Conversion of Ancient Buddhist Texts to Unicode

Unicode Logo

Over the past couple of weeks I have made a new Unicode font and I have now converted the whole of the Ancient Buddhist Texts website to this format.

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Mount Kailash, A Pilgrim’s Companion

Ven Dhammika

A short book by Ven Dhammika as a companion to Mount Kailash has now been published on the Photo Dharma website, with extra photographs he took along the way.

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Publication of A Buddhist Perspective on Pain, Stress and Illness

Bhikkhu Sumedha

Publication of the teachings of Bhikkhu Sumedha on pain, stress and illness, gathered while he was working in the Intensive Care Unit at Peradeniya General Hospital during the last ten years of his life.

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Photographs from Wat Sri Suphan in Chiang Mai

Buddha and Banners

A report on my stay at Wat Sri Suphan in Chiang Mai, the wonderful art work that is found there and the support they are giving to the local traditions of Lanna arts and crafts.

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Photo Albums from the Temples around Chiang Mai

Outside Wat Thom Kain

A report on some of the Temples I visited in the immediate Chiang Mai area, including Wat Phra That Doi Suthep.

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Chiang Mai: Photos of Temples in the Old City

City Life

Photographs from the temples in the old City, which are some of the oldest in Chiang Mai, and were often built with Royal patronage, along with recollections of my visit to the various Temples.

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Chiang Mai: Photo Albums of Modern Structures

Lanna Holistic Center

This post covers my trip to Fang, Tha Ton and Chiang Rai and the modern temples and other buildings that we found there, including the White Temple and the Black House.

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Chiang Mai: First Four Photo Albums

The Three Kings

The first four albums from my photoshoot in Chiang Mai have just been published, and cover some of the out-of-station sites. I have also added histories, maps and illustrative materials to the various pages

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Ajahn Suthep: 50+ Dhamma Talks

Audio

Ajahn Suthep is one of the few Thai monks I know who can effectively teach in English, and his teachings are always based on the original teachings about the constituent parts, the sense-spheres and craving.

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Second Guest on Photo Dharma: Ven. Dhammika

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Over the past few years Ven. Dhammika has been traveling extensively and fortunately for us he took his camera with him. Now he has contributed some of these photos to the Photo Dharma website.

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Samples for the Metres in the Pali Canon

Audio

I have now recorded readings of the examples included in my Outline of the Metres in the Pāḷi Canon book, which illustrate primarily the metres in the various stages of their development, as well as such things as sarabhatti vowels.

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New on Photo Dharma: Guest Photographers

Ken-Kawasaki

After receiving some photographs from my good friend Ken Kawasaki, I asked if it would be possible to publish them on the Photo Dharma website, and he very kindly gave permission. I therefore decided to start a new section for Guest Photographers.

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Publication of The Life of the Victorious Buddha

VB-Buddha

My simplified translation of the Pāḷi text Jinacarita has just been published in Singapore by Awaken Publishing & Design. The book is a retelling in simple and poetic language of the story of The Life of the Buddha.

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New Readings and a New Media Player

Audio

Over the past few weeks I have been working on my Ancient Buddhist Texts website at getting more texts read in in their original languages and updating their presentation.

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Photographs of Paintings from Wat Olak Madu

Teaching Sixty Monks

While I was in Wat Olak Madu I took numerous photographs of some of the modern artworks that are found in the Preaching Hall and Sima Hall, which has resulted in two new albums for the Photo Dharma website.

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Sharing the Dhamma – Godwin Website CD

Sharing the Dhamma CD

It has become a custom to republish some of Godwin’s teachings on his anniversary, and this year the whole website dedicated to Godwin, Godwin Home Page, has been published on CD with the title Sharing the Dhamma.

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New Photographs from Kelantan

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At the end of March two good friends teamed up together for the first time and got me over to Kelantan in north-eastern Malaysia to photograph the old Thai temples there. The result is 5 new albums for the Photo Dharma website.

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Pārāyanavagga, 2nd Revised Edition

Audio

The 2nd revised edition of the text and study of the Pārāyanavagga (now found in the Suttanipāta), one of the earliest and most important of the teachings in the Pāḷi Canon, has been completed, together with a reading of the text.

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License Change on Photo Dharma Website

Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported  (CC BY-SA 3.0)

I have changed the license on the photographs on my Photo Dharma website so that the photographs can be shared and adapted provided the photographs are attributed, and that no exclusive copyright is claimed for the resulting work.

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New Book: Buddhist Wisdom Verses

Buddhist Wisdom Verses

The book is one of the most useful compiliations on the moral life of the layman that can be found. It is drawn mainly from the great verses collections in the Pāḷi Nikāyas and almost all aspects of the lay life have been covered.

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