Pāli Chanting, Word-by-Word

A Word-by-Word Translation of Pāli Chanting

The following is a word-by-word explanation of the common Pāli chants to aid in memorizing along with the meaning.

The translation lines are from the Bhikkhu Manual Reference Edition and Ajahn Thanissaro's A Chanting Guide. The vocabulary gloss tables were produced with a mixture of LLM tools and hand editing, see the Methodology section.

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