{"title":"Author - Analayo, Bhikkhu","description":"Bhikkhu Anālayo was ordained in Sri Lanka where he completed his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies. His thesis was published as \u003cem\u003eSatipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization\u003c\/em\u003e. With over 400 academic publications, Ven. Anālayo is a leading scholar in research on Early Buddhism with a special interest in the topics of the position of women in Buddhism and Buddhist meditation. Recently retired from his position as a university professor in Germany, he is now a resident scholar at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in MA, USA, and spends most of his time in meditation.","products":[{"product_id":"2401","title":"Satipatthana - The Direct Path to Realization","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSatipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization\u003c\/em\u003e is a comprehensive and thorough analysis of some of the most fundamental teachings of the Buddha, in the Satipatthana Sutta. With unparalleled depth, Analayo examines the philosophy and instruction of mindfulness meditation, through a detailed explanation of this text and its application, drawing together ancient and modern works to create a holistic view of the philosophy and practice of meditation in Theravada Buddhism. With a full and detailed translation from the original Pali script, Analayo expounds the Satipatthana s richness and complexity with rare insight and allows the reader a glimpse into the Buddha s direct path to realization, expertly bridging the gap between intellect and practice. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \t\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHighlights\u003c\/strong\u003e \t\u003c\/div\u003e \t\u003cdiv\u003e  Examines, in detail, the foundational Buddhist discourse on meditation practice \t\u003c\/div\u003e \t\u003cdiv\u003e  Written in a style which enables it to serve both as a text for scholars of Early Buddhism and for those with a serious interest in the foundations of meditation \t\u003c\/div\u003e \t\u003cdiv\u003e  Draws together works on early Buddhism and modern meditation to create a holistic study of the practice of meditation \t\u003c\/div\u003e \t\u003cdiv\u003e  Includes a translation of the Satipatthana Sutta \t\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat others are saying \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cem\u003eSatipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization\u003c\/em\u003e is a gem. Ven. Analayo has done a superb job of elucidating this core teaching of the Buddha. His clarity of style, nuanced observations, and depth of analysis opens many new doors of understanding. I learned a lot from this wonderful book and highly recommend it to both experienced meditators and those just beginning to explore the path.  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e Joseph Goldstein, author of One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e With painstaking thoroughness, Ven. Analayo marshals the suttas of the Pali canon, works of modern scholarship, and the teachings of present-day meditation masters to make the rich implications of this text, so concise in the original, clear to contemporary students of the Dharma. His analysis combines the detached objectivity of the academic scholar with the engaged concern of the practitioner for whom meditation is a way of life rather than just a subject of study. \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e Bhikkhu Bodhi, scholar and translator \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e ","brand":"Analayo, Bhikkhu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101548679262,"sku":"209540","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/209540_c6f87486-7168-4300-b8aa-902c4ced89b5.jpg?v=1760548072"},{"product_id":"4364","title":"Excursions into the Thought-World of the Pāli Discourses (book and eBook)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor those who approach the Buddha's teaching as a system of mental development, this book is a reliable and accessible guide to understanding the significance of themes from the Pāli discourses, including grasping, right view, craving, passion, contemplation of feeling, happiness, and liberation. 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Ten years after Analayo s acclaimed study of the Sutta, his current work, Perspectives on Satipa??hana, brings a new dimension to our understanding by comparing the Pali text with versions that have survived in Chinese. Analayo also draws on the presentation of mindfulness in a number of other discourses as they survive in Chinese and Tibetan translations as well as in Pali.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe result is a wide-ranging exploration of what mindfulness meant in early Buddhism. Informed by Analayo s outstanding scholarship, depth of understanding and experience as a practitioner, this book sheds fresh light on material that is central to our understanding of Buddhist practice, bringing us as close as we can come to the mindf ulness teachings of the Buddha himself. \u003c\/p\u003e \t \u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat others are saying \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \t\u003cp\u003eAnalayo builds on his earlier ground-breaking work, 'Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization'. 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For meditators, such passages can be of considerable help as a reference point for deepening insight.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eA metaphor that can offer considerable help when facing vedanās describes bubbles arising on the surface of a pond during rain...they arise and soon enough burst and disappear. Contemplation of the changing nature of vedanā provides a firm foundation for the growth of insight into not self. Such insight proceeds through successive layers of the mind's ingrained habit of self-referentiality. Based on relinquishing the explicit view of affirming the existence of a permanent self, increasingly subtler traces of conceit and possessiveness need to be successively overcome until with full awakening all selfing in any form will be removed for good. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeepening Insight\u003c\/em\u003e is based on textual sources that reflect  early Buddhism,  which stands for the development of thought and practices during roughly the first two centuries in the history of Buddhism, from about the fifth to the third century BCE. These sources are the Pāli discourses and their parallels, mostly extant in Chinese translation, which go back to instructions and teachings given orally by the Buddha and his disciples. In those times in India, writing was not employed for such purposes, and for centuries these teachings were transmitted orally. The final results of such oral transmission are available to us nowadays in the form of written texts. Bhikkhu Anālayo's presentation is meant to provide direct access, through the medium of translation, to the Chinese   gama parallels to relevant Pāli discourses. In commenting on such passages, his chief concern throughout is to bring out practical aspects that are relevant to actual insight meditation.