Translating Classical Buddhism to Modern English
What’s New
10-Dec-2024
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SĀ 1.154 Seven Standpoints 27-Nov-2024
Added the first three stories of T212 The Rising Sun
25-Nov-2024
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EĀ 16.8 Acceptance and Consideration EĀ 16.9 The Brahmin EĀ 16.10 Rāhula 20-Nov-2024
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EĀ 16.5 Unskillful EĀ 16.6 Two Things EĀ 16.7 The Candle 15-Nov-2024
Added EĀ 16.4 The Donkey
13-Nov-2024
Added EĀ 16.3 The Crow
Added EĀ 16.2 Nirvāṇa
13-Sep-2024
Added SĀ 1.162 Ānanda (2)
31-Aug-2024
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MĀ 137 The World MĀ 139 The Path of Calming MĀ 140 The Extreme 21-Aug-2024
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MĀ 25 Water Parables MĀ 159 Agrahana 20-Aug-2024
Added MĀ 13 Crossings
2-Aug-2024
Added MĀ 106 Conceptions
1-Aug-2024
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MĀ 95 Abiding in Qualities MĀ 96 Not Having 31-Jul-2024
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MĀ 41 The Prominent Man Hastaka (2) MĀ 92 The Analogy of the Blue and White Lotus Flowers 27-Jun-2024
Added MĀ 12 Vāṣpa
28-May-2024
Added MĀ 29 Mahākauṣṭhila
27-May-2024
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SĀ 4.2 The Four Noble Truths SĀ 4.3 The Four Noble Truths (2) SĀ 4.4 The Four Noble Truths (3) SĀ 4.5 The Four Noble Truths (4) SĀ 4.6 The Four Noble Truths (5) SĀ 4.7 The Four Noble Truths (6) SĀ 4.8 The Four Noble Truths (7) SĀ 4.9 The Four Noble Truths (8) SĀ 4.10 The Four Noble Truths (9) SĀ 4.11 The King of Doctors 12-May-2024
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SĀ 3.3 Gautama SĀ 3.4 Gautama (2) SĀ 3.5 An Ancient City SĀ 3.6 Three Reeds SĀ 3.7 Untaught 5-May-2024
Added SĀ 26.11 Haimavata
16-Apr-2024
Added SĀ 1.178 Satyaka
28-Mar-2024
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SĀ 1.54 Scolding Tiṣya SĀ 1.55 Concepts SĀ 1.56 Arising and Ceasing SĀ 1.57 Delight SĀ 1.58 Discernment 17-Mar-2024
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SĀ 2.9 Free of Desire (2) SĀ 2.10 Delight in Suffering SĀ 2.11-14 Impermanent, Painful, Empty, and Not Self SĀ 2.15-39 Everything SĀ 2.40 Burning SĀ 2.41-48 Rāhula (1-8) SĀ 2.49-56 Rāhula (9-16) SĀ 2.57 Rāhula (17) SĀ 2.58-74 How to End the Contaminants, et al 10-Feb-2024
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SĀ 1.50 Lack of Knowledge (2) SĀ 1.51 The River Torrent SĀ 1.52 Jeta’s Grove 4-Feb-2024
Added SĀ 1.48 Bubbles and Foam
1-Feb-2024
Added SĀ 2.221 Nanda Teaches the Nuns
22-Jan-2024
Added SĀ 1.47 A Clod of Dirt
18-Jan-2024
Added SĀ 1.53 The Concept of Impermanence
9-Jan-2024
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SĀ 1.46 Should Be Taught SĀ 1.49 Lack of Knowledge 8-Jan-2024
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SĀ 1.43 Cessation SĀ 1.44 Pūrṇa SĀ 1.45 Chandaka 30-Dec-2023
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SĀ 1.37 Śroṇa (2) SĀ 1.38 Śroṇa (3) SĀ 1.39 Ignorance SĀ 1.40 Ignorance (2) SĀ 1.41 Ignorance (3) 27-Dec-2023
SĀ 1.31 Well Versed SĀ 1.32 The Well Taught Dharma SĀ 1.33 Going from One Principle to the Next SĀ 1.34 Nirvāṇa SĀ 1.35 Samṛddhi’s Question SĀ 1.36 Śroṇa 21-Dec-2023
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SĀ 1.30 Rāhula’s Question (2) 20-Dec-2023
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SĀ 1.25 Tying Bonds SĀ 1.26 What Affects SĀ 1.27 Shaken SĀ 1.28 Kappa’s Question SĀ 1.29 Rāhula’s Question 19-Dec-2023
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SĀ 1.23 Not Mine SĀ 1.24 Not Another’s 31-Aug-2023
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EĀ 16.1 Nanda 30-Aug-2023
