Theravada Audio Dhamma (47)

Agganyana, U. ဝဋ္သုံးဝႏွင့္ တရားေတာ္။ [With Three Vatta]. Yangon, 17 Aug 2005.

Explained: five Padhanijanga; three Vatta and two
Bhava. http://goo.gl/xPTlgC

Dhammasara, U (Hsinbyu Kyun Sayadaw). နီဝရဏတရား ၅ ပါး။ [Five Nivarana]. Hsinbyu Kyun, 10 Aug 1990.

Mentioned: two covers on Nibbana and explanation
of five Nivarana with examples. http://goo.gl/UtJFM2

Tejosara, Baddanta (Chan Myei Myaing Sayadaw). အေျပးရပ္သူ နိဗၺာန္ယူ တရားေတာ္။ [Those Who Stop Running Will Attain Nibbana]. Yangon, 1369 B.E.

With reference to the story of Angulimala, mentioned,
how the Buddha disciplined with loving kindness
(Metta) and things that make beings running and
stop running in Samsara. http://goo.gl/UTnKpG

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Kovida, Dr Ashin (Majjhima Gonyi). သတိစြမ္းအား။ [Power of Mindfulness]. Insein, 6 December 2009.

Mentioned: what and how long people forgot; cause
of catastrophes; results of mindfulness and heedless-
ness. http://goo.gl/7eyKpn

Revata, Ashin (Mula Kathitwine). ဝိပႆနာအလုပ္ေပး ၃၊ သမထတရား (၃) (၄)။ [Vipassana Exercise_Samatha]. [no date]

Include: seven mental actions; Appana Samadhi and
Upacara Samadhi; three ways of doing obeisance;
defeating new mental action with Samatha; method
of combining Samatha and Vipassana to attain
Nibbana; four facts of Magga Sacca; nature of
Kilesa. http://goo.gl/VkEddR; http://goo.gl/4sr0pQ

Silanandabhivamsa, Ashin. တရားရတနာတရားေတာ္။ [Dhamma Gem]. USA, 21 July 1991.

Described: definition of Dhamma; what is Dhamma;
to whom and how the Dhamma hold; six attributes of
Dhamma; why Dhamma is to be revered.
http://goo.gl/3VlLP1

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Candasara, Ashin (Kyaungkon Sayadaw). လွတယ္ဆိုတာဘယ္မွာလဲ။ [Where is the Beauty?]. Tavoy, 29 Sep 2009.

Explained: two types of reforming oneself; how
nothing is beautiful in Khanda. http://goo.gl/oMIdHY

Sobhana, Ashin (ShweMyintMo Sayadaw). ယခုေနာင္ခါ ခ်မ္းသာေရး။ [To be Peaceful Now and Then]. Yangon, 25 Jan 2014.

Mentioned: four Sampadha; four facts to be ruined;
four facts to be prosper at present; four facts to be
peaceful in future life; thirteen types of conscious-
ness; observation of hearing consciousness and
Dosa (anger) consciousness. https://goo.gl/q7EQRM

Teijosara, Ashin (Chin Taungdan Propagating Sayadaw). [Giving the Precepts]. သီလေပး။ Yangon, 2 Aug 2012.

Include: clarification of taking precepts_objectives of
making obeisance with Okasa supplication, solicita-
tion for the precepts, adoration to the Buddha, taking
of three refuges; the starting days of Dhamma and
Samgha refuges; advice to keep precepts taken
without breaking any of them. http://goo.gl/1tO7Qz

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Dhammasara, U (Hsinphyukyun Sayadaw). ေကာသမၻီသုတ္ တရားေတာ္။ [Kosambi Sutta]. Hsinphyukyun, 9 Aug 1980.

Mentioned: ten insight corruptions_ obhasa (light), nana (knowledge), piti (joy), passaddhi (tranquility), sukha (happiness), adhimokkha (decision), paggaha (exertion), upatthana (establishment), upekkha (equanimity) and nikanti (attachment); seven characteristics of Sotapanna. http://goo.gl/6LqzIE

Janitalankara, Bhaddanta. အေကာင္းဆုံးလမ္းက သြားၾကပါ။ [Go from the Best Path]. Yangon, 1 Aug 2008.

