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Akhara Khom — อักษรขอม

• Pali-Thai back to Akhara Khom — The Reference TableThe complete comparison table of Khom and Thai letters: full forms, subscript forms, vowels and numerals.KHOM · TH · PDF · DOI
• The Scribe's Choice — Variant Letters in Akhara KhomLetters the scribes wrote in more than one way: the variant forms of the Khom script, collected and compared.KHOM · TH · PDF · DOI
• Yot Phra Kan Traipidok — The Crown of the Tripiṭaka in Khom ScriptThe Crown-of-the-Tipiṭaka kata written in Akhara Khom, with Thai translation.KHOM · TH · PDF · DOI
• Pali-Thai back to Akhara Khom — Namo, Tisaraṇa and the Triple Gem RecollectionsNamo, the threefold refuge and the recollections of Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha, set in Khom script.KHOM · PALI · PDF · DOI
• Pali-Thai back to Akhara Khom — Pahung, the Buddha Jaya-Maṅgala GāthāThe eight victories of the Buddha (Pahung), set in Khom script.KHOM · PALI · PDF · DOI
• Pali-Thai back to Akhara Khom — Mahākāruṇiko, Jayanto and the Sabbamaṅgala BlessingThe great-compassion verses, Jayanto and the all-auspicious blessing, set in Khom script.KHOM · PALI · PDF · DOI
• Pali-Thai back to Akhara Khom — The Maṅgala Sutta, the Thirty-Eight Highest BlessingsThe discourse on the highest blessings, set in Khom script.KHOM · PALI · PDF · DOI
• Pali-Thai back to Akhara Khom — The Karaṇīya Mettā SuttaThe loving-kindness sutta, set in Khom script.KHOM · PALI · PDF · DOI
• Navaharaguṇa — The Itipiso Yant of the Nine ChambersThe yantra cloth of the nine Buddha virtues (the nine-chamber Itipiso), Wat Rat Charoen, Koh Phangan, BE 2542.KHOM · TH · PDF

