![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Bhante Anandajoti: Generosity or Dana - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
The first talk was given on Vesakha Eve at the Vivekavana monastery, and shows how everyone is capable of developing the perfections, especially the perfection of generosity. The second piece is a combination of two short talks I gave on generosity; and the third was a follow up talk on Generosity as a Perfection (Pāramī). These were given at the Saturday Lunchtime dānas at the Vivekavana office in Berapit in August...
Keywords: Generosity; Dana; Dhamma; Dharma
Downloads: 95 |
| Bhante Anandajoti: Dhamma Talk on New Year's Day - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
This talk was recorded on January 1st at the Vivekavana Office in Berapit, but is relevant also for any New Year's Day, including the Chinese so I am posting it today. The talk begins by reflecting on the past year and encouraging people to remember their good deeds, and then also to make a strong determination for the coming year to keep precepts and develop further their spiritual life. The talk ends with a chanting of the Mettasutta, Abhayaparitta and blessing chants, which is followed by sha...
Keywords: Dhamma; Dharma; Kamma; Karma; Chanting
Downloads: 80 |
| Bhante Anandajoti: Short Dhamma Talks - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
Some short talks that were given at the Saturday dāna in the Vivekavana office in Berapit. They were given in English and translated into Mandarin, but the latter has been edited out. The quality of the recording is fairly poor, but the content is quite useful, so I decided to publish them here.
Keywords: Virtue; Right Speech; Rarities; Buddhism; Dhamma; Dharma
Downloads: 146 |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Ta Phrom in Angkor: Gods and Angels in Ruins - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
This is a remake of a video I prepared earlier in the year after returning from Cambodia. It consists of Ken Burns type scans of still photographs set to music by Padma Soundsystem. The photographs were taken at the Ta Phrom temple in Angkor Thom, Cambodia. More photographs of Cambodia and elsewhere can be seen on my Photo Dharma website.
Keywords: Ta Phrom; Angkor; Cambodia; Temples
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| The Discourse about the Belief Systems - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A discourse from the Anguttara Nikaya of the Pali Canon in which the Buddha contrasts the 3 belief systems (determinism, God, and chance) with his own teaching of conditional origination.
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Sutta; Sutra; Discourse
Downloads: 322 |
| The Matrix from the Abstract Teaching - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
The matrix from the Abhidhamma or abstract teaching is a table or grid against which other doctrines are classified in the other Abhidhamma books, it is therefore used as a reference point for the other doctrines that are examined. The matrix is divided into three parts, the triplets matrix, the pairs matrix and the pairs matrix from the discourses.
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Abhidhamma; Abhidharma
Downloads: 426 |
| Buddhist Wisdom Verses by Chapter - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
This collection of verses, made by one of the leading scholar-monks in Sri Lanka in the 20th century, is one of the most useful compiliations on the moral life of the layman that can be found. Drawn mainly from the great verses collections in the Pāḷi Nikāyas almost all aspects of the lay life have been covered, and it brings together in a fairly comprehensive way many teachings that would otherwise be lost in obscurity...
Keywords: Dhamma; Dharma; Virtue; Ethics; Wisdom
Downloads: 1,314 |
| Buddhist Wisdom Verses by Section - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
This collection of verses, made by one of the leading scholar-monks in Sri Lanka in the 20th century, is one of the most useful compiliations on the moral life of the layman that can be found. Drawn mainly from the great verses collections in the Pāḷi Nikāyas almost all aspects of the lay life have been covered, and it brings together in a fairly comprehensive way many teachings that would otherwise be lost in obscurity.....
Keywords: Dhamma; Dharma; Virtue; Ethics; Wisdom
Downloads: 459 |
| Parayanavaggo, the Way to the Beyond - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A reading of Parayanavaggo, the Way to the Beyond by the translator, Anandajoti Bhikkhu. This is considered one of the earliest works in the Pali Canon. A brahminical teacher hears that a Buddha has arisen in the world and sends his 16 students to meet him. They travel 1,800 km across India, ask the Buddha some questions pertaining to the spiritual life and attain Awakening. For the text and translation in pdf format of this important work, please see here; for the translation alone see here...