Include: three paths and their ends (kamma, jhana and nana); four kinds of persons; level of attainment in meditation according to Susima Sutta, Anattalekkhana Sutta and Wheel of Dhamma; Sularahulovada Sutta. http://goo.gl/Ca2FnX

Nyeyadhammasami, Vanavasi Ashin (Maha Bodhimyaing Sayadaw). သခၤါရ ႏွင့္ အသခၤါရ။ [Sankhara and Asankhara]. 3 July 1997.

Explained: two areas of living beings (Sankhara and Asankhara), four types of Sankhara; onedemeritorious act and three meritorious actions (kamma kusala, jhana kusala and nana kusala); what Asankhara means; importance of Sati (mindfulness).
http://goo.gl/wUrVxS 

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Chekinda, Dr Ashin (Dhammaduta, Hmawbi). ေျပးသူကေျပး ဆြဲသူကဆြဲ အလုပ္ေပးတရား။ [Running and Pulling]. Hmawbi, 6 Nov 2001.

Mentioned: why beings circulate in Samsara; definition of Avijja and its doing; work of Dhamma; ten Samyojana. http://goo.gl/weqpD9

Kundalabhivamsa, Ashin (Saddhammaramsi Sayadaw). ပဒါနိယဂၤသုတၱန္ (ျဖစ္ပ်က္ျမင္)။ [Padaniyanga Sutta ( Observing Appearance and Disappearance)]. 1359 (B.E.)

Explaining the necessity of wisdom (panna) that knows the appearance and disappearance according to insight knowledge in Kamatthana practice. http://goo.gl/UoNqOZ

Pannajota, Ashin (Taunzun, Dhammaduta). ဗုဒၶ၏ ၃၂ျဖာ လကၡဏာေတာ္ (၃)။ [Thirty Two Signs of the Buddha (3)]. Kyaikaw, 1357 (B.E.)

Include: why the Buddha was superior in wisdom; causes of not performing Dana; importance of consciousness; causes and effects of the three signs of the Buddha_ having fine skin that no dust can attach to it; gold colour skin; sexual organ that are concealed in a sheath. http://goo.gl/U1XzAH

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Janakabhivamsa, Ashin (Maha Gandhayon Sayadaw). ရ႒ပါလ သုတၱန္ တရားေတာ္။ [Rathapala Sutta]. [no date]

Include: how Samyojjana is the source of Dukkha; Buddha's remedy; gist of the Dhamma in Rathapala Sutta. http://goo.gl/PUMyN5

Pannissara, Dr Ashin (Dhammaduta, Bago). တရားေဆးကိုေသာက္ သုံးပါ။ [Take the Dhamma Remedy]. Bago, 16 December 2005.

Described: three Akusala Vitek; Dhamma remedy to tame one's mind_ Asupa bhavana, Metta bhavana, Anapanassati, Anicca Sanna. http://goo.gl/QB2MOg

Vimala, U (Mogok Sayadaw). အသိလိုက္ရန္တရားေတာ္။ [Having Realization]. Amarapura, 1 January 1960.

Ditthi_the most important Dhamma that prevent from the attainment of Nibbana; discarding Ditthi; way to secure mind. http://goo.gl/00gedI

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Nandamalabhivamsa, Dr. Bhaddanta (Rector). စိတ္၏အညစ္ အေၾကးမ်ား။ [Impurities of Mind]. Yangon: 1370 B.E.

Described: natural mind; fourteen dirt of mind; purification of mind. http://goo.gl/OoYvGH

Nyanissara, Dr Ashin (Sitagu Sayadaw). သင္ၾကားျခင္းႏွင့္ သင္ယူျခင္း။ [Teaching and Learning]. Mandalay: 1370 B.E.

Mentioned: how Asia is a Noble Continient; four races; whom to do obeisance; qualification of teacher and student; teaching and learning balance; way to be a wise man. http://goo.gl/FGVxrh

Sumangala, U (De ou: Sayadaw) သစၥာမိုး (၁)။ [Sicca Rain (1)]. Katha: 2006.

