RE: Digital Pali Reader

Dear Bryan,

I downloaded the CSCD from http://www.tipitaka.org/ onto my PC HD, both desktop and laptop, and find it quite fast.

Regarding the PTS editions, the Dhammakaya produced a CD-ROM of them some years ago Pali Text Version 1.0 (Khlong Luang: Dhammakaya Foundation, 2006[?]), which had quite a few errors (I wrote a review of it). They were working on a second edition but think that was shelved in the light of their producing an edition of the Tipiṭaka.

Mahidol University produced a CD-ROM of the Thai Syamraṭṭha edition in 1997, but you must buy that: Budsir IV for Windows: A Digital Edition of Buddhist Scriptures (Bangkok: Mahidol University Computing Center, 1997) http://www.mahidol.ac.th/budsir/budsir-main.html.

The Sri Lankan Buddha Jayanti Tripiṭaka edition of Pali texts is available from several sites, e.g. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sltp/index.html

There was an issue in the past with it containing many errors. Don’t know what it is like now.

SuttaCentral (https://suttacentral.net/) based its e-versions on the World Tipiṭaka Edition, which is no longer available online it seems. Think the latter was based on the Be CS.

Of course, all e-versions should be checked against the printed versions.

Pdfs of the Sri Lankan editions are available:

Buddha Jayanti Tipiṭaka Series:

http://www.sjp.ac.lk/news/download-theravada-tripitaka/

Simon Hewavitarane Bequest editions:

http://dharma-records.buddhasasana.net/texts/complete-pali-commentaries-in-sinhala-script-published

Scans of the Be used to be available, but I cannot now find the link.

Scans of the Thai King Chulalongkorn are available on archive.org, e.g. https://archive.org/details/tipitaka15banguoft

(see https://standrewsrarebooks.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/cataloguing-efforts-uncover-a-royal-gift-to-the-university-of-st-andrews-from-the-king-of-siam-in-1896/)

Don’t think scans of the other Thai editions are publically available.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Mark