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Random bits of software, information, websites, and other things that might come in useful for SuttaCentral.

Software

Texts on the web

  • Sirimangalo.org. Large collection of pdf files with various, mostly Pali, texts and translations. There are also useful things elsewhere on the site. Also, this is the first place I have seen anyone rip things off of SuttaCentral!

Resources for Early Buddhist Studies

###Chinese Buddhist Dictionary DDB - Digital Dictionary of Buddhism 電子佛教辭典 Established July, 1995: Updated monthly DDB Entry Total (2014/3/31): 62,470 (http://buddhism-dict.net/ddb/)

###Chinese Buddhist Dictionary Zhuang Chunjiang's Aagama dictionary. The definitions are in modern Chinese, along with some Paali and English. Even so it may be somewhat helpful. The navigation is all in Chinese, but it's not too hard to work out. (http://agama.buddhason.org/ad/index.htm)

###Chinese Buddhist Dictionary select Buddhism in the Dictionary drop-down list (by Jim Breen) - log into DDB for full entry via hyperlink (user & password "guest") (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C)

###Chinese Buddhist Dictionary - very dated now, superseded by DDB - see other links Soothill Hodous Chinese Buddhist Dictionary (http://mahajana.net/texts/kopia_lokalna/soothill-hodous.html)

###Chinese Buddhist Dictionary for Madhyama Aagama Roderick Bucknell, Marcus Bingenheimer and Venerable Anālayo's Chinese-English glossary for their translation of the Madhyamāgama. (http://mbingenheimer.net/t26/mainGlossary.html)

###Chinese Buddhist Dictionary/text + translator Open up one of the texts from the tree structure, select a portion of text with your mouse, and you will get a list of short definitions (by Kiyonori Nagasaki) - log into DDB for full entry via hyperlink (user & password "guest") - log into DDB for full entry via hyperlink (user & password "guest") (http://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT/ddb-sat2.php)

###Chinese Buddhist Dictionary/text + translator paste in text, select DDB and click Confirm (by Jean Soulat) - log into DDB for full entry via hyperlink (user & password "guest") (http://www.smarthanzi.net/)

###Chinese Buddhist Grammar, for free 古文入门 Introduction to Classical Chinese (http://chinesenotes.com/classical_chinese.php)

###Chinese Buddhist Grammar, for free - Primer - this one for beginner study here These are materials have been compiled for students and scholars to learn to read Buddhist texts in Chinese. The first volume does not assume any knowledge of Chinese, but may be of use to even advanced readers of classical Chinese unfamiliar with Buddhist texts. The second volume builds on the first, continuing to focus on texts originating in India. These two volumes can be found in the files section. (http://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/a-primer-in-chinese-buddhist-writings/)

###Chinese Buddhist Grammar, for free - Primer - this one for beginner study here - Quizlet It is recommended you use this online quiz to learn the vocabulary for each of the lessons in the free Primer. (http://quizlet.com/subject/Primer-in-Buddhist-Chinese/)

###Chinese Buddhist Grammar, for sale An Introduction to Literary Chinese: Revised Edition 2004 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Paperback by Michael A. Fuller (Author). This textbook for beginning students contains 35 lessons of increasingly difficulty designed to introduce students to the basic patterns of Classical Chinese and to give them practice in reading a variety of texts. (http://www.amazon.com/An-Introduction-Literary-Chinese-Monographs/dp/0674017269)

###Chinese Buddhist Grammar, for sale Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar, 1996 Paperback by Edwin G. Pulleyblank (Author) Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar is a comprehensive introduction to the syntactical analysis of classical Chinese. Focusing on the language of the high classical period, which ranges from the time of Confucius to the unification of the empire by Qin in 221, the book pays particular attention to the Mencius, the Lunyu, and, to a lesser extent, the Zuozhuan texts. (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0774805412/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_asp_twQQH.026Q457)

###Chinese Buddhist Grammar, for sale - this one for advanced study here A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese, 2007 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Paperback, by Paul Rouzer (Author) Forty lessons designed to introduce beginning students to the basic patterns and structures of Classical Chinese are taken from a number of pre-Han and Han texts selected to give students a grounding in exemplary Classical Chinese style. Two additional lessons use texts from later periods to help students appreciate the changes in written Chinese over the centuries. (http://www.amazon.com/dp/067402270X/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_asp_twQQH.026Q457)

###Chinese Text Project Dictionary The Chinese Text Project is a web-based e-text system designed to present ancient Chinese texts, particularly those relating to Chinese philosophy, in a well-structured and properly cross-referenced manner, making the most of the electronic medium to aid in the study and understanding of these texts. (http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=en)

###Chinese Tipi.taka Traditional Script, Taisho Tipitaka - Japan (http://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT/index_en.html)

