Learning Pali – Buddha’s Language

Introduction to Pali

During the Summer of 2020, Stephen Sas, a long time Pali student of Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi conducted a series of 19 classes to led students from the basic grammar to read simple Sutta in Pali.

Pali Level 1

Learn Pali

A New Course in Reading Pali

This series of Pali Class was taught between January 2014 to August 2015. This is considered the level 2 study of Pali language. After working through Pali Primer, students can start to study “A New Course in Reading Pali” by James Gair & W.S. Karunatillake.

Reading the Buddha’s Discourses in Pali

At this level we take short suttas from the Saṃyutta Nikāya and explain them word for word. The second part of each class takes verses from the Dhammapada and explains them line by line.

Pali Level 3

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