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EĀ 15.1 Two Kinds of Views EĀ 15.2 Two Kinds of Views (2) EĀ 15.3 Two Kinds of Gifts EĀ 15.4 Two Kinds of Work EĀ 15.5 Two Kinds of Favors EĀ 15.6 Two Signs of a Fool EĀ 15.7 Honoring the Tathāgata EĀ 15.8 Honoring the Dharma EĀ 15.9 Honoring the Tathāgata’s Shrine EĀ 15.10 Right View 31-Jul-2023
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EĀ 14.5 Wrong Sex EĀ 14.6 No Wrong Sex EĀ 14.7 False Speech EĀ 14.8 Not Speaking Falsely EĀ 14.9 Drinking Alcohol EĀ 14.10 Not Drinking Alcohol 27-Jul-2023
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EĀ 14.1 Killing Beings EĀ 14.2 Not Killing Beings EĀ 14.3 Stealing EĀ 14.4 Generosity 25-Jul-2023
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EĀ 13.5 Nakula EĀ 13.6 Good Deeds EĀ 13.7 Śakra the Lord of Gods 23-Jul-2023
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EĀ 13.3 Nāḷijaṅgha EĀ 13.4 Nakula 12-Jul-2023
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EĀ 12.10 Śrīla EĀ 13.1 Surādha EĀ 13.2 Enjoyment of Desires 30-Jun-2023
Revised MĀ 1 The Good Dharma
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EĀ 12.6 Senior Years EĀ 12.7 Devadatta EĀ 12.8 Devadatta (2) EĀ 12.9 Skin 29-Jun-2023
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EĀ 12.2 Spitefulness EĀ 12.3 The Most Honored EĀ 12.4 Watching over the Sick EĀ 12.5 Praise and Slander 28-Jun-2023
Revised EĀ 12.1 The Abodes of Mindfulness
7-May-2023
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EĀ 11.7 Alms EĀ 11.8 Alms (2) EĀ 11.9 Devadatta EĀ 11.10 Devadatta (2) 8-Apr-2023
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EĀ 11.6 Heart (2) MĀ 57 A Teaching for the Monks MĀ 85 The Genuine Person 2-Apr-2023
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EĀ 10.8 Māra the Wicked One EĀ 10.9 Bad Destinies EĀ 10.10 One Person EĀ 11.1 Non-Returning (1) EĀ 11.2 Non-Returning (2) EĀ 11.3 Non-Returning (3) EĀ 11.4 Non-Returning (4) EĀ 11.5 Heart 27-Mar-2023
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EĀ 10.6 The Stingy and the Tireless EĀ 10.7 Merits of Generosity 23-Mar-2023
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EĀ 10.3 Recollecting Generosity EĀ 10.4 Generosity EĀ 10.5 Generosity (2) 20-Mar-2023
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EĀ 9.9 Notions of Desire EĀ 9.10 Notions of Desire (2) EĀ 10.1 No Pride EĀ 10.2 No Pride (2) 3-Mar-2023
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EĀ 9.6 Birth in Heaven EĀ 9.7 A Man’s Perception EĀ 9.8 A Woman’s Perception 15-Feb-2023
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EĀ 8.6 Factors of the Path EĀ 8.7 Disappearance EĀ 8.8 Belief EĀ 8.9 Flourishing EĀ 8.10 Unmatched EĀ 9.1 The Laywoman EĀ 9.2 The Laywoman (2) EĀ 9.3 The Mind EĀ 9.4 The Mind (2) EĀ 9.5 Downfall 7-Feb-2023
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EĀ 8.1 Asura EĀ 8.2 Beneficial EĀ 8.3 The Single-File Path EĀ 8.4 The Light EĀ 8.5 The Darkness 6-Feb-2023
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EĀ 3.7 Peace EĀ 3.8 Breathing EĀ 3.9 The Body EĀ 3.10 Death 1-Feb-2023
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EĀ 3.5 Generosity EĀ 3.6 The Gods 31-Jan-2023
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EĀ 3.3 The Saṅgha EĀ 3.4 The Precepts 30-Jan-2023
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EĀ 3.1 The Buddha EĀ 3.2 The Dharma 15-Jan-2023
Added MĀ 153 Sugandika
7-Jan-2023
Added EĀ 1.1 Introduction
28-Nov-2022
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MĀ 56 Meghiya MĀ 58 The Seven Treasures MĀ 84 Thornless MĀ 127 Fields of Merit 30-Jul-2022
Added DĀ 19 The Great Congregation
The initial release of the Long Discourses is complete!
