  Following the proposal in [1], we study the feasibility to calculate the pion
distribution amplitude (DA) from suitably chosen Euclidean correlation
functions at large momentum. In our lattice study we employ the novel momentum
smearing technique [2,3]. This approach is complementary to the calculations of
the lowest moments of the DA using the Wilson operator product expansion and
avoids mixing with lower dimensional local operators on the lattice. The
theoretical status of this method is similar to that of quasi-distributions
[4], which has recently been applied to the same problem in [5]. The
similarities and differences between these two techniques are highlighted.