Theravāda Practice — Trilingual Texts↑ top

• How Suffering Arises and Where to End It — The Fish Does Not Know Water, Evening Dhamma Talk, 19 September 2026, video with subtitles (ทุกข์เกิดอย่างไร และดับได้ตรงไหน)A thirty-seven-minute talk in Thai by Ajahn Jayapañño (Suan Mokkh Isan (Wat Sunthariyaram), Sakon Nakhon) on mindfulness of breathing, the four foundations of mindfulness and dependent arising as one thing, on not knowing suffering as a fish does not know water, on stopping the wheel at feeling, and on not clinging to the forms of practice. Transcribed, checked and translated; subtitles switchable, transcript follows the video.VIDEO · TH · DE · EN
• Further Dhamma Talks — the Talks page (ธรรมบรรยาย)All talks by Ajahn Jayapañño, transcribed and translated, are collected on the Talks page: each with video, subtitles in German, English and Thai, a transcript that follows the video, and PDF. New talks appear there.VIDEO · TALKS OVERVIEW
• The Teaching in Twelve Sentences — Word Cards (คำสอนในสิบสองประโยค · บัตรคำ)Dependent arising in twelve plain sentences, and a growing set of word cards for the Dhamma talks: what each word means in the teacher's own images, and what one can observe with it in daily life. Written for readers with no background; Pali in brackets only.PAGE · TH · DE · EN
• The Direct Way — How Suffering Arises, Where to Cut It, and What RemainsThe Buddha's teaching in ten pages, in the language of the forest monks: the basic rule, the wheel in twelve sentences, the one place to intervene, the tool, the practice step by step, what comes to an end, the traps, daily life, and the words. From the talks of Ajahn Jayapañño, translated from the Thai.EN · PDF · DOI
• Der direkte Weg — Wie Leiden entsteht, wo man es durchtrennt und was dann bleibtDie Lehre des Buddha in zehn Seiten, in der Sprache der Waldmönche: die Grundregel, das Rad in zwölf Sätzen, die eine Stelle, das Werkzeug, der Weg Schritt für Schritt, was zu Ende geht, die Fallen, der Alltag und die Wörter. Nach den Vorträgen von Ajahn Jayapañño, aus dem Thai. Das deutsche Original.DE · PDF · DOI
• Knowing in Order to Let Go — Evening Dhamma Talk, 29 May 2020, video with subtitles (รู้เพื่อละ)A fifty-minute talk in Thai on the wrongly set mind at the start of practice, the five khandhas as a burden, and knowing the breath in order to let go. Transcribed, checked and translated; subtitles switchable, transcript follows the video.VIDEO · TH · DE · EN
• Whoever Sees This Sees the Dhamma — Paṭiccasamuppāda, the One Word of the BuddhaThe full English study edition: the recitation text in Pali and Thai with an introduction that shows the one point where the chain can rest — a feeling that is felt, and not yet made into thought.PALI · TH · EN · PDF · WHEEL · DOI
• Consolidated Theravāda Practice — Thai · Pali · English (คู่มือสวดมนต์และหลักปฏิบัติเถรวาท)Fifty-page chanting book and practice manual: refuges, precepts, the central chants and suttas, and the customs of the forest tradition.TH · PALI · EN · PDF · DOI
• Wer dies sieht, sieht das Dhamma — Paṭiccasamuppāda, das eine Wort des BuddhaDie deutsche Studienausgabe: der Rezitationstext in Pali und Thai mit einer Einführung, die den einen Punkt zeigt, an dem die Kette zur Ruhe kommt: ein Gefühl, das gefühlt wird und noch nicht Gedanke geworden ist.PALI · TH · DE · PDF · RAD · DOI
• Angewandte Theravada-Praxis — Thai · Pali · Deutsch (คู่มือสวดมนต์และหลักปฏิบัติเถรวาท)Die kompakte deutsche Ausgabe: Chanting-Buch und Praxishandbuch in drei parallelen Sprachen, auf das Wesentliche verdichtet.TH · PALI · DE · PDF · DOI
• ขคฺควิสาณสุตฺตํ — Khaggavisana Sutta — Pali · Thai · English · DeutschThe Rhinoceros Sutta of the Sutta Nipāta in four parallel versions, verse by verse.PALI · TH · EN · DE
• Khaggavisana Sutta — «Wandere allein wie ein Nashorn»German translation of the Rhinoceros Sutta on solitude and the wanderer’s path.DE
• บทอิติปิโส — Itipiso — Besinnung auf Buddha, Dhamma und SanghaThe central Theravāda recollection chant with German translation and word-by-word etymology.TH · PALI · DE
• คาถาชินบัญชร สมเด็จพระพุฒาจารย์ (โต พรหมรังสี) — Kata Chinabanchon, with translationThe Jinapañjara Gāthā of Somdet Phra Phutthachan (To Phrommarangsi) — the chant you can hear on the Listen page.TH · PALI
• บทสวดกะระณียะเมตตะสุตตังแปล — Karaniya Metta chant, translatedThe loving-kindness chant with Thai translation.TH · PALI
• ผู้ใดเห็นสิ่งนี้ ผู้นั้นเห็นธรรม — ปฏิจจสมุปบาท พุทธวจนะคำเดียว (ฉบับตัวบท)Paṭiccasamuppāda, the Thai text edition without introduction: the recitation text in chanting Pali, romanized Pali and Thai, as chanted at Wat Na Pa Pong.TH · PALI · PDF · วงล้อ
• Kahta Chinabanchon — im Schutzkreis der ErwachtenDie deutsche Ausgabe der Jinapañjara Gāthā: Text, Übersetzung und Erläuterung.DE · PALI
• Mangala Sutta — The Discourse on Good Fortune, four-script editionPali in Thai script, Akhara Khom, romanization and English translation, side by side.PALI · KHOM · EN
• The 38 Factors of Auspiciousness — Maṅgala SuttaThe Buddha’s discourse on good fortune, translated with commentary.PALI · EN

