Online Pali Canon?

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Re: Online Pali Canon?

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tiltbillings wrote:Bhante,
Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:
AlaskanDhamma wrote:Ok so I know the idea of an online Pali Canon would take forever, but I'm just curious about it.
It is already available — the Pali text, the Commentaries and the Subcommentaries, and in many different scripts.

Tipitaka.org
That is a great site, but I kind of think that he might mean in translation, which is how I took it, since reading Pali, though not as rare as turtle fangs, is not common.
Yes, she did mean in translation. ;P Thank you.
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Thank you everyone for the plentiful information.

Translations of texts of such importance will always be something to be debated about. Everyone wants to get the "right" or "accurate" translation. Which I'm afraid is impossible since you'd have to have lived in those times to have the right translation. Thousands of years will play "telephone" with texts, leading people to believe one thing while it actuality something else is attempting to be conveyed.

The overall message is what is important to me though. What was Buddha trying to say? During those times he would be speaking to a certain group of people at a certain time and for a certain purpose, with a certain context. The importance isn't in his exact wording, but in his message of the Dhamma.

Just my opinion. :shrug:
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Hi Manapa,
Manapa wrote:Do you know of any sites with the satipatthana Sutta in both English and Romanised pali versions line to line comparison as well as a site with the ones you mention?
I don't know of any online interlinear translation of the Satipatthana Sutta.

The Thai translation of the Tipitaka and its commentaries is available here: http://www.84000.org

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It turns out otherwise.
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Ven. Dhammanando,

Do you know the name of that Thai painting on the website? Is this when Lord Buddha is dying?
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Hi,

Here you can find trilinear edition (Pali text, English gloss & translation with notes) of Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna-sutta (DN 22) done by Piya Tan.

http://www.geocities.com/paligroup/pali ... D22PDF.zip" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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AlaskanDhamma wrote:Do you know the name of that Thai painting on the website? Is this when Lord Buddha is dying?
Yes, it depicts him lying in the lion's posture at the time of his parinibbāna.

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Thank you Bhante. :anjali:
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