Dear list members,

Please find below information on recent updates to the SuttaCentral website; an initiative led by AABS members Bhante Sujato and Rod Bucknell.

http://www.suttacentral.net

Kind regards
AABS Executive

SuttaCentral offers a portal for those who wish to access the early Buddhist texts.

The initial version of SuttaCentral supplied up-to-date and comprehensive tables showing the correspondences between the Pali suttas (discourses) and their counterparts in other ancient languages; and it provided links to available online editions of these texts. 

Recently SuttaCentral has been greatly expanded and improved. Besides sutta correspondences and links to the texts themselves, the site now provides links to modern translations. This makes it possible to study, at a single location, the original texts in Pali, Chinese, Tibetan, and/or Sanskrit, side by side with readable and reliable translations (mostly from the Pali) in English, French, German, or Spanish.

Among other innovations, SuttaCentral now uses the World Tipitaka Edition, widely considered the most accurate and advanced online source for Pali texts; and includes information on alternative sutta numbers. Meanwhile, work continues on up-dating and expanding the database, as sutta correspondences are we checked and refined, and information on relevant Indic manuscript fragments added.