แดน สุคะโต · Daen Sukhato
Translator of Theravāda Buddhist texts: Pali and Thai into English and German, and back into Akhara Khom, the script in which the Dhamma was written across Siam for centuries. Eighteen published works, all free to read.
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About this work
These texts come out of twenty years of living with the tradition in Thailand: studying Thai and Pali, learning from monks the supplementary marks that let Pali be written correctly in Thai script, and finally carrying the texts back into Akhara Khom, the Khmer-derived script built for Pali, in which the teaching was written across Siam until the early twentieth century.
The method is the same throughout: never translate a word in passing, but lay its etymology open. Bhagavā is not simply "the Blessed One"; the entry explains bhaga, fortune, and how the suttas use the word. Arahaṁ is traced back to its pre-Buddhist Sanskrit use as a title for wanderers and ascetics. The compilations give every text in parallel — Thai script, Pali transliteration, English or German — so a practitioner can chant, read and understand in the same breath.
Many of these pages were written by hand in a stilt house on Koh Phangan. They are offered freely, as the teaching itself was.
Library · ห้องสมุด
Every document is hosted on academia.edu and opens in full from the links below. The collection covers Theravāda Buddhist chanting and sutta translation in up to four parallel languages (Pali, Thai, English, German), transcription into the Akhara Khom script of old Siam, and essays on happiness, ownership and money.
The Jinapañjara recitation, chanted — the sound behind the texts above.
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