In order to foster understanding, memorization and penetration of the Buddha’s teachings, most of the chants contained in this book are recited in Pāli and English line by line in an alternating manner. In this way, over time the chanter becomes increasingly familiar with the phrases and underlying meaning contained therein, whereby a vocabulary of important Dhamma phrases and Buddha quotes grows in the mind of the reciter.

by Āyasmā Ariyadhammika

Actions of Arahants are usually said to be merely functional (kiriya), and the term “kamma” is normally not used in reference to Arahants’ actions. But is such a distinction warranted? This study looks into this topic from the perspective of the discourses and offers insights into the question of whether an Arahant’s actions should be called kamma, kiriya (functional), both, or neither.

by Āyasmā Aggacitta

Anatta, the concept of not-self, can be very confusing. We say: Nothing belongs to me; ‘not mine, not me, not my self’; all the mental defilements are just external visitors who come in and defile the mind. Then where does self-responsibility come in? If there’s no one there, who will reap the consequences of one’s actions?

by Āyasmā Aggacitta

Theravāda orthodoxy may not pick on or shoo away a non-Theravāda bhikṣuṇī, but it would certainly cause anyone who advocates the revival of the Theravāda Bhikkhunī Saṅgha to ask, “Why Pick-shoo-me?”

by Āyasmā Aggacitta

BUDDHISTS are often told to take refuge in the Triple Gem, and many believe that they actually do.

This book is available in English and Chinese.

by Āyasmā Aggacitta

Killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying and taking intoxicants are universally censurable. One who does these things is considered immoral while one who abstains from them, morally virtuous;and they are karmically responsible for their actions-whether or not they have undertaken the precepts. Nonetheless, undertaking the precepts can help reinforce kindly dispositions and change unkindly ones.

This book is available in English and Chinese.

by Āyasmā Aggacitta

Practitioners walking the spiritual path to awakening are often confused as to which meditation method is really correct.

This book is available in English and Chinese.

by Āyasmā Aggacitta

Ven Aggacitta coined the term “Dhamma Therapy” in the early 80s while he was translating Ven Mahasi Sayadaw’s compilation of cases of miraculous healing in the course of intensive Vipassanā meditation – cases either related personally by the meditators or recorded by highly competent meditation teachers.

by Āyasmā Aggacitta

Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, whenever you can.

by Āyasmā Aggacitta

Can any one method of vipassana meditation claim superiority over another? Then again, is it true that absorption concentration is an absolute prerequisite to vipassana? These are some of the perennial debates that haunt Buddhists walking diverse roads to liberation from samsara.

by Āyasmā Aggacitta

The canonical procedure of dedicating merits.

by Āyasmā Aggacitta

This booklet, published in conjunction with Sāsanārakkha Buddhist Sanctuary’s Kathina 2003, is the paper that Ven Aggacitta presented in the Forum “Role of the Sangha in the New Millennium” at the Global Conference on Buddhism held in Shah Alam, Malaysia, in December 2002.

by Āyasmā Aggacitta

4 Guardian Kings
Discourse on Atanatiya Protection with the Protection in Pali as well – a condensed version based on various translations from the Pali.

by Āyasmā Aggacitta

The kathina ceremony is now an internationally established celebration where the Sangha and the laity meet to participate in mutually rewarding, meritorious activities. Throughout the centuries, the way of carrying out the ceremony has changed with local interpretations, practices and customs. How much has deviated from the original scriptural tradition— how much is in accordance with the scriptures and how much is mere invention?