Welcome.
This site offers an extensive collection of English translations of suttas from the Pāli Canon, as well as a multitude of free downloads of Dhamma from the Kammaṭṭhāna (or Thai Forest) Tradition of Buddhism. Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu of Metta Forest Monastery is the speaker, author or translator unless otherwise noted.
Newcomers can visit about for more information on Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu and the Kammaṭṭhāna Tradition, and recommendations for some initial guidance.
What’s new
Subscribe- New Sutta
- AN 5:106 — Comfortably. How can a monk live peacefully in a community of monks?
- posted Sept. 9
- New Sutta
- MN 21 — The Simile of the Saw. The full translation of this sutta, previously just an excerpt, has been added to the collection.
- posted Sept. 9
- August Dhamma talks
- regular evening and short morning
- posted Sept. 5
- New Essay
- Wisdom over Justice, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. An essay on the Buddha’s approach to the pursuit of justice.
- posted August 26
- July Dhamma talks
- regular evening and short morning
- posted Aug. 4
- ของใหม่ ธรรมเทศนาภาษาไทย:
- อบรมภาวนาตอนเย็น มิถุนายน และ เทศน์ตอนเช้า เดือน มิถุนายน
- ตั้งแต่ 4 สิงหาคม
- New Book
- Meditations8. The most recent collection of transcribed Dhamma talks given during the evening meditation sessions at Metta Forest Monastery from 2014-2016. The talks address breath meditation techniques and various aspects of the Buddhist Path.
- posted July 26
- New vinaya section
- The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II, is now available to read online. Cross-references to suttas and vinaya translations are hyperlinked. The cross-referencing in the ebook versions of the BMC have also been revised to point to the updated translations on this site instead of the older versions on accesstoinsight.org. Other vinaya related materials, such as bhikkhu and bhikkhuni pāṭimokkhas, essays and translations, have been consolidated on a single page. The online BMC and additional vinaya materials are accessed from the vinaya subsection of the ebook page.
- posted July 18
- June Dhamma talks
- regular evening and short morning
- posted July 5
- ของใหม่ ธรรมเทศนาภาษาไทย:
- อบรมภาวนาตอนเย็น มิถุนายน และ เทศน์ตอนเช้า เดือน มิถุนายน
- ตั้งแต่ 5 กรกฎาคม
- New Book
- On the Path: An Anthology on the Noble Eightfold Path drawn from the Pāli Canon. This book aims to provide a well-rounded picture of the noble eightfold path for people who are interested in taking guidance from the earliest extant records of the Buddha’s teachings on how to reach the end of suffering and stress. The format is that of a discussion and analysis of each element of the path followed by pertinent sutta excerpts, similar to Wings to Awakening. The cross-references to the suttas are also hyperlinked to the new sutta pages on this site.
- posted June 23
- New eBook
- Things as They Are: A Collection of Talks on the Training of the Mind. These talks were originally given to the monks at Venerable Ācariya Mahā Boowa’s monastery in Thailand. They deal in part with issues particular to Buddhist monks, but they also contain much that is of more general interest. Since the monks being addressed were at different stages in their practice, each talk deals with issues on a variety of levels. Thus there should be something of use for every reader interested in the training of the mind.
- posted June 4
- May Dhamma talks
- regular evening and short morning
- posted June 2
- New eBook
- Straight from the Heart: Thirteen Talks on the Practice of Meditation. The talks in this collection all deal with the practice of meditation, and particularly with the development of discernment. These talks were originally given for the benefit of a follower of Venerable Ācariya Mahā Boowa who had contracted cancer of the bone marrow and had come to practice meditation at Wat Pa Baan Taad in order to contend with the pain of the disease and the fact of her approaching death.
- posted May 22
- New Essay
- In the Eyes of the Wise : The Buddha’s Teachings on Honor & Shame, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. An essay in praise of a healthy sense of shame.
- posted May 12
- New Essay
- Stored-up Food : A Discussion of Pācittiya 38, which includes the relevant Pāli along with its English translation, addresses the issue of whether the Vinaya allows monks to eat food reoffered on a subsequent day.
- posted May 9
- April Dhamma talks
- regular evening and short morning
- posted April 15
- March Dhamma talks
- regular evening and short morning
- posted April 3
- New sutta portion of site
- All of Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu’s translations of suttas from the Pali Canon can now be browsed on-line with full cross-referencing here on dhammatalks.org. To navigate there, use the first tab in the above navigation menu, or go directly to dhammatalks.org/suttas. Ever since accesstoinsight.org was frozen to new content a few years ago, it has been a priority to provide a replacement platform for Ven. Ṭhānissaro’s body of translations that allows for the inclusion of all the revisions and new suttas that have been, and will continue to be, added. The suttas here will be the most comprehensive and up-to-date, and the ebook formats of them will lag only a few weeks behind. Since the Dhamma is for free distribution, many of these translations can be found elsewhere on the internet, including at accesstoinsight.org, but it is highly recommended that you check them against the authoritative versions here at dhammatalks.org.
- posted March 22
- February Dhamma talks
- regular evening and short morning
- posted March 3
- ของใหม่ ธรรมเทศนาภาษาไทย:
- อบรมภาวนาตอนเย็น กุมภาพันธ์ และ เทศน์ตอนเช้า เดือน กุมภาพันธ์
- ตั้งแต่ 3 มีนาคม
- New eBook
- An Unentangled Knowing: The Teachings of a Thai Buddhist Lay Woman. Dhamma talks from the foremost woman Dhamma teacher in modern Thailand.