3-Jul-2022
Added DĀ 30, Chapter 12: The Origins of the World
1-Jul-2022
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DĀ 30, Chapter 8: The Trāyastriṃśa Gods DĀ 30, Chapter 9: Three Catastrophes DĀ 30, Chapter 10: War DĀ 30, Chapter 11: Three Medium Eons 31-May-2022
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DĀ 30, Chapter 1: The Continent of Jambudvīpa DĀ 30, Chapter 2: Uttarakuru DĀ 30, Chapter 3: Noble Wheel-Turning Kings DĀ 30, Chapter 4: The Hells DĀ 30, Chapter 5: Nāgas and Garuḍas DĀ 30, Chapter 6: The Asuras DĀ 30, Chapter 7: The Four God Kings 9-May-2022
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DĀ 2 The Final Journey MĀ 15 Intention MĀ 55 Nirvāṇa SĀ 3.1 (283) Planting a Tree SĀ 3.2 (284) A Great Tree 17-Apr-2022
Added DĀ 1 The Great Legend
25-Mar-2022
Added MĀ 210 The Nun Dharmadinnā
2-Feb-2022
Added DĀ 23 Kūṭatāṇḍya
31-Jan-2022
Added DĀ 10 Going Up to Ten
2-Nov-2021
Added DĀ 7 Padāśva
19-Oct-2021
Added DĀ 17 Purification
7-Oct-2021
Added DĀ 15 Anomiya
Web design changes: Switched to Google Fonts (Merriweather, Noto Serif, and Noto Sans), softened the yellow background, and changed link styling.
3-Sep-2021
Added DĀ 14 Questions Asked by Śakra the Lord of Gods
2-Sep-2021
Added MĀ 176 Dhyāna Practitioners
1-Sep-2021
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DĀ 3 Govinda MĀ 83 A Senior Elder’s Drowsiness MĀ 101 Progressive Mental States 14-Aug-2021
Added Dvs 1.3 Like Cattle Led to Their Slaughter
10-Aug-2021
Added DĀ 28 [Poṭṭhapāda]
9-Aug-2021
Added DĀ 26 Knowledge of the Three Vedas
8-Aug-2021
Added DĀ 20 Ambāṣṭha
23-Jul-2021
Added DĀ 18 Personal Gladness
2-Jul-2021
Added DĀ 9 The Gathered Saṅgha
28-Jun-2021
Added DĀ 6 The Noble Wheel-Turning King’s Cultivation
1-Jun-2021
Added DĀ 5 Smaller Teaching on Origination
21-May-2021
Added DĀ 25 The Naked Wanderer
17-May-2021
Added DĀ 16 Sujāta
29-Apr-2021
Added DĀ 8 Sandhāna
25-Apr-2021
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DĀ 13 The Great Method of Conditionality SĀ 2.129 The End of the World SĀ 2.130 Having a Teacher and a Disciple 13-Apr-2021
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SĀ 2.1 Impermanent SĀ 2.2 Painful SĀ 2.3 Empty SĀ 2.4 Not Self SĀ 2.5 Correctly Contemplated SĀ 2.6 Not Knowing SĀ 2.7 Not Knowing (2) SĀ 2.8 Not Knowing (3) SĀ 2.123 Samṛddhi SĀ 2.124 Samṛddhi (2) SĀ 2.125 Samṛddhi (3) SĀ 2.126 Samṛddhi (4) SĀ 2.127 Samṛddhi (5) SĀ 2.128 The World 7-Apr-2021
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SĀ 1.153 Five Turns SĀ 1.159 Faithful SĀ 1.160 Faithful (2) SĀ 1.161 Ānanda SĀ 1.163 What’s Destroyed 2-Apr-2021
Added DĀ 4 Janavṛṣabha
27-Mar-2021
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DĀ 24 Dhruva SĀ 1.19 Enjoyment SĀ 1.20 Enjoyment (2) SĀ 1.21 Tendencies SĀ 1.22 Proliferation 8-Mar-2021
Added MĀ 8 Seven Suns
28-Feb-2021
