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The gift of truth excels all other gifts.
The flavor of truth excels all other flavors.
The pleasure in truth excels all other pleasures.
DH. 354

Ans likes to share this little gem of a Buddhist Chantingbook.  The book is based upon the standard Thai chantingbook used in Wat Pacharoenrat, a Buddhist temple in Thailand.  This version adds the English translation of the chants and transliterates the Pali and Thai into readable English.

By clicking on the front-page you can see for yourself and browse through the book. You ‘ll find more information on the benefits of chanting, the meditation practice, the rules and regulations in a temple, the daily schedule and the eight precepts.  The chants themselves are grouped in the morning, evening and special chant section.  Every chant is in Pali followed by the Thai and English translation.

The daily schedule in a Thai temple has often a morning and evening chanting.  The monks, nuns and laypeople chant the teachings of the Buddha in Pali and Thai.  The purpose of this book is to encourage the foreign students of the temple to join the chanting sessions. While chanting in itself can be useful to calm the mind, it is much more encouraging to do so when you know what you are chanting.

While staying in a Buddhist temple a couple years ago, Ans experienced the benefits of chanting for himself.  He truly enjoyed the (short version) of the morning and evening chants. That’s why he happily provided technical support to his friend Dani to create the English version of this book.  As a long term foreign student of Wat Pacharoenrat, she understands firsthand the need for an English version.  That’s why she compiled the different chantings, searched for English translations and corrected the previous version. Now she is looking for resources to publish the second version of the book.  Donations are warmly welcome.

May this gift of Dhamma help to find truth in our own lives.
Many blessings!

An updated version of this chantingbook is available thanks to my friend Phra Adhicitto (aka Frank Newbold). Thank you for the hard work.

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