The origin of chanting in Buddhism is as old as Buddhism itself. Even when the Buddha was still alive, disciples would commit teachings to memory. They would learn them by repeating them after their teachers and revise their knowledge to gain a greater...
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The origin of chanting in Buddhism is as old as Buddhism itself. Even when the Buddha was still alive, disciples would commit teachings to memory. They would learn them by repeating them after their teachers and revise their knowledge to gain a greater understanding by chanting Buddhist teachings aloud ensemble – both monks and laypeople alike. This book is based on the Thai tradition of chanting which is a systematized version of the original daily chanting. In old Siam, chanting varied from temple to temple and was subject to non Buddhist (syncretic) admixtures. Chanting such as the ‘Traditional Homage to the Triple Gem’ is one of the few pieces of purely Buddhist chanting that survives from such times.
The whole of Buddhist tradition in Thailand including the ceremonies and chanting, underwent a series of royal reforms starting in the 18th century with revision by King Rama I of the Siam Pali Canon (1788). King Rama III ordered the 500 year old parittas of Sri Lanka (seven tamnaan)
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