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Sutta; Sutra; Discourse
Downloads: 1,367 |
| The Great Chapter (pages) - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
The Great Chapter, which forms part of the Book of Discipline in the Pali Canon, is one of the main sources of information we have for the life story of the Buddha in the year following his Awakening. Many different episodes are recounted here: the time he spent in the vicinity of the Bodhi tree and his encounters there; his decision to teach and journey across India to accomplish that desire; the 1st, 2nd and 3rd discourses that were recorded; the conversation of 1,000 yogis; and his meeting wi...
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Sutta; Sutra; Discourse; Buddha biography
Downloads: 374 |
| Bayon: Soldiers and Elephants at War - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
Three murals from the East Wall at Bayon at Angkor Thom in Cambodia. The video was made by assembling sequential photographs into panoramas and then scanning them. Scenes: the 1st mural shows the Khmer army marching from East to West; the 2nd from West to East; and the 3rd shows the Chams marching to meet them and engaging in battle. The music is Cambodian Mahori music: Khmer Krang Phka.
Keywords: Cambodia; Angkor; Bayon; Murals; Battle-Scenes
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| The Long Discourse Giving Advice to Rahula - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A discourse from the Middle Length Collection (Majjhima Nikaya) of the Pali Canon in which the Buddha gives advice to his son Rahula on the subject of meditation.
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Sutta; Sutra; Discourse; Meditation
Downloads: 343 |
| Mahavamsa Chanted in Pali - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
This is a chanting of 68 of the final verses from the Mahāvamsa. It was customary in the Medieval period to finish each chapter with a flourish by including a verse written in one of the Classical metres. This collection serves to provide examples of those metres, and they have now been read in to accompany the text, so that students can get a better understanding of the underlying rhythms of the metres used in the Medieval texts.
Keywords: Pali; Verse; Stanza; Prosody
Downloads: 343 |
| The Great Emancipation - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A translation of The Discourse about the Great Emancipation (Mahaparinibbanasuttam) which forms the 16th discourse in the Long Collection (Digha Nikaya) of the Buddha's discourses. The story of the last year of the Buddha's life in told in detail in six chapters, which include his final instructions for the Community, and his painful last journey.
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Sutta; Sutra; Discourse; Buddha biography
Downloads: 1,330
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| Cloudy Morning over Penang Island - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
Panoramic (10x1) photograph of Penang Island, scanned from one end to the other. This is more or less the view I see every morning! The music is by Project Divinity (Matti Paalanen), generously released under a Creative Commons licence, see http://www.mikseri.net/artists/?id=48148
Keywords: Malaysia, Penang, Panorama
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| Buddhanīti Sangaho Chanted in Pali - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
This collection of verses, made by one of the leading scholar-monks in Sri Lanka in the 20th century, is one of the most useful compiliations on the moral life of the layman that can be found. NOTE: this is the Pāḷi only reading of the text. If you want to hear the Pāḷi along with the translation please see Buddhist Wisdom Verses.
Keywords: Dhamma; Dharma; Virtue; Ethics; Wisdom
Downloads: 241 |
| Buddhāpadāna: The Tradition of the Previous Excellent Deeds of the Buddhas - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A reading of the translation of a section of the Buddhāpadāna by Mr. Dwijendralal Barua, M.A. The text can be found here, along with a very interesting essay by the same author.
Keywords: Buddha, Biography, Legends, Traditions
Downloads: 148 |
| The Buddha goes to War - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
This is part of the Introduction to the Story of the Cuckoo (Kuṇālajātaka, Jā 536). It tells the story of resource shortage in ancient India, the fight it gave rise to and how the Buddha intervened and prevented a war. It is therefore a very topical theme for our days.
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Jataka; War; Resources
Downloads: 308 |
| The Buddha's Journey from Uruvilva to Rsipatana - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
The translation that follows is from a section of the Sanskrit text, the Mahavastu (Great Story) dealing with the period after Lord Buddha left the area where he had attained Awakening until he arrives at the place where he will give his first recorded teachings.