###Chinese Tipi.taka Website in Chinese. It has all the Chinese agamas, with some difficult terms underlined that can be mouse-overed for an explanation in Chinese with parallel Pali text and some English in an adjoining window (e.g. http://agama.buddhason.org/MA/MA022.htm). The navigation is all in Chinese, but it's not too hard to work out. (http://agama.buddhason.org/)

###Chinese Tipi.taka Traditional Script, also on CD - Taiwan, website in Chinese (http://www.cbeta.org/index.htm)

###Chinese Tipi.taka from Korea A national treasure carved on wooden blocks. (http://kb.sutra.re.kr/ritk_eng/intro/introSutra.do)

###Chinese Tripi.taka and English Translation 三藏 Sanzang: CJK Machine Translation (http://www.lapislazulitexts.com/sanzang)

###English Tipi.taka from Chinese Only looks like Mahayana texts. (http://www.woodenfish.org/sutra/texts)

###English Tipi.taka from Chinese, for sale: Madhyama Aagama The Madhyama Agama (Middle-Length Discourses), Volume I (Bdk English Tripitaka) Hardcover – September 9, 2013 by Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai America (Author), Marcus Bingenheimer (Editor), Bhikkhu Analayo (Editor), Roderick S. Bucknell (Editor) (http://www.amazon.com/Madhyama-Middle-Length-Discourses-English-Tripitaka/dp/1886439478)

###English Tipi.taka from Paali Incomplete (http://www.thisismyanmar.com/triplegemdotnet/tptka_tg.htm)

###English Tipi.taka from Paali Access to Insight, mostly translated by Bhikkhu Thanissaro - incomplete (http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/index.html)

###English Tipi.taka from Paali, for sale: Diigha Nikaaya Translation by Walshe (http://www.amazon.com/Long-Discourses-Buddha-Translation-Teachings/dp/0861711033/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323485460&sr=1-1)

###English Tipi.taka from Paali, for sale: Early Buddhist Discourses Translated by John J. Holder (http://www.amazon.com/Early-Buddhist-Discourses-John-Holder/dp/0872207927/ref=wl_it_dp_o_npd?ie=UTF8&coliid=IB86RHLJ60G6U&colid=FKE0GHQ6C5EK)

###English Tipi.taka from Paali, for sale: In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Paali Canon Translation by Bhikkhu Bodhi (http://www.amazon.com/Buddhas-Words-Anthology-Discourses-Teachings/dp/0861714911/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323506727&sr=1-3)

###English Tipi.taka from Paali, for sale: Majjhima Nikaaya Translation by Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi (http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Length-Discourses-Buddha-Translation/dp/086171072X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323485503&sr=1-1)

###English Tipi.taka from Paali, for sale: Samyutta Nikaaya Translation by Bhikkhu Bodhi (http://www.amazon.com/Connected-Discourses-Buddha-Translation-Samyutta/dp/0861713311/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323485393&sr=1-1)

###Multi-language Buddhist Dictionary a useful multi-script Sanksrit-Chinese-English Dictionary (http://chinesenotes.com/sanskrit_query.php)

###Multi-language Tipi.taka These manuscripts date from the first century BCE to the third century CE, and as such are the oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts as well as the oldest manuscripts from South Asia. They promise to provide unprecedented insight into the early history of Buddhism in South Asia as well as its transmission to Central Asia and China. (http://www.ebmp.org/)

###Multi-language Tipi.taka GRETIL - Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages and related Indological materials from Central and Southeast Asia - not only Buddhist (http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil.htm)

###Multi-language Tipi.taka Chinese Scriptures．Tibetan Scriptures．Sanskrit Scriptures．Pali Scriptures．Related Links (http://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/DLMBS/en/sutra/)

###Multi-language Tipi.taka seems not so complete (http://www.fodian.net/world/)

###Multi-language Tipi.taka/text and translator Sutta Central Correspondence Project (Pāḷi, Prākṛt, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan). Find similar (parallel) texts with some translations in various modern languages. The Paali text here is the result of the 6th Sangha Council in Myanmar (Burma) 1956. (http://suttacentral.net/)

###Paali Learning Resources (http://www.pali.pratyeka.org/)

###Paali Tipi.taka From Sri Lankan texts with glossary and many Vietnamese translations. (http://www.tamtangpaliviet.net/VHoc/VHoc_Home.htm)

###Paali Tipi.taka Paali and Thai translation, by Mahidol University (http://www.budsir.org/budsir-main.html)

###Paali Tipi.taka Sri Lanka Buddha Jayanti Tipitaka Edition 1956 also can be found at http://www.xin-yuan.com/Pali_Tipitaka_utf8_html/pali_tipitaka_utf8_index.htm (http://www.metta.lk/tipitaka/)

