The Theravāda Buddhist texts, arranged in three baskets.
The Theravāda tradition preserves its primary texts in the Pāli Tipiṭaka, or “three baskets”: discipline, discourses, and systematic teachings.
7117 indexed text entries; 6981 with local translations; 10076 local editions. Availability does not establish translation completeness.
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The Theravāda Pali canon: monastic discipline, discourses, and systematic teachings.
Rules and procedures for the monastic community.
Monastic training rules with explanations and cases.
The monks’ training rules and their analysis.
The nuns’ training rules and their analysis.
Procedures and communal life in the monastic community.
Chapters covering ordination and other monastic procedures.
Further chapters on monastic procedures and communal life.
A review and classification of the monastic rules.
Discourses and other works preserved in five collections.
Long discourses covering teachings, practice, and discussions.
Middle-length discourses on teachings and practice.
Discourses grouped by topic or by the people involved.
Discourses arranged around numbered sets of teachings.
A varied collection of short texts, verses, and other works; its extent varies by edition.
Short passages for recitation and basic instruction.
Verses on conduct, practice, and wisdom.
Inspired utterances with accounts of their occasions.
Short teachings combining prose and verse.
Discourses largely in verse.
Verses about heavenly rebirth and the actions leading to it.
Verses about departed beings and the consequences of actions.
Verses attributed to early Buddhist monks.
Verses attributed to early Buddhist nuns.
Canonical verses about the Buddha’s previous lives, preserved with their traditional commentary stories in a complete six-volume English translation.
Explanations of parts of the Suttanipāta.
Analyses of knowledge and the path of practice.
Verse accounts of past deeds associated with monks and nuns.
Accounts of earlier Buddhas and the bodhisatta’s aspirations.
Verse accounts illustrating the bodhisatta’s conduct.
These additional works are not part of the standard 15-book Khuddaka list in every Theravāda edition.
A dialogue text included in some Theravāda editions; the separate SuttaCentral/Kelly segment alignment remains incomplete.
A work on methods for interpreting and explaining the Buddha’s teaching; included in some Theravāda editions.
A work on interpreting and organizing the Buddha’s teaching; included in some Theravāda editions.
Systematic analyses of phenomena and their relationships.
An enumeration and classification of phenomena.
Analyses of principal categories of the teachings.
An examination of relationships between categories of phenomena.
Classifications of types of persons.
Debates about interpretations of Buddhist doctrine.
Paired questions examining doctrinal categories.
An extensive analysis of conditional relationships.
The text index retains 6692 source entries across 6692 IDs. This build provides 9784 local Sutta edition links across 6689 IDs. It includes 12 shared Candana passages covering 27 text references. The Vinaya source manifest maps 422 English files; 292 have local readers and 130 are held for passage-level review. No Abhidhamma book currently clears the reuse policy. Text availability and translation completeness are separate; unavailable entries remain in the navigation.
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