{"id":9043,"date":"2026-09-20T00:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/?page_id=9043"},"modified":"2026-11-01T18:21:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:21:29","slug":"home-en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00f2ng Ph\u00e1p \u2014 Therav\u0101da Buddhism, P\u0101li and Mindfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>.dphome{max-width:760px;margin:0 auto;padding:28px 20px 48px;font-family:\"Iowan Old Style\",\"Palatino Linotype\",\"Noto Serif\",serif;color:#2b2b2b;line-height:1.75}.dphome .eyebrow{font:700 12.5px\/1 Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#b8860b}.dphome h1{font-size:44px;color:#6b4226;margin:.3em 0 .2em;line-height:1.15}.dphome .lead{font-size:20px;color:#8a5a30;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 22px}.dphome .note{background:#f4ecdd;border-left:4px solid #b8860b;padding:14px 18px;border-radius:8px;font-size:16.5px}.dphome h2{color:#6b4226;font-size:26px;margin:38px 0 6px}.dphome .sub{color:#7a7368;margin:0 0 6px;font-size:16px}.dphome .foot{margin-top:36px;border-top:1px solid #e3d8c6;padding-top:14px;font:14px\/1.6 Arial,sans-serif;color:#7a7368}.dphome .foot a{color:#6b4226}@media(max-width:560px){.dphome h1{font-size:34px}.dphome .lead{font-size:18px}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"dphome\">\n<span class=\"eyebrow\">Therav\u0101da Buddhism \u00b7 P\u0101li \u00b7 Mindfulness<\/span>\n<h1>D\u00f2ng Ph\u00e1p<\/h1>\n<p class=\"lead\">A library of Therav\u0101da teaching drawn from the P\u0101li Canon \u2014 the Four Noble Truths, mindfulness and the path of practice \u2014 explained clearly, with sources, and made practical for everyday life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\">D\u00f2ng Ph\u00e1p began as a Vietnamese-language Buddhist library. We are now translating its foundational articles into English, starting with the reading path below. Each article links back to its Vietnamese original.<\/p>\n<h2>Start here: Buddhism basics for beginners<\/h2>\n<p class=\"sub\">What Therav\u0101da is, the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, the five aggregates, dependent origination, kamma and mindfulness \u2014 in the order we recommend reading them. New translations are added regularly.<\/p>\n<ol class=\"dp-lang-index dp-lang-index-full\" style=\"padding-left:22px;margin:14px 0 0\"><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/what-is-theravada-buddhism\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">What Is Therav\u0101da Buddhism? A Complete Guide<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">What is Therav\u0101da Buddhism? Origins, core teachings, the P\u0101li Canon and the path of practice of the oldest Buddhist tradition, clearly explained.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/what-is-the-pali-canon-tipitaka\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">What Is the P\u0101li Canon (Tipi\u1e6daka)? A Complete Guide<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">What is the P\u0101li Canon (Tipi\u1e6daka)? The three baskets of Therav\u0101da scripture\u2014Vinaya, Sutta, Abhidhamma\u2014their structure, how to read them, why they matter.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/four-noble-truths\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">What Are the Four Noble Truths? The Heart of Buddhism<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">The Buddha&#039;s first and most essential teaching, set out like a doctor&#039;s diagnosis: suffering, its cause, its cessation, and the path that leads there.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/what-is-dukkha\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">What Is Dukkha? A Complete Guide to the Truth of Suffering<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">What is dukkha? A clear guide to suffering in Buddhism \u2014 realistic, not pessimistic: its three levels, its cause, and why it is good news.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/noble-eightfold-path\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">What Is the Noble Eightfold Path? The Way to End Suffering<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">The Buddha&#039;s fourth noble truth as a practical path: eight interwoven factors grouped into wisdom, virtue and concentration, and how to begin.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/five-aggregates-khandha\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">What Are the Five Aggregates? The Five Parts of a \u201cPerson\u201d<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">The five aggregates\u2014form, feeling, perception, formations, consciousness\u2014reveal that no fixed self stands behind what we call a \u201cperson.\u201d<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/three-marks-of-existence\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">The Three Marks of Existence: Impermanence, Dukkha, Non-Self<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">Impermanence, dukkha and non-self: the three universal marks of all existence, the seal of the true Dhamma, and how seeing them clearly leads to freedom.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/dependent-origination-paticcasamuppada\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">What Is Dependent Origination (Pa\u1e6diccasamupp\u0101da)?<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">&quot;This is, because that is.&quot; Dependent origination is the Buddha&#039;s deepest insight into how things arise from conditions\u2014and how suffering ends.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/five-precepts-buddhism\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">What Are the Five Precepts? Buddhist Ethics for Modern Life<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">The five precepts aren&#039;t harsh prohibitions but five gifts to yourself and the world \u2014 the foundation of a peaceful mind and a trustworthy life.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/mindfulness-of-breathing-guide\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">What Is \u0100n\u0101p\u0101nasati? Mindfulness of Breathing for Beginners<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">A beginner&#039;s guide to mindfulness of breathing (\u0101n\u0101p\u0101nasati): why the breath, posture, step-by-step practice, a wandering mind and a lasting habit.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/taking-refuge-three-jewels\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">What Is Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels? Relying on the Buddha, Dhamma and Sa\u1e45gha<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">Taking refuge in the Buddha, Dhamma and Sa\u1e45gha is not a plea for protection but choosing a trustworthy path and walking it yourself.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/ten-wholesome-actions\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">The Ten Wholesome Actions: Goodness in Body, Speech, and Mind<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">Beyond avoiding wrongdoing, the Buddha taught ten wholesome actions to cultivate \u2014 through our deeds, our words, and even our thoughts.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/four-immeasurables-brahmavihara\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">What Are the Four Immeasurables? Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Joy, Equanimity<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">Loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity: four noble qualities of the heart that can grow without limit to embrace all beings.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/greed-hatred-delusion-three-roots\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">Greed, Hatred and Delusion: The Three Poisons and the Three Unwholesome Roots<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">Greed, hatred and delusion\u2014the three poisons\u2014are the roots of all affliction. Understanding them shows how suffering is made and where to transform it.