Dear friends,
We here at Pariyatti want to start off this newsletter with a heartfelt thank you! We wrapped up the 2025 year-end fundraising campaign with deep gratitude. All donations received since our last campaign update—via bank transfer, Paypal, credit card, and bank check—have now been counted and total $86,570.94. This wonderful show of support brought us just $13,429.06 short of our goal of $100,000!
We would like to acknowledge all our supporters for their generosity, and emphasize that we will make sure to use this dāna wisely. We never stop looking for ways to improve our efficiency while we continue to make available Dhamma resources to people and organizations around the world.
We look forward to serving you again throughout 2026.
May you all experience peace and harmony, and may
more and more people find inspiration to walk on the path!
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It’s been a while since we featured the BPE Collected Wheel Publications series, but it turns out our publishing team has been making leaps and bounds, releasing volume after volume. Currently, 22 volumes are available; the entire series will contain 29 volumes and we expect Volume 23 and Volume 24 to be published soon.
'The Wheel' is a series of booklets by the Buddhist Publication Society (BPS) that deals with various aspects of the Buddha's teaching—from the analytical philosophy of Abhidhamma to Buddhist reflections on issues in daly life. The first booklet was published in 1957, the last in 2002; the collected series was first published by the BPS in 2008.
The Pariyatti Edition of the first collected volume came out 2018. Pariyatti Editions are quality prints with an ergonomic page size and easy-to-read font, and a sturdy spine.
Volume 22 includes:
WH329/330: The Therapeutic Action of Vipassana by Dr. Paul R. Fleischman
WH331–33: The Buddhist Philosophy of Relations by Ledi Sayadaw Mahathera
WH334: Anathapindika by Hellmuth Hecker
WH335/36: Buddhist Stories by Eugene Watson Burlingame/Bhikkhu Khantipālo
WH337/38: One Foot in the World by Lily de Silva
WH339–41: The Tragic, the Comic and the Personal by Nanavira Thera
WH342–44: Gemstones of the Good Dhamma by Ven. S. Dhammika
A big thank you to the editor proofreading all 22 volumes. May your service be of benefit to many! |
With the release of the Farsi edition of the illustrated children's storybook by Mélusine Martin about Anapana called The Five Kings, this title is now available in four languages: |
The Farsi version is available in hardback for US & UK customers only; a free PDF is available for all. The other language versions are available in both paperback and hardback, as well as a free PDF download. |
This Living Tradition is a recent Pariyatti release by Australia-based Vipassana teacher Patrick Given-Wilson. The book explores the history of the Vipassana meditation tradition as taught by SN Goenka and its core principles. It is divided into three main sections: The Buddha, The Lineage, and The Practice. |
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The latest Pariyatti Audio Editions audiobook is Buddhism in Myanmar by Roger Bischoff (as narrated by Shelina Hetherington).
Published in 1995, Buddhism in Myanmar is intended to offer a short history of Buddhism in Myanmar from its origins through the country’s loss of independence to Great Britain in the late nineteenth century. |
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It was designed, rather, to provide the interested nonacademic reader with a brief overview of the subject. |
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The Pariyatti Learning Center (PLC) offers an opportunity to study Pāli online, in your own time. There are various courses on offer.
Introduction to Pāli
This short introduction to Pāli utilizes audio, video, crossword puzzles, Quizlet flashcards, and other activities for studying Pāli.
Exploring the Path (ETP)
This course by Klaus Nothnagel explores Pāli texts that provide guidance and inspiration for those walking on the Path. Klaus is a Vipassana teacher in the tradition of S.N. Goenka, and the course at times gives extra attention to topics and chantings from the Vipassana courses in this tradition.
The ETP course is also being rolled out in Spanish:
Explorando el sendero - Curso de pāli.
Buddhasahassanāmāvali
Goenkaji composed and chanted verses to express his gratitude and devotion towards the Buddha—verses called Buddhasahassanāmāvalī. This course uses these verses as a basis for studying Pāli.
Topics Connected with Buddhism
Important topics connected with Buddhism as taught by Professor Angraj Chaudhary at Delhi University.
Evaṃ me sutaṃ
The Evaṃ me sutaṃ course aims at enabling the participants to read, understand, and appreciate the suttas in their original form. ‘ Evaṃ me sutaṃ’ is the opening phrase of most of the suttas. The words were uttered by Ānanda, at the First Council (544 B.C), when the teachings of the Buddha were compiled for the first time. Ānanda had been the personal attendant ( upaṭṭhāka) of the Buddha for a long time and had memorised 84,000 teachings given by the Buddha and other senior monks. He recited the 84,000 teachings before the council of senior monks, beginning the narration with Evaṃ me sutaṃ (Thus I have heard). |
A big thank you to the PLC course creators.
May your service be of benefit to many! |
During the end-of-year campaign we announced various new lessons of the Exploring the Path (ETP) online Pāli course in the newsletters. For those who missed the December newsletters, we'll list those lessons here once more. |
Lesson 3.10.9.2
Paṭṭhānapāli – Cetasikā, Part Two
Unwholesome Mental Concomitants - Cuddasākusalacetasikā
This lesson takes up examples of the twelve unwholesome mental states as described in the Dhammasaṅgaṇī, eight of which are rooted in lobha, two are rooted in dosa and two in moha. These mental factors that provide the specific character of unwholesomeness to a citta mount up to fourteen.
