Learning Guides

https://paligrammar.com/

Website made by Bhikkhu Dhammarakkhita on Pāli:

  • pronunciation;
  • sandhi;
  • nouns;
  • verbs.
 
 
https://www.baus.org/en/teaching/learning-pali/

Introduction to Pali

During the Summer of 2020, Stephen Sas, a longtime Pali student of Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi conducted a series of 19 classes to lead students from the basic grammar to read simple Sutta in Pali.

Pali Level 1

A New Course in Reading Pali

This series of Pali Class was taught between January 2014 to August 2015. This is considered the level 2 study of Pali language. After working through Pali Primer, students can start to study “A New Course in Reading Pali” by James Gair & W.S. Karunatillake.

Reading the Buddha’s Discourses in Pali

At this level, we take short suttas from the Saṃyutta Nikāya and explain them word for word. The second part of each class takes verses from the Dhammapada and explains them line by line.

Pali Level 3

https://sasanarakkha.org/2021/09/08/magadhabhasa/

The aims, methods and rationales of the present Māgadhabhāsā (Pāḷi) grammar are as follows: (a) Lubricating access to the information contained in numerous modern Pāḷi grammars written in English by collating the dispersed material contained within them. People who wish to learn about grammatical rules and principles – either on a broader spectrum or at all – are compelled to track them down in the thicket of the widely scattered grammar inventories as separately given by the various available grammars. These works, mostly fine and outstanding works of scholarship in their own right, each individually often contain valuable data and perspectives not found in the other ones, and these are attempted to be distilled and presented with this Pāḷi grammar. (b) Facilitating identification of and providing explicit reference to most of the grammatical rules contained in the Kaccāyanabyākaraṇaṃ (Kaccāyana), the oldest extant Pāḷi grammar, as well as to selected ones from other traditional grammars.

https://archive.org/details/PaliBuddhistTextsA

An Introductory Reader and Grammar By Rune E. A. Johansson.

Pali is one of the Middle Indian idioms and the classical language of Theravada Buddhism. It is therefore important both to linguists and students of Buddhism. This introductory book centres on a collection of original texts, each selected as an especially important and beautiful formulation of a Buddhist idea. By means of a vocabulary, translation and commentary, each text is explained so concretely that it can be read with little preparation. Detailed explanations are provided for the many technical terms, which have frustrated so many western explorers of Buddhism. For reference, a grammar is provided. Sanskrit parallels to many of the words are given, as well as a special chapter comparing the two languages.

http://www.ancient-buddhist-texts.net/Textual-Studies/Syntax-of-the-Cases/index.htm

An in-depth appraisal of the usage and meaning of the nominal case forms in Pāḷi, with many examples and historical information.

Montreal
https://books.google.com/books?id=mdnvBQAAQBAJ

A grammatical textbook for the Pali language with Burmese and Sinhalese script (alongside the Romanization), this edition offers a combination of the new (2015) and the old (1868), with some eccentric digressions into the Ashokan inscriptions, theories of the history and origins of the language, and anecdotes from an era when European archaeology and scholarship were (re-)discovering Theravada Buddhist philosophy.

Mason's approach to the language is based in the ancient grammar of Kaccāyana, and reflects the first (pioneering) attempts of Europeans to explain the language to a western audience (often making comparisons to Latin, Greek and Sanskrit).

This can be used in conjunction with the three other (free!) PDF textbooks for the Pali language available for download (at www.pali.pratyeka.org).


Scotland
http://dhamma.ru/paali/Pali_compounds.htm

Pali words combine in several different ways to make new meanings. Alan McClure Explains those types for those who want to decipher compound words.

Charleston
https://archive.org/details/IntroductoryPaliGrammar

An introductory grammar of the Pali language by Allan R. Bomhard.

Yangon
http://aggacara.blogspot.com/p/p.html

- The study of Pāli roots;
- Comparison between Pāḷi and Sanskrit;
- The analytical study of some Pāḷi words;
- Sandhi Kappa of Saddanīti--Pāli text;

and more.

Kyiv
http://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=6114

Explorations of the key Pāli terms.

 

https://rukkhamula.wordpress.com/

Abhidhamma tutorials, Pāli tutorials.

http://www.vridhamma.org/Pali-Primar-Online

The Pali Primer is a publication of the Vipassana Research Institute. It aims to provide an elementary understanding of the Pali language.

See also Pali Primer video lessons by Bhante Suddhāso:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfYRXXbgoIy_jI5cWYEfaXENMH3HbPY_W

Another edition:

http://www.pratyeka.org/Silva/

Answer key:

https://www.tipitaka.net/pali/palidd/

Memory cards:

https://www.memrise.com/course/381556/pali-primer-vocabulary-de-silva/

 

https://learning.pariyatti.org/

Online Pāli language courses offered free of charge:

- Introduction to Pāli;

- Exploring the Path - Pāli course.

 

 
Pali Studies

This blog is aimed at those wishing to learn to translate the Buddhist Pali scriptures for themselves. Its a novice students attempt to bridge the gap between the intro primers and AK Warder.

http://bpunotes1.weebly.com/

Notes from Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka.

Second year: http://bpunotes2.weebly.com/

Third year: http://bpunotes3.weebly.com/

University website: http://www.bpu.ac.lk/

http://dhamma.ru/paali/Pali_Cheat_Sheet.htm

Reference materials on verb conjugations, noun declensions, etc.

http://www.arrowriver.ca/pali/palidrill1.html

From the Arrow River center in Canada, some flash-card like drills on nouns and verbs in Pali.

http://dhamma.ru/paali/tables/palisufi.htm

A very handy table which allows to quickly look up the grammatical forms by their suffixes.