Pariyatti. The reading and reflection that prepares the ground for practice.
The earliest complete Buddhist canon — preserved in Pali by the Theravada tradition and committed to writing in Sri Lanka in the first century BCE. Three baskets: discourses, monastic rules, and higher doctrine.
The second basket of the Pali Canon — the Buddha's discourses, organized into five great collections (nikayas) preserving over ten thousand teachings.
The third basket — seven books of systematic philosophy mapping mind and matter into their irreducible components. The intellectual peak of the Pali tradition.
American Theravada monk, Pali scholar, and translator. Editor of the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy, Sri Lanka, for over twenty years. Translator of the Majjhima Nikaya, Samyutta Nikaya, and Anguttara Nikaya. Founder of Buddhist Global Relief.
The Great Monastic University.
The opening episode of a serial reading and commentary on the Dhammapada — the Buddha's collected sayings, the most widely-read text in the Theravada world, rendered into a daily contemplation.
The second episode of the Dhammapada series. The verse held against the small frictions of daily life.
A recitation and reading of the Bodhicaryavatara — Shantideva's eighth-century classic on the path of the bodhisattva. Episode one of the chapter cycle, in Nepali and Tibetan.
A teaching on the Abhidhamma — the higher analysis of mental factors that distinguishes the Theravada from every other Buddhist school. Session one of an ongoing series at Bhrikutimandap.
423 verses across 26 chapters. Pali on the left page, English on the right. Soft cover, 288 pages, hand-bound in Kathmandu. The reference edition for the Daily Dhammapada practice in the app.
320 pages. The Buddha's foundational discourse on the four foundations of mindfulness. Annotated by Sayadaw U. Pandita lineage teachers.
