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Author: Ānandajoti

Publication of a Reading of the Exalted Utterances on CD

Posted on October 9, 2010September 19, 2018 by Ānandajoti
Exalted Utterances

My reading of the translation I made of the Udāna, entitled Exalted Utterances, has just been published on mp3 CD in Singapore. Most of the discourses run for around 5-10 minutes so they make for a good short contemplation of the teaching.

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One Page Dhamma Website

Posted on October 7, 2010April 5, 2011 by Ānandajoti
Swas-Tan

After his retirement Swas Tan started summing up the Dhamma talks he was attending for his own better understanding, and producing a one page summary of the event going under the title of One Page Dhamma.

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Animated Film: The Way

Posted on October 6, 2010April 21, 2011 by Ānandajoti
The-Way

Here is an animated video in the sumi-e style of painting. The film is inspired by Toaist thought and includes drawing of the Yin and Yang symbols as well as the I-ching.

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HOME: The Statistics

Posted on October 2, 2010April 21, 2011 by Ānandajoti
HOME

Here I have collected together some statistics from the film HOME in a sequence which is worthwhile spending some time contemplating.

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Colour Spectrum Photography 2: Hubble’s Universe

Posted on September 28, 2010January 6, 2011 by Ānandajoti
Hubble

I doubt if there are many people around who haven’t seen the beautiful photographs of our universe taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope camera measures not only visible light, but also the infrared and ultraviolet spectrums.

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Colour Spectrum Photography 1: Russia, in the early 20th Century

Posted on September 27, 2010January 6, 2011 by Ānandajoti
Prokudin-Gorskii

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) was commissioned to document the Russian empire, and he did so in an ingenious way and managed to get what are effectively colour photographs of his subjects by using a form of spectrum photography.

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Thich Nhat Hanh: This is A Happy Moment

Posted on September 26, 2010May 12, 2011 by Ānandajoti
Thich Nhat Hanh

A video of a talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh in Penang, which I attended together with around 2,500-3,000 other people! It starts with some chanting before the talk proper begins.

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Leonard Rubenstein and Stephen Xenakis: Doctors Without Morals

Posted on September 25, 2010January 6, 2011 by Ānandajoti

After five years of investigation, the Justice Department has released its findings regarding the government lawyers who authorized waterboarding and other forms of torture during the interrogation of suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere.

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Safeguard Recitals now going for Free Distribution

Posted on September 23, 2010January 15, 2011 by Ānandajoti
Safeguard Recitals

My major 300-page chanting book, Safeguard Recitals, has now been bought up from the Buddhist Publication Society and will go for free distribution. The book is the complete overnight chanting that is used in the Sri Lankan tradition.

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Kazu Shimura: Buddha Meditation Ink Drawing

Posted on September 21, 2010January 5, 2011 by Ānandajoti
Sumi-e

In this wonderful video of Sumi-e ink and wash drawing of the Buddha we see both the tension and the flowing movement of the young artist Kazu Shimura as he manages to bring a Buddha to life on his canvas.

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Bhante Anandajoti: The Perfection of Generosity

Posted on September 20, 2010May 3, 2020 by Ānandajoti
Anandajoti

Here is another Saturday Dāna talk on the subject of Generosity. This time I look at it from the point of view of the role it plays in the Perfections (Pāramī).

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The Buddha goes to War

Posted on September 19, 2010May 3, 2020 by Ānandajoti
Audio

Although the story recorded here is not found in the Pāḷi Canon, nor to my knowledge, anywhere in the Canonical texts of the other schools, it has a certain verisimilitude that gives it some authenticity.

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Arundhati Roy’s Speech: Come September

Posted on September 18, 2010January 5, 2011 by Ānandajoti
Arundhati Roy

I include here a full transcript of Arundhati Roy’s speech, extracts of which provided the commentary to yesterday’s film. “The things I have to say are complicated, dangerous things in these dangerous times.”

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Republication of Daily Chanting

Posted on September 16, 2010January 15, 2011 by Ānandajoti
Daily Chanting

One of the first books I worked on was a text and translation of the chanting we used to make in the evening at my ordination temple. We had a good chanting schedule but very inadequate texts to work with, and seeing the need I prepared the book.

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Jātaka Tales of the Buddha – The Goat that Laughed and Wept

Posted on September 15, 2010November 11, 2012 by Ānandajoti
Jataka-Goat

It was while staying at Jetavana that the Buddha told this story about a Feast for the Dead. One day, some bhikkhus asked the Buddha whether there was any benefit in sacrificing goats, sheep, and other animals as offerings for departed relatives.

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Jātaka Tales of the Buddha – Review

Posted on September 14, 2010November 11, 2012 by Ānandajoti
Jataka Tales of the Buddha

Ken and Visakha Kawasaki have been using the Jātaka Stories in their English teaching activities amongst the Buddhist monastic and lay communities in S.E. Asia for more than 3 decades.

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Bhante Anandajoti: Generosity (Dāna)

Posted on September 13, 2010May 3, 2020 by Ānandajoti
Audio

Here is a combination of two short talks I gave at the Saturday Lunchtime dānas at the Vivekavana office in Berapit in August.

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Mural Walls at Bayon 3: Soldiers and Elephants at War

Posted on September 12, 2010July 30, 2011 by Ānandajoti
Bayon-Soldiers-and-Elephants-at-War

The video is made from three murals from the East Wall at Bayon at Angkor Thom. 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.

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Metta for the Victims of 9-11

Posted on September 11, 2010April 15, 2017 by Ānandajoti
Falling-Man

The video is a scan of photographs of more than 2,500 out of the nearly 3,000 people who died on that fateful day in September 2001.

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The Buddha’s Journey from Uruvilvā to R̥ṣipatana

Posted on September 9, 2010May 3, 2020 by Ānandajoti
Audio

The translation that follows is from a section of the Mahāvastu (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.

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