Updated Version of Ajahn Pasanno Archive Now Available

The Ajahn Pasanno Archive collects and organizes over 150 hours of recorded Q&A sessions and topic-themed events. It splits the recordings into individual questions, stories, quotes, and teachings. Only the questions and summaries of teachings asked are transcribed into text; Ajahn Pasanno’s answers and detailed teachings are readily accessible in audio form. Subject tags are applied to each audio excerpt based on its content. This makes the Archive easily searchable while retaining the flavor of Ajahn Pasanno’s oral teachings. Since Ajahn Pasanno frequently shares the teaching seat, the Archive also includes contributions from other teachers at events led by Ajahn Pasanno.

Three noteworthy features have been added in the past year:

• Hand-picked featured excerpts illustrate the clearest teachings about important subjects.
• The most important tags are organized into 16 Key Topics that encompass the breadth of the Buddha’s teachings.
• The redesigned home page displays a new featured excerpt each day to invite daily reflection.

A few examples illustrate different ways to explore the Archive:

• The tag page Mindfulness of breathing begins with seven featured excerpts which outline Ajahn Pasanno’s teachings about his favorite meditation practice followed by a chronological list of all 160 excerpts touching on this topic.
• Searching for ‘tiger’ yields six excerpts about real and metaphorical tigers.
• The Key Topics Monastic Life and Everyday Life Practice each contain forty featured teachings about diverse aspects of these domains of Dhamma practice.

We hope you benefit from Ajahn Pasanno’s Dhamma teachings. If you experience technical difficulties with the Archive or have suggestions about how we could improve it, please send an email to questionsandstories@abhayagiri.org.