Venerable Bodhirasa has posted a new update on the DPD’s new functionality:
Dear Venerable monastics, professors, and Pāḷi enthusiasts,
There are a few interesting updates to the dictionary this month:
Sutta Information
You will notice a new button in DPD called Sutta which contains a wealth of information on individual discourses.One of the main problems that scholars face working with different versions of the Pāḷi texts is that each corpus has its own numbering system. You may have noticed that the sutta number on Sutta Central differs from the numbering in Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana, which also differs from the numbering in Bhikkhu Bodhi’s translation. DPD aims to solve this problem by aligning all discourses by name and contents, not by number.
You can now search for any sutta by code, e.g. MN97, immediately get an overview of the discourse’s contents, and find links to the Pāḷi text in all corpa, and English translations on all popular websites.
This is an amazing update, and a much welcome one for philistines like me who don’t know how to navigate any other reference scheme. 