The Pali Canon with Sarah Shaw The Wise Studies Podcast

In this episode I speak with Sarah Shaw. Sarah received her PhD in English from Manchester University. After studying Pali and Sanskrit at Oxford, she began teaching and writing on Buddhist subjects. She has written several books on meditation theory and practice, and Jātaka literature. She is the author of several books including Introduction to Buddhist Meditation, The Jātakas: Birth Stories of the Bodhisatta and her most recent book, The Spirit of Buddhist Meditation. She is a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, and Wolfson College. She is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. You can hear her two most recent audio courses The Early Teachings of the Buddha and Lives of the Buddha at wisestudies.com

In this discussion Sarah gives us a brief introduction to the Pali Canon, the collected teachings of the Buddha:
Learning Sanskrit and PaliSynthesis between scholarship and practiceLay practice and traditionBackground to the composition of the Pali CanonOral and textual traditionsThe three basketsHistorical authorship of the Pali CanonHistorical accuracy of The Buddha's lifeChanting the Pali CanonThe VinayaThe SuttasThe AbhidhammaHow to read the texts