Chanting Workshop – March 2nd, 9th and 16th
SCOPE AND AFFILIATION: A short series of classes to learn the common chants in Pali & English found in the Abhayagiri chant book. This course is intended to build confidence while learning and practicing in a group setting.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
- Understand how chanting is used as part of a personal practice
- Reading chanting in English and Pali
- How to chant together in unison
- Basic Pali pronunciation and phonetics
- How to read intervals and pitch changing
- Practice Chanting using recordings to follow along
- Learn the most common chants used during center classes, gatherings, and monastic visits
- Confidence to volunteer to lead chanting during classes, gatherings, monastic visits.
TOPICS BY WEEK
Week 1: Chanting technique, Reading the English chants
Week 2: Introduction to Reading Pali phonetics & Pali chants
Week 3: Reading & Chanting in Pali & English
English Chants: Sharing of Blessings, Metta Sutta, Mangala Sutta
Pali Chants: Refuges and Precepts, Morning Chanting
(Other Pali Potentials: Suffusion of Divine Abidings & Requesting the Dhamma Talk)
RESOURCES AND STUDY LINKS
- PFoD Library—Many books and CDs available for checkout. Others are free to take.
- pdxdhamma.org—our website, a good way to keep up with what’s happening here
- abhayagiri.org—the website of Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery
- pacifichermitage.org—a branch of Abhayagiri Monastery in White Salmon, Washington
- forestsangha.org—a portal to all the communities in the Ajahn Chah lineage
- nwdharma.org—a regional resource of meditation communities and information
- accesstoinsight.org—a massive collection of teachings from Theravada Buddhism
Contact Charla Chamberlain for more information at charlac@gmail.com