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Ancient Buddhist Texts
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Indian Prosody: Texts and Studies
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Documents Released During 2010:
mp3 Audio Files:
The Earliest Recorded Discourses of the Buddha, January 2010
Garland of Birth Stories, January 2010
The Matrix from the Abstract Teaching, June 2010
The Analysis of the Ways of Attending to Mindfulness, June 2010
The Discourse about Suitable Deeds, August 2010
The First Discourse on the Bases for Talk, August 2010
The Discourse that Set the Dharma-Wheel Rolling (from Lalitavistara), August 2010
Reading of The Explanation and Analysis of Conditional Origination from the Beginning, August 2010
Reading of The Buddha's Journey from Uruvilva to Rsipatana
Naëinika's Story or: The Seduction of an Innocent
Introduction to the Story of the Cuckoo or: The Buddha goes to War
Original Texts and Studies:
Naëinikàjàtakavaõõanà (Jà 526)
Texts and Translations:
Naëinikàjàtakavaõõanà (Jà 526)
Naëinika's Story or: The Seduction of an Innocent, August 2010
English Texts:
Garland of Birth Stories, January 2010
Nalinika's Story
or: The Seduction of an Innocent (Jà 526), August 2010
The Introduction to the Story of the Cuckoo
or: The Buddha goes to War (from Jà 536), August 2010
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