Buddhist Ethics & Royal Wisdom — Translations↑ top

• A Constitution for Living (P.A. Payutto)Preserved edition of Bhikkhu P.A. Payutto’s classic on the lay Buddhist life.EN
• The Art of Appropriate AnalysisThe Kālāma Sutta’s ten principles as a guard against intellectual dependence, advertising and propaganda.EN
• A Collection of Royal Wisdom (2006)Sayings of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, collected from the 2006 Bangkok Times.EN
• Clarification for English translations of the word "Dhamma"Etymological analysis of dhamma/dharma via Thai Pali loanwords, against flattening translations.EN

พระเครื่องและตำนาน — Amulets, Yant & Traditions↑ top

• Deutsche Bedeutung der Kata «Mongkut Pra Putta Jao»Meaning and use of the Crown-of-the-Buddha kata, from Thai protection tradition.TH · DE
• The Legend of Jatukam RamathepThe guardian deity of Nakhon Si Thammarat and the amulet tradition around him.EN
• หลวงพ่อดำวัดกุฎี ปราจีนบุรี — Luang Por Dam, Wat Kudi, PrachinburiDocumentation of the revered image and its temple tradition.TH
• พระหลวงพ่อเข่ง วัดพระพิเรนทร์ กรุงเทพ ๒๔๘๐ — Phra Luang Por Kheng, Wat Phra Phiren, Bangkok, BE 2480Documentation of the 1937 amulet and its temple tradition.TH
• ปรกเทพนิมิตร อ.ชุม ไชยคีรี ปี ๒๔๙๗ — Prok Thep Nimit — Ajahn Chum Chaikhiri (1954)Historic Thai Buddhist text by Ajahn Chum Chaikhiri, preserved and annotated.TH · KHOM
• พระผงว่านรุ่นแรกพิมพ์ใหญ่ พ่อทวดไกร ๒๕๐๕ — Phra Pong Wan amulet, Por Thuad Krai, BE 2505Documentation of the first-batch large-mould amulet of 1962.TH
• ผงอิทธิเจ — Phong ItthijeThe Itthije sacred powder: composition, kata and use.TH · KHOM

Philosophical Essays↑ top

• The Feathers of the Arrow — Why Hardly Anyone Understands What the Buddha MeantOn scholars' language, forest monks and translating for meaning: how the vocabulary of the Pali Text Society hardened into binding wording, what was lost with it, and four verifiable rules for translating the meaning rather than the grammar of Pali.EN · PDF · DOI
• ขนนกที่หางลูกศร — เหตุใดคนจำนวนมากจึงไม่เข้าใจว่าพระพุทธเจ้าทรงหมายถึงอะไรว่าด้วยภาษาของนักวิชาการ ภาษาของพระป่า และการแปลให้ถึงความหมาย — the Thai adaptation, written for Thai readers, not a translation: Western renderings of sammā, samādhi, āyatana, saṅkhāra and dukkha translated back into Thai, so that one can hear how far the meaning has shifted.TH · PDF
• Die Federn des Pfeils — Warum kaum jemand versteht, was der Buddha meinteÜber Gelehrtensprache, Waldmönche und das Übersetzen nach dem Sinn: wie das Arbeitsvokabular der Philologen zum verbindlichen Wortlaut erstarrte, was dabei verloren ging, und vier nachprüfbare Regeln für eine Übersetzung nach dem Sinn. Das deutsche Original.DE · PDF · DOI
• What Owns Us — Six Chapters on HappinessDesire, possession and well-being: the English essay on what we really own.EN
• The Logos and the Dhamma — Stoicism and the Buddha’s TeachingThe bridge between Greece and India: the English edition of the comparative study.EN
• Der Stuhl ist frei — Neun Kapitel über Glück und BesitzWas besitzen wir wirklich? Neun Kapitel über Eigentum, Sprache und Glück, im Gespräch mit Fromm, Schopenhauer und der buddhistischen Analyse.DE
• Der Logos und das Dhamma — Stoa und BuddhalehreDie Brücke zwischen Griechenland und Indien: was die Stoa und die Buddhalehre einander zu sagen haben.DE
• Thoughts and ClarificationsNotes on translating Buddhist scripture without distortion.EN
• A possible SolutionA proposal for a zero-interest redesign of the global economy.EN

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