Edition record · 12 October 2026

Texts, languages and editions

This page lists the texts and languages currently available, with notes on translations and recitation use.

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Recitation language coverage

Coverage of all 90 recitation entries. Counts refer to text units, excluding source headers. “Complete” means every text unit has that layer; it does not mean a new translation has been independently reviewed. Meaning notes and external links do not count as full translations. Pinyin is a generated Mandarin reading aid. Pāli and Sanskrit are separate witnesses; the Medicine Buddha praise has a clearly labelled new Sanskrit study rendering.

New English and Malay versions are AI-assisted study translations. Source wording, credited existing translations, and licences remain separate. A mantra’s sound may be retained where a defensible literal meaning has not been established. No missing Sanskrit or Pāli original is inferred merely from a Chinese title.

Pāli source collection

The SuttaCentral edition contains 7,288 Pāli source files, with an English translation layer in 4,590. It includes the four Nikāyas, Khuddaka works, Vinaya and Abhidhamma material available in the source edition dated 23 September 2026. A file can contain a numbered range; the figures below count files rather than individual discourses.

4,731 source files contain abbreviated repetition markers. All supplied text is retained; missing repeated passages have not been reconstructed. Source-edition completeness and a fully expanded recitation edition are different things. English layers follow the translator’s published edition and may also retain abbreviations.

Chinese and Sanskrit sources

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Thirteen complete Chinese main-text editions from CBETA are available, including the Śūraṅgama, Lotus, Diamond, Amitābha, Infinite Life, Kṣitigarbha, Medicine Buddha, Heart, Vimalakīrti, Platform and Ullambana sūtras, and the Great Compassion and Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya dhāraṇī sūtras. They use Traditional Chinese, not a newly written Mandarin translation. Their complete original XML, including the source header and critical apparatus, remains available. The Sanskrit/English short Heart Sūtra follows the named Ancient Buddhist Texts edition.

Optional tone-marked pinyin is machine-generated and not pronunciation-reviewed. Buddhist proper names, polyphonic characters and transcribed mantras require particular care. Unresolved rare characters remain in Chinese script and need review. Pinyin does not reproduce Sanskrit sounds. Do not treat it as an approved chant recording or a certified liturgical text.

Reading layout and typeface

The recitation and publication readers offer source lines with matching translations underneath, whole passages, parallel columns, and Chinese characters with pinyin above them. Roman-script and Chinese typefaces can be selected separately. Śūraṅgama and the updated short mantras now have researched phrase correspondences in both stacked and parallel layouts. Where an edition only aligns whole paragraphs, those paragraphs remain together. Traditional Chinese uses LXGW WenKai TC, a legible handwritten-style font distributed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. WenKai, Gentium italic, Shantell handwriting, Iansui Chinese handwriting and plain options are available. Choices are remembered on this device.

Language release status

Sinhala, Burmese and Vietnamese

This release does not provide a verified full-text collection in Sinhala, Burmese or Vietnamese. Interface translations, Pāli texts and romanisation are not translations into these languages. Check each publication’s language list before opening it.

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New books and articles

The anthologies, Buddha’s life reader and contemporary essays distinguish editorial commentary from canonical passages. Source authors and translators are credited. Independent scholarly or Sangha review of the new commentary has not been completed.

Talk transcripts

Gather ’Round the Breath contains the publisher’s complete edited Dhamma-talk transcripts. These are existing authorised written texts, not a claim that TRBS recordings have been transcribed or time-aligned. New transcription of branch recordings awaits suitable source audio, rights/consent evidence and accuracy review.

Materials still restricted

The 437-page combined recitation review proof, its editable reader and its production sources remain outside public assets. Author/publisher permission for Rain Lee Lin Jun’s original writing and Ti-Ratana-owned components has been confirmed. Permissions for independently credited inherited components, language mismatches, lexical meanings and competent review of new Malay, Mandarin and pinyin remain unresolved. No “complete four-language Tipiṭaka/Tripiṭaka” is published.

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Publication records

548 publication records, plus the separately indexed canonical source files. See the public release register and canonical source hashes.