[Buddha-l] Sutta Central

[Graeme Lyall AM]

Dear List Members,

The Australian Association of Buddhist Studies has posted the following information.

"SuttaCentral offers a portal for those who wish to access the early Buddhist texts. 

The initial version of SuttaCentral supplied up-to-date and comprehensive tables showing the correspondences between the Pali suttas (discourses) and their counterparts in other ancient languages; and it provided links to available online editions of these texts. 

Recently SuttaCentral has been greatly expanded and improved. Besides sutta correspondences and links to the texts themselves, the site now provides links to modern translations. This makes it possible to study, at a single location, the original texts in Pali, Chinese, Tibetan, and/or Sanskrit, side by side with readable and reliable translations (mostly from the Pali) in English, French, German, or Spanish.

Among other innovations, SuttaCentral now uses the World Tipitaka Edition, widely considered the most accurate and advanced online source for Pali texts; and includes information on alternative sutta numbers. Meanwhile, work continues on up-dating and expanding the database, as sutta correspondences are we checked and refined, and information on relevant Indic manuscript fragments added."

Sutta Central may be accessed at http://www.suttacentral.net

Graeme Lyall AM
President - Amitabha Buddhist Association of NSW
Chairman - University Buddhist Education Foundation
Course Copyright Owner - Pure Land Learning College
Chaplain - NSW Corrective Services Department
Co-Chairman - Standing Committee on Publications, Publicity, Education, Culture and the Arts - World Fellowship of Buddhists
Founding Member - Chinese & Australian Cultural Council