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Ancient Buddhist Texts
website last updated Nov 17th, 2011
This website has 4 main sections:
Indian Prosody: Texts and Studies
there are also
Maps of Ancient Buddhist India
Audio Readings of Selected Texts
The website has now been converted to Unicode
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Text and Translations and English Only sections
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Documents Released During 2011:
Important Changes:
January: Added in a toolbar of each of the pages to make it easy to share with others via your favourite social networking site (thanks to Sherril Lim for the suggestion).
January: Added eBooks (.epub and .mobi) to all files in the English Only section.
April: Added navigation links at the bottom of the page (thanks to Ven. Khemaratana for the suggestion).
May: Started using the Yahoo! Media Player for playing the audio files.
September: Completely converted the site to Unicode.
November: Included Flip-Books in English Only Section.
November: Started eBooks page and remade all eBooks.
mp3 Audio Files:
Buddha a poem by Madame A. Christina Albers, January 2011
Buddhist Wisdom Verses, March 2011
Buddhanīti Saṅgaho, March 2011
Examples of Classical Metres from Mahāvaṁsa, May 2011
Examples for An Outline of the Metres in the Pāḷi Canon, May 2011
Thematic Discourses about Nuns, September 2011
Satipaṭṭhānavibhanga, October 2011
The Ways of Attending to Mindfulness (DN 22), revised October 2011
The Analysis of the Ways of Attending to Mindfulness, revised October 2011
The Matrix from the Abstract Teaching, revised October 2011
Original Texts and Studies:
Buddhanīti Saṅgaho, March 2011
Bhikkhunīsaṁyuttaṁ, September 2011
Mahsatipaṭṭhānasuttaṁ, October 2011
Satipaṭṭhānavibhango, October 2011
Texts and Translations:
Buddhist Wisdom Verses, March 2011
Aggasāvikā Bhikkhunī, August 2011
Thematic Discourses about Nuns, September 2011
The Ways of Attending to Mindfulness (DN 22), revised October 2011
The Analysis of the Ways of Attending to Mindfulness, revised October 2011
The Matrix from the Abstract Teaching, revised October 2011
English Texts:
Buddha a poem by Madame A. Christina Albers, January 2011
Buddhist Wisdom Verses, March 2011
Thematic Discourses about Nuns, September 2011
The Discourse about the Ways of Attending to Mindfulness, revised October 2011
The Analysis of the Ways of Attending to Mindfulness, revised October 2011
The Matrix from the Abstract Teaching, revised October 2011
Prosody: Texts and Studies:
Pārāyanavagga, 2nd Revised Edition, March 2011
Reference:
Simple Buddhist-Christian Era Conversion Forms, May 2011
Calculator for Monastic Dawn and Midday, September 2011
Light on Pāḷi Pronunciation (Ledi Sayadaw), October 2011
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