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Posted on April 29, 2012 by Ānandajoti

Around 2008 I started
recording some of the translations I have made in response to someone
who complained they had no time to read, but had plenty of time to
listen to talks while stuck on Penang Bridge. I have since recorded all
the translations, and a number of the texts in Pali also. My Audio Page
soon became the most popular page on the site.

At that time, although there
were thousands of Dhamma Talks available on the Internet, the only
readings from the suttas were on the Sutta Readings website, and
featured readings of Pali suttas, selected and read aloud by respected
Dhamma teachers within the Theravada Buddhist tradition. It appears the
site was last updated around 2006.

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A year or two back a new
site was founded providing readings: this is audio-tipitaka. I revisited
the site recently and saw that they have been making big efforts, and
there are a lot of new recordings now available, many more than on my
own site.

There appears to be around
half a dozen readers involved, and from what I can see they are quite
dedicated in the work they are doing. The recordings are mainly in
English and seem to come from the translations made by Ajahn Thanissaro
and others.

One of the highlights for me,
at least, is the wonderful set of readings being made by Bhikkhu Jiv.
in Pali. rarely do we ever hear such good, clear and unembellished
reading of the language.

The site is still quite
primitive, and doesn’t proivide an inline player, so they will play in a
new tab if you have the right plugins installed in your browser.
Otherwise the files can be downloaded and played on your computer or mp3
player.

As the site has a policy of
only using freely available materials for their readings, a lot of it
comes from John Bullit’s Access to Insight, and therefore they have a
lot of Ajahn Thanissaro’s works. But other translators include: Bhikkhu
Nyanaponika, Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli and Piya Tan.

Here is a sampler, the first
is a reading by frank_k of Ajahn Thanissaro’s translation of the
Kesaputtasutta, better known as the Kalamasutta, and it is followed by a
reading of the same in Pali by Bhikkhu Jiv.

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and here is a reading of the first chapter of Ven. Buddharakkhita’s Dhammapada translation by Bhikkhu Kh.:

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Why don’t you head over to the audio-tipitaka site and check out some of their other works.

The languages used on the
site at present are English and Pali, but they are actively looking for
people from other language groups to get involved as long as the
translations they read are free to reproduce.

They are also looking for volunteers so if you think there is some way you could help please see this page and contact them.

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01 Vinaya Pitakaya [9]

