Theravada/Early Buddhist Tradition Resources

[forestofclarity]

Resources related to Theravada and Early Buddhist Texts. Feel free to recommend your own resources to be added. The resources here are made by members in their individual capacity and is not an endorsement by TheDaoBums.

 

Krenx:

Great resource by the late Dhamavuddho. Dhamma talks as well as verbal readings and comments of the entire 5 Nikayas suttas. 

 

Audio & Video Dhamma Talks https://share.google/z9ggFGXF5arrWTuqV

 

Mark Foote:

 

 

I would recommend the Pali Text Society translations of the Nikayas (the sermons). They can be found online, though not by the Pali Text Society. Folks can PM me if they can't find the link.

There are also translations by modern, Western Theravadin monks, for example on the suttacentral.org site:

https://suttacentral.net/pitaka/sutta?lang=en

 

I have collected the best of my writing, here:

A Natural Mindfulness 

 

That's also the first eighteen pages of my website, here:
 

The Mudra of Zen

[Krenx]

Great resource by the late Dhamavuddho. Dhamma talks as well as verbal readings and comments of the entire 5 Nikayas suttas. 

 

Audio & Video Dhamma Talks https://share.google/z9ggFGXF5arrWTuqV

 

He has a YouTube channel as well with many of his talks on different aspects on the dhamma. Great Q and A's 

[Mark Foote]

I would recommend the Pali Text Society translations of the Nikayas (the sermons). They can be found online, though not by the Pali Text Society. Folks can PM me if they can't find the link.

There are also translations by modern, Western Theravadin monks, for example on the suttacentral.org site:

https://suttacentral.net/pitaka/sutta?lang=en

 

 

The suttacentral texts allow for side-by-side Pali and English, if that's of interest.

I notice that on their home page, the suttacentral folks speak of the four principal nikayas, and I would stick to those. According to A. K. Warder in his "Indian Buddhism", the fifth Nikaya, the Khuddaka Nikaya, was a work of later composition that was not included in the sermon collections of many of the early schools. 

I would also observe caution with regard to sermons attributed to Gautama's disciples, rather than Gautama. Gautama was careful to limit what he had to say, I believe to avoid contradictions, but his disciples in many cases stepped right in it (so to speak).

Some favorites for me:  MN 118 and MN 119. The whole SN 54.1 chapter (SN 54.1 - SN 54.11, at least). MN 70, for stating what is and is not enlightenment. DN 16 the story of Gautama's death, and DN 22, the long version of mindfulness. Googling the abbreviations here will likely return links to the sermon, for example "MN 118" (though generally not the Pali Text Society versions).

I see that forestofclarity encourages recommending "your own resources". The above are my resources, maybe that's not exactly what he was encouraging?  I do write, drawing from the first four Nikayas and from resources in the Ch'an and Zen traditions. I have collected the best of my writing, here:

A Natural Mindfulness 

 

That's also the first eighteen pages of my website, here:
 

The Mudra of Zen

 

 

MIschief managed?

 

 

Edited Monday at 07:08 PM by Mark Foote