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English, Bahasa Melayu, Chinese, Pāli, Sanskrit, Thai, Burmese, Vietnamese, Korean, Tamil and Sinhala. These are supported reading choices; availability is recorded per edition. No source has been verified to supply both complete canons in every language.

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SuttaCentral Pāli corpus ↗

Pāli · English · 中文 · Chinese · Tiếng Việt · Vietnamese · ไทย · Thai · မြန်မာ · Burmese · සිංහල · Sinhala · தமிழ் · Tamil · 한국어 · Korean

Pāli canon with translations varying per text and author. All language choices must be filtered by actual suttaplex availability.

Bilara CC0; check legacy individually.

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CBETA Chinese Buddhist canon ↗

中文 · Chinese

Chinese Buddhist canon includes Āgamas/Vinayas and more than exclusively Mahāyāna works; classical Chinese text is not a modern Mandarin translation. Repository XML file count is not a clean scripture count.

Generally CC BY-NC-SA4.0 under current CBETA policy, excluding modern collections explicitly listed under category B. Preserve substantive text and attribution/version.

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BDK English Tripiṭaka ↗

English

Selected translations of Chinese Taishō works; not complete whole Tripiṭaka.

Link-only. PDFs permit individual noncommercial use; modification and republication require permission.

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Thai Royal Tipiṭaka ↗

ไทย · Thai · Pāli

45 volumes listed; Thai translation distinct from Pāli written in Thai script.

Link-only; downstream rights not checked.

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Buddha Jayanthi Tipiṭaka · Sinhala ↗

සිංහල · Sinhala · Pāli

CC BY-ND4.0 for specified BJT Pāli/Sinhala and modern Sinhala from Zoysa; preserve text unmodified, attribute and synchronize corrections. Do not blanket-apply to commentaries.

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Tam Tạng Song Ngữ Pāli–Việt ↗

Tiếng Việt · Vietnamese · Pāli

Bilingual Pāli–Vietnamese volumes; ongoing work, not verified full modern catalogue in this bounded research.

Link-only; publication permissions not confirmed.

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Dongguk University Buddhist Academy archive ↗

한국어 · Korean · 中文 · Chinese

Korean translations and Chinese canonical source witnesses; edition-specific coverage.

Link-only; downstream permission not established.

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E-Piṭaka AI-assisted research translations ↗

Bahasa Melayu · English · 中文 · Chinese · ไทย · Thai · မြန်မာ · Burmese · Tiếng Việt · Vietnamese · 한국어 · Korean · தமிழ் · Tamil · සිංහල · Sinhala

Advertises multilingual translations, including Malay. Project expressly calls them AI-assisted evolving research aids, not authoritative translations. Full text coverage/rights not audited.

Link-only research option. Open source website does not establish rights to every translation.

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Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon ↗

Sanskrit

Digitised Sanskrit Buddhist works, including Mahāyāna sūtras. Each work has its own textual witness and source. A surviving Sanskrit original is not assumed for every Chinese scripture.

Read at the publisher; source-specific rights apply.

Read, listen and save a PDF

Hosted structured texts support selected-language reading, side-by-side or stacked layout, font size, line spacing, reading width, optional language headings and light/dark/device appearance. The full-edition print view keeps your selected languages; choose “Save as PDF” in your browser. External publishers control their own download and printing options.

Read-aloud uses a matching voice installed on your device and only reads supplied text. It does not produce missing translations. Synthetic speech is separate from recorded chanting, and Pāli/Sanskrit pronunciation should not be inferred from a generic English voice.

Translation status stays visible

Published source translations, new AI-assisted study translations and related canonical witnesses are labelled separately. A generated study version is not presented as a reviewed Sangha edition or a recovered ancient original.

Detailed local coverage · Rights, credits and corrections

App ecosystem: v0.5 (Beta)

Ven. K. Sri Dhammaratana ↗