{"id":1007,"date":"2010-01-26T16:06:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T16:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2010\/01\/a-handful-of-leaves-for-free.html"},"modified":"2010-01-26T16:06:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T16:06:07","slug":"a-handful-of-leaves-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2010\/01\/a-handful-of-leaves-for-free.html","title":{"rendered":"A Handful of Leaves (is free)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theidproject.org\/events\/2010\/01\/16\/what-are-sutras-meditation-and-study-class\">What are the Sutras?<\/a> meditation and study classes at IDP-NYC, the free translations of early Suttas by&nbsp;Thanissaro Bhikkhu and others&#8211;available on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.accesstoinsight.org\/\">Access to Insight<\/a>&#8211;have been an invaluable resource. The site often provides more than one translation, which is an added bonus.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"handful-200.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/124\/import\/handful-200.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"301\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>For those interested, I just discovered that it is possible to request a lovely bound edition of&nbsp;Thanissaro Bhikkhu&#8217;s translations of early Suttas from the various Nikayas. They will send you any or all five volumes free of charge&#8211;they even cover the shipping cost. Donations, however, are welcome. Visit the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sati.org\/books.html\">website<\/a>&nbsp;for information.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Many thanks to&nbsp;Thanissaro Bhikkhu and the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our&nbsp;What are the Sutras? meditation and study classes at IDP-NYC, the free translations of early Suttas by&nbsp;Thanissaro Bhikkhu and others&#8211;available on&nbsp;Access to Insight&#8211;have been an invaluable resource. The site often provides more than one translation, which is an added bonus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Handful of Leaves (is free) - One City<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2010\/01\/a-handful-of-leaves-for-free.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Handful of Leaves (is free) - One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In our&nbsp;What are the Sutras? meditation and study classes at IDP-NYC, the free translations of early Suttas by&nbsp;Thanissaro Bhikkhu and others&#8211;available on&nbsp;Access to Insight&#8211;have been an invaluable resource. 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