Include: why the Boddhisatta started with Dana Parami to become the Buddha; how Dana is one of the causes to attain Nibbana; the true Dana; advice to know the true Dana and to practise. http://goo.gl/7bh1wd

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Nyanobasa, Ashin (Thazin Yeikyaw Sayadaw). ႏွလုံးသြင္းမွန္ရန္။ [To Have Right Consideration]. [no date]

Explained how right consideration is necessary in attaining Nibbana with various examples.
http://goo.gl/38F5O7

Suria, U (Shwemann Sayadaw). သာသနာငါးေထာင္။ [Five Thousand Years of Buddhist Era]. Yangon: 26 December 2009.

Include: what Samsara and Nibbana are; perpetrator of suffering; dispelling ditthi; five Buddhist Eras. http://goo.gl/7DBD4n

Vijaya, Ashin (Mula Dhamma Sayadaw). ေၾကာင္းက်ိဳးခ်ဳပ္ျငိမ္း ဒုကၡသိမ္း။ [Ending of Cause and Effect Means Ending of Suffering]. [no date]

Described: definition of Avijja; Avijja Piccaya Samkhara; origin and extra Sacca; four facts to amend wrong doing. http://goo.gl/KepQHH

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Eindacarabhivamsa, Ashin. အေၾကြးကင္းမွ ခ်မ္းသာရ။ [Get Happiness Without Debt]. Hlegu: 9 January 2005.

With reference to Eina Sutta, mentioned: two kinds of debt; misery to be indebted; way of indebted to Dhamma; three characteristics of Saddha; two reasons of not performing Dana; five Micchariya; four Viriya; practising Satipatthana to be free from debt. http://goo.gl/EMCzhq

Malacara, Bhaddanta (Nyaungbintha Sayadaw). စိတ္ကိုဆုံးမ နိဗၺာန္ရ။ [Discipline Mind to Attain Nibbana]. Singapore: 7 May 2013.

Include: six facts for yogi to practise; two kinds of Khandha and eyes; thirteen consciousness to observe. http://goo.gl/ytwtQE

Vasitthabhivamsa, Ashin (Kyauktalone Sayadaw). တရားႏွင့္သာ ခ်မ္းသာ႐ွာ။ [Find Happiness Only With Dhamma]. 22 May 2006.

Explained: four types of human beings; Nibbana means; ability of Dhamma and finding happiness only with Dhamma. http://goo.gl/ryppYJ 

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Janeiya, Bhaddanta (Myaseintaung Sayadaw). [Buddhism]. ဗုဒၶဘာသာ တရားေတာ္။ Yangon, 1368 B.E. (18 May 2007.)

Include: three types of buddhists; different Buddha; the origin of Buddhism; why performing Dana and Sila; listening to discourse means; three Samma ditthi; mental action_the worst one. http://goo.gl/x2Umru

Jatila, U (Kyanikan Sayadaw). [A Real Beneficial Dana]. သားေဟာင္းခ်ီးေျမွာက္ နတ္ျပည္ေရာက္။ Taungoo, 1338 B.E.

Explanation of beneficial Dana with reference to the story of Ashin Maha Kassapa and a poor lady Acama. http://goo.gl/2qKlex

Suriya, Ashin (Aung Cakka). သီလကထာ။ [Sila Katha]. Yangon, [no date]

Describing Sila which included: definition, benefits and type with various examples. http://goo.gl/2IhgwV

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Candavarabhivamsa, Dr Bhaddanta (Kyaikkalot Sayadaw). အေျပာခႏၶာႏွင့္ သေဘာခႏၶာ တရားေတာ္။ [Verbal Khandha and Natural Khandha]. Singapore: 13 August 2014.

Elucidation of Verbal and Natural Khandha; Dos and Don't in Vipassana practice. http://goo.gl/K1nEfo

Kumara, Dr Ashin (Dhammadhara). ေဗာဓိသတၱ ဘုရားေလာင္း(၁) (၂)။ [Bodhisatta]. Singapore: 1 July 2014.

