Buddhist Studies
Course Completed, Fall 2021
“The Buddha’s Teachings on
Social and Communal Harmony”
Past Course, Spring, 2020
“Travels in Buddhist China”
Dhammatalks.org
Translations from the Pāli Canon
by Ajhan Tannisaro Bhikkhu, Abbot, Metta
Forest Monastery, Valley Center, CA
Access to Insight Website
This has long been the “go-to” website for Theravada texts and resources. It is kept up to date
Pāli Texts and Translations
SuttaCentral.net is a well-developed website housing early Buddhist texts (the Tipiṭaka or “Three Baskets”). This is a huge collection of teachings attributed to the Buddha or his earliest disciples, who taught in India around 2500 years ago.
SuttaCentral hosts the texts in original languages, along with translations into modern languages (where available), and extensive sets of parallels that show the relationship between them all.
There is even a feature providing audio readings of selected texts. Click on the image to the left to go to the home page, then start exploring.
The Lotus Sutra
In addition to the Heart Sutra, the Lotus Sutra is another of the great Mahayana texts worth knowing. To that end I have created a page for the Lotus which offers comments, translations, and references for further study.
The Metta Sutta
Sutta on Lovingkindness
The Five Skandhas
form
sensation
perception
memory
consciousness
click HERE for “Table of Five Skandhas” and
“Table of Eighteen Dhatus”
The Twelve Links of
Dependent Co-origination
“How to Read Red Pine’s Heart Sutra”
Click HERE for information on:
Structure, Meaning, and Commentaries
Links for Class # 1
The Buddha, His Disciples, and the Sutras
The image to the left shows one of the earliest representations of the Buddha ( 2nd-1st cen. BCE). This piece comes from the ancient region of Gandhara (modern Afghanistan and Pakistan).
Over his 48 years of teaching, the Buddha accumulated many disciples, and much of what they talked about is recorded in texts created and handed down over a period of some 24 centuries. The major division of these texts is called “the sutra collection.”
Spring, 2021
Village University Course
“Reading the Heart Sutra”
Red Pine, The Heart Sutra
In this class, we will use the Red Pine translation of the Heart Sutra. The translation itself is only two pages of the book, but the rest has line-by-line commentary of the text, plus important background information concerning the text, where it came from, and what it means.
Heart Sutra with Chinese Phonetics
A Resource-packed Heart Sutra Blog
I have found this blog to be both beautifully presented and particularly rich in materials pertaining to the Heart Sutra, including Sanskrit texts, Chinese texts, English translations, and lots of online resources.
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