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.
This manual is a companion to Morals in the Life Story of the Buddha, Lisa Knight’s excellent introduction to Dharma for children and their parents. It is written for teachers or parents and teaches moral values to children of age eight and up. This is a set of fully prepared lesson plans, making it very easy to teach.
Why and how should we meditate? The answer unfolds as sweetly as ever within the pages of this minor treatise by one of the most eminent meditation masters of the 20th century.
Bhante Walpola Piyananda of Los Angeles fame has interwoven his knowledge of Buddhism with his personal experience in presenting Buddhist logic and praxis in an understandable and humorous form. This treatise would no doubt form an enlivening experience both in terms of reading and acquirement of wisdom.
A Socio - Anthropological Study of Thera - Therigathas - A Socio Anthropological study of Thera and Theris lived during the time of the Buddha is, in fact, a new dimension that Mr. Senevirathna Bandara has introduced to the subject area of textual studies.
The Lotus Sutra - Buddhism has a large corpus of scripture and "The Lotus Sutra" is regarded as the most important of the Mahayana Buddhism which spread in most parts of the then know world, including China, Korea and Japan, where it served as the basis of Tien- tai, Tendai and Nichiren schools, the latter now very popular in the West under the name of Soka Gakkai led by the famous Daisaku lkeda. The work " bears the character of a dramatic performance, Sakyamuni Load Buddha himself , consisting of a series of dialogued, brightened by the magic effects of a would - be supernatural scenery."
Herein is found one of the best expositions of this main canonical text of Buddhism. Ven Narada Maha Thera renders in clear and eloquent English the meaning of Pali stanzas and the circumstances which lead to their uttering of them.his style is inimitable
The most beloved Buddhist classic of all time, the Dhammapada is an anthology of over 400 verses on the ethics, meditation, and wisdom of Buddhism. This translation by a long-term student of the work transmits the spirit and content as well as the style of the original.