01. Parajika Pali – පාරාජිකා පාළි (137.8 MB)

02. Pacittiya Pali Bhikkhu vibhanga පාචිත්තිය පාළි 1 (96.12 MB)

03. Pacittiya Pali Bhikkhuni vibhanga පාචිත්තිය පාළි 2 (68.76 MB)

04. Mahavagga Pali 1 මහාවග්ග පාළි 1 (142.83 MB)

05. Mahavagga Pali 2 මහාවග්ග පාළි 2 (110.49 MB)

06. ChullaVagga Pali 1 චුල්ලවග්ග පාළි 1 (86.78 MB)

07. ChullaVagga Pali 2 චුල්ලවග්ග පාළි 2 (114.81 MB)

08. Parivara Pali 1 පරිවාර පාළි 1 (64.63 MB)

09. Parivara Pali 2 පරිවාර පාළි 2 (67.4 MB)

02 Sutra Pitaka [36]

01. Digha_Nikaya 1 දීඝ නිකාය 1 (136.92 MB)

02. Digha_Nikaya 2 දීඝ නිකාය 2 (115.75 MB)

03. Digha_Nikaya 3 දීඝ නිකාය 3 (104.35 MB)

04. Majjhima_Nikaya 1 මජ්ඣිම නිකාය 1 (172.57 MB)

05. Majjhima Nikaya 2 මජ්ඣිම නිකාය 2 (156.9 MB)

06. Majjhima Nikaya 3 මජ්ඣිම නිකාය 3 (131.37 MB)

07. Samyutta Nikaya 1 සංයුත්ත නිකාය 1 (86.41 MB)

08. Samyutta Nikaya 2 සංයුත්ත නිකාය 2 (88.54 MB)

09. Samyutta Nikaya 3 සංයුත්ත නිකාය 3 (89.63 MB)

10. Samyutta Nikaya 4 සංයුත්ත නිකාය 4 (140.03 MB)

11. Samyutta Nikaya 5-1 සංයුත්ත නිකාය 5-1 (84.06 MB)

12. Samyutta Nikaya 5-2 සංයුත්ත නිකාය 5-2 (74.29 MB)

13. Anguttara Nikaya 1 අංගුත්තර නිකාය 1 (125.52 MB)

14. Anguttara Nikaya 2 අංගුත්තර නිකාය 2 (107.81 MB)

15. Anguttara Nikaya 3 අංගුත්තර නිකාය 3 (104.98 MB)

16. Anguttara Nikaya 4 අංගුත්තර නිකාය 4 (98.08 MB)

17. Anguttara Nikaya 5 අංගුත්තර නිකාය 5 (96.83 MB)

18. Anguttara Nikaya 6 අංගුත්තර නිකාය 6 (128.82 MB)

19. Khuddaka Patha ඛුද්දක පාඨ (108.25 MB)

20. Sutta Nipatha සුත්ත නිපාතය (56.03 MB)

21. Vimana vatthu Preta vatthu විමානවත්ථු පාළි පේතවත්ථු පාළි (64.1 MB)

22. Thera Gatha Therii Gatha ථෙරගාථා පාළි ථෙරීගාථා පාළි (66.83 MB)

23. Jataka Pali 1 ජාතක පාළි 1 (75.99 MB)

24. Jataka Pali 2 ජාතක පාළි 2 (78.99 MB)

25. Jataka Pali 3 ජාතක පාළි 3 (82.43 MB)

26. Maha Niddesa Pali මහා නිද්දේස පාළි (167.56 MB)

27. Chulla Niddesa Pali චූල නිද්දේස පාළි (125.04 MB)

28. PatisambidhamaggaPakarana 1 පටිසම්භිදාමග්ගප්පකරණ 1 (135.02 MB)

29. PatisambidhamaggaPakarana 2 පටිසම්භිදාමග්ගප්පකරණ 2 (57.42 MB)

30. Apadana Pali 1 අපදාන පාලි – භික්ඛූ අපදාන 1 (124.24 MB)

31. Apadana Pali 2-1 අපදාන පාලි – භික්ඛූ අපදාන 2-1 (67.66 MB)

32. Apadana Pali 2-2 අපදාන පාලි – භික්ඛූණී අපදාන 2-2 (35.45 MB)

33. Buddhawansa Chariyapitaka බුද්ධවංස පාළි චරියාපිටක පාළි (52.04 MB)

34. Nettippakarana නෙත්තිප්පකරණ (60.88 MB)

35. Petakopadesaya පෙටකොපදෙසො (66.9 MB)

03 Abhidhamma Pitakaya [13]

01. Dhammasangani Pakarana ධම්මසංගණී ප්‍රකරණය (98.08 MB)

02. Vibhanga Pakarana 1 විභංග ප්‍රකරණය 1 (84.52 MB)

03. Vibhanga Pakarana 2 විභංග ප්‍රකරණය 2 (71.01 MB)

04. KathaVatthu Prakarana 1 කථාවත්ථු ප්‍රකරණය 1 (92.62 MB)

05. KathaVatthu Prakarana 2 කථාවත්ථු ප්‍රකරණය 2 (72.8 MB)

06. KathaVatthu Prakarana 3 කථාවත්ථු ප්‍රකරණය 3 (54.64 MB)

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08. Yamaka Pakarana 1 යමක ප්‍රකරණ 1 (102.19 MB)

09. Yamaka Pakarana 2-1 යමක ප්‍රකරණ 2-1 (149.2 MB)

10. Yamaka Pakarana 2-2 යමක ප්‍රකරණ 2-2 (105.87 MB)

11. Patthana Pakarana 1 පට්ඨාන ප්‍රකරණ 1 (119.84 MB)

12. Patthana Pakarana 2 පට්ඨාන ප්‍රකරණ 2 (127.96 MB)

13. Patthana Pakarana 3 පට්ඨාන ප්‍රකරණ 3 (137.84 MB)