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Murphy, Raymond. English Grammar in Use:  A Self-study Reference and Practice Book for Intermediate Learners of English (with Answers). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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Ledi Sayadaw. A Manual of the Excellent Man: Uttamapurisa Dīpanī. Washington: BPS Pariyatti Editions, 2016.
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Balangoda Anada Maitreya, Mahanayaka Thera. Pali Made Easy. Dehiwola: Buddhist Cultural Centre, 20t2.

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Early Buddhist Discourses. ed. & trans. John J. Holder. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2006. 

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Bhaddacak, J. R. Pali for New Learners, Book I: How to say it.  Online 2023. 
 

This volume seeks to understand early Buddhist Teachings as a critical response to the binary opposition between two perennial worldviews, spiritual eternalism and materialist annihilationism. The first is the theory of the metaphysical self, a self that is distinct from the physical body. The second is the theory of the physical self, a self that is identical with the physical body. It is by keeping itself equally aloof from these two theoretical views of the self that early Buddhism becomes a "middle position".

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Suzuki, Teitaro, Trans. Asvaghosha's Discourse on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana. Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1900. 

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Payne, Richard K. Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies. Third Series, Number 15. Berkeley: Pacific World, 2013.
Remark: The reader can see only the article of Prof. Dr. Charles Willemen, Rector of IBC, in this journal.   

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Rangama Chandawimala Thero. Vijjavimutti: Commemorative Volume. Singapore: Buddhist and Pali College of Singapore, 2013.     

Mon, Mehm Tin. The Noble Path to Eternal Bliss: The Essence of Visuddhi Magga, Vol-II. Yangon: Mya Mon Yadanar Min Literature, 2015. 

This book is designed to introduce readers to contemporary issues and debates in the field of Buddhist ethics. It does this by stimulating a dialogue between Buddhism and Western ethics on the topic of well-being. The Four Noble Truths present us with a conundrum: is nirvana a state of virtue attained by following the Eightfold Path, or a state of happiness defined as freedom from suffering? If both, how are they related?

This book brings together several of Professor Toshiichi Endo’s previously published articles on the Buddha-concept in the Pāli Commentaries. Overall, it deals with two spiritual powers of the Buddha: the knowledge power (ñāṇabala) and the physical power (kāya-bala).

A translation of the traditional commentary and sub-commentary to one of the most challenging discourses in the Pāli Canon: MN 1.

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The Discourse on the Root of Existence: The Mūlapariyāya Sutta and its Commentaries. Trans. Bhikkhu Bodhi. Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society. 2016

Ven. Sāriputta’s Paṭisambhidāmagga and some parts of Pāḷi literature as a whole contain a list and analyses of five types of morality that throw into relief aspects of the moral life that range from an ethical practice that needs to be improved upon and is limited via those forms that catalyze progress on the Buddhist path toward liberation to a form that constitutes full moral blossoming.

An earnest student with serious interest needs a very basic, thorough understanding and careful study about the structural patterns of words and their morphological process. This can be achieved only through studying its original grammatical text along with detailed explanations on the rules known as Suttas and the accompanying word examples shown alongside in the Suttas. In other words, there is no replacement for an original ancient text with a ready-made, short-cut guide though it may fill some language-learning need but not in such a way as an original text can certainly do.

The Dhammapada is the second book of the Khuddaka Nikāya of the Sutta(nta) Pi aka, consisting of 423 verses in 26 chapters arranged under various headings. These verses were culled from various discourses given by the Buddha in the course of 45 years of his teaching, as he travelled in the valley of the Ganges (Ganga) and the sub-mountain tract of the Himalayas. Through them the Buddha exhorts one to achieve that greatest of all conquests, the conquest of self; to escape from the evils of craving, aversion and ignorance; and to strive hard to attain freedom from the round of rebirths.

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Hermann Kulke studied Indology (Sanskrit) and history at Freiburg University and did his PhD thesis on the Cidambaram Mahatmya, a text which encompasses the tradition of the South Indian temple city Chidambaram. His second major book was on the Gajapati kingship of Orissa. He has actively participated in the Orissa Research Project of the German Research Council and was co-editor of The Cult of Jagannath and the Regional Tradition of Orissa.......

