Data files for Readers Guides

stu · May 25, 2022, 10:07am

I’m just delving into the SC data on github (and indeed github itself). I have an rudimentary understanding of how the suttas with translations (root, translation, html from bilara-data) are constructed (in JavaScript - thank you @Snowbird).

Now I’m looking for the data (I’m guessing it’s either just html or json and html?) for the readers guides but can’t find them. Specifically (at this time) I’m looking for section on The Book of Causation

many thanks

sabbamitta · May 25, 2022, 10:35am

You mean this one?

github.com

suttacentral/bilara-data/blob/published/root/en/site/sn-guide-sujato_root-en-site.json

{
  "sn-guide-sujato:1": "The Linked Discourses: the blueprint for Buddhist philosophy",
  "sn-guide-sujato:2": "Bhikkhu Sujato, 2019",
  "sn-guide-sujato:3": "<a href='#item1'>How the Saṁyutta is Organized</a>",
  "sn-guide-sujato:4": "<a href='#item2'>The Book With Verses</a>",
  "sn-guide-sujato:5": "<a href='#item3'>The Book of Causation</a>",
  "sn-guide-sujato:6": "<a href='#item4'>The Book of the Aggregates</a>",
  "sn-guide-sujato:7": "<a href='#item5'>The Great Book</a>",
  "sn-guide-sujato:8": "<a href='#item6'>A Brief Textual History</a>",
  "sn-guide-sujato:9": "The Saṁyutta Nikāya is the third of the four main divisions in the Sutta Piṭaka of the Pali Canon (_tipiṭaka_). It is translated here as <cite class='text-translated'>Linked Discourses</cite>, and has been previously translated as the <cite class='text-translated'>Connected Discourses</cite> or the <cite class='text-translated'>Kindred Sayings</cite>. As the title suggests, its discourses are grouped thematically. These thematic groups of texts are called _saṁyuttas_, and the Saṁyutta Nikāya is the collection of such _saṁyuttas_.",
  "sn-guide-sujato:10": "The Saṁyutta Nikāya consists of 56 _saṁyuttas_ collected in five large “books” (_vagga_), containing over a thousand discourses. The Mahāsaṅgīti text as used on SuttaCentral contains 2837 discourses; but the total number is somewhat arbitrary, as it depends on how the abbreviated texts are expanded, which differs in different editions. This variation, however, applies only to the way the texts are counted, and does not affect the content, which is virtually identical in every edition.",
  "sn-guide-sujato:11": "It is in the Saṁyutta Nikāya that we find the core doctrines that have formed the basis for all subsequent Buddhist philosophy. It is largely structured around major doctrinal sections that correspond with the template of the four noble truths.",
  "sn-guide-sujato:12": "Suffering",
  "sn-guide-sujato:13": "Aggregates (<a class='ref' href='/sn22'>SN 22</a>)",
  "sn-guide-sujato:14": "Six sense media (<a class='ref' href='/sn35'>SN 35</a>)",
  "sn-guide-sujato:15": "The origin of suffering",
  "sn-guide-sujato:16": "Dependent origination (<a class='ref' href='/sn12'>SN 12</a>)",
  "sn-guide-sujato:17": "The cessation of suffering",
  "sn-guide-sujato:18": "Dependent cessation (<a class='ref' href='/sn12'>SN 12</a>)",
  "sn-guide-sujato:19": "The unconditioned (<a class='ref' href='/sn43'>SN 43</a>)",

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It’s also here: sc-data/sn-guide-sujato_root-en-site.json at master · suttacentral/sc-data · GitHub

stu · May 25, 2022, 10:42am

Yes. Thank you so much!

Snowbird · May 25, 2022, 11:19am

Did you just know it was there, or do you have a way to search for it? I was trying to search through my copy of sc-data, but it’s 1.34gb.

sabbamitta · May 25, 2022, 11:22am

I know the structure of these data quite well. The tricky thing with this group of files is that you might suspect them to be in the “translation” folder, but they are in “root”, as the original language in this case is not an ancient EBT-language, but English.

stu · May 25, 2022, 12:42pm

Not knowing anything (but assuming much) about bilara, I wasn’t expecting to find it in bilara-data at all

sabbamitta · May 25, 2022, 12:54pm

Well, they have two homes. Even three, to be precise.

First they are in bilara-data “unpublished”.
Then after publishing (speaking of translations now) they are copied to bilara-data “published” (and “root” is just identical there),
and another copy then goes to sc-data.

If you want to be confused here, that’s not so hard to do.

sujato · May 25, 2022, 10:13pm

Anything that is to be translated is in bilara-data. All other data is in sc-data.

To find things in the data:

download repo or git clone git@github.com:suttacentral/bilara-data.git
open bilara-data in Sublime Text or VScode
- ctrl + shift + F, then paste in path to repo
search exact string

If that doesn’t work, do the same for sc-data.