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Books by Venerable Ledi Sayādaw

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I have updated a few more of the books by Venerable Ledi Sayādaw. No great changes, just reformatting and correcting some errors.

A Manual of the Dhamma — A reply by the Sayādaw to thirteen questions posed by lay Buddhists regarding how to deal with shameless and immoral monks.

Cow Dhamma — Part One of the Goṇasūra Dīpanī on meat-eating and intoxicants.

A Talk on Intoxicants and Gambling — Part Two of the Goṇsūra Dīpanī on intoxicants, horse-racing, and gambling.
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Thank you venerable, for your work in spreading the dhamma. :anjali:

A question: did you write the editor's forward to the Manual of Dhamma?
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Yes. You will see my name as the editor on the book's title page.

I have added my name as the editor to the index page on the web site.

Just updated: A Manual of the Excellent Man too.
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Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:Yes. You will see my name as the editor on the book's title page.

I have added my name as the editor to the index page on the web site.

Just updated: A Manual of the Excellent Man too.
Hi Bhanthe,

You must be quite proud of that!

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A Manual of the Path Factors completes the set of those works by the Venerable Ledi Sayādaw that I had published before.

I have also updated Buddhist Wisdom by the late Venerable Mahāgandhayon Sayādaw, U Janakābhivamsa. That is the only one of his I have edited.
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Venerable,

Thank you for the links. I started reading "A Talk on Intoxicants and Gambling" and today it was very helpful at a certain moment of the day.
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I just added A Manual of Religious Heritage to my site.

This is only a short article of 16 pages, written while the Sayādaw was travelling on a ferry to Rangoon from Akyab.
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My server is currently down again. I have uploaded it to my mirror site:

Aimwell.org Site Mirror.

Edited to remove obsolete links.
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Ah, thank you Bhante.
I appreciate your excellent work in translation, especially in translating and making available the works of the Venerable Ledi Sayadaw. Thank you for your valuable work assisting in preserving and propagating the Sasana.
Anumodana on your meritorious efforts!
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I wish I could do more, but its very time-consuming to edit the longer books. I don't think many will be interested in the more academic works like the Pāramī Dīpanī or the Āhāra Dīpanī even if I could find time to edit them.

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Updated three important works by the Sayādaw:

A Manual of Respiration (Ānāpāna Dīpanī)
A Manual of the Dhammas (Dhamma Dīpanī)
A Manual of the Path Factors (Maggaṅga Dīpanī)
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Thank you, Bhante!
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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A Manual of the Excellent Man completes the set of Ledi Sayādaw's works currently available.

It never ceases to amaze me that every time I edit a book I find some more errors — mostly nothing serious, but still worth fixing.

I might add some new titles later — I have plenty more of the Sayādaw's works, but all require more time than I have to spare at the moment.
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Thank you again, Bhante.
I am quite partial to the Sayadaw's writings. I had the opportunity to meditate in his meditation cave by the Chindwin River a few years ago.
Can you please tell me, are there any of his works that have not been translated into English yet?
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“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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