AT LAST: THE CONNECTED DISCOURSES OF THE BUDDHA Copy
THE SAṂYUTTA NIKĀYA Ever since the recording of The Middle Length Discourses, in the translation by Bhikkhus Ñanamoli and Bodhi, was released in August 2019, Dharma Audiobooks has had numerous, regular requests for more of the complete Pāli translations of the Nikāyas. Now, Taradasa’s recording of The Connected Discourses have been published on Audible – and quite […]
THE NUMBERED DISCOURSES OF THE BUDDHA
THE VIMALAKIRTI SUTRA Translated by Burton Watson • Read by Taradasa The Vimalakirti Sutra is one of the most popular of all Mahayana sutras, being especially loved and revered in the Far East. One of the reasons for the Sutra’s popularity is that its principal character, Vimalakirti, is not a Buddha or a Bodhisattva, or […]
THE HUNGARIAN WHO WALKED TO HEAVEN
THE HUNGARIAN WHO WALKED TO HEAVEN The remarkable story of Csoma de Kőrös By Edward Fox Read by Andrew Cullum 2 hours 21 minutes This is a delightful short biography of an eccentric Hungarian scholar who became one of the fathers of Western studies of the Tibetan language and culture. Educated at an austere […]
PEAKS AND LAMAS
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 […]
THE LONG DISCOURSES OF THE BUDDHA
THE LONG DISCOURSES OF THE BUDDHA By Dīgha Nikāya Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato Read by Taradasa 24 hours 21 minutes The Long Discourses of the Buddha (Dīgha Nikāya) is the first of the five Nikāyas (Collections) in the Sutta Pitaka and has its own particular character. Unlike the others, which contain thousands of shorter […]
Sister Vajira and Francis Story
Sister Vajira and Francis Story Born Hannelore Wolf in 1928 in Germany, she became a Buddhist nun in 1955 in Sri Lanka. Suffering from ill-health, she became a translator of Pali texts. She disrobed in 1962, returned to Germany and died in 1991, aged 63. Francis Story (1910-1972) (Anagarika Sugatananda) was born in England in […]
F. L Woodward
F. L Woodward Frank Lee Woodward (1871-1952) was an unusual English figure who made a significant contribution to the wider understanding of Buddhism in the West. A classical scholar who became interested in Eastern religions, he learned Pali and after a period as headmaster in the UK, took up a similar post in Galle, Sri […]
K R Norman
K R Norman Kenneth Roy Norman (born 1925) is a leading scholar of Middle Indo-Aryan or Prakrit, particularly of Pali. He saw military service in India and Malaya and studied classics at Cambridge University, and spent most of his career teaching Prakrit at Cambridge University. He was a visiting professor at SOAS and Berkeley, and […]
John D. Ireland
Steve Hagen John D. Ireland (1932-1998) was born in North London, England. He became a Buddhist at age eighteen and soon began studying Pali. From the 1960’s onward he was a frequent contributor to the Buddhist Publication Society’s Wheel and Bodhi Leaves series of booklets. But he is perhaps best known for his combined translation, […]
Steve Hagen
Steve Hagen Steve Hagen is a Zen priest, a long-time teacher of Buddhism and the author of How the World can be the Way It is. He began studying Buddhism in 1967 and in 1975 became a student of Zen master Dainin Katagiri. Hagen was ordained a Zen priest in 1979 and later studied with a number […]