Status
New in the July 2024 release:
- Added much material from the 2001 Ajahn Chah Weekend. Some sessions have been omitted pending obtaining teacher consent.
- Finalized the license details.
- Allow search engine indexing (we hope!).
Content
This release contains 2087 excerpts from 41 events, comprising over 110 hours of audio. Ajahn Kaccāna typically transcribes audio by hand and later types these transcriptions into the computer. As of this release there are 372 transcribed pages, of which 275 have been entered into the Archive. The detailed status of transcription is as follows:
Thanksgiving Retreats
The Archive incorporates previously existing transcriptions of questions asked during the 2013-2016 Thanksgiving Retreats. Tags are applied based on the transcriptions rather than the recordings themselves. Untranscribed audio recordings of Ajahn Pasanno question and answer sessions are available for the 2010-2012 Thanksgiving Retreats. Question and answer sessions with other Abhayagiri teachers have been recorded for four more Thanksgiving Retreats. If you would like to help transcribe and tag these retreats, see Want to help? for details.
Winter Retreats
All sessions from the 2014 and 2015 Winter Retreats are included in the Archive. The 2013 and 2016 Winter Retreats have been transcribed on paper but not entered into the Archive. A series of interviews and discussions with Ajahn Pasanno at the end of the 2018 Winter Retreat is included as The Teaching and the Training. Audio recordings are available of many more Winter Retreats on abhayagiri.org.
Spirit Rock Daylongs
All four recordings of daylong events led by Ajahn Pasanno at Spirit Rock Meditation Center on abhayagiri.org are included in the Archive.
Upāsikā Days
All 20 Upāsikā Days led by Ajahn Pasanno with recordings on abhayagiri.org are in the Archive.
Other
The 2001 Ajahn Chah Conference is nearly finished. Several sessions do not yet appear in the Archive pending obtaining teacher consent.
Known issues and limitations
- Pressing the back button sometimes returns to a seemingly random scroll position on the previous page (Github issue #52).
- References do not link to specific pages within the pdf on mobile browsers.
Previous releases:
December 2023:
- Completed Winter Retreat 2015: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
- Added five Upāsika Days: On Pilgrimage and Tudong, Two Kinds of Thought, Practice in a Global Context, Love, Attachment and Friendship, and Developing Skill in Reflective Meditaton
- Numerical tags page
- Tags in the tag hierarchy show the number of excerpts described by any subtag.
- Various bugs and glitches fixed.
January 2024:
- Completed Winter Retreat 2014: Our Roots in the Thai Forest Tradition
- Text search feature