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Audio Readings of Selected Texts
The audio readings presented here are in mp3 format and can be streamed by clicking on the link which will start the recordings playing; this will also open a player with a playlist with all the files on this page listed.
As of October 2010 all the English works have now been read in, and they are also all embedded in the respective pages in the English Only section. For the most part the readings have been broken into smaller sections to allow for easy access and download.
As of March 2011 I have started to make readings in Pāḷi available and will continue with this work over the coming years, and will try and include readings of the Sanskrit works in the collection here too.
Note that these files are not included in the website download but are being hosted on the very fast Internet Archive servers and must be downloaded separately. Please feel free to share these recordings with your friends.
In May 2011 I updated this page to take advantage of the Yahoo! Media Player, which adds a very convenient and unobtrusive player that automatically generates a playlist of all the files on this page.
Ānandajoti Bhikkhu
May 2011
Readings in English
The Earliest Recorded Discourses of the Buddha (Text)
The Great Emancipation (Mahāparinibbānasuttaṁ, DN 16) (Text)
Thematic Discourses about Nuns (Bhikkhunīsaṁyuttaṁ, SN 5) (Text)
The Way to the Beyond (Pārāyanavaggo) (Text)
The Short Readings (Khuddhakapāṭho) (Text)
Exalted Utterances (Udāna) (Text)
Play the Files (5 hours, 20 minutes)
The Ways of Attending to Mindfulness (Satipaṭṭhānasuttaṁ, MN 10) (Text)
The Analysis of the Ways of Attending to Mindfulness (Text)
Play the Files (1 Hour 50 minutes)
Readings from the Abhidhamma
The Matrix from the Abstract Teaching (19 mins) (Text)
Other Meditation Discourses
The Discourse about Mindfulness while Breathing (36 mins) (Text)
The Discourse about Mindfulness related to the Body (35 mins) (Text)
The Discourse to Girimānanda (13 mins) (Text)
The Long Discourse Giving Advice to Rāhula (20 mins) (Text)
The Discourse Concerning Māluṅkyaputta (12 mins) (Text)
Doctrinal Discourses
The Discourse that set the Dhamma Wheel Rolling (12 mins) (Text)
The Discourse giving the Analysis of the Truths (18 mins) (Text)
The Discourse giving the Analysis of Offerings (14 mins) (Text)
The Discourse about the Belief Systems (16 mins) (Text)
The First Discourse on the Bases for Talk (5 mins) (Text)
The Discourse about Suitable Deeds (12 mins) (Text)
Buddhist Wisdom Verses (Text)
Play the Files (6 hours 35 mins)
Readings from Sanskritised Prakrit
The Explanation and Analysis of Conditional Origination from the Beginning (8 mins) (Text)
The Discourse that Set the Dharma-Wheel Rolling (27 mins) (Text)
The Discourse on Arising and Ceasing (13 mins) (Text)
The Buddha's Journey from Uruvilva to ṣipatana (15 mins) (Text)
Jātaka Stories
Naḷinika's Story or: The Seduction of an Innocent (Text)
The Introduction to the Story of the Cuckoo or: The Buddha goes to War (Text)
Garland of Birth Stories (Text)
The Buddha-carita of Aśvaghoṣa (Text)
The Life of the Victorious Buddha (Jinacaritaṁ) (Text)
Play the Files (1 hour 45 minutes)
The Light of Asia by Sir Edwin Arnold (Text)
Buddha a poem by Madame A. Christina Albers (Text)
Readings in Pāḷi
Bhikkhunīsaṁyuttaṁ, SN 5 (Text)
Pārāyanavagga (Text)
Play the Files (1 hours 12 mins)
Dhammapada (Text)
Play all the Files (2 hours 25 mins)
Buddhanīti Saṅgaho (Text)
Play the Files (3 hours 23 mins)
Satipaṭṭhānavibhanga (Text)
Play the Files (2 hours 35 mins)
Classical Metres from Mahāvaṁsa (Text)