###Paali Tipi.taka CSCD downloadable - Burmese Edition Submission to 6th Council - Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana, 1954, NOT the outcome of the council which would be dated 1956. Also available at http://www.tipitaka.net/tipitaka/spectra/. (http://www.tipitaka.org/)

###Paali Tipi.taka Translator Pali Text Reader (http://palitextreader.codeplex.com/releases/view/79356)

###Paali Tipi.taka Translator Digital Pali Reader of CSCD Edition - only for download (http://pali.sirimangalo.org/)

###Paali Tipi.taka in Singhala Script Sri Lankan Buddha Jayantī Tripiṭaka Granthamālā Edition (Pāḷi, Image Files). Ven Anandajoti worked on this with the BPS and says it's the only really accessible copy of the Sri Lankan Tipitaka online. (http://www.sri-lankan-pali-texts.net/index.htm)

###Paali Tipi.taka in Thai Script Bhodhiyana Meditation Center offers the Thai Tipitaka, plus translations of selected suttas in other languages. (http://www.bhodhiyana.org/tipitaka_library.html)

###Sanskrit Tipi.taka Seems to be mostly later texts. (http://dsbc.uwest.edu)

###Tibetan Tipi.taka The aim of the Digital Preservation Society (DPS) is to preserve the Tibetan Buddhist Canons and related literature in digital form, and make these widely available. (http://tibet-dps.org/index.htm)

###Tibetan Tipi.taka The Tibetan Buddhist Canon consists of two parts: the Kangyur (bka’ ’gyur, texts ascribed to the historical Buddha and other Buddhas) and the Tengyur (bstan ’gyur, exegetical treatises mostly composed by Indians). (http://www.thlib.org/encyclopedias/literary/canons/kt/)

###Tibetan Tipi.taka Asian Classics Input Project has for over 20 years been locating, cataloging, digitally preserving, and disseminating the precious collections of ancient Tibetan and Sanskrit literature. (http://www.asianclassics.org/)

###Work by Bhikkhu Aanandajoti recent findings from comparative Indian language studies (http://www.ancient-buddhist-texts.net/)

###Work by Bhikkhu Anaalayo recent findings from comparative Paali Nikaaya - Chinese Aagama studies (http://buddhistinformatics.ddbc.edu.tw/analayo/)

###Work by Bhikkhu Dhamma-daasa recent findings from comparative study of Paali texts (http://mcu.academia.edu/BhikkhuDhammadasa)

###Work by Bhikkhu Sujaato recent findings from comparative Paali Nikaaya - Chinese Aagama studies (http://santipada.org)

###Work by Charles Muller Resources for East Asian Language and Thought (http://www.acmuller.net/)

###Work by Marcus Bingenheimer recent findings from comparative Paali Nikaaya - Chinese Aagama studies (http://mbingenheimer.net/)

###Work by Mark Allon Mark Allon teaches Pali, Sanskrit, and Buddhist and Asian studies. His current research focuses on recent discoveries of ancient Buddhist manuscripts from Afghanistan and Pakistan, particularly those in the Gandhari language through the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project. His primary interests are in the composition and transmission of early Buddhist literature, in the ways in which texts have been used by Buddhist communities, and in the languages of early Buddhist texts. (http://sydney.edu.au/arts/slc/staff/profiles/mark.allon.php)

###Work by Mun-keat Choong - for sale The fundamental teachings of early Buddhism: A comparative study based on the Sutranga portion of the Pali Samyutta-Nikaya and the Chinese Samyuktagama (http://www.amazon.com/fundamental-teachings-early-Buddhism-Samyutta-Nikaya/dp/344704232X)

###Work by Numata Centre Chinese Aagama (and other) Buddhist Text Translation Project (http://www.numatacenter.com/default.aspx?MPID=72)

###Work by Richard Gombrich Richard Francis Gombrich (born 17 July 1937) is an Indologist and scholar of Sanskrit, Pāli, and Buddhist Studies. He was the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford from 1976 to 2004. He is currently Founder-President of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. He is a past President of the Pali Text Society (1994–2002) and General Editor Emeritus of the Clay Sanskrit Library. (http://www.ocbs.org/richard-gombrich-library-ocbsmain-148)

###Work by Richard Gombrich - re SA0368 discussion kindness-and-compassion-as-means-to-nirvana-in-early-buddhism (http://www.ocbs.org/lectures-a-articles-ocbsmain-121/61-kindness-and-compassion-as-means-to-nirvana-in-early-buddhism)

###Work by Tse-fu Kuan - for sale Mindfulness in Early Buddhism: New Approaches through Psychology and Textual Analysis of Pali, Chinese and Sanskrit Sources (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415437377/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=1278548962&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=344704232X&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0Z3YWXPKWWMBZDZ6PJ1P)

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