Mentioned: two kinds of religion (real and unreal); five benefits of listening to Dhamma; pre-work and suitable places for insight meditation; eight characteristics of Bodhisatta; ten Perfections; the great five sacrifices; the great five considerations. (01) http://goo.gl/VYKaUi ;
(02) http://goo.gl/3vD0ly

Visuddha, Ashin (Nyaung Kan Aye). အျပစ္ကင္းေပ်ာက္ ခ်မ္းသာေရာက္ဖို ့တရားေတာ္။ [To Be Free from Misdeed and Have Peacefulness]. Singapore: 14 September 2014.

Include: objective of the discourse; misdeed defined by buddhist; ten misdeeds; difference between knowing and not knowing evil; three facts to be faultless (good mind, good friend and listening to religious sermon properly); importance of wisdom and mindfulness; four Sampajanna. http://goo.gl/zLdaE5 

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ဇဋိလ၊ ဦး (ၾကာနီကန္ဆရာေတာ္)။ ျမစ္ကိုပစ္၍ ေခ်ာင္းကို႐ွာ။ [Leave the River and Find the Stream]. ေတာင္ငူ၊ ၁၃၃၈။

Mentioned how the Buddha prevented a monk from leaving a monkhood. http://goo.gl/NRQeGd

ဇာေနယ် ၊ ဘဒၵႏၲ (ျမစိမ္းေတာင္ဆရာေတာ္)။ ေနဝင္ခါနီး
ခရီးသည္ ေတြ။ [Travellers at near to twilight] [ခုႏွစ္မပါ]

Explained: near to death can be called near to twilight. People are born, aged and die like the sun rises and then sets. Also, advised to find a branch line between ageing and illness. http://goo.gl/p6wjZL 

သူရိယ၊ အ႐ွင္ (ေအာင္စၾကာ)။ ဒါနကထာ။ [Dana Katha]. ရန္ကုန္၊ [ခုႏွစ္မပါ]

Mentioned: three works for peaceful life; ability of Dana; two types of Dana; pairing Dana and Nana. http://goo.gl/ExOx0I

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Revata, Ashin (Paauktoya). လူ ့အဆင့္အတန္း။ [Human Standard]. 26 Mar 2007.

Described: different kinds of human standard; recognition of standard; three reasons that the bodhisatta entered into the jungle as a recluse; sensuality.

Revata, Ashin (Paauktoya). အ႐ုဏ္ႏွင့္ ဆည္းဆာ။ [Dawn and Twilight]. 14 Jan 2007.

Explained: how birth and death are like dawn and twilight; ways to live as a valuable wise person between birth and death; a wise person that the Buddha mentioned; benefits of Dana, Sila and Bhavana.

Silanandabhivamsa, Dr Ashin. ဘုရားရတနာ (၁)။ [The Buddha Ratana (1)]. July 1991.

Mentioned: three jewels to take refuge; what Buddha is and what he knew; wonders of the Buddha; four Noble Truth; Anatta.

Silanandabhivamsa, Dr Ashin. ဘုရားရတနာ (၂)။ [The Buddha Ratana (2)]. July 1991.

Include: preference of the Buddha to the freedom of thought; facts that should not be accepted easily as correct ones; the nature law of Buddhism; how the Buddha rejected the discrimination of social class; the most hardworking person, the Buddha.

Vilasagga, Ashin (Saddhammaransi). ဘုံဘဝေစာ္မနံနဲ ့။ [Don't be Smelt Like Realm Life]. [no date]

Mentioned: Atta ditthi; whether Dana and Sila definitely send to celestial realm; influence of Avijja; practising Vipassana means; purified Dana, Sila and Bhavana.

Vilasagga, Ashin (Saddhammaransi). သခၤါရပစၥယာ ဝိညာဏံ။ [Sankhara Piccaya Vinnanam]. [no date]

Explained: sense objects and consciousness; Sakkaya ditthi; contemplation of mind.

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Candavara, Bhaddanta (Hlaing Mahasi Sayadaw). ဒါနေၾကာင့္ သံသရာ မ႐ွည္ပါ။ [Dana Doesn't Prolong Samsara]. Yangon, 12 December 1978.

Mentioned: Vipassana_the only way to Nibbana; achievement of the person who follows the instruction of the Buddha; ways of performing Dana Kusala giving the story of the wealthy man, Jotika as an example.

Candavara, Bhaddanta (Hlaing Mahasi Sayadaw). နိဗၺာန္ေမြးျမဴေရး တရားေတာ္။ [Having Nibbana]. Yangon, 16 april 1987.

