Karanīya Mettā Sutta

Karanīya Mettā Sutta
Originally uploaded by jayarava

This is the well known Karanīya Mettā Sutta from the Suttanipāta (Sn 143-152). More info on my Flickr Site - click the image to find it.

I offer this version to offset the unskilful things I've done, said and thought in the last couple of weeks. Please feel free to copy this and spread it around.

My website has the Roman text and my translation. I've done another more colloquial translation. Also I've done a partial commentary. There are many translations online, each with its own merits.

Sabbe Satta Sukhi Hontu

Thanks to stumble.com the page with my decorative version of the Pāli mantra sabbe sattā sukhi hontu has become one of the most popular pages on visiblemantra.org. As a result I have spruced up the sister page - May all beings be happy - which shows the mantra in formal siddhaṃ (new calligraphy), and added versions in Tibetan (Uchen), Devanāgarī and Sinhala - using images of fonts to spare you my ragged calligraphy in those scripts (screen shot left).

I've discovered a good utility for transcribing Sinhala so will be adding that script for other Pāli phrases - if you know of one for Burmese and Thai let me know.

Karanīya Metta Sutta

I've just added a page for the Karanīya Metta Sutta in the Siddham script. It's accompanied by the Pāli text in Roman script, and my translation.

Pali Chants

I've just added another of those really fundamental phrases from early Buddhism:

This being that becomes,
With the arising of this, that arises.
This not being, that does not arise,
With the ceasing of this, that ceases.

I know these things are neither strictly speaking mantras, nor were they ever traditionally written in Siddham, but I like them, and its fun writing them.

There are a few of them now which can be found in the miscellaneous section of the mantra page. I'm working on the Metta Sutta, and a better version of the Heart Sutra. Anything else you'd like to see?