Assistance with Pali Study Resources

[Pj_Harivarmanian]

Please I have a few requests as I begin my journey into Pali:

1. Where can I purchase the complete Pali Canon?
2. Could you recommend an app featuring the Pali Canon (specifically the Nikayas) to assist with language learning? I am looking for an immersive training experience to learn Pali using the Canon directly within the app

I would greatly appreciate your guidance and input. I also plan to adjust my schedule (Brasília Time) to join the Pali classes next year.

Thank you very much.

[Dogen]

@Pj_Harivarmanian

• Where can I purchase the complete Pali Canon?

PTS should be your best bet, I think. However, most of the Tipitaka is freely available on SuttaCentral as a PDF to download and for you to find a printer? But yeah, for everything else (or should high quality hardcover books), PTS is probably the way to go.

Entire Canon, though?

@Pj_Harivarmanian

1. Could you recommend an app featuring the Pali Canon (specifically the Nikayas) to assist with language learning? I am looking for an immersive training experience to learn Pali using the Canon directly within the app

Tipitaka Pali Reader is probably your best bet. It’s really just the Pāli Canon as it is, though.

Anki Cards is another way to go. Bhante @NgXinZhao had some amazing decks:

Anki Deck for Pāli Studies

Bhante Paññādhammika has asked me to share their Anki decks for Pāli studies. I’ve checked them and they’re quite fun cards with memes to hint for meanings of the words. Seeing how they’re a monastic, I’ll assume the memes are all family friendly and respectful (I’ve only checked some 50-100, and they all seemed fine, but I’m no authority to talk about what’s proper in a monastic setting!) Anyway, all those disclaimers made, here’s the deck: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/410946696 May this …

[Pj_Harivarmanian]

@Dogen

Entire Canon, though?

I am like Batman.

[Pj_Harivarmanian]

Please how to use Anki Deck in PTS?

[Dogen]

Erm, PTS is Pāli Text Society:

Official site of the Pali Text Society

Anki is an Android app. So they’re different domains.

[Snowbird]

@Pj_Harivarmanian

I am looking for an immersive training experience to learn Pali using the Canon directly within the app

There is this website where it lets you see the Pali translated segment by segment into English. And you can click on the Pali words and it gives you the meaning in English. Is this the kind of thing you are looking for?

I’m sure we could find you a site like that. If that’ isn’t what you are looking for, perhaps you could explain more.

[sabbamitta]

@Snowbird

There is this website where it lets you see the Pali translated segment by segment into English. And you can click on the Pali words and it gives you the meaning in English. Is this the kind of thing you are looking for?

That’s basically SuttaCentral, isn’t it? And if you also want to listen to the Pali (and/or translation), that’s probably SC-Voice.net. Maybe there are others as well.

[Pj_Harivarmanian]

Sure. Please share with us. Thank you everyone

[Snowbird]

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