{"id":4755,"date":"2013-05-01T14:36:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T06:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dharmafarer.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=4755"},"modified":"2018-07-17T11:54:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T03:54:30","slug":"dharma-drive-usb-thumb-drive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/resources\/dharma-drive-usb-thumb-drive","title":{"rendered":"Dharma Drive (USB thumb drive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong><em>Make this a gift to a monastic or someone who needs it<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3>The Living Word of the Buddha<\/h3>\n<h4>The Buddha\u2019s Teachings in the Earliest Texts<\/h4>\n<h4>The Sutta Discovery series by Piya Tan, beginning in 2002, and still going on.<\/h4>\n<p>The most direct way to learn Buddhism is to read and live the Pali suttas which contains some of the oldest records we have of the Buddha\u2019s teachings. \u00a0As we search these scriptures, we will discover our\u00adselves amidst their stories, teach\u00adings and practices, and even take a first step towards spiritual awakening.<\/p>\n<p>This series will also help you learn how <strong>to learn and master the Pali Canon: <\/strong>to locate suttas, teach\u00adings and stories, and have an idea of how Suttas are trans\u00admitted and translated. \u00a0Wherever feasible, comparative studies will be made between the Pali, Sanskrit and Chinese (Agama) versions of the suttas. If you can read this message, you are ready to study the Sutta translations. No deep knowledge of Buddhism is needed. [Read on for&#8230;.\u00a0<a title=\"20 reasons for a new sutta translation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/sutta-discovery\">20 reasons for the SD series<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4606\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/USB-Dharma-Drive-4GB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4606\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4606\" title=\"USB Dharma Drive (4GB)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/USB-Dharma-Drive-4GB-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/USB-Dharma-Drive-4GB-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/USB-Dharma-Drive-4GB-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/USB-Dharma-Drive-4GB.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portable Dharma &#8211; easy dharma learning wherever you are<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The drive contains Sutta Discovery vols 1 to 49a\u00a0(pdf), sutta teach\u00adings (MP3 recordings) &amp; books by Piya Tan.<\/p>\n<p>To make an order (by donation), please email: themindingcentre@gmail.com, or call Ratna Lim at hp <strong>8211 0879<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make this a gift to a monastic or someone who needs it The Living Word of the Buddha The Buddha\u2019s Teachings in the Earliest Texts The Sutta Discovery series by Piya Tan, beginning in 2002, and still going on. The most direct way to learn Buddhism is to read and live the Pali suttas which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2917,"featured_media":0,"parent":8998,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4755","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6869,"href":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4755\/revisions\/6869"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}