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Magic & Mystery in Tibet

Magic & Mystery in Tibet
The Classic Account Of A Woman’s Extraordinary Journey To Tibet

by Alexandra David-Néel
Read by Nicolette McKenzie
12 hours 6 minutes

This classic memoir by the remarkable French explorer and Buddhist Alexandra David-Néel is the one of the greatest Buddhist travelogues of the 20th century. She was the first European woman to meet the Dalai Lama (in the 1920s) and in 1924 became the first to enter the forbidden Tibetan capital Lhasa. She had already spent a decade travelling through China, Sikkim, India, lived and meditated in a cave on the Tibetan border Continue Reading →

MAHĀ-PARANIBBĀNA SUTTA

MAHĀ-PARANIBBĀNA SUTTA
The Last Days of the Buddha

Translated by Sister Vajira and Francis Story
Read by Sean Barrett
2 hours 41 minutes

After a long and fruitful life, the Buddha is now 80. For 50 years after his Enlightenment he has been walking the hot, dusty roads of North Eastern India with just robe and bowl, tirelessly and selflessly teaching and inspiring. He knows death is approaching. Continue Reading →

MEDITATION – NOW OR NEVER

By Steve Hagen
Read William Hope
4 hours 43 minutes

In Meditation Now or Never Steve Hagen, a Zen priest and bestselling author of Buddhism Plain and Simple, provides an accessible and thorough manual on meditation, for both newcomers and experienced practitioners. In the modern world our lives are more frenetic than ever. We live with a burning sense that we have to get something done. Continue Reading →

PEAKS AND LAMAS

By Marco Pallis
Read by Ratnadhya
18 hours 18 minutes

Peaks and Lamas is one of the classic early 20th century accounts of travelling in the Himalayas on the borders of Tibet. It is, in its way, on a par with the more famous Mystery and Imagination in Tibet by Alexandra David-Néel (also available on Dharma Audiobooks). It describes two journeys in the 1930s, one physically active and one more of spiritual investigation. It starts as the title suggests, as a mountaineering adventure, when a group of English climbers set out to climb unconquered peaks in the Himalayas. Continue Reading →

PRINCIPAL TEXTS OF THE KHUDDAKA NIKĀYA VOLUME 1

Anonymous / Various Translators
Read by Jinānanda, Elizabeth English, Ratnādhya, Taradasa
25 hours 10 minutes

The Khuddaka Nikāya is different in character from the other four Nikāyas of the Sutta Pitaka in the Theravada Pāli Canon in that rather than being a single work it is, as its customary translation ‘Minor Anthologies’ suggests, a collection of independent works. A true anthology! Continue Reading →

PRINCIPAL TEXTS OF THE KHUDDAKA NIKĀYA VOLUME 2

Anonymous / Various Translators
Read by Jinānanda, Elizabeth English, Ratnādhya, Taradasa, Vishvantara, Tejasvini
25 hours 33 minutes

This is Volume 2 of Dharma Audiobooks’ ground-breaking overview of Principal Texts of the Khuddaka Nikāya, the fifth section of the Sutta Pitaka in the Theravāda Pāli Canon. Far less known than the first four (Dīgha Nikāyā, Majjhima Nikāya, Saṁyutta Nikāya, Aṅguttara Nikāya) perhaps because of its character as an anthology rather than a self-contained work, it nevertheless contains gems which are only too easily overlooked or even underappreciated! Continue Reading →

PRINCIPAL TEXTS OF THE KHUDDAKA NIKĀYA VOLUME 3

Anonymous / Various Translators
Read by Ratnādhya, Taradasa
22 hours 55 minutes

In this, the final volume in Dharma Audiobooks’ compilation of the Principal Texts of the Khuddaka Nikāya, the major work, and in some ways the most unusual, is Milinda’s Questions. For while the other two, the Buddhavaṃsa and the Cariyāpitaka, may date from the early years of Buddhism, there is no doubt that Milinda’s Questions comes from a later period. Continue Reading →

Shōbōgenzō

The Treasure House of the Eye of the True Teaching
By Eihei Dōgen
Read by Brian Nishii
55 hours 11 minutes

The Shōbōgenzō is the recognized spiritual masterpiece by the 13th- century Japanese Sōtō Zen Master Eihei Dōgen. It is comprised of discourses that he gave to his disciples, in person or in writing, at various times between 1231 and his death 22 years later at age 53. These discourses cover a wide range of topics pertinent to those in monastic life, though often also relevant to those training in lay life. He discusses matters of daily behavior and religious ceremonial as well as issues involving the Master-disciple relationship. He also explores the deeper meaning that informs the so-called Zen kōan stories, which are often puzzling in their seeming illogicality and contrary nature. Continue Reading →

SOME SAYINGS OF THE BUDDHA

Some Sayings of the Buddha

Compiled and translated by F L Woodward
Read by Neville Jason
11 hours 17 minutes

This rich selection of the Buddha’s teaching, taken from the Pali canon, remains one of the finest of the classic Buddhist anthologies in English. F. L. Woodward, a key translator of the first half of the 20th century was a committed Buddhist as well as a scholar and in Some Sayings of the Buddha he created a handbook for succeeding generations, incorporating the main elements of the Buddha’s life, views and recommendations. For this recording – incorporating more than 200 key extracts – the translation has been revised to bring the terminology up to date for the contemporary listener. Continue Reading →

SUTTA NIPĀTA

SUTTA NIPĀTA
The Group of Discourses

Translated by K. R. NORMAN
Read by Jinananda
5 hours 41 minutes

It is widely accepted that the Sutta Nipata contains ‘the earliest recorded version’ of the Buddha’s teaching. It is an anthology of poetry and prose – seventy titled suttas of varied instruction and temperament arranged in five chapters. At the start are two of its most famous suttas, The Snake, in which the actions of the practising bhikkhu approaching liberation is likened to a snake that ‘leaves its old worn-out skin’; and The Rhinoceros Horn that expounds the virtue of solitude for those with serious spiritual intent. Continue Reading →

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