How to easily learn to pronounce Pali words?
How to easily learn to pronounce Pali words?
I mean just to know how to correctly pronounce the words, even if one hasn't learned the meaning of those words yet.
Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammā Sambuddhassa
Re: How to easily learn to pronounce Pali words?
This is a tricky question.
This is like you are asking "How easily learn to pronounce English words"
Having said that the best I think is to listen to chanting.
The following link provide my favorite chanting.
While listening to chanting read the text given as well. If you know the meaning it is even better.
viewtopic.php?t=44252&hilit=chanting
This is like you are asking "How easily learn to pronounce English words"
Having said that the best I think is to listen to chanting.
The following link provide my favorite chanting.
While listening to chanting read the text given as well. If you know the meaning it is even better.
viewtopic.php?t=44252&hilit=chanting
“As the lamp consumes oil, the path realises Nibbana”
Re: How to easily learn to pronounce Pali words?
Learn IPA and read a text on the reconstructed phonologies of Middle Indic Prākrits.
Or, if you want actually functionally-useful pronunciations, copy the Venerables who chant either at your local Dharma Centre or from online. There are three-ish main idioms of pronunciation: Thai, Sinhala, and Burmese. Burmese is comparatively obscure on the Internet AFAIK. Thai-style chanting and pronunciation seem the most common.
Or, if you want actually functionally-useful pronunciations, copy the Venerables who chant either at your local Dharma Centre or from online. There are three-ish main idioms of pronunciation: Thai, Sinhala, and Burmese. Burmese is comparatively obscure on the Internet AFAIK. Thai-style chanting and pronunciation seem the most common.
O, you buddhaputras, listen well!
There is a great voluminous sūtra,
a sūtra as vast as the entire cosmos,
that lists all things in the triple world.
It lies unseen within every atom in the loka.
Once in a generation, a glorious Jina
goes forth and attains the Great Gnosis.
He regards the sūtra bound in each atom and says:
"I will muster great power
and break the atom,
sending forth the mahāsūtra
so that it may benefit the masses."
There is a great voluminous sūtra,
a sūtra as vast as the entire cosmos,
that lists all things in the triple world.
It lies unseen within every atom in the loka.
Once in a generation, a glorious Jina
goes forth and attains the Great Gnosis.
He regards the sūtra bound in each atom and says:
"I will muster great power
and break the atom,
sending forth the mahāsūtra
so that it may benefit the masses."
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Re: How to easily learn to pronounce Pali words?
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Re: How to easily learn to pronounce Pali words?
Thank you Banthe, this is quite straight to the point and helpful. I think adding a way to play one word only and not the whole list would be a good addition to focus on specific words pronunciation, though.
Thanks Sarath and. Cöem too, your posts are also helpful.
Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammā Sambuddhassa
Re: How to easily learn to pronounce Pali words?
Oxford uni does an online Pali course for around £70. If not I think there are some YouTube videos.
“The teacher willed that this world appear to me
as impermanent, unstable, insubstantial.
Mind, let me leap into the victor’s teaching,
carry me over the great flood, so hard to pass.”
- Tālapuṭattheragāthā
as impermanent, unstable, insubstantial.
Mind, let me leap into the victor’s teaching,
carry me over the great flood, so hard to pass.”
- Tālapuṭattheragāthā