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Access to Insight

A popular Theravada Buddhist website providing access to a huge collection of translated texts from the Tipitaka, as well as contemporary materials published by the Buddhist Publication Society and many teachers from the Thai Forest Tradition. Includes guide to Pali abbreviation and sutta reference numbers.

Bibliotheca Polyglotta: Pāli Tipiṭaka
Online searchable database of Sixth Council edition of the Pali Canon digitized by the Vipāssana Research Institute in India.
Critical Pāli Dictionary Online

Includes searching the dictionary online and a guide to Pāli text abbreviations.

DharmaNexus

An interactive database for exploring intertextuality in Buddhist texts preserved in traditional languages: Pāli, Tibetan, Sanskrit, Chinese.

Fanfo Dictionary 梵佛词典

Search across Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, and English Buddhist terminology. Right-click on any term in an entry to search across different languages.

Jātaka Stories

A free online searchable database of jātakas in Indian texts and art.

Sixth Council edition of Pali Canon
Online searchable database of Sixth Council edition of the Pali Canon digitized by the Vipāssana Research Institute in India.
Sutta Central

Sutta central provides the Pali Buddhist Canon with detailed references, parallels between texts, and original texts and translations. Includes many useful tools and links.