Fundamentals of Buddha-Dhamma (Set of 2 Volumes)

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Most Venerable Acharya Buddharakkhita Born in Imphal, Manipur, graduated as an engineer in Kolkata. having participated in the Indian Freedom Movement, this extraordinary person joined the army and saw enough violence of the II World War. That led him to renounce everything and he went in search of peace and truth. At last through reading the holy Dhammapada, he came to the path of the Buddha and got ordained in Kushinagar under the most Venerable Chandamani Mahathera and came to be known as Venerable Acharya Buddharakkhita.

A visionary and hard working Buddhist monk, he scarified his whole life in study, practice and teaching of the Buddha's words and putting that compassionate teachings into practice by establishing Maha Bodhi Society, Bengaluru in 1956. Since then he worked tirelessly in the field of spirituality, education, medical and social services and established meditation centers, hospitals and educational institutions in India and abroad. He had the distinction of being a member of the Editorial Board of the Sixth Buddhist Synod (Chattha Sangayana) in Yangon, which brought out a complete edition of the Buddhist scriptures in the original Pali language.

This is the centenary year of his birth and Mahabodhi organizations and his countless disciples are celebrating the Birth Centenary with meaningful activities as mark of paying respect to the great teacher Most Venerable Acharya Buddharakkhita. We feel privileged to present this book as a part of this centenary celebrations series.

Dhammādhāra, Fundamentals of Buddha-Dhamma, is a textbook series for the Buddhist Study course from class one to ten of the Nālanda Pāli Vijjāyatana and two year Diploma and three year Degree courses run by the Mahabodhi Academy for Pali and Buddhist Studies. The academy will be upgraded to Mahabodhi Buddha Jayanti Open University which will run the course upto Phd.

Dhammādhāra textbook series presents the fundamental teachings of the Buddha, delivered during the forty five years of Blessed One's Mission of Compassion. He became the Budddha at the age of thirty five and until his Great Demise at the age of eighty, till the very end, the Lord gave Dhamma-Teachings for the benefit and welfare of all beings.

All these teachings have been meticulously documented in the Tipitaka, the Pali scripture. Tipitaka, meaning the Three Baskets, preserves the original teachings of the Buddha in all their pristine purity. It is divided into three main divisions representing the three sections of the noble Eightfold Path - sila (virtue), samādhi (meditative concentration) and pañña wisdom). These three divisions are Vinaya, Sutta and Abhiddhamma.

Vinaya, representing sila, life of virtue, is the book of monastic discipline. It contains the code of monastic conduct arranged into seven parts. Vinaya is called the life span (Sasanassa ayu) of the Lord's dispensation. So long the training rules of the vinaya are sincerely adhered to, the dispensation of the Buddha will continue on earth. Hence the importance of the Work.