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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
01 Oct 1998
Pali Canon Public Domain E-Text
Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project, Colombo, Sri Lanka & The
Journal of Buddhist Ethics (JBE) London, UK / Philadelphia, USA
Self-description:
"The input of the entirety of the words of the Buddha and
his immediate disciples, as preserved in the Sri Lankan
version of the Pali 'Tripitaka', was completed at the 'Siri
Vajiranaana Dharmaayatanaya', Bhikkhu Training Center,
Maharagama, Sri Lanka in 1994. The texts, consisting of an
estimated 35 million characters, were keyed in over
a period of three years, commencing in 1991. The edition
used as the basis for this was the Buddha Jayanti Tripitaka
Series in fifty-eight volumes, published [...] during the 1960s and
1970s. The project was carried out under the auspices of
Venerable Madihe Pannaasiiha Mahaa Naayaka Thera, Head of
the Amarapura branch of the Buddhist Sangha in Sri Lanka,
with financial sponsorship from the Chandraratne family.
[...] The semi-proof-read data has been placed on the JBE
websites (http://www.gold.ac.uk/jbe/ibric.html
& http://jbe.la.psu.edu/palicanon.html)
in text format, for downloading to both Macintosh and
Windows computers. It is freely available for non-commercial
purposes as public domain material under the terms of a GNU
license."
[Texts, in a diacritic font for Pali, are updated on the servers once or twice a year - ed.]
URL http://jbe.la.psu.edu/palicanon.html
Link suggested by: Bhikkhu Mettavihari (sltp@sri.lanka.net)
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