New Chanting Book for Meditators Published
A new chanting book is published on the Ancient Buddhist Texts website meant specifically for meditators.
New Audio and Poems on Godwin Home Page
New material featuring talks by Acarya Godwin Samararatne at the evening meetings, and also discussions and chanting; the poems were written by meditators at Nilambe expressing their thoughts and feelings.
Bhante Anandajoti: Bodhi Puja
A recording of Bodhi Puja led by Bhante Anandajoti, recorded at the Bodhi Lankarama Buddhist Temple. With text and translation in clear subtitles.
Bhante Anandajoti: Chanting the Three Main Protection Discourses
Two Chanting Books now in Hard Copy for free Distribution
3rd Edition of Daily Chanting Published
Audio Recording of Safeguard Recitals in Pali
A few weeks ago I announced the publication of a new version of my popular chanting book Safeguard Recitals. At that time I had started recording the Pali text to accompany the book. I have just now finished that work and have embedded the recording in the website. The recordings in total last for around…
Safeguard Recitals, Revised and Enlarged 3rd Edition
Publication of a new and enlarged version of my popular chanting book Safeguard Recitals on the Ancient Buddhist Texts website.
A Grammatical Analysis of Three Discourses
A new text, translation and grammatical analysis of three of the main discourses from the Pali Canon.
Chanting at the International Buddhist College
A recording of the chanting we make at the International Buddhist College together with a chanting book.
Two New Chanting Texts on Ancient Buddhist Texts
Publication of two new short chanting texts on the Ancient Buddhist Texts website; the Prajñāpāramitā-Hṛdaya, the Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom, and the Tigumbacetiyathomanā – Praise of the Tigumba Shrine.
Text and Translation of Namakkārapāli
A new text and translation of a popular Burmese chanting text, together with extracts from the commentary.
Video of the Jayamangalagatha
Somawati Stupa Vandana led by Kiribathgoda Gnanananda Thero
Recollections of an impressive event in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka in 2004, and a video of a similar occasion from 2009.
Ajahn Sujīvo chanting Dhammacakkappavattanasuttam
As a blessing for the New Year here is a chanting of the First Discourse of the Buddha by Ajahn Sujivo.
The Great Compassion Mantra Of Avalokitesvara
This is a wonderful rendition of the third Great Compassion Mantra as found in the Chinese tradition with some beautiful images uploaded with the victims of the Japanese Tsunami in mind.
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 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.