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Dear list members,
Please find below details of the launch of
SuttaCentral; an online Sutta correspondence initiative of
Venerable Analayo and AABS members Rod Bucknell and Bhante
Sujato accessible at
http://www.suttacentral.net
Kind regards,
AABS Executive
Launch of SuttaCentral
SuttaCentral aims at facilitating the study of Buddhist texts
from comparative and historical perspectives. It focuses on the
texts that represent "Early Buddhism", texts preserved not only
in the Pali Sutta and Vinaya Pitakas but also in Chinese and
Tibetan translations and in fragmentary remains in Sanskrit and
other languages.
SuttaCentral offers a gateway to this material by enabling
users to quickly identify the Chinese, Tibetan, and/or Sanskrit
parallels of any given Pali discourse - or vice versa. Having
found that information, one can then can click on the relevant
links and consult the actual texts, most of which are accessible
from other web-sites. Later we also hope to provide direct
access to available English translations.
The system focuses initially on providing the correspondence
data from the perspective of the Pali suttas; that is, given a
particular Pali sutta, one can find the parallels in other
textual languages. Finding parallels in the reverse direction
will become possible in due course. In building SuttaCentral, we
plan to work through the nikayas, one by one, in the traditional
sequence. At present the Digha and Majjhima Nikayas are
complete. Data on the remaining nikayas will become accessible
as the relevant research and data-entry work progresses.
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