Include: importance of discipline; sila visoddhi; citta visoddhi; level of attainment in meditation; Megga Kusala.

Jayatissa, Dr Ashin (Kothaung Sayadaw). အပ်င္းပယ္ေဖ်ာက္ နိဗၺာန္ေရာက္။ [Discard Laziness and Attain Nibbana]. Singapore, 9 August 2012.

Include: six big leakages of human beings; four Sampada; opposite of laziness; eleven characteristics of effort (Viriya).

Jayatissa, Dr Ashin (Kothaung Sayadaw). မဂၤလာတရားေတာ္။ [Mangala Dhamma]. Singapore, 19 August 2012.

With various examples, explained: four Sampatti; introduction to Mangala; associating with the wise and not to associate with the fool; residing in a suitable locality; having done the meritorious actions in the past; setting oneself in the right course.

Pannasihabhivamsa, Ashin. ေနာက္ဆုံးလူမျဖစ္ပါေစႏွင့္။ [Don't Be a Last Person]. Yangon, 1372 B.E.

Giving the Maghadeva Jataka as an example, explained, how eight Maggangha is the only practice to attain Nibbana.

Pannasihabhivamsa, Ashin. အခြင့္ေကာင္းကို မေ႐ွာင္လႊဲပါႏွင့္။ [Don't Avoid the Good Opportunity]. Yangon, 19 January 2012.

Described: three kinds of Metta; whom to pray for Metta; developing Metta; facts to amend; four good opportunities; audience of the Buddha; seizing the good opportunity; three types of beliefs; how to meditate; the Mahabuta_ the four basic properties of matter.

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Chandadhika, Ashin (Shweparamitoya). တစ္ေယာက္ ထဲေန တစ္စိတ္ထဲထား။ [Stay Alone With One Mind]. Yangon, 17 Dec 1996.

Explained: the reason of staying alone with one mind; consequences of staying with companion while practising Satipatthana; three faults of talking during meditation; how keeping one mind is more important than staying alone; facts not to choose to have Vipassana mind every times.

Chandadhika, Ashin (Shweparamitoya). မေသခင္ ဘာလုပ္ၾကမလဲ။ [What Will You Do Before You Die]. [no date]

Mentioned: way of the Mundane World; five unknown facts about death; seven happiness; how human life is short; six diseases in the period of Arattha head master; khandha and death.

Janakabhivamsa, Ashin (Chanmyay Sayadaw). အေကာင္းေလး မ်ိဳးတရားေတာ္။ [Four Good Ones]. [no date]

Manifestation of four good ones_ Sila, Saddha, Panna and Kusala giving a wealthy man Jotika and an Arahat Dhamma Dinna as example persons.  

Janakabhivamsa, Ashin (Chanmyay Sayadaw). အားကိုးမွန္မွ ခ်မ္းသာရ။ [Correct Reliance Gives Happiness]. [no date]

Described: the five religions; why buddhists follow and practise the Buddha's Dhamma; how to be a true buddhist; Triple Gems.

Saddhamma Kittisara, Bhaddanta (AungSan Sayadaw). ေနေရး ထက္ ေသေရးအေရးၾကီးပုံ။ [How Death Is Important Than Alive]. New York, 5 Jun 2004.

Included: ways of listening to Dhamma; the work which one must do in every age group of life, why human life is precious; cause and effect; two types of Vipassana; importance of having good teacher to become a Sotappana; method of eliminating Ditthi.

Saddhamma Kittisara, Bhaddanta (AungSan Sayadaw). ပဋိစၥ သမုပၸါဒ္ နိဒါန္း။ [An Introduction To Paticca Samuppada]. New York, 29 May 2004.

Explained: the dependable Dhamma; objective of practising Vipassana; four Asava; importance of knowing Sacca; ways of obtaining Vijja Nana.

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Lakkhana, U. (Kyaswar Sayadaw). ကိုယ္ေတြ ့ေဝဒနာႏု

ပႆ       နာ သတိပ႒ာန္ (၂)။ [Personal Experience Vedana-
nupassana Satipatthana (2)]. Sydney, 25 December 2012.

