Buddhism

This volume seeks to understand early Buddhist teachings as a critical response to the binary opposition between two perennial world- views, spiritual eternalism, and materialist annihilationism.

The Buddhism prevalent in Sri Lanka is a hotchpotch of various sects which are termed “Nikayas” in their native Sinhalese; ...

අග්ගඤ්ඤ සුත්‍රය - ලෝකයෙහි ආරම්භය සහ මිනිසාගේ ආරම්භය ගැන සඳහන්වන මෙය, දීඝ නිකායේ එන අග්ගඤ්ඤ සුත්‍රය සරලව ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමකි. ලෝකයේ සහ මිනිසාගේ ප්‍රභවය පිළිබඳව මෙයින් උගත හැකිය..
 

As the subtitle of the book aptly illustrates, it contains advice on what should a genuine Buddhist undertake to do and what not to do. 

This comparative study explores the relation between the Vimuttimagga and Visuddhimagga, the Path of Freedom, and the Path of Purification, both classical meditation manuals of the Theravada tradition.

Two small classics of the Pali Canon in one volume. The Udana is a compilation of eighty short but deeply impressive suttas, each expressing the Buddha's joyful insight into the profound significance of apparently simple events. 

What is to the advantage of the scholar is sometimes to the disadvantage of the layman. While going through the elaborate explanations of a certain topic in the Visuddhimagga, ...

 සූත්‍ර අභිධර්ම විද්‍යාව සහ මනස

 ආශා නිරාශා - ඉතා සරළ - නූතන සමාජයට බෙහෙවින් සමීපවන කෙටි කථා ශෛලියෙන් ලියන ලද කෙටි මාතෘකා විසි දෙකකින් සමන්විත කෙටි කතා මාලාවකි.ආශා-නිරශා ග්‍රන්තයෙහි රාග ද්වේශ මෝහ යන අකුසල් මූලික සිත් තුළ පැලපදියම්ව ඇති කෙළෙස් මල මගහරවා ගැනීම අපේක්ෂාවෙන් , බොදු දිවි පෙවෙතට අනුගතව ලියන ලද කථාවත්ථු අවසානයේ කිසියම් උපදේශයක් ආදර්ශයක් මතු කරනු ඇත.

This book contains an anthology of 154 selected discourses from the Pali canon. The original translation was by Nyanaponika Thera and was published in the BPS Wheel Series in three volumes.

බුදු දහමෙහි සාරය බුදු රදුන්ගේ වදනින් (පස්වන කොටස)  - පාලි ත‍්‍රිපිටකයෙහි විවිධ තැන්වලින් උපුටාගත් සූත‍්‍රපාඨ උපයෝගී කරගනිමින් ධර්මයෙහි වැදගත් අංග එක්තැන් කෙරෙන සර්වග‍්‍රාහී සැලැස්මක් තුළ බුදු දහම හදුන්වාදෙන අගනා ඉංග‍්‍රීසි කෘතියක සිංහල පරිවර්තනයෙහි පස්වන කොටසයි. 

Niwana Meyada? - නිවන පිළිබඳ ව කතෘවරයා විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන අදහස් සාම්ප්‍රදායික චින්තනයෙන් සැලකිය යුතු අයුරකින් වෙනස් බව පෙනෙන අතර එය මෙම කෘතියේ අගනා ලක්ෂණයයි.  නිවන පිළිබඳ විශ්ලේෂණය කිරීමට ගුරු-සිසු දෙබසක් උපයෝගී කරගෙන ඇත.

The Story Of The Buddha - The Author going to tell you the story of the life of a very great man. He was not great as the world usually regards greatness , been neither a conqueror nor a hero in any worldly sense-in fact for many years of his life he was a beggar , meaning an ascetic in the correct sense of the term.

Jataka Tales Abridged 2 - A further set of jataka Tales rephrased and retold for children by W.A. Abeysinghe. 

Jataka Tales Abridged – Jataka Stories have been inspiring the people for generations to  lead a life of virtue. The 30 jatakas presented in this book are rich with ingredients that make them delightful reading by children. The characters are very often animals, birds, snakes as well as demons. They say things and do things in the same way as the humans do.  By reading these stories the children while deriving pleasure would unconsciously cultivate some virtue which is the underlying theme of any jataka story.  

Discussion On Sathipattana - Sattipattana has been commonly translated as ' Foundation Of Mindfulness '. However the more accurate and meaningful translation is focuses of Mindfulness.

This book offers a complete translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, or Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorized scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This collection--among the oldest records of the historical Buddha's original teachings--consists of 152 suttas or discourses of middle length, distinguished as such from the longer and shorter suttas of the other collections. The Majjhima Nikaya might be concisely described as the Buddhist scripture that combines the richest variety of contextual settings with the deepest and most comprehensive assortment of teachings. These teachings, which range from basic ethics to instructions in meditation and liberating insight, unfold in a fascinating procession of scenarios that show the Buddha in living dialogue with people from many different strata of ancient Indian society: with kings and princes, priests and ascetics, simple villagers and erudite philosophers. Replete with drama, reasoned argument, and illuminating parable and simile, these discourses exhibit the Buddha in the full glory of his resplendent wisdom, majestic sublimity, and compassionate humanity.

The Discourse On The Root Of Existence - This profound and difficult discourse of the Buddha aims at exposing and eliminating the concept of the ego at its most fundamental level. The commentary offers a detailed explanation of the sutta while a long introduction investigates the text's meaning and its implications for philosophy and psychology.