Over the past couple of weeks I have made a new Unicode font and I have now converted the whole of the Ancient Buddhist Texts website to this format.
Mount Kailash, A Pilgrim’s Companion
A short book by Ven Dhammika as a companion to Mount Kailash has now been published on the Photo Dharma website, with extra photographs he took along the way.
Publication of A Buddhist Perspective on Pain, Stress and Illness
Publication of the teachings of Bhikkhu Sumedha on pain, stress and illness, gathered while he was working in the Intensive Care Unit at Peradeniya General Hospital during the last ten years of his life.
Photographs from Wat Sri Suphan in Chiang Mai
A report on my stay at Wat Sri Suphan in Chiang Mai, the wonderful art work that is found there and the support they are giving to the local traditions of Lanna arts and crafts.
Photo Albums from the Temples around Chiang Mai
A report on some of the Temples I visited in the immediate Chiang Mai area, including Wat Phra That Doi Suthep.
Chiang Mai: Photos of Temples in the Old City
Photographs from the temples in the old City, which are some of the oldest in Chiang Mai, and were often built with Royal patronage, along with recollections of my visit to the various Temples.
Chiang Mai: Photo Albums of Modern Structures
This post covers my trip to Fang, Tha Ton and Chiang Rai and the modern temples and other buildings that we found there, including the White Temple and the Black House.
Chiang Mai: First Four Photo Albums
The first four albums from my photoshoot in Chiang Mai have just been published, and cover some of the out-of-station sites. I have also added histories, maps and illustrative materials to the various pages
Ajahn Suthep: 50+ Dhamma Talks
Ajahn Suthep is one of the few Thai monks I know who can effectively teach in English, and his teachings are always based on the original teachings about the constituent parts, the sense-spheres and craving.
Second Guest on Photo Dharma: Ven. Dhammika
Over the past few years Ven. Dhammika has been traveling extensively and fortunately for us he took his camera with him. Now he has contributed some of these photos to the Photo Dharma website.
Samples for the Metres in the Pali Canon
I have now recorded readings of the examples included in my Outline of the Metres in the Pāḷi Canon book, which illustrate primarily the metres in the various stages of their development, as well as such things as sarabhatti vowels.
New on Photo Dharma: Guest Photographers
After receiving some photographs from my good friend Ken Kawasaki, I asked if it would be possible to publish them on the Photo Dharma website, and he very kindly gave permission. I therefore decided to start a new section for Guest Photographers.
Publication of The Life of the Victorious Buddha
My simplified translation of the Pāḷi text Jinacarita has just been published in Singapore by Awaken Publishing & Design. The book is a retelling in simple and poetic language of the story of The Life of the Buddha.
Thant Myint-U: The River of Lost Footsteps
The River of Lost Footsteps, by Thant Myint-U provides a political history of Burma from the earliest times, and brings it up until the “Saffron Revolution” of 2007.
Vesakha Greetings
New Readings and a New Media Player
Over the past few weeks I have been working on my Ancient Buddhist Texts website at getting more texts read in in their original languages and updating their presentation.
Photographs of Paintings from Wat Olak Madu
While I was in Wat Olak Madu I took numerous photographs of some of the modern artworks that are found in the Preaching Hall and Sima Hall, which has resulted in two new albums for the Photo Dharma website.
The Journey of Xuanzang: An Introduction
The Journey of Xuanzang is a lavishly illustrated 12-part biography of the great Chinese traveler and translator Xuanzang, based on Records of the Western World and A Biography of the Tripitaka Master.
The End of Google Videos
Google Video have just sent a circular to their patrons announcing that the service is being removed and that videos would no longer be available for playback from April 29th.