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/is-kamma-fate\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">Is Kamma Fate? What Karma Really Means in Buddhism<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">Many think kamma means a fixed, unchangeable fate. That is a serious misunderstanding\u2014rightly understood, kamma opens a door to freedom and responsibility.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/middle-way-majjhima-patipada\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">The Middle Way: The Balanced Path That Avoids Two Extremes<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">The Middle Way, found by the Buddha through his own experience, avoids both sensual indulgence and self-mortification \u2014 and it is the Noble Eightfold Path.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/three-trainings-sila-samadhi-panna\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">Virtue, Concentration, Wisdom: The Three Steps of the Threefold Training<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">Virtue, concentration and wisdom\u2014the Threefold Training\u2014map the whole Buddhist path: three steps that support one another like the legs of a tripod.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/non-self-who-is-reborn\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">Non-Self: Then Who Is Reborn, and Who Bears the Kamma?<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">If there is no self, who makes kamma, who is reborn, who reaps the fruit? Buddhism answers with a law of cause and effect that needs no &quot;person.&quot;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/theravada-vs-mahayana\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">Therav\u0101da vs. Mah\u0101y\u0101na: What Is the Fundamental Difference?<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">Therav\u0101da and Mah\u0101y\u0101na share one root but grew in different directions; understanding how they differ helps us respect both without confusing them.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/ten-fetters-samyojana\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">The Ten Fetters (Sa\u1e43yojana): Ten Bonds That Tie Us to Sa\u1e43s\u0101ra<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">The ten fetters are subtle defilements that bind beings to sa\u1e43s\u0101ra; cutting them one by one marks the four stages of awakening.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/four-stages-of-awakening\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">The Four Stages of Awakening: From Stream-Entry to Arahantship<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">Stream-entry, once-returning, non-returning and arahantship: the four noble fruits that map the path from ordinary person to full liberation.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/rebirth-and-the-soul\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">Rebirth and the Soul: What Does Buddhism Say?<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">If Buddhism denies an unchanging soul, what is reborn? Rebirth as a conditioned stream of mind carried by kamma, not a migrating soul.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/why-good-people-suffer\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">Why Do Good People Suffer? Where Is Karma in All This?<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">Good people meet misfortune while wrongdoers seem to thrive \u2014 Buddhism answers this age-old question with a wider, deeper view of kamma.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/letting-go-in-buddhism\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">Does \u201cLetting Go\u201d Mean Giving Up and Not Caring About Anything?<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">In Buddhism, letting go means releasing clinging, not responsibility: we still act, love and strive, but with an open hand instead of a clenched fist.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/five-faculties-five-powers\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">The Five Faculties and Five Powers: The Five Strengths of a Practitioner<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">Faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom are both roots that nourish practice and powers that hold firm \u2014 and the secret is keeping them in balance.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/four-nutriments-ahara\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">The Four Nutriments (\u0100h\u0101ra): Four Kinds of Food That Sustain Life<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">Not only physical food feeds us: the Buddha named four nutriments that sustain existence \u2014 and invites us to ask what we are feeding the mind with.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/conventional-and-ultimate-truth\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">Conventional and Ultimate Truth: Two Levels of Truth in Buddhism<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">Is the \u201ctable\u201d real? Is the \u201cself\u201d real? Telling conventional truth from ultimate truth dissolves many seeming contradictions in the Buddha&#039;s teaching.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/ten-paramis-perfections\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">The Ten P\u0101ram\u012bs: Ten Perfections on the Path of Practice<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">The ten p\u0101ram\u012bs\u2014from generosity and virtue to wisdom and equanimity\u2014are the noble qualities we perfect, step by step, on the long path.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/four-bases-of-sympathy-sangahavatthu\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">What Are the Four Bases of Sympathy? Four Ways to Win and Bond Hearts<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">Generosity, kindly speech, beneficial action and equal treatment: the four bases of sympathy the Buddha taught for bonding with and winning over others.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/merit-and-wisdom\/\" style=\"color:#6B4226;font-weight:600\">Merit and Wisdom: The Two Provisions of a Buddhist Practitioner<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#7a7368\">Merit (pu\u00f1\u00f1a) creates favorable conditions; wisdom (pa\u00f1\u00f1\u0101) leads to liberation. A practitioner needs both, like a bird needs two wings to fly.<\/span><\/li><\/ol>\n<div class=\"foot\">Teachings are based on the P\u0101li Canon of the Therav\u0101da tradition; P\u0101li texts follow the VRI edition. Read the full library in Vietnamese at <a href=\"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/\" hreflang=\"vi\" lang=\"vi\">dongphap.net<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A library of Therav\u0101da Buddhism from the P\u0101li Canon: the Four Noble Truths, mindfulness and the path of practice, explained clearly and with sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"disabled","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9043","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_hostinger_reach_plugin_has_subscription_block":false,"_hostinger_reach_plugin_is_elementor":false,"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"D\u00f2ng Ph\u00e1p","author_link":"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/author\/dong-phap\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A library of Therav\u0101da Buddhism from the P\u0101li Canon: the Four Noble Truths, mindfulness and the path of practice, explained clearly and with sources.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9232,"href":"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9043\/revisions\/9232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dongphap.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}