Bhikkhu Pātimokkha Anki Chanting deck

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/782910208?cb=1772274945462

Feel free to download and spread the word. This should be the final version, as I don’t see any further errors possible. See the description on the Anki website for details. Includes audio, split into many files. At a modest 4 new cards per day, it’s estimated to be completable in 9 months

Next one I am going to do is Dhammapada, then Bhikkhuni Pātimokkha.

I personally used anki to memorized the whole thing, but it does require revision, which I haven’t done and solidify the whole thing. I am the first customer and it’s good enough, and I split the long rules into many parts, NP 10 is split into 16 parts, and recombined into one. So it’s not as daunting to finish the whole thing. At 4 new cards per day, include back and front, it would take 9 days to finish the NP 10, or a bit longer if you optimize for 2 pāli, and 2 english side for the 4 per day, which is good.

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How long did it take you with the Anki method ?

Normally we do
1 + 2
1 + 2 + 3
1 + 2 + 3 +4 etc.

Normal is a couple hours 3 months
It took me 4 months.

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4 new cards per day (2 pāli, 2 English revision), should take 9 months. Effectively only 2 new pāli phrase per day. Revision is as anki calculates.

Can take 1 hour or less per day.

Or can increase to 6 new cards per day, then 6 months, 1h + per day.

Just to promote this a bit more.

This deck features, for each major section eg. Nidana, Parājika, etc., a full recitation of that section. Both sides so it shows you the Pāli, then flip it’s english, next time, it shows the English; you should recite the Pāli from memory to pass that card. That’s 2 repetitions already.

Then individual rules have their own cards, also both sides, so that’s 4 repetitions in total per rule.

Then for longer rules, it’s split into many different cards, so add them up, it’s 6 repetitions for longer rules.

Then if you use the recommended timesteps, 1m 5m 5h 12h, and you start from hard, then go good, good, good until it graduates from learning, you get 5 exposure per card. I think sometimes it can be too much, so can even start from good just to get it off faster.

5 or 4 exposures per card, then 4 or 6 repetitions, you get 16-30 repetitions per rule, just by doing the Anki deck alone as it’s intended. Then take into account that you’re not just reciting with the card, but you see the pali side first card, chant along, then test yourself, or see the English side first , test yourself by chanting, then chant along when the answer comes up, then you easily double the figure to 32-60 repetitions. Given that on average the timing to recite is 1 hour, you would be doing minimum 32-60 hours, not including breaks, pauses, time to digest and further repetitions for the first time to get it in memory. Wait, that’s just to get the cards to graduate from learning phase, you get to revisit them as you click good or easy, or even hard, their time interval increases again and again, unless you press again for when you forgotten the content then it decreases. So you get a lot less repetition if you’re good in memorization, or more if you’re bad at it. But minimum is as above, to graduate the cards, and minimum is a lot already.

This is not counting the vocab deck recommended in the description of that page. So if you do the vocab and read along those sentences, you easily add in a lot more repetitions from the vocab deck before you do the memorization deck.

Thus anki is a very useful tool to force those repetitions in, and it gets smooth and stuck in the mind. This is easier for those who are not motivated to memorize otherwise, but can be motivated to do anki’s work for that day, especially considering that one can have lots of gamification add ons to motivate oneself to do anki.

When you can finish the Pātimokkha using your method alone, I think that you should promote it. My forthcoming thesis is actually partially against technology despite my involvement.

What does success mean? It means you can chant the Pātimokkha start to finish. You can have prompting here and there, but you need to be able to “perform” the Pātimokkha. When you can do that solely with your method, let us know.

The test is this coming uposatha, I am the chanter. I am rehearsing now, halfway through pacittiya.

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That would be a great achievement.

Also, additional benefit is that the software takes care of these job for you.

Audio for accurate pronunciation.

Audio for getting used to the speed and eventually surpassing the speed. Currently the audio speed is 1 hour to finish the pātimokkha chant.

The scheduling done by anki, so that when you have around 90% chance to remember the card, it comes up for you. This saves a lot of the work for repetition and one can optimize so that one doesn’t have to overdo some rehearsals Which one already internalised.

One doesn’t have to worry ahead to see what’s next, it’s all in the cards. So no need to plan to finish how many new rules today, it is make sure to finish new and review cards everyday.