The Bodhisattva Ideal: Essays on the Emergence of Mahāyāna.
Ed. Bhikkhu Nyanatusita Himi. Kandy: Buddhist Publication
Society Inc., 2013.

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An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology is a lucid, intelligible and authentic introduction to the foundations of Buddhist psychology. It provides comprehensive coverage of the basic concepts and issues in the psychology of Buddhism and thus it deals with the nature of psychological inquiry, concepts of mind, consciousness and behaviour, motivation, emotions, perception, and the therapeutic structure of Buddhist psychology. For the fourth edition, a new chapter on 'emotional intelligence' and its relationship with Buddhism has been added.

Ratnayaka, Shanta. "The Buddhist Ideal of Theravda." The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 8 (1985): 85-110.

Mahathera Ledi Sayadaw. The Manuals of Dhamma. India, Igatpuri: Vipassana Research Institute. Reprint 2011.

Beal, The Rev. S. Buddhism in China. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1884.

Hazra, Kanai Lal. History of Theravada Buddhism in South-East Asia: With special reference to India and Ceylon. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers,1982.

Kloppenborg, Ria. The Paccekabuddha: A Buddhist Ascetic, A study of the concept of the Paccekabuddha in Pali cononical and commentarial literature. Kandy: Buddhsit Publication Society Inc. 1983

Dhammapala. The Udana Commentary (Paramatthadipani nama Udanatthakatha), translated by Peter Masefield, Vol-1. Oxford: The Pali Text Society, 1994.

U Dhammaratana. Guide Through the Visuddhimagga. Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society.  Print 2nd Ed. 2011

Zangpo, Togmay. The Thirty-seven Practices of Bodhisattvas. Edited-Ruth Sonam. Singapore: Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery.  2009

The renowned Sri Lankan scholar Y. Karunadasa examines Abhidhamma perspectives on the nature of phenomenal existence. He begins by discussing dhamma theory, which describes the bare phenomena that form the world of experience. He then explains the Abhidhamma view that only dhammas are real and that anything other than these basic phenomena are conceptual constructs. This, he argues, is Abhidhamma’s answer to common-sense realism—the mistaken view that the world as it appears to us is ultimately real.

Among the other topics discussed are

These studies originated when the author was engaged in translating into German the Dhammasaṅgaṇī (“Compendium of Phenomena”) and its commentary, the Atthasālinī. These two books are the starting point and the main subject of the following pages that, in part, may serve as a kind of fragmentary subcommentary to them.

Therigatha has a total of 524 verses, uttered by 73 elder bhikkhunis, many of them have similar names and in two cases it's a group of elder bhikkhunis. Many of these elders bhikkhunis have biographies in the Apadana (Theriapadana Pali) as well.

The Great Tang Dyansty Record of the Western Regions (Taishō Volume 51, Number 2087) Trans. Li Rongxi. California: BDK America, Inc. Re-print 2016.

Beal, Samuel. The Life of Hiuen-Tsiang: By the Shaman Hwui Li with an Introduction Containing An Account of the Works of I-Tsing. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubnger & Co. Ltd. Re-issue 1914.

Bomhard, Allan R. A Comprehensive Introduction to Nostratic Comparative Linguistics: With Special Reference to Indo-European (3rd Edition) Vol-1. Florence: Creative Commons Lincense. Revised 2020.

This book is intended to be an introduction to the grammatical structure of the
Pāḷi language for those who have no prior knowledge of subject. As such, it has been
designed to make the study of Pāḷi grammar as easy as possible, by presenting the basic
principles of the language and its inflections in a clear and systematic format. 

Bomhard, Allan R. An Introductory Grammar of the Pali Language. Charleston: Charleston Buddhist Fellowship. Reprint - 2018

Bailey,Greg & Ian Mabbett. The Sociology of Early Buddhism. New York: Cambridge University Press - 2003

Barua, Benimadhab. A History of Pre-Buddhistic Indian Philosophy. Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 2921