SuttaCentral

If you want to look for the earliest texts of Buddhism, SuttaCentral is the right website to view. This is a website dedicated to making early Buddhist texts available online in multiple languages. It was founded in 2007 by Ven. Sujato Bhikkhu, a Theravadin monk and scholar, with the aim of creating a modern, user-friendly platform for accessing these important texts.

SuttaCentral hosts a vast collection of early Buddhist texts from various traditions, including the original texts in the original languages, including The Pali canon (or Tipiṭaka) of the Theravāda school: The Mahāsaṅgīti edition of the Sixth Council recension; The early Āgama and Vinaya texts from the Taishō edition of the Chinese canon; and a much smaller range of early texts from the Tibetan Kangyur. These texts have also been translated into multiple languages by a team of scholars and are freely available on the website.

In addition to the texts themselves, the website provides a range of features to help users navigate and understand them. These include searchable databases, translations with contextual notes, audio recordings of readings, and links to related texts and resources.

One of the unique features of SuttaCentral is its use of advanced technology to create interactive tools for exploring texts. For example, users can view parallel versions of a text in different languages side-by-side, compare different translations of the same passage, or search for specific words or concepts across multiple texts.

Website: https://suttacentral.net/