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EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION

Dear Brothers and Sisters-in-the-Dhamma,

Dear Friends-in-the-Dhamma,

This is book one of my teaching material for a complete course at the Vietnam Buddhist Academy, formerly named the Vietnam Institute of Advanced Buddhist Studies in Ho Chi Minh city. The book containing 12 lessons, a number of supplementary readings and dialogues, and 3 additional chapters is intended for the first-year students. It may also serve as a self-study book for intermediate students of English who wish to learn Buddhist texts and a basic Buddhist technical vocabulary through English reading.

Most of the selections are my simplified adaptations from various books written by Buddhist scholars such as the Venerable Dr Ernest Hunt, Narada Mahathera, Dr W. Rahula, Dr G. P. Malalasekera, or abridged excerpts from English Versions of the Buddha’s Discourses (Suttas) compiled in the original Pali Triple Canon (Tipitaka).

This teaching material aims to provide Buddhist students with lessons on the Buddha’s fundamental teachings and at the same time it attempts to help them to develop their five language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating.

CONTENTS

Editor s Introduction             

Bibliography                                                                        

CHAPTER I: From the Buddha’s Birth to his Enlightement

– Lesson 1 : Religious Education and the Buddha’s Teaching

Grammar Review : The Simple present tense         

– Lesson 2 : The Buddha’s Birth and his Childhood           

Grammar Review : The Simple Past Sentences-Clauses

– Lesson 3 : Prince Siddhattha’s Youth & his Married Life

– Lesson 4 : Great Renunciation and Enlightenment-Nibbana

Grammar Review : Adverb Clauses

CHAPTER II: From the Buddha’s Enlightenment to his Parinibbana

– Lesson 5: The Brahma’s Appeal to the Buddha

Grammar Review : Relative Clauses (1)

– Lesson 6 : The Turning of the Dhamma Wheel 

Grammar Review : Relative Clauses (2)

– Lesson 7 : The Teaching of the Dhamma : The Conversion of Some Famous Disciples

Part 1 : The Conversion of the Three Brothers Kassapa

Part 2 : The Discourse on fire 

– Lesson 8 : The Conversion of the Two Chief Disciples

– Lesson 9 : The Conversion of Angulimala

Grammar Review : Relative clauses (3)

– Lesson 10: Kasi Bharadvaja Sutta

– Lesson 11:

Part 1 : The founding of the Sangha of Bhikkhunis

Part 2 : The Chief Disciples among the 4 Assemblies

Grammar Review : The Gerund – The participles

– Lesson 12 : The Buddha’s Parinibbana

Grammar Review :

♦ Reported Speech 

♦ Inversion of the Sublet and Verb

CHAPTER III: Supplementary Lessons

N^o 1. Introduction to the VN Buddhist Academy in HCM City

N^o 2. Introduction to the VN Buddhist Research Institute 

N^o 3. Welcome to the V. I. A. B. S. English-Speaking Club !

N^o 4. DHAMMAPADA

N^o 5. Buddhism and Beauty

CHAPTER IV : Lists of English – Vietnamese Equivalents

Lesson 1   

Lesson 2 

Lesson 3 

Lesson 4 

Lesson 5 

lesson 6  

Lesson 7  

Lesson 8  

lesson 9  

Lesson 10 

Lesson 11 

Lesson 12

• Supplementary Lessons:

N^o 1 

N^o 2

N^o 3 

N^o 4

N^o 5

CHAPTER V: Answers

Lesson 1 

Lesson 2

Lesson 3 

Lesson 4 

Lesson 5

Lesson 6 

Lesson 7

Lesson 8 

Lesson 9  

Lesson 10

Lesson 11

Lesson12

CHAPTER VI: Translations into Vietnamese & into English

Lesson 1  

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

Lesson 6

Lesson  7

Lesson 8  

Lesson 9

Lesson 10 

Lesson 11 

Lesson 12 

• Supplementary Lessons :

N^o 1 

N^o 2  

N^o 3  

N^o 4  

N^o 5  

INDEX of Technical Terms

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