The texts and translations included in this section of the website are all organised in much the same way, with the text printed with a line-by-line translation. This style of presentation was originally developed, when I was first learning Pàëi to help analyse and follow what was going on in the texts. In this regard one of the first major works I prepared was the text & translation of Pàràyanavagga.

Afterwards it seemed that the same style of prersentation would be useful in regard to the texts that are used in recital. So I then proceeded to prepare Safeguard Recitals, which is a text & translation of the protection discourses that are chanted in all night sittings; and the Daily Chanting book, which is a chanting book used in my own Svejin Nikàya, presenting various texts that are chanted in a weekly cycle. Some of the other indidivual discourses presented in this section are also drawn from these sources.

These works were very well received by many people who saw the material, and I extended the presentation in order to help students of Pàëi, who are able to follow what is going on in the text when an aid such as this is available. I therefore prepared a new transaltion of the Udàna; and also a number of discourses that related to meditation e.g. Mahàsatipaññhànasuttaü, and Mahàràhulovàdasuttaü.

Recently this section has been expanded by including two Lives of the Buddha, one in Sanskrit (Buddhacarita), and the other in Medieval Pàëi (Jinacaritaü). In this edition I am also releasing a preview of a grammatical text I am working on, called Navapadamaÿjarã.