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Awakening
Downloads: 230 |
| The Discourse Concerning Malunkyaputta - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A discourse from the Connected Discourse Collection (Samyutta Nikaya) of the Pali Canon in which the Buddha leads the monk Malunkyaputta through a series of questions and answers meant to bring him to a deeper understanding of reality.
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Sutta; Sutra; Discourse; Meditation
Downloads: 306 |
| The Discourse giving the Explanation and Analysis of Conditional Origination from the Beginning - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A text giving an Explanation and Analysis of Conditional Origination that has been preserved in the Sanskrit Canon. It is similar to ones in the Pali Canon but with some interesting variations. I also translated this particular text into Pāli, if you would like to see the Sanskritised Prakrit, Pāli and English version, which also has more elaberate notes, see THIS PAGE.
Keywords: Conditional Origination; Dhamma; Dharma; Buddha; Sanskrit
Downloads: 294 |
| The Analysis of the Ways of Attending to Mindfulness - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
The Analysis of the Ways of Attending to Mindfulness is divided into three main sections, the first of which is based on the method found in the discourses, elaborates on what is meant by doing the practice in regard to oneself, to another, and to both (1-5). The second section approaches the subject from the point of view of how the practice can lead to the attainment of path and fruit; and shows which mental factors are present at that time (6-7)...
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Sutta; Sutra; Discourse; Meditation; Mindfulness
Downloads: 583 |
| The Buddha-carita of Aśvaghoṣa - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
This is a reading of Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha Translated by E. B. Cowell, with some small supplements from Johnson's edition. The text of the reading can be found here. Only 14 chapters of the original text remain, and it is these (without the supplement by Amritānanda) that have been read in here.
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Buddha Biography
Downloads: 624 |
| The Ways of Attending to Mindfulness - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A reading of the Long Discourse on The Ways of Attending to Mindfulness, which forms the 22nd Discourse in the Long Collection (Digha Nikaya) of the Discourses of the Buddha. This is the main discourse on the development of meditation in the Pali Canon. The files in this collection were updated in October 2011 to reflect changes in presentation of the html files on my website.
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Sutta; Sutra; Discourse; Meditation; Mindfulness
Downloads: 1,468 |
| Nalinika's Story, Jataka 526 - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A story of the Buddha's former life. An improbable story about the seduction of an innocent boy who was brought up in isolation from women, while his Father, the Bodhisatta, is away in the forest.
Keywords: Buddha; Bodhisatta; Bodhisattva; Jataka
Downloads: 268 |
| Ajahn Karuniko: Right Speech - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
Ajahn Karuniko gives a talk on good and skilful ways of speaking at the Vivekavana Buddhist Society on 30th January, 2011. The talk was given in English and translated into Mandarin by Mr. Tan Ah Huat.
Keywords: Dhamma; Dharma
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| Bayon - Everyday Life and War Scenes - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A long mural from the South Wall at Bayon in Angkor Thom, Cambodia. The video was made by assembling sequential photographs into a long panorama and then scanning it from left to right. Scenes include: Offerings, Pig-Boiling, Archers, Khmer-Cham Fighting (Archers, Spear and Sword Fights), Three Boats with Cham, Chinese and Khmer Warriors on Tonle Sap, Hand-to-Hand Fighting, Pig and Cock Fighting and a Chinese Junk.
Keywords: Cambodia; Ankgor Thom; Bayon; Wall Mural; Tonle Sap
Downloads: 385 |  |
| The Discourse about Mindfulness while Breathing - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
An important discourse on meditation from the Middle Length Collection (Majjhima Nikaya, 118) of the Pali Canon giving instruction on Mindfulness while Breathing. The full text of this discourse can be found here: The Discourse about Mindfulness while Breathing.