Explained: why Vedana is necessary to observe;
three levels of knowing Vedana; anxiety and
compassion; nature of Tanha and Ditthi.

Lakkhana, U. (Kyaswar Sayadaw). ကိုယ္ေတြ ့ေဝဒနာႏု
ပႆ       နာ သတိပ႒ာန္ (၃)။ [Personal Experience Vedana-
nupassana Satipatthana (3)]. Sydney, 26 December 2012.

Include: four Kammathana; practical observa-
tion: three kinds of Photthabba rupa; four
Sampajanna and their important area.

Sobhana, Ashin (ShweMyintmo Sayadaw). စစ္ဆင္ ဥပမာ
ျပတရားေတာ္။ [A Discourse with Fighter Elephant
Example]. Yangon, 22 May 2007.

Mentioned: the five necessities in meditation such
as_1. listening to Dhamma; 2. dispelling applica-
tion (Vitakka); 3. controlling six faculties
(Indrias); 4. patience; 5. practising until the
achievement of Nibbana.

Sobhana, Ashin (ShweMyintmo Sayadaw). အာဇာနည္
စိတ္ဓါတ္ ထားရန္။ [To Have Herioc Morale]. [no date]

A detail instruction of meditating with herioc
morale to attain Nibbana.

Sobhita, Ashin (Padamya Yeikthar Sayadaw). ဒြါရ၆ခြင္ 
ဉာဏ္မ်က္႐ွင္ အလုပ္ေပးတရားေတာ္။ [Observation of Six
Doors by Nana]. Amarapura, 1351.

Described: what Vipassana is; three Samadhi
Magga and two Panna Magga; disadvantage of
not meditating; benefits of meditation; which and
when to observe.

Sobhita, Ashin (Padamya Yeikthar Sayadaw). ဒိ႒ိျပဳတ္ျပန္
ေသာတာပန္ အလုပ္ေပးတရားေတာ္။ [Eliminating Ditthi to
Be a Sotapanna]. Amarapura, 1351.

Explained: Sotapatti Magga and Phala; location
of Ditthi; defining Cittanupassana; number of consciousness to observe; where consciousness
appear; Namarupaparicheda nana; Paccaya-
parigaha nana; ability of consciousness;
observing Cittanupassana.

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Theravada Audio Dhamma (31)

Eindavudabhivamsa, U (HtoogyiSayadaw). ငရဲၾကီး

႐ွစ္ထပ္တရားေတာ္(၁)။ [Eight Levels of Niraya (1)].
Yangon, 21 October 2006.

Include: definition of Paticca Samuppada and
Patthana; thirty one realms; four Apaya;
superiority of human realm; circulation of three
Vutta (Kilesa, Kamma and Vipaka); names of
eight levels of Niraya. Listen more

Eindavudabhivamsa, U (HtoogyiSayadaw). ငရဲၾကီး
႐ွစ္ထပ္တရားေတာ္(၂)။ [Eight Levels of Niraya (2)].
Yangon, 22 October 2006.

Mentioned: three Sankhara; three connections;
causes of birth in Niraya and its sufferings; five
Ottara lesser Niraya; kind of person who cast
into each level of Niraya and their sufferings.
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Panditabhivamsa, Ashin (Shwe Taungon Sayadaw).
ကိုယ္က်င့္တရားေကာင္းျပီး လူႏွင့္တူသူ။ [A Man-like
Person with Good Moral]. San Francisco, 3 July 2010.

Mentioned: meaning of Dhamma; three different
persons in listening to Dhamma; how moral and
Dana are separate ones; four dangers; develo-
ping Metta; nearest causes of Metta and Karuna;
the matured intelligence; IQ, EQ and SQ; duties
of parents and children; the imitative work of
Jews. Listen more

Panditabhivamsa, Ashin (Shwe Taungon Sayadaw).
အမ်ိဳးဘာသာ သာသနာ မေပ်ာက္ပ်က္ရန္။ [Not to Destroy
Nation, Religion and Dispensation]. San Francisco,
4 July 2009.

