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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late Sep 2007, Vol. 14, No. 13 (270)
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19 Sep 2006
 
SuttaCentral: Online Sutta Correspondence Project

Santi Forest Monastery, Bundanoon, NSW, Australia

Self-description:
"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.

The data supplied here offer substantial improvements and additions over the
pioneering work by Akanuma (Comparative Catalogue of Chinese Agamas & Pali
Nikayas, 1929) [Chizen Akanuma, The Comparative Catalogue of Chinese Agamas
and Pali Nikayas. (Nagoya, Japan: Hijinaku-Shobo, 1929; reprint, Delhi: Sri
Satguru Publications, 1990) - ed.], until now the standard reference work in
this area. Nevertheless, there is still much room for improvement. We
therefore invite other scholars working on this same early Buddhist material
to provide input to SuttaCentral (see 'Contacts'), so that the material
displayed is continually refined for greater accuracy and completeness.
[...]

Sutta Central was conceived and designed by the collective imaginations of
Venerable Analayo (Germany), Rod Bucknell (Australia), and Bhante Sujato
(Australia), based on sutta correspondence tables compiled by Rod Bucknell
and Ven. Analayo."

Site contents:
* Collections (Pali, Chinese, Tibetan, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gandhari,
Khotanese, Uighur); * Search (Help, by Name, by Abbreviation and number, by
Volume/Page reference); * Vision Statement; * Contacts.

URL http://www.suttacentral.net/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.suttacentral.net/

Link reported by: Bhante Sujato (sujato--at--gmail.com)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents/Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Other
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]:
Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30
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- regards -

Dr T. Matthew Ciolek        tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au
Head, Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS, The National Institute for Asia
and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia ph
+61 (02) 61250110  fax: +61 (02) 62571893  skype: tmciolek also, Asia
Pacific Research Online at www.ciolek.com


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