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Sutta; Sutra; Discourse; Meditation; Mindfulness
Downloads: 965 |
| The Discourse that set the Dhamma Wheel Rolling - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
The first discourse of the Buddha from the Pali Canonical source. The discourse describes the Four Noble Truths with the Eightfold Path, the first Awakening and the Gods rejoicing.
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Sutta; Sutra; Discourse
Downloads: 497 |
| The Discourse to Girimananda - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A Discourse from the Anguttara Nikaya of the Pali Canon, addressed to the monk Girimananda explaining 10 different types of meditation practice.
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Sutta; Sutra; Discourse; Meditation
Downloads: 389 |
| The Great Emancipation (Mahaparinibbanasutta) - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A translation of The Discourse about the Great Emancipation (Mahaparinibbanasuttam) which forms the 16th discourse in the Long Collection (Digha Nikaya) of the Buddha's discourses. The story of the last year of the Buddha's life in told in detail in six chapters, which include his final instructions for the Community, and his painful last journey.
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Sutta; Sutra; Discourse; Buddha biography
Downloads: 358 |
| Photographic Paintings of Tonle Sap - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
Photographs taken on the Tonle Sap Freshwater Lake in Cambodia that have been subsequently processed to look like paintings. Pan-and-zoom (Ken Burns) effects have also been used on this short video.
Keywords: Tonle Sap; Cambodia
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| Satipaṭṭhānavibhanga Chanted in Pāli - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A recital in Pāli of one section of the Abhidhamma Vibhanga text concerned with an analysis of Satipaṭṭhāna (Mindfulness). A reading of the English translation can be found here.
Keywords: Abhidhamma, Abhidharma, Buddhism, Dhamma, Dharma, Mindfulness, meditation
Downloads: 253 |
| Dhammapada Chanted in Pali - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A recording of the Pāḷi text of one of the best loved books in the Canon, featuring verses written in different metres: Siloka, Tuṭṭhubha, Jagatī, Vetālīya and Opacchandasaka.
Keywords: Dhamma; Dharma; Pali Canon; Buddha; Buddhist Teaching
Downloads: 1,771 |
| The Second Discourse giving an Analysis of the Faculties - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
The Buddha enumerates and then analyses the Five Faculties of Faith, Energy, Mindfulness, Concentration and Wisdom. From the Indriyasamyutta of the Pali Canon (SN 48.10).
Keywords: Mindfulness; Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma
Downloads: 60 |
![[collection]](/images/mediatype_collection.gif) | Dharma Records Video - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
Collection of the Dharma Records Video Audio at Dharma Records Audio
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| Metres in the Pali Canon - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
These are sample files for the quotations used in my study: An Outline of Metres in the Pali Canon. They are embedded at various places in this book.
Keywords: Metre; Pali Canon; Verses
Downloads: 128 |
| Parayanavagga Chanted in Pali - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
This is a reading of one of the earliest Buddhist texts, the Pārāyanavagga (The Way to the Beyond) in the Pāḷi Canonical language, which forms part 5 of the Suttanipāta (KN 5). The text falls into three clearly discernible sections. The first form the Vatthugāthā, the Introductory Verses; this is followed by the Pucchā, or Questions, in which are recorded, mainly in verse, 16 dialogues between the Buddha and a group of brāhmaṇa meditation masters; and thirdly, there is a fitting epil...
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Sutta; Sutra; Discourse
Downloads: 373 |
| Thematic Discourses about Nuns - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
Ten short but profound discourses from the Thematic Discourses (Saṁyuttanikāya) in the Pāḷi Canon in which Māra tries to tempt or distract various Arahat nuns but only gets fine rebukes from the nuns for his trouble. Some of the most memorable teaching in verse is found in this collection. The recital is in English, for the same discourses in Pāḷi go to this page.
Keywords: Bhikkhunis, Nuns, Mara, Discourses, Dhamma, Dharma, Sutta, Sutra
Downloads: 308 |
| The First Discourse on the Bases for Talk - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A discourse from the Anguttara Nikaya of the Pali Canon on the right and wrong bases for talk.
