Buddhist Writings: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Buddhist Writings, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Buddhist Writings by various authors, translated by Henry Clarke Warren. An anthology of Buddhist scriptures, appropriate as an introduction to its vast literature, or as a sampler for those who want to better understand Buddhism. The selections in this anthology are primarily from the Theravada school of Buddhism.(Summary by Leon Mire)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Buddhist Writings
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 7:38:58

Catalogue topics

• religion
• Buddhism
• Theravada
• scriptures

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 00 - Introductory Note — 2:37
2. 01 - Part I: The Buddha. The Story of Sumedha — 30:02
3. 02 - The Birth of the Buddha — 21:45
4. 03 - The Attainment of Buddhaship — 33:02
5. 04 - First Events After the Attainment — 8:52
6. 05 - The Buddha's Daily Habits — 9:14
7. 06 - The Death of the Buddha — 38:41
8. 07 - Part II: The Doctrine. Questions Which Tend Not to Edification — 14:45
9. 08 - There Is No Ego — 18:14
10. 09 - The Middle Doctrine — 11:50
11. 10 - Karma — 7:00
12. 11 - Fruitful and Barren Karma — 17:53
13. 12 - Good and Bad Karma — 4:57
14. 13 - Rebirth Is Not Transmigration — 15:34
15. 14 - Death's Messengers — 16:06
16. 15 - The Devoted Wife — 7:48
17. 16 - The Hare-mark in the Moon — 10:05
18. 17 - The Way of Purity — 5:58
19. 18 - Concentration — 2:40
20. 19 - The Conversion of Animals — 2:18
21. 20 - Love for Animals — 2:30
22. 21 - Sariputta and the Two Demons — 5:23
23. 22 - The Summum Bonum — 41:14
24. 23 - The Trance of Cessation — 19:49

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