Research & translation app based on sc-data

[WayChuang]

@agilgur5

FoJin

I just had a look at it, I find the Buddhist dictionaries portal quite useful. It let me search for Buddhist terminology from various dictionaries in one page. It’s quite convenient for lookup. Albeit this doesn’t necessarily need to be done using AI. It’s just that I’m not aware of any project that presents results from multiple dictionaries, especially for classical Chinese.

[sujato]

@agilgur5

one called “FoJin” presented itself in SC’s own issues ~5 months ago, asking to collaborate

Thanks, I’ve responded to them.

Good on them for having the politeness to ask.

[gbbr]

@sujato

Hi Gabriel, changing the translations is 100% fine, so long as you acknowledge that they’ve been modified. I look forward to checking your app out.

Dear Bhante Sujato,

Thank you so much for your permission. After all, I decided to only change “mendicant” to “bhikkhu” and “immersion” to “concentration” for now (although I’ll admit “immersion” is a beautiful word that I can relate to 100% judging through the prism of my own experience in meditation). I want to continue updating the data with your on-going changes and doing more changes than that may complicate that process. But we’ll see about that as time goes on. I am humbled by your flexibility and felt a lot of mettā in your message. It inspired me.

I added the source as “SuttaCentral” (with a link to the exact commit on sc-data where it comes from) along with the text “modified” in parenthesis (along with a link the the actual modification code) on every single sutta page, as well as in the repository documentation.

I have a few more things to iron out and I will create a separate post with more details. I have however used Claude Code to write the code, but the app itself isn’t using any AI. I have read your requirements and license files carefully and I think (and hope) I haven’t broken any requirement. It’s actually just a simple sutta reader, nothing fancy pantsy

DELETED LINKS – I realized I have to spend some more time polishing the hosting of the app, since it is currently bound to a server in Belgium, and it is a bad first experience to anyone visiting from further away. I will be back with a full post.

With mettā,
G

[gbbr]

Dear friends, after a lot of polishing and testing, I finally felt confident to share the app. I created a separate post for it:

Sutamaya: a study app for the Pali suttas

Dear friends, Since I discovered Bhikkhu Sujato’s work on segmenting the Pali & English to correlate them I was fascinated by the possibilities. It also made it significantly easier for me to study the Canon because now I could just check any Pali word in the dictionary if any meaning was ambiguous, which would tremendously help in understanding. Ever since, I have been using multiple tools to help me: store, categorize, bookmark and highlight suttas. I have had JavaScript injected into SuttaC…