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Sutta; Sutra; Discourse
Downloads: 288 |
| Namakkarapali, The Reverence Text - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
The Namakkārapāḷi is a popular chanting text in Myanmar. It was written by the Venerable Elder Sāsanasodhaka as we are informed in the relevant section of the Ṭīkā. The text consists of 28 verses written in different metres in ascending order of syllables, starting with the Vatta (a.k.a. Siloka) and ending with the Saddharā. In the presentation here I have given an analysis of the metres before each verse...
Keywords: Chanting; Pali; Burmese Text
Downloads: 11 |
| Jatakamala or Garland of Birth Stories By Āryasūra - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
The Jatakamala or Garland of Birth Stories by Aryasura retells in Classical Sanskrit 34 of the Buddha's previous lives, illustrating the virtues he pursued during the time he was striving in previous births before attaining Awakening. The text was beautifully translated by the Dutch scholar J S Speyer and published in 1895 as the first book in the Sacred Books of the Buddhists series. Here it is read in by Anandajoti Bhikkhu, who has also made the text available on the Ancient Buddhist Texts web...
Keywords: Jatakamala; Aryasura; J S Speyer; Lives of the Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma
Downloads: 1,305 |
| Why the Buddha Suffered - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
The texts which are translated here describe the previous deeds of the Buddha which led in his last life to various kinds of suffering: from spending a long time in the wasteland of severe austerities; to receiving slander at various hands; to physical ailments of various kinds: being attacked and cut by rocks and scalpels; and getting headaches, backaches and dysentry.
Keywords: Buddha; Biography; Apadana
Downloads: 241 |
| The Asokan Missions - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A reading of the first translation of the Extended Mahāvaṁsa chapters XII-XIV, which describe the missions sent out during King Asoka's time to bring the Dhamma to the outlying districts and countries. Text can be found here. There is also a video about Asoka and the Missions here.
Keywords: Asoka, Buddhism, Buddhist History, Sri Lanka, Mahinda
Downloads: 146 |
| Udana - Exalted Utterances - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A reading of my translation of the Pali Canonical book Udana, entitled Exalted Utterances. This reading is organised by chapters, for the same reading by individual discourse see here.
Keywords: Buddhism; Buddhist doctrine; Dhamma; Dharma; Sutta
Downloads: 855 |
| The Short Readings - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A reading of nine short pieces collected together at the beginning of the Khuddakanikāya, the 5th Nikāya in the Pāli Canon. They include the Discourse on the Blessings (Mangalasutta); the Discourse on the Treasures (Ratanasutta); and The Discourse on Friendliness Meditation (Mettasutta)
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Sutta; Sutra; Discourse
Downloads: 726 |
| The Discourse about Mindfulness related to the Body - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A discourse from the Majjhimanikaya of the Pali Canon which contains many of the same meditation as the Ways of Attending to Mindfuless discourse, but with a different ending concerning the Absorptions (Jhana), with some beautiful similies at the end.
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Sutta; Sutra; Discourse; Meditation; Mindfulness
Downloads: 358 |
| The Discourse giving the Analysis of the Truths - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
A discourse from the Middle Length collection of the Pali Canon in which Ven Sariputta offers an analysis of the Four Noble Truths.
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Sutta; Sutra; Discourse
Downloads: 325 |
| Bhante Anandajoti: Short Dhamma Talks - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
Some short talks that were given at the Saturday dāna in the Vivekavana office in Berapit. They were given in English and translated into Mandarin, but the latter has been edited out. The quality of the recording is fairly poor, but the content is quite useful, so I decided to publish them here.
Keywords: Metta; Karuna; Mudita; Upekkha; Buddhism; Dhamma; Dharma; Four Noble Truths; Meditation
Downloads: 293 |
| Bhante Anandajoti: What is Meditation? - Anandajoti Bhikkhu
Bhante Anandajoti discusses the nature of meditation in Buddhism and how it can be practiced by everybody to help them in their everyday lives as lay people having families and a career to pursue.
Keywords: Buddha; Dhamma; Dharma; Meditation; Mindfulness
Downloads: 1,181
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