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It also contains translations of three commentarial treatises that throw valuable sidelights on rarely known aspects of Theravada Buddhism. \t\u003c\/p\u003e  \t  \u003cp\u003eThe long introduction by Bhikkhu Bodhi is itself a modern philosophical commentary on the sutta. It elucidates the key points of the discourse and explains the place of the Brahmaj la in the overall structure of Buddhist thought. \t\u003c\/p\u003e  \t  \u003cp\u003eThe Brahmaj la is more than merely the first item in a collection of discourses. It is the gateway to the entire Teaching of the Buddha itself. 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This popular publication, originally published by the Buddhist Publication Society in 1990, transmits the spirit and content as well as the style of the original, skillfully combining clarity and vigor of expression with careful fidelity to the meaning.  The inclusion of the Pali text gives students of Pali immediate access to the original. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eA robust introduction by Bhikkhu Bodhi describes the structure of the Dhammapada and shows how the work embodies the essential teachings of the Buddha. He states, \"Wherever [The Dhammapada] has become known its moral earnestness, realistic understanding of human life, aphoristic wisdom, and stirring message of a way to freedom from suffering has won for it the devotion and veneration of those responsive to the good and the true.\" \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e*Pariyatti Editions use stronger spines and thicker paper compared to past editions.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buddharakkhita, Acharya","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101506441310,"sku":"AMZNKDP772733","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/AMZNKDP772733_33163f6e-089c-4eec-a830-f87bdb9e6f4f.jpg?v=1760547689"},{"product_id":"1734","title":"Mahasatipatthana Sutta Book","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eClick Google Preview button to look inside the book.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003eGBS_setLanguage('en');GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780964948402');\u003c\/script\u003e     \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis sutta is the primary discourse in which the Buddha describes the practice of meditation in detail. This translation of the Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta has Roman-script Pāli with an English translation on facing pages as well as an introductory article and detailed footnotes explaining Pali terms and phrases.  This highly significant text will be of interest to any serious student of meditation or of the Buddha's teaching.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is intended for use in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta meditation courses for Old Students of Vipassana, as taught by S.N. Goenka.  Using this text, Mr. Goenka gives evening discourses explaining why Vipassana is taught the way it is. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"product.asp?itemid=1814\"\u003eThe Satipatthana Sutta Discourses\u003c\/a\u003e book is a summary of those discourses and serves as a nice companion to the Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta.\u003c\/p\u003e   ","brand":"Vipassana Research Institute","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101520728158,"sku":"771180","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/saticover_76ddc6b2-198f-4a79-a43a-dc9cfbd35851.jpg?v=1760547819"},{"product_id":"4811","title":"Process of Consciousness and Matter","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClick Google Preview button to look inside the book.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e \u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003eGBS_setLanguage('en');GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9781938754661'); \u003c\/script\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \t\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eProcess of Consciousness and Matter\u003c\/em\u003e is intended for all serious students of the Abhidhamma. It serves as a supplement to \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.pariyatti.org\/Comprehensive-Manual-of-Abhidhamma-A_p_1454.html\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, written by Bhikkhu Bodhi and Dr. Rewata Dhamma, and treats various important aspects in more detail   in particular, the process of consciousness and matter. Dr. Rewata Dhamma writes in the \u003cem\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/em\u003e: \t\u003c\/p\u003e  \t\u003cdiv style=\"width: 80%; margin-left: 26px; text-align: justify;\"\u003e \t\t  \u003cp style=\"text-indent: 10px\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAs human beings our sense consciousnesses, occurring at each of our five sense doors, arise and pass away millions of times each second. It needs to be understood that, because there are several sense doors there is not just one process occurring, there are many. Thus, for example, as we sit in meditation we may be experiencing many processes, such as feeling contact with the ground, and also seeing, hearing and so on. However, the sense consciousnesses themselves are not occurring simultaneously, even though it may seem that they are happening in the same mind moment. They seem to be happening simultaneously only because they follow one after the other at such an incredibly rapid rate. Therefore, I first of all explain that the processes arising at the five sense doors arise in respect of their own different respective objects. I then explain how the sense object consciousness arises at each sense door. With regard to the sixth sense door, the mind, I explain that the mind door process is a purely mental process: for example a present thought may cause a memory to arise. I also explain the subsequent mind door process, which follows the mind door. With regard to this mind door process I also describe the meditation processes and the attainment of the different kinds of absorption. I describe the different types