Explained: the most ancient prayer_ Namotassa;
three refuges; five precepts; Anumottika Katha
(doctrine upgrading in serial order); mind of a
real man. Listen more

Thitzana, U. ဗုဒၶဘာသာသည္ ႐ုပ္တုကို ကိုးကြယ္ေသာ
ဘာသာေလာ(၁)။ [Is Buddhism a Religion that Worships
Idol (1)]. San Francisco, 3 April 2010.

Include: why the Buddha could announce that he
became the Buddha; reasons of worshipping the
Buddha; how the Buddha was named "Buddha";
what the person of old generation worshipped as
the Buddha's symbol and why they did not make
the idol of the Buddha; power of the omniscience
of the Buddha; questions and answers. Listen more

Thitzana, U. ဗုဒၶဘာသာသည္ ႐ုပ္တုကို ကိုးကြယ္ေသာ
ဘာသာေလာ(၂)။ [Is Buddhism a Religion that Worships
Idol (2)]. San Francisco, 4 April 2010.

Described: how to worship the Buddha; discus-
sion between the Buddha and sixteen followers
of Bavari brahmin; attributes of the Dhamma;
ten Dhamma to revere; questions and answers.
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Theravada Audio Dhamma (30)

Pannananda, Ashin (A Sitagu Star). မိတ္ေကာင္းေပါင္းမွ ခ်မ္းသာရ (၁) (၂)။ [Associating with Good Friend Gives Happiness (1) (2)]. Magwe, 1367 B.E. 

Good friend and Bad friend and their differences; explanation of Similes stated by the Buddha. Listen more(1) (2).

Pannananda, Ashin (A Sitagu Star). အေမ့ေမတၱာ ကိုးဆယ္ဆသာ (၁) (၂)။ [Greatness of Mother's Metta (1) (2)]. Magwe,16 November 2009.

Sayings of Sayadaws, wise men and famous persons regarding to parents' gratitudes; similes of parents' loving kindness; a Dhamma to practise until the end of the world. Listen more(1) (2).

Sirindabhivamsa, Bhaddanta (Yaw Sayadaw). ဒကၡိဏဝိဘဂၤ သုတၱန္ (၁)။ [Dakkhina Vibanga Sutta (1)]. Pathein, 22 January 1987.

Referring to Dekkhinavibanga Sutta, explained: two happiness; types of Dana; Kala Dana definition and its variety; difference between repaying by Dhamma Nuggaha and Piccaya Nuggaha; why the Buddha is worth to worship. Listen more

Sirindabhivamsa, Bhaddanta (Yaw Sayadaw). ဒကၡိဏဝိဘဂၤ သုတၱန္ (၂)။ [Dakkhina Vibanga Sutta (2)]. Pathein, 22 January 1987.

Mentioned: fourteen recipients of Dana and stages of benefits; five things not to trade; seven types of Sanghika Dana (Dana for all monks); four kinds of Dana; how to donate effectively. Listen more

Sujata, Ashin (Metta Aye Sayadaw). ကုသိုလ္အလုပ္ ေနာက္မဆုတ္ နဲ ့(၁) (၂)။ [Don't Hesitate to Do Merit (1) (2)]. Mandalay, 15 December 2008.

Include: Kusala and Happiness; those who do not like Dhamma; Dhamma and Adhamma; a real Buddhist. Listen more(1) (2).

Sujata, Ashin (Metta Aye Sayadaw). အသက္ေပး၍ ကိုးကြယ္သူ (၁) (၂)။ [Giving Life to Worship (1) (2)]. Yangon, 29 November 2008.

Described the works of person who loves one's lineage, religion and Sasana giving the story of a slave girl- Sudasi as an example. Also, advise to give life if necessary for the sake of one's country, race and Sasana. Listen more(1) (2).

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Theravada Audio Dhamma (29)

Kheiminda, Bhaddanta (Khinmakan Sayadaw). ဘဝ ဇာတ္ဆရာ (၁)-(၂)။ [The Master of Life]. Yangon, 6 December 2008.

