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Renowned scholar-monk and bestselling translator Bhikkhu Bodhi’s definitive, practical guide on how to read ancient Buddhist texts in the original language.

Bhikkhu Bodhi’s sophisticated and practical instructions on how to read the Pali of the Buddha’s discourses will acquaint students of Early Buddhism with the language and idiom of these sacred texts. Here the renowned English translator of the Pali Canon opens a window into key suttas from the Samyutta Nikaya, giving a literal translation of each sentence followed by a more natural English rendering, then explaining the grammatical forms involved. In this way, students can determine the meaning of each word and phrase and gain an intimate familiarity with the distinctive style of the Pali suttas—with the words, and world, of the earliest Buddhist texts.

Ven. Bodhi’s meticulously selected anthology of suttas provides a systematic overview of the Buddha’s teachings, mirroring the four noble truths, the most concise formulation of the Buddha’s guide to liberation. Reading the Buddha’s Discourses in Pali shares with readers not only exceptional language instruction but also a nuanced study of the substance, style, and method of the early Buddhist discourses.

ISBN-13: 9781614297000

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Wisdom Publications MA

Publication Date: 12-08-2020

Pages: 552

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.60(d)

Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk from New York City. After completing his PhD in philosophy he traveled to Sri Lanka, where he received full ordination in 1973, both under the leading Sri Lankan scholar-monk Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Mahanayaka Thera. From 1984 to 2002 he was the editor for the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy, where he lived for ten years with the senior German monk Ven. Nyanaponika Mahathera at the Forest Hermitage. He currently lives and teaches at Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, New York. Ven. Bodhi has many important publications to his credit, either as author, translator, or editor. These include The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha 1995, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha 2000, and The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha 2012. In 2008, together with several of his students, Ven. Bodhi founded Buddhist Global Relief, a nonprofit supporting hunger relief, sustainable agriculture, and education in countries suffering from chronic poverty and malnutrition.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Abbreviations xiii

Detailed Contents xv

General Introduction 1

A Very Brief Overview of Pali Grammar 11

Common Sentence Patterns in the Nikayas 49

Key to Grammatical Terms Used in This Book 81

1 The Four Noble Truths: The Matrix of the Teaching 85

2 The Five Aggregates: The Meaning of Suffering in Brief 139

3 The Six Sense Bases: The Channels through which Suffering Originates 221

4 Dependent Origination: The Origination and Cessation of Suffering 291

5 The Path and the Way: The Practices Leading to the End of Suffering 291

6 The Unconditioned: The Goal 495

Pali-English Glossary 503

Bibliography 529

About the Author 531