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DĀ 11 Increasing One by One DĀ 12 Three Categories DĀ 22 Śroṇatāṇḍya 23-Feb-2021
Added Dvs 1.2 King Prasenajit’s Queen
21-Feb-2021
Added Dvs 1.1 Śakra Attains Stream Entry
11-Feb-2021
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SĀ 25.57 Crossing the Flood SĀ2 180 Crossing the Flood 1-Feb-2021
Added DĀ 21 Brahmā’s Shaking
14-Dec-2020
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EĀ 24.6 The Three Sabbath Days T781 The Ten Powers T802 Confidence in the Knowledge Powers 9-Dec-2020
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SĀ 1.143 Impermanent SĀ 1.172 Yamaka SĀ 4.55 A Handful of Leaves SĀ 19.15 The Sabbath Days SĀ2 46 The Eighth Day T780 The Ten Powers 6-December-2020
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SĀ 1.18 Cause and Condition (2) SĀ 1.138 Pūraṇa SĀ 1.158 Past, Future, and Present Aggregates SĀ 6.5 Poison Arrows 15-Nov-2020
Added MĀ 146 Parable of the Elephant’s Footprint
11-Nov-2020
Added T757 Hair-Raising Joy
9-Nov-2020
Added EĀ 31.8 Meditation Without Breathing
1-Nov-2020
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SĀ 1.150 Lowly SĀ 1.151 Seeds SĀ 1.152 Blockage SĀ 7.10 The Archer SĀ 11.41 The Tathāgata and the Arhat SĀ 11.58 Ten Powers 31-Oct-2020
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EĀ 2.1 The Buddha EĀ 2.2 The Teaching EĀ 2.3 The Assembly EĀ 2.4 Precepts EĀ 2.5 Generosity EĀ 2.6 Gods EĀ 2.7 Calmness EĀ 2.8 Breathing EĀ 2.9 Body EĀ 2.10 Death EĀ 27.6 Four Kinds of Fearlessness EĀ 46.4 Ten Powers EĀ 50.6 Knowledge of Rebirth 5-Oct-2020
Added SĀ 1.42 Direct Realization
30-Sep-2020
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MĀ 200 Ariṣṭa SĀ 35.1 The Six Abodes of Views 28-Sep-2020
Added EĀ 50.8 The Snake Parable
27-Sep-2020
Added EĀ 43.5 The Parable of the Raft
24-Sep-2020
Added EĀ 24.5 Miraculous Transformations
21-Sep-2020
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SĀ 1.16 Teaching Liberation SĀ 1.17 Cause and Condition 20-Sep-2020
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Itvṛ 83 The Search 19-Sep-2020
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SĀ 1.11 Past SĀ 1.12 Past (2) SĀ 1.13 Past (3) SĀ 1.14 Past (4) SĀ 1.15 Teaching Disillusionment 18-Sep-2020
Added EĀ 19.1 Brahmā’s Request
31-Aug-2020
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T112 The Eightfold Right Path T101, Sūtra 15 29-Aug-2020
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SĀ 1.148 Sixteen Monks SĀ 1.149 Self T110 The Three Turnings of the Dharma Wheel 28-Aug-2020
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SĀ 1.145 The Aggregates Are Not Self SĀ 1.146 The Aggregates Are Not Self (2) SĀ 1.147 Three upright Men T102 The Five Aggregates Are Empty 27-Aug-2020
Added T109 Turning the Dharma Wheel Sutra
26-Aug-2020
Added MĀ 204 Raṃbhaka
5-Aug-2020