- posted February 16
- Libro nuevo
- Nos alegra presentar Las Enseñanzas del Buddha, por Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu, una corta introducción a los conceptos básicos y valores subyacentes a la práctica budista, especialmiente enfocada a esclarecer interpretaciones erróneas comunes acerca de lo que enseñó el Buddha.
- publicado el 13 de Febrero
- Livro novo
- Nos alegra apresentar A Respiração como um Refúgio: Retiro 2016. O tema principal do retiro foi o guia de dezesseis passos da meditação focada na respiração ensinada pelo Buddha, dividido em Quatro Tétrades, como uma maneira de treinar a mente em tranquilidade e insight.
- publicado o 9 de fevereiro
- January Dhamma talks
- regular evening and short morning
- posted Feb. 3
- Revised eBooks
- Handful of Leaves: an Anthology from the Sutta Pitaka. This revised edition adds 37 newly translated suttas from the Digha, Samyutta, and Anguttara Nikayas, two new poems from the Theragatha, and the entire fifth book of the Khuddaka Nikaya, the Sutta Nipata. The new additions are fully integrated into the collection with hyper-linked cross-references. It is recommended that you replace your current copy with this revised edition. The individual sutta collections have also been updated.
- posted Jan. 23
- New Book
- Khuddakapatha: Short Passages. This, the first book in the Khuddaka Nikaya (Collection of Short Discourses), appears to have been designed as a primer for novice monks and nuns. In nine short passages it covers the basic topics that one would need to know when beginning Buddhist monastic life; many of the passages also serve as useful introductions to Buddhist practice in general.
- posted January 21
- December Dhamma talks
- regular evening and short morning
- posted Jan. 7
- November Dhamma talks
- regular evening and short morning
- posted Dec. 3
- ของใหม่ ธรรมเทศนาภาษาไทย:
- อบรมภาวนาตอนเย็น พฤศจิกายน และ เทศน์ตอนเช้า เดือน พฤศจิกายน
- ตั้งแต่ 3 ธันวาคม
- Livro novo
- Nos alegra apresentar Estratégia Nobre: Ensaios sobre o Caminho Budista. Os ensaios contidos neste livro apresentam perspectivas sobre os elementos básicos no caminho budista.
- publicado o 20 de novembro
- October Dhamma talks
- regular evening and short morning
- posted Nov. 5
- New Essay
- The Seeds of Karma : 21 Questions on Karma & Rebirth This essay originally appeared in Tricycle under the title, “The Buddha’s Baggage.”
- posted Nov. 1
- Un nouveau livre
- J’ai le plaisir de vous informer que le site propose un nouveau livre, La Noble Octuple Voie : 13 enseignements, de Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
- publiés 20 octobre
- September Dhamma talks
- regular evening and short morning
- posted Oct. 4
- ของใหม่ ธรรมเทศนาภาษาไทย:
- อบรมภาวนาตอนเย็น เดือน กันยายน และ เทศน์ตอนเช้า เดือน กันยายน
- ตั้งแต่ 4 ตุลาคม
- Expanded Book
- Starting Out Small: A Collection of Talks for Beginning Meditators by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo. This book has now been expanded with yet another section of newly translated Dhamma talks, featuring one of Ajaan Lee’s longest recorded sermons, “Recollection of Virtue.”
- posted Sept. 05
- August Dhamma talks
- regular evening and short morning
- posted Sept. 3
- ของใหม่ ธรรมเทศนาภาษาไทย:
- อบรมภาวนาตอนเย็น เดือน สิงหาคม และ เทศน์ตอนเช้า เดือน สิงหาคม
- ตั้งแต่ 3 กันยายน
- New Essay
- How Pointy is One-pointedness?. An expostion of the term ‘One Pointedness’ as a factor of the first jhana, the beginning level of right concentration.
- posted Aug. 19
- New Book
- Meditations7. The most recent collection of transcribed Dhamma talks given during the evening meditation sessions at Metta Forest Monastery from 2012-2015. The talks address breath meditation techniques and various aspects of the Buddhist Path.
- posted August 8
- Libro nuevo
- Nos alegra presentar El Brillo de la Vida, las enseñanzas de Ajaan Fuang Jotiko, el discípulo principal de Ajaan Lee y el maestro de Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
- publicado el 8 de Agosto
- July Dhamma talks
- regular evening and short morning
- posted August 6
- ของใหม่ ธรรมเทศนาภาษาไทย:
- อบรมภาวนาตอนเย็น เดือน กรกฎาคม และ เทศน์ตอนเช้า เดือน กรกฎาคม
- ตั้งแต่ 6 สิงหาคม
- New Book
- Sutta Nipata: The Discourse Group. This is a translation of the entire collection of 72 suttas, which includes some of the longer and most famous poems in the Pali Canon. It also contains two sets of poems considered deep expressions of advanced points of doctrine and three suttas with rare biographical information of the Buddha’s early life. Translated from the Pali by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
- posted August 4
- Revised Essay Collection
- The Karma of Questions. This is a revised edition to the second collection of essays. Significant changes were made to the essay ‘Perennial Issues,’ and Pali diacritics were added throughout.
- posted July 13
- Revised Essay Collection
- Head & Heart Together. This is a revised edition to the fourth collection of essays. Significant changes were made to the essay ‘Mindfulness Defined,’ and Pali diacritics were added throughout.
- posted July 11
