Books by Venerable Ledi Sayādaw

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I have added A Manual of the Perfections (Pāramī Dīpanī) to my web site, and updated all of the pages for Venerable Ledi Sayādaw, Mahāsi Sayādaw, and my own books.

This latest addition may be of interest only to scholars. It has been sitting on my various computers for about thirty years, so I thought it was about time it was edited and published.

“About 2,000 students attended the lectures delivered daily by the Venerable Sankyaung Sayādaw. One day the Venerable Sayādaw set in Pāḷi 20 questions on the perfections (pāramī) and asked all the students to answer them. None of them except Bhikkhu Nyāṇa could answer those questions satisfactorily.” He collected all these answers and when he attained 14 Rains (vassa), and while he was still in San-kyaung monastery, he published his first book, A Manual of the Perfections (Pāramī Dīpanī).”

I still have a few more to do: Āhāra Dīpanī, Nibbāna Dīpanī, and a few others.

As usual, please let me know about broken links, and other errors.

[Ben]

I have added A Manual of the Perfections (Pāramī Dīpanī) to my web site, and updated all of the pages for Venerable Ledi Sayādaw, Mahāsi Sayādaw, and my own books.

This latest addition may be of interest only to scholars. It has been sitting on my various computers for about thirty years, so I thought it was about time it was edited and published.

“About 2,000 students attended the lectures delivered daily by the Venerable Sankyaung Sayādaw. One day the Venerable Sayādaw set in Pāḷi 20 questions on the perfections (pāramī) and asked all the students to answer them. None of them except Bhikkhu Nyāṇa could answer those questions satisfactorily.” He collected all these answers and when he attained 14 Rains (vassa), and while he was still in San-kyaung monastery, he published his first book, A Manual of the Perfections (Pāramī Dīpanī).”

I still have a few more to do: Āhāra Dīpanī, Nibbāna Dīpanī, and a few others.

As usual, please let me know about broken links, and other errors.

Thank you, Bhante.
I look forward to reading it.
Kind regards,
Ben

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Please see the updated post below.

[Ben]

I have managed to recover some old WordPerfect files from floppy disks (they are over 20 years old), and have started editing them in LibreOffice to see if anything is worth publishing.

I will upload more, and update existing files as time allows. If you're interested, visit this folder:

http://www.aimwell.org/LediSayadaw/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Browse to http://www.aimwell.org/LediSayadaw/Suttanipata" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

and download any of the files there. They are in Open Document *.odt format so should open in OpenOffice or LibreOffice (and Word?)

I have done only preliminary editing thus far to convert some diacritical marks to Unicode encoding, but it's already enough to read them. They use Linux fonts, which you will no doubt have already if you have LibreOffice/OpenOffice. Any good Unicode font would do for reading the Pāḷi.

Thank you, Bhante!

[coreycook950]

Thank you very much, Venerable Sir, for this wealth of Dhamma information.

With Gratitude,

Corey

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I am not at all sure who the translator was for the Suttanipāta Commentary, so I have deleted my previous post.

I have now uploaded most of the files that I have. All are in Open Document Format: *.odt for editing in LibreOffice.

I have managed to recover some old WordPerfect files from floppy disks (they are over 20 years old), and have started editing them in LibreOffice to see if anything is worth publishing.

I will update existing files as time allows. If you're interested, visit this folder:

Books by Ledi Sayādaw (and Others) • I will keep this as the root folder, but add subfolders for individual books at later stages.

Browse to Translation of Suttanipāta Commentary

or Translation of Apadāna Commentary

and download any of the files there. They are in Open Document *.odt format so should open in OpenOffice or LibreOffice (and Word?)

I have done only preliminary editing thus far to convert some diacritical marks to Unicode encoding, but it's already enough to read them. They use Linux fonts, which you will no doubt have already if you have LibreOffice/OpenOffice. Any good Unicode font would do for reading the Pāḷi.

I have now uploaded a translation of the Theragāthā Commentary

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I have now uploaded the first draft of the first section of the Suttanipāta Commentary

This part is only my Foreword and the Translator's Preface (total 48 pages). The entire work is about 1,000 pages, and due to the amount of editing required it may never get completed. Every paragraph needs changing to make it readable.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I have just uploaded a first draft of A Manual of Nutriment

[The Thinker]

Many thanks

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Updated with some corrections.

A Manual of Nutriment

The original unedited version is available as a LibreOffice Document.

[Ben]

Much gratitude to you Bhante for your meritorious efforts.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I just uploaded A Manual of Donation and Morality (Dānādi Dīpanī) or literally, "A Manual of Donation and so forth.

I omitted a couple of chapters that were not by the Venerable Ledi Sayādaw, which you can find appended to the LibreOffice (original) version.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I just uploaded A Manual of the Requisites of Enlightenment (Bodhipakkhiya Dīpanī). This is based on the BPS edition, but I have added back a large section that was abridged, and changed references to the more precise format used by the PTS.

While still a layman staying at Birmingham Vihāra, and when I was still following the U Ba Khin tradition, I read the Manuals of Buddhism frequently, and especially this one.

As usual, please let me know (email is best) if you find any errors or broken links.

[Javi]

Thank you venerable Pesala for your tireless work.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Please Note: My free web-host now imposes a daily sleep time, which I have set to start from 13:00 GMT.

Bookmark the Mirror Site, which is less likely to go offline.