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DĀ 27 The Fruits of the Ascetics EĀ 12.1 The Four Stations of Mindfulness EĀ 19.2 Two Things EĀ 43.7 The Fruits of the Ascetics 27-Jul-2020
Added MĀ 17 Gāminī
24-Jul-2020
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MĀ 11 The Rock Salt Parable MĀ 31 Discernment of the Noble Truths MĀ 98 The Abodes of Mindfulness SĀ 4.1 Turning the Dharma Wheel SĀ 12.20 Junior Monks SĀ 12.21 Fruitful Monks SĀ 12.30 A Certain Monk SĀ 12.33 Seven Fruits SĀ 12.34 Abodes of Mindfulness SĀ 12.37 Seven Fruits SĀ 13.74 The Eightfold Path SĀ 13.75 The Eightfold Path (2) SĀ 14.3 Cultivating Mindfulness of Breathing SĀ 14.17 Attaining Four, Seven, and Two Things SĀ 35.7 The Cause of Attachment and Sorrow SĀ 35.40 Wrong View Regarding Actions SĀ 35.43 Wrong View Regarding Personal Ability SĀ 35.46 Wrong View Regarding the Afterlife SĀ 35.49 Wrong View Regarding Affliction SĀ 35.52 Wrong View Regarding Purity SĀ 35.55 Wrong View Regarding the Lack of Knowing and Seeing SĀ 35.58 Wrong View Regarding Knowing and Seeing SĀ 35.61 Wrong View Regarding Actions SĀ 35.64 Wrong View Regarding Actions SĀ 35.67 Wrong View Regarding Rebirth 22-Jul-2020
Added MĀ 16 The Kālāmas
30-Jun-2020
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MĀ 9 Seven Chariots MĀ 10 Ending the Contaminants MĀ 82 Crickets MĀ 186 Inquiry 31-May-2020
Added MĀ 81 Mindfulness of Body
7-May-2020
Added MĀ 80 The Rough Cloth
25-Apr-2020
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MĀ 42 What Purpose MA 43 Don’t Think MĀ 44 Mindfulness MĀ 45 Conscience and Modesty MĀ 46 Conscience and Modesty (2) MĀ 47 Precepts MĀ 48 Precepts (2) MĀ 49 Veneration MĀ 50 Veneration (2) MĀ 51 The Origin 22-Apr-2020
Added MĀ 79 The Greater Gods
8-Apr-2020
Added MĀ 78 Brahmā’s Invitation to the Buddha
30-Mar-2020
Added MĀ 77 The Three Clansmen of Sāketa
7-Mar-2020
Added MĀ 76 [Ugracelā]
4-Mar-2020
Added MĀ 75 The Pure Way to the Imperturbable
29-Feb-2020
Added MĀ 74 Eight Thoughts
24-Feb-2020
Added MĀ 73 The Gods
19-Feb-2020
Added MĀ 72 The Legend of King Dīrghāyu
10-Nov-2019
Added SĀ 13.24-30
5-Nov-2019
Added SĀ 13.15-23
1-Nov-2019
Added SĀ 13.8-10
27-Oct-2019
Added SĀ 1.5-10
23-Oct-2019
Added SĀ 1.1-4
22-Oct-2019
Published table of contents for The Related Discourses based on Yinshun’s reconstructed version. It includes 7 parts and 51 groups of sutras.
14-Oct-2019
Sutras 748-754 and 758-761 have been added to the Related Discourses .
11-Oct-2019
The first "official" update released. Aside from an improved web design, it includes translations of Sutra 29 of the Long Discourses and Sutras 1-7 of the Medium Discourses .
15-Sep-2019
The Dharma Pearls repo on Github goes public and is published on Github Pages. This was a broken web design. The release was simply to walk-through the Github Pages deployment process.