of process such as the supernormal process, the reviewing process, the dying process, the fruition process, the pre-Nibbanic process and the pari-Nibbanic process. These processes are only mentioned very briefly in the Manual. The dying process is closely related to the rebirth process. The Abhidhamma treats them separately and explains how they are linked - after death comes rebirth. It is my hope that many people, particularly in the West, will be interested in this description of the rebirth process. \u003c\/em\u003e \t\t\u003c\/p\u003e  \t\t\u003cp style=\"text-indent: 30px\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe final section of the book is concerned with the process of matter. Material phenomena or qualities originate from kamma, consciousness, temperature and nutrition. I explain how these material qualities come together at the time of conception, and continue through life. I also explain what happens at the death moment and afterwards. At the moment of conception the formation of these qualities occurs within 17 mind moments and then immediately new qualities begin to arise and then pass away and so ceaselessly on and on throughout life, until the death moment.\u003c\/em\u003e \t\t\u003c\/p\u003e \t\u003c\/div\u003e \t \t\u003ch4\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h4\u003e \t\u003cp\u003eVen. Dr. Rewata Dhamma was born in Burma and entered the monastery at an early age. He studied Pali and Theravada Buddhism under various eminent scholar-monks in Burma and passed the highest examination in scriptural studies at the age of 23. In 1975 he moved to England, where he established a Buddhist centre in Birmingham as his base. For many years he taught meditation and Buddhism at various centres in Europe and the United States. He was a long-time Vice President of the World Buddhist Sangha Council. Ven. Rewata Dhamma passed away in May 2004. \t\u003c\/p\u003e \t \t\u003ch4\u003eEndorsement\u003c\/h4\u003e \t  \u003cdiv style=\"width: 80%; margin-left: 28px; text-align: justify;\"\u003e \t\t\u003cp style=\"text-indent: 30px\"\u003eWhenever I reach the Abhidhammatthasangaha (chapter IV), while teaching Abhidhamma, I find myself wishing that there were an English treatise on the Thought Process described there. There are books in the Myanmar language on this subject but they are not accessible to all my students and I have no time to explain since I don t want the Abhidhamma Course to be too long. A book in English would therefore be very good for the students. Then they could read it by themselves and only need explanations from their teacher in some difficult places. \t\t\u003c\/p\u003e \t\t\u003cp style=\"text-indent: 30px\"\u003eNow my friend in Birmingham, Dr. Rewata Dhamma Aggamahapandita, has written \u003cem\u003eProcess of Consciousness and Matter\u003c\/em\u003e, the very book I had in mind. He is an expert on Abhidhamma and  explains in detail all aspects of the thought and matter processes. \t\t\u003c\/p\u003e \t\t\u003cp style=\"text-indent: 30px\"\u003eDr. Rewata Dhamma s addition to the literature on Abhidhamma thus fulfils a long felt need. In my opinion, his book will be prized alike by students of Abhidhamma and scholars in general as a precious and unique contribution to that literature. \t\t\u003c\/p\u003e \t\t\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\"\u003e-U. Silananda \t\t\u003c\/p\u003e \t\u003c\/div\u003e \t \t\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePariyatti extends its appreciation to the venerable sayadaws of the Birmingham Vihara for their gracious permission to publish this ebook.\u003c\/em\u003e \t\u003c\/p\u003e \t ","brand":"Dhamma, Ven. 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U Silananada. See also the PTS Pali edition of the \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"product.asp?itemid=2213\"\u003eAbhidhammattha Sangaha\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e and the PTS translation \u003ca href=\"product.asp?itemid=1949\"\u003eCompendium of Philosophy\u003c\/a\u003e as well as \u003cem\u003eProcess of Consciousness and Matter\u003c\/em\u003e, by Ven. 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This is not a new translation from the Pali, but rather a retelling of the stories in modern English by Ken and Visakha Kawasaki.  \u003cblockquote style=\"font-size: 1rem; text-align: justify;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhereas Western intellectuals seek the essence of Buddhism in its doctrines and meditation practices, the traditional Buddhists of Asia absorb the ideas and values of their spiritual heritage through its rich narrative literature about the Buddha and his disciples. The most popular collection of Buddhist stories is, without doubt, the J takas. These are the stories of the Buddha's past births, relating his experiences as he passed from life to life on the way to becoming a Buddha. At times he takes the form of a bird, at times he is born as a hare, a monkey, a prince, a merchant, or an ascetic, but in each case he uses the challenges he meets to grow in generosity, virtue, patience, wisdom, and compassion. 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Kurunegoda Piyatissa and retold by Todd Anderson (Vols. 1 and 2) and Stephan Hillyer Levitt (Vols. 3, 4 and 5). The stories are drawn from ancient Pali and Sinhalese sources, and have been adapted for a modern audience while preserving the original moral and ethical teachings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese stories have been used for centuries in Buddhist education and sermons to teach important values such as compassion, generosity, honesty, and the dangers of greed and craving. They cover a wide range of themes and characters, from princes and kings to animals and mythical beings. They have also influenced literature, art, and architecture across various cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Buddhist Tales for Young and Old series provides a rich collection of stories that can help readers of all ages develop moral and ethical values, as well as a deeper understanding of Buddhist teachings and philosophy. 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