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Neville Jason trained at RADA where he was awarded the diction prize by Sir John Gielgud. His first appearance in the theatre was in Peter Brook’s production of Titus Andronicus starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. He is a former member of the Old Vic Company, the English Stage Company, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Birmingham Repertory Company. He was three times a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company. Latterly he has become an important voice reading the classics, with The Remembrance of Things Past (unabridged), War and Peace (unabridged) The Once and Future King (unabridged) among his numerous recordings for Naxos AudioBooks and others. He has also directed audio drama, including Hamlet with Anton Lesser in the title role.

Neville Jason

Neville Jason trained at RADA where he was awarded the diction prize by Sir John Gielgud. His first appearance in the theatre was in Peter Brook’s production of Titus Andronicus starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. He is a former member of the Old Vic Company, the English Stage Company, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Birmingham Repertory Company. He was three times a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company. Latterly he has become an important voice reading the classics, with The Remembrance of Things Past (unabridged), War and Peace (unabridged) The Once and Future King (unabridged) among his numerous recordings for Naxos AudioBooks and others. He has also directed audio drama, including Hamlet with Anton Lesser in the title role.

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 →