D. Schwörer

Whoever Sees This Sees the Dhamma — Paṭiccasamuppāda, the One Word of the Buddha. Pali, Thai, English, with an Introductory Reading

The full English study edition of Paṭiccasamuppāda, dependent origination, as it stands in the Nidāna Saṃyutta (SN 12, Thai Tipiṭaka vol. 16) and as chanted at Wat Na Pa Pong. An introduction in three parts (What the Text Says; The Word sati; Drawing It Together) shows the one po...

The Feathers of the Arrow — Why Hardly Anyone Understands What the Buddha Meant

On scholars' language, forest monks and translating for meaning: how the vocabulary of the Pali Text Society hardened into binding wording, what was lost with it, and four verifiable rules for translating the meaning rather than the grammar of Pali. English edition; the German or...