Include: ways to attain Nibbana; how Tanha is the master of life; advantage of listening to the Dhamma. Listen more(1) (2)

Kheiminda, Bhaddanta (Khinmakan Sayadaw). ေသမွာ မေၾကာက္ ထိုငါးေယာက္။ [Five Persons Who Do Not Frighten Death]. Yangon, [no date]

Explained: three Sasana and the main practice; mindfulness and knowing; teaching of every Buddha; five persons who do not frighten death. Listen more

Kumara, Ashin (Dhammadhara). ကုသိုလ္ႏွင့္ အကုသိုလ္။ [Merit and Demerit]. Mandalay, 1373 B.E.

Regarding to Merit (Kusala) and Demerit (Akusala), mentioned: meaning, characteristics, causes and types. Listen more

Kumara, Ashin (Dhammadhara). အေဟာင္းျပဳ ျပင္ အလွ ဆင္စို ့ (၁)-(၂)။ [Let's Repair the Old and Beautify]. Wetlat, 1371 B.E.

Described: five principles to propagate Buddha Sasana; six basis of progressing business; six facts to be healthy; one who repair the old and beautify; six conventions of Bud- dhist synod. Listen more(1) (2)

Narapati, U (Phyu Sayadaw). ရတနာထိုက္တဲ့ ခ်စ္သမီး။ [The Ideal Beloved Daughter]. Yangon, 5 December 1998.

With reference to “Rohini Theri Gatha Sutta”, mentioned the essence of Triple Gems; attributes of Sotapanna and Sangha; the purified one and Vedagu. Listen more

Narapati, U (Phyu Sayadaw). အသက္ေသေသာ္လည္း မ်က္ရည္မက် စတမ္း။ [Never Be Tearful Even Dead]. Yangon, 9 December 1998.

Manifestation of four protective Dhamma (Buddhanussati, Metta Bhavana, Maranassati and Asubha Bavana) andtheir benefits referring to “Suraka Jataka”. Listen more

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Theravada Audio Dhamma (28)

Ghosita, U. ပဋိစၥသမုပၸါဒ္ ႏွင့္ ကမၼဘဝ႐ွင္းတမ္း။ [Clarification of Paticca Samuppada and Kamma Bhava]. 14 April 1994.

Explaining: why beings are confused in mind; eight connections such as two origins, two Sacca, four layers, twelve characteristics, three relations, three Vatta, three times and twenty matters; Kamma Bhava. Listen more

Ghosita, U. ေ႐ွးအတိတ္ ကံစြမ္းအားေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာပုံ တရားေတာ္။ [Arise Because of the Power of Past Kamma]. 14 April 1993.

Include: three relations of Paticca Samuppada (Sankhara and Vinnana; Vedana and Tanha; Kamma Bhava and Jati); Sassata and Uccheda-ditthi; three consciousness; Nama and Rupa; size and development of Rupa; twelve Ayatana and eighteen Datu.
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Jotika, U (Pakhokku Airport Sayadaw). ပုဂၢိဳလ္ဆယ္မ်ိဳး တရားေတာ္။ [Ten Types of Person]. Sydney, 4 Mar 2011.

Mentioned: Ajivatthamaka Sila; ten types of person that the Buddha stated; the one which the Buddha praised; why the Buddha preached this discourse. Listen more

Jotika, U (Pakhokku Airport Sayadaw). ေလာကဓံ။ [Worldly Vicissitudes (Loka-dhamma)]. Sydney, 5 Mar 2011.

Explained: the difference between keeping ordinary Sila and special Sila; eight kinds of Lokadan; how virtuous person and stupid one faces the Worldly Vicissitudes. Listen more

Pannavara, Ashin (Dhammaduta, Theinzayat). ေနာက္
ေၾကာင္းျပန္ေတြး စိတ္မေလးနဲ႔တရားေတာ္။[Don't Look Back
the Past and Worry]. Theinzayat, 13 April 2011.

Include: how khandha and attributes are different; to amend the wrong doing of the past instead of worrying; Nibbana can surely be attained if one has objective and strives to do so.  Listen more

Pannavara, Ashin (Dhammaduta, Theinzayat). ဘဝလမ္းခြဲ။ [Branch Line of Life]. Bilin, 14 Jan 2013.

Described: way to associate and depart among family members; how practising meditation is necessary in all ages of life; facts to do for the prosperity of race, religion and dispensation of Sasana; advice to reduce attachment and to develop loving kindness (Metta).  Listen more

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