Bhadantācariya Buddhaghosa • The Path of Purification (853 pp)
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Chanting for New Buddhists

Three Refuges and Five Precepts » PDF (112 K)
Three Refuges and Eight Precepts» PDF (109 K)
The Protection Discourses • Selected Discourses

Burmese Chanting Book

Download this PDF (329 K) to make your own Chanting Book. Formatted for printing as an A5 booklet on A4 landscape paper.

The book was originally produced for morning and evening chanting in Burmese monasteries. It includes:

Anekajāti Gāthā (Dhammapada vv 153-154)
Dependent Origination
Introduction to Paṭṭhāna
Pabbajita Abiṇhasutta
Metta Sutta
Maṅgala Sutta
Ratana Sutta

The book is in Romanised Pāḷi with English Translations.

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