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This website is a collection of the pÄli texts and translations of the TheravÄda Buddhist Canon. It uses the work of Bhikkhu Sujato and others from SuttaCentral.
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Other sources are:
- "Sutta Nipata: The Sutta Collection", edited by Access to Insight. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 21 December 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/index.html.
- "Anguttara and Majjhima Nikaya Suttas", https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/.
- "A Treasury of the Buddha's Words", edited and arranged by Phra Khantipalo. Mahamakut Rajavidyalaya Press.
- "Safeguard Recitals", edited and translated by Änandajoti Bhikkhu, Ancient Buddhist Texts.
- "The Path of Purification" (Visuddhimagga), translated by Bhikkhu ĆÄį¹amoli. Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy.
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The paritta texts on this site -- the CatubhÄį¹avÄrapÄįø·i and the recitals gathered with it -- are taken from "Safeguard Recitals", edited and translated by Änandajoti Bhikkhu and published at ancient-buddhist-texts.net. That work is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) license, which asks that attribution be made to Änandajoti Bhikkhu and that anything derived from it be shared under the same license. With gratitude for his work in making these recitals available.
"The Path of Purification" (Visuddhimagga), translated by Bhikkhu ĆÄį¹amoli, is made available by the Buddhist Publication Society, P.O. Box 61, 54 Sangharaja Mawatha, Kandy, Sri Lanka. Copyright 2011. All copies must be unaltered copies. Copies must be free of charge. Copies must indicate that passages are derived from the source document.
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What is covered:
- Majjhima NikÄya: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (trans. Bhikkhu ĆÄį¹amoli & Bhikkhu Bodhi, 1995/2009)
- Saį¹yutta NikÄya: The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (trans. Bhikkhu Bodhi, 2000)
- Aį¹ guttara NikÄya: The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (trans. Bhikkhu Bodhi, 2012)
- Sutta NipÄta: The SuttanipÄta: An Ancient Collection of the Buddha's Discourses (trans. Bhikkhu Bodhi, 2017)
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