| Chanting guide overview | |
Each chanting guide has three main sections:
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| Chanting | In the Pali chants columns, one or two chanting styles are present, each excerpted into verses and lines (or, in some cases, half lines). Thus, one could choose a chanting style, memorize individual lines and then entire verses and, for longer works, entire suttas. |
| Pronunciation | In the Pali text section, each Pali word is separated into syllables. In Pali verse, syllables are either 'light' or 'heavy.' In general, a heavy syllable is chanted twice as long as (and, in some recordings, chanted higher than) a light syllable. For more details on Pali versification, see this site's Pali primer. |
| Meaning | In the Pali text section, each Pali word is highlighted in white . To learn more about a Pali word's meaning, click on the related Pali word in the Pali-English glossary to bring up a complete dictionary definition. |
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Additional suggestions for getting started with specific verses can be found at: |
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