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The Buddhist Monastic Code
Volume II

The Khandhaka Rules
Translated & Explained

by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
(Geoffrey DeGraff)

Copyright © 2002 Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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In this transcription of The Buddhist Monastic Code (Volume II), the diacritical marks in the Pali passages for recitation and chanting are represented using plain ASCII characters according to the "Velthuis scheme," a convention widely used on the Internet by Pali students and scholars. Long vowels (those usually typeset with a bar above them) are doubled: aa ii uu. For consonants, the diacritic mark precedes the letter it affects. Thus, the retroflex (cerebral) consonants (usually typeset with a dot underneath) are represented thus: .r .t .th .d .dh .n .s .l . The guttural nasal (n with a dot over) is "n . The pure nasal niggahita (m with a dot under) is .m . The palatal nasal is represented here as ñ.

-- jtb

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