It was the King Milinda who asked the Venerable Nāgasena whether it would be possible to recognise, experience or even comprehend these mental components of each citta. The reply of the Venerable Nāgasena is provided in the Introduction of lesson 3.10.9.2. |
Tikapaṭṭhāna – Pucchavāro, Part One – Determining Questions
To understand the methodical examination of the complete order of the Paṭṭhānapāḷi, the ‘chapter on questions’ (pucchavāro) provides a concise indication on the ‘permutation method’, which is applied when analysing all twenty-four conditions in systematic order.
A set of seven logical questions is arranged and employed to enquire what
phenomenon could arise based on which condition. Additionally, all possible
combinations of the three constituents of the first tika, the kusala tika (kusala, akusala, and abyākata), are organized into systematically arranged questions thus amounting to forty-nine. In this way, it is substantiated that no possibility remains missing. |
Tikapaṭṭhāna – Paṭiccavāro, Part Two
Completing the Section with Answers
Forty-nine determining questions, ensuing from logical arrangements with the combination of all three qualities of kusala, akusala, and abyākata, provide the first step to examine in more detail all twenty-four conditions or relations (paccayā) thus resulting in 1176 enquiries. In order to ascertain a thorough procedure and a completeness of the examination, all these questions need to be applied in ‘positive, direct’ order (paccayānulomaṃ) and in ‘negative, reverse’ order (paccayapaccanīyaṃ), i.e., in the combination of ‘positive and negative’ with positive preceding (paccayānulomapaccanīyaṃ) and lastly with the foregoing negative as ‘negative and positive’ order (paccayapaccanīyānulomaṃ). Once this procedure of the different ‘orders’ has been applied ‘by Ones’—as conditions also combine with one another—then combinations of the twenty-four paccayā have to be analysed ‘by Twos’, ‘by Threes’, etc.
The side-by-side table of this lesson tries to present a complete but succinct overview of the ‘permutation method’ of the Tikapaṭṭhānapāli.
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The side-by-side table, with a concise survey about the structure of the Tikapaṭṭhāna chapter, provides a condensed description of the whole arrangement of the Paṭṭhāna.
Applying the ‘permutation method’ will result in a large number of inquiries. This logical procedure needs to be employed to each condition when complete exploration should be applied to all the 1176 questions. Then the logical method extends with additional investigating into all possible permutations beginning with ‘by Ones’, ‘by Twos’, ‘by Threes’ and so on. In total, the Tikapaṭṭhāna chapter consists of seven sub-chapters, culminating in the ‘Chapter of Investigation of the Questions’, the Vibhaṅgavāro of the Pañhāvāro. Here the same procedure likewise needs to be applied with each chapter.
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Tikapaṭṭhāna – Survey about the Paṭṭhānapāli
Some Notes About the Vibhaṅgavāro of the Pañhāvāro
The Vibhaṅgavāro (investigation chapter) presents the seventh chapter of the Tikapaṭṭhāna. With the long and more detailed Pañhāvāro, the section on enquiries or questions concludes with comprehensible replies. Emphasis here is given to show how conditioned phenomena are related, caused or brought about by conditioning states. The replies that are provided portray a more comprehensive and intelligible description than most previous chapters, that only state conceptual possible occurrences. The answers in the Pañhāvāro are less abstract and offer some illustrations and examples, so the reader can more easily pursue the relation.
The replies refer to questions like ‘what effects meritorious acts can produce’ or whether ‘unwholesome actions always harvest unwholesome results.’ Thus, for example, it can be seen that even extremely unwholesome deeds could bring forth wholesome actions in a case where the doer repents, makes a firm determination and tries to counterbalance the kammic effects by performing good and wholesome deeds. |
If you are looking for daily inspiration in your (home) office: the Pariyatti wall calendars are be available again for 2026. They now include moon phases; you'll be able to see at a glance when it's full moon, first quarter, new moon, and when the moon enters its third quarter. Different calendar versions are available with moon phases for the northern and southern hemispheres.
Both the pilgrimage calendar and the Pariyatti Journal calendar are available in three formats. All calendars are in vertical orientation and consist of one cover page and twelve inner pages—one page for each month—printed on 250 gsm / 100 lb semi-glossy silk paper. They have sturdy wire binding and a hanging hook.
For production and shipping reasons the available variations differ when ordering from the USA and Canada versus ordering from the rest of the world. The prices listed include shipping costs; the calendars will be shipped directly from a third-party printer (generally between 4-6 days). |
How the Buddha Spoke
By Shravasti Dhammika
Much has been written about what the Buddha taught which is only right given its clarity, consistency and the fact that 2500 years later millions still accept and live by its principles. However, beyond what the Buddha said, perhaps almost as important is how he said it, i.e. the aesthetic quality of his voice, not just the ethical components of his words. How someone speaks—the tone, volume, pitch and intonation of their voice—tells us much about what they are thinking, their emotional state and their personality, and can convey something to the listener quite apart from what their words alone do. Words spoken in anger or with disapproval, can be received quite differently if said in a calm and quiet manner. The exclamation ‘No!’ can affect the person to who it is addressed completely differently if said sharply and emphatically or softly and gently. Continue reading...
Mettā
By Denise Verville
may your woman tingle under the moon
your man wear the sun on his head
your blood reach the ocean
your garden catch
the passing season’s bounty
your loneliness find a mountain
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Course-end Sales at our Onalaska location
We open our doors in Onalaska on days that courses end at Dhamma Kuñja.
January 18
February 1, 22
7:30-10am (-ish)
Along the Path, India & Nepal
October 20–November 10, 2026 * Applications will open soon
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Introductory Pāli Workshop (🇨🇴 en español)
San Antonio de Pereira, Colombia
January 30–February 4, 2026
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867 Larmon Rd.
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