistributed in any medium. It is the author's wish, however, that any such republication and redistribution be made available to the public on a free and unrestricted basis and that translations and other derivative works be clearly marked as such."

Wikipedia and GDFL fit into reproduction of material "on a free and unrestricted basis and that translations and other derivative works be clearly marked as such." Vapour

I listed all the rules at Wikipedia:Copyright Problems because this does allow commercial redistribution.--Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 14:29, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] An extra info

I found this info may help to understand the Patimokkha and it could be added as an external link

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/bmc1/index.html

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/bmc2/index.html

http://www.volny.cz/ayukusala-warning/index.html

Although I don't agree with some of the statements which I consider a bit controversial as reflecting to the current age, by large it is a good work. Perhaps the book of Freedom Wherever We Go : A Buddhist Monastic Code for the Twenty-first Century (Paperback), by Rev. Thich Nhat Hanh, ISBN 1888375442, PY 2005, is a complementary work to the old stake

[edit] merge of the three Vinaya Lineages

it would be good to make a merge of the Pratimoksha of Tibetan Lineage, the Patimokkha of the Theravada Lineage and the Dharmaguptaka Lineage. These three are the present existing Ordination Lineage of the Buddha deriving from his disciples to the present...--Kt66 17:08, 26 August 2006 (UTC)