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003chr\u003e \u003cdiv style=\"font-family: Times, serif;\"\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline\"\u003eEndorsements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn spring 1990 S.N. Goenka initiated an international seminar named \u003ci\u003eThe Importance of Vedanā and Sampajañña\u003c\/i\u003e. It had the purpose to disseminate the prominence of sensations vedanā  as a core object of mediation to recognize the intrinsic nature of change and impermanence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVenerable Bhikkhu Anālayo now provides a thorough, comprehensive and well selected collection on vedanā  as maintained in the original early Pāli Canon. Along with the comparison to the Chinese   gama, otherwise hardly available, this collection if adapted and applied to practice may indeed serve as an inspiring source for \u003ci\u003eDeepening Insight\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: right; margin-top: -10px; \"\u003e—Klaus Nothnagel, Pāli teacher and Center Teacher for Dhamma Pallava in Poland\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e  \u003chr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis eBook is in Mobi (Kindle), ePub (iPad, Android, other e-readers), and PDF eBook formats. You will receive download links for each format after checkout. 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For meditators, such passages can be of considerable help as a reference point for deepening insight.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA metaphor that can offer considerable help when facing vedanās describes bubbles arising on the surface of a pond during rain...they arise and soon enough burst and disappear. Contemplation of the changing nature of vedanā provides a firm foundation for the growth of insight into not self. Such insight proceeds through successive layers of the mind's ingrained habit of self-referentiality. Based on relinquishing the explicit view of affirming the existence of a permanent self, increasingly subtler traces of conceit and possessiveness need to be successively overcome until with full awakening all selfing in any form will be removed for good. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeepening Insight\u003c\/em\u003e is based on textual sources that reflect \"early Buddhism,\" which stands for the development of thought and practices during roughly the first two centuries in the history of Buddhism, from about the fifth to the third century BCE. These sources are the Pāli discourses and their parallels, mostly extant in Chinese translation, which go back to instructions and teachings given orally by the Buddha and his disciples. In those times in India, writing was not employed for such purposes, and for centuries these teachings were transmitted orally. The final results of such oral transmission are available to us nowadays in the form of written texts. Bhikkhu Anālayo's presentation is meant to provide direct access, through the medium of translation, to the Chinese  gama parallels to relevant Pāli discourses. In commenting on such passages, his chief concern throughout is to bring out practical aspects that are relevant to actual insight meditation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003chr\u003e \u003cdiv style=\"font-family: Times, serif;\"\u003e     \u003cp style=\"font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline\"\u003eEndorsements\u003c\/p\u003e     \u003cp\u003eIn spring 1990 S.N. Goenka initiated an international seminar named \u003ci\u003eThe Importance of Vedanā and Sampajañña\u003c\/i\u003e. 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Along with the comparison to the Chinese  gama, otherwise hardly available, this collection if adapted and applied to practice may indeed serve as an inspiring source for \u003ci\u003edeepening insight\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e     \u003cp style=\"text-align: right; margin-top: -10px; \"\u003e—Klaus Nothnagel, Pāli teacher and Center Teacher for Dhamma Pallava in Poland\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e  \u003chr\u003e \u003cp id=\"interview\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eView the interview and questions-and-answers session with Bhikkhu Anālayo.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote:\u003c\/strong\u003e to view Vimeo chapter markers on small screens, you may have to turn your screen to landscape position.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cdiv style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"\u003e   \u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/654198966?title=0\u0026amp;byline=0\u0026amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border: 1px solid #666\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; margin: 20px 0;\"\u003e     \u003ca class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/download.pariyatti.org\/free\/6397\/a_discussion_with_ven._bhikkhu_an%C4%81layo_about_his_new_book__deepening_insight_%20%28720p%29.mp4\" rel=\"enclosure\"\u003eDownload Video (682MB)\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; margin: 20px 0;\"\u003e\u003ca class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/download.pariyatti.org\/free\/_moIbLs95\/A-discussion-with-Ven-Bhikkhu-Analayo-about-Deepening-Insight.mp3\" rel=\"enclosure\"\u003eDownload Audio (42MB)\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; margin: 20px 0;\"\u003e     \u003ca class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/download.pariyatti.org\/free\/_moIbLs95\/transcripts\/transcript_A-discussion-with-Ven-Bhikkhu-Analayo-about-Deepening-Insight.pdf\" rel=\"enclosure\"\u003eDownload Transcript (310KB)\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%; text-align: center; margin-top: 25px\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cK4tAo5nR6g\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eView on YouTube\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e ","brand":"Analayo, Bhikkhu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101595504734,"sku":"AMZNKDP774034","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/774034_93c3cd18-1f5e-4cd4-bbdf-8a66cd874694.jpg?v=1760548748"},{"product_id":"6614","title":"Daughters of the Buddha","description":"\u003cp\u003eA testimony to the invaluable contributions made by the women who were direct disciples of the Buddha and a source of inspiration to Buddhist women today.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt s a common perception that the earliest textual records don t contain many, if any, teachings by the Buddha s female disciples; yet, this is not the case. 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