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Mahasi Sayadaw's Vammika sutta - 蚁垤 经 (Discourse of Ant-hill) Translated from Burmese/English version into chinese. Please click this link to download 1. the contents    2. the page design Below is the extract: 马哈希佛法开示的开端 今天我会开示《蚁垤 经》 ， 佛陀引用蚁垤作比喻的经。在经典集会时，这部经文是记录在中部经藏 - 根本五十经 ( Majjhima Nikāya- Mulapaņņāsa ) 的比喻章（ opammavagga ） （ pa ņņā sap āļ ap āļ idom , he gives offering, observe morality, , make vipasana arise, make magga arise, make abhinna arise, make sa 。还没讲解它的历史之前，让我引述这部经的开端来开始今天的佛法开示。 有一时，当佛陀住在祗陀精舍（ Jetavana ） 时，那位王子迦叶 比库 隐居在盲人林 ( Andhavana ) 里。在佛陀的时代，那些想要孤寂禅修的 比库 和 比库 尼，就会来到这里修禅。很少在家人会来到这里，这确实是个非常清净的地方。可是现在它已经变成耕地。 有一次，我和其他 比库 去印度朝圣，我们到达佛陀住过十九年的祗陀精舍，在那儿，我恭敬的观想三宝的美德。可是，现在这寺院已变成废墟，只遗下一些砖块和旧                                           ...

Theelon Sayadaw (1786 AD -1861 AD) A great meditation master in Old Burma The founder of this Mahāsi Meditation Centre, the most venerable Mahāsi Sayadaw (with title Aggamahāpaṇḍita), was the disciple of Venerable Thaton Mingun Jetawun Sayadaw. The Teachers in this Centre were trained by the close supervision of the Most Venerable Mahāsi Sayadaw U Sobhana Mahathera, who was the most eminent meditation master of this Century. This pagoda is one which enshrined the bones of that highly distinguished Venerable Thee-Lon Sayadawgyi. This Venerable Sayadawgyi’s reputation in the field of meditation (paṭipatti), had spread throughout the country and he was looked upon as an Arahant possessing the attributes of Jhāna and the supernormal knowledge (abhiññā). The prime donor of this famous pagoda was King Mindon (of Burma). The site where the pagoda stood was the place where the mentioned Venerable Sayadawgyi had his solitary retreat. (Biography of the Most Venerable Mahāsi Sayadaw Page 2...

Candā Therī   written by U Thein Zan    Introduction  At 1971 AD, the writer U Thein Zan read some interesting news when he was at Bago. The female hermits held alms-bowls in their hands and went for alms-round. This was an interesting thing in the Buddha’s dispensation. From that time onwards, he started to study the life of the Buddhist women and later collected their stories. Later he published a book written in Burmese called “The Arahant bhikkhunis and women”. In that book, he wrote a story on the life of Candā Therī. This is the translated English version of that story. This translation is group project undertaken by Aggācāra Dhamma Distribution group. Our sincere wish is to spread Dhamma to the whole world by translating worthy books and Dhamma talks into English. Our translated books are distributed freely. We like to express our gratitude to those who join in the translation, editing and contributing to the printing fund. Candā ...

Saddanīti – Introduction There are three volumes in Saddanīti 1. padamālā – explains the inflection – conjugation, declension 2.Dhātumālā- explains roots 3.Suttamālā –explains sandhi, nāma. Saddanīti is more complete and more modernize than other grammar books like Kaccāyana, padarūpasidhi.  Some words that are not explained in these books are explained in the Saddanīti. Each books has 2 volumes, one volume has about 400 pages. So, there are more than 2500 pages. This book is written by Aggavaṃsa. In some records like Sāsāna Laṅkāra said that Agga Paṇḍita had written the books. At that time, there were three persons well-known in the knowledge in the Tipiṭaka. 1. Mahā Aggapaṇḍita, 2) Aggapaṇḍita  3) Aggapaṇḍita. The third one was the nephew to the second one and he was the one that had written the book. The Bagan dynasty started with king Anoratha who lived from 1044AD to 1077AD. After 100 years later, at 1154AD (1697 Buddhist era), this book Saddanīti was written...