BUDDHIST PALI CHANTS with ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS (Basic Buddhism) - Softcover

Taylor, Brian F

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0995634629 ISBN 13: 9780995634626

Publisher: Universal Octopus, 2016

Synopsis

Buddhist Pali chants with English translations for use by students in Meditation Retreats.
Pali is an Indo-Aryan language, current in Northern India at the time the Buddha was teaching and used by him.
It is the language in which his teaching is preserved in the Tipiṭaka, the sacred texts of Theravada Buddhism.
It was an oral language. It had no alphabet of its own.
The Buddha's teachings were not written down until the Fourth Buddhist Council in Sri Lanka in 29 BCE, in Sinhala script approximately four hundred and fifty-four years after the death of Gautama Buddha.
Pali was also written in Brahmi script as in the rock-cut edicts of Asoka in north-central India, dated to 250-232 B.C.
Pali has been transliterated into the alphabets of many languages.
I have used the Roman transliteration used by the compilers of the first Pali Dictionary for the Pali Text Society.

About this title

About the Author

Brian Taylor is a Poet and Philosopher who lives in Cornwall, England and the Far East.

Review

"Nice little book!" - A.E.Taylor, UK

"Just what I was expecting, thanks." -P. Scates, UK

"The brevity of selecting the most used chants and simple layout very helpful to understand the meaning. Well done!" -Ariya Books, UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Universal Octopus
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0995634629
• ISBN 13: 9780995634626
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 24