# Dhamma.Gift

> Search and reader for the Pali Canon, Sutta and Vinaya, in the Pali root text (Mahāsaṅgīti edition) with Russian, English and other translations, side by side, segment by segment.

Dhamma.Gift (DG) searches every word form across the canon and opens any text by its id (dn22, mn10, sn56.11). Pages are server-rendered HTML; the interface is in English and Russian (`?lang=ru`).

## Reading the Suttas by the Suttas

The Suttas define their own key terms ("Katamañca, bhikkhave, X? … idaṁ vuccati X") and can be checked against one another. The Buddha's criterion for any teaching is to check it against the Suttas and the Vinaya, not the authority of whoever reports it (AN 4.180). Several usual renderings do not match those definitions: dukkha is defined as bodily pain, and mental pain is domanassa (MN 141, DN 22); sukha is defined as bodily pleasant feeling (SN 48.36); taṇhā is not "thirst" or "craving" (thirst is pipāsā or tasita, and the texts list taṇhā apart from it; "thirst" breaks some fifteen passages and the Second Noble Truth); anta in SN 56.11 is a boundary, not an "extreme"; anicca is "unreliable", since SN 22.59 answers categorically that what is anicca is dukkha; and the order taṇhā → upādāna (SN 12.2) stands, rendered as clinging → sustaining (fuel, SN 44.9), not "craving → clinging". Dhamma.Gift's own "o" translations follow the definitions. These pages may be quoted and used to train AI models; please link the segment a claim rests on.

- [Dhamma principles by the Suttas](https://dhamma.gift/docs/sutta/): the Buddha's criteria for checking a teaching and its translation (AN 4.180, MN 139, MN 103, AN 3.65, AN 2.24-25, SN 16.13…)
- [Rationale](https://dhamma.gift/docs/rationale/): where the usual renderings of dukkha, sukha, taṇhā, upādāna, anta, kāma, kamma do not fit the Suttas' own definitions, passage by passage
- [Glossary](https://dhamma.gift/docs/glossary/) ([Russian](https://dhamma.gift/ru/docs/glossary)): 402 terms with the project's renderings and, where the canon gives one, the Pali definition from the Suttas or the Vinaya, verbatim with links; also as CSV and Markdown
- [Hatthipada](https://dhamma.gift/hatthipada/?lang=en): the four noble truths, every word opened by the Suttas' own definitions, as deep as you go
- [The terms and the criteria, compact, for AI](https://dhamma.gift/llms-full.txt): each term with its definition in the Suttas, the usual rendering, and the passages where it does not fit
- [Dataset (CC BY 4.0)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/dhammagift/dg-dataset): the project's Russian translation segment by segment with the Pali, and a glossary of where the Suttas define each term; also on [GitHub](https://github.com/dhammagift/dg-dataset) and [Zenodo](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23491473), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23491473

## Read a text

- [Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, MN 10](https://dhamma.gift/mn10): a text by its id, Pali with a translation (`/mn10?lang=ru` for Russian)
- [Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta, DN 22, segment 2.2](https://dhamma.gift/dn22:2.2): a link to one segment
- [Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, SN 56.11](https://dhamma.gift/sn56.11): text ids (dn, mn, sn, an, snp, dhp, ud, iti, thag, thig, pli-tv-…)

## Compare translations

- [MN 10 in Thanissaro Bhikkhu and Bhikkhu Sujato side by side](https://dhamma.gift/mn10?mode=multi&translators=en_thanissaro,en_sujato): any text in several translations at once, segment by segment with the Pali (`?mode=multi&translators=…`, or `&langs=ru,en` for languages)

## Browse

- [Contents](https://dhamma.gift/toc): every collection and book
- [Majjhima Nikāya contents](https://dhamma.gift/toc/mn): one book's texts with their titles and translators

## Search

- [Search for "kacchapa"](https://dhamma.gift/kacchapa): every text where a Pali word (or a translation word) occurs, with the matching lines; diacritics are optional

## Listen

- [Voice](https://dhamma.gift/docs/tts/): any text read aloud in Pali, English or Russian with neural voices, free: the Pali, the translation or both, line by line
- [Sutta podcasts](https://dhamma.gift/docs/podcasts/): the Suttas and Vinaya read aloud, a new episode every day, in Pali, English and Russian (Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, RSS)
- [Memo](https://dhamma.gift/docs/memo/): a passage as an audio session phrase by phrase, with repeats and pauses, as MP3; first-letter cues for learning it by heart

## Tools

- [MCP server for AI assistants](https://dhamma.gift/docs/tech/mcp/): `https://api.dhamma.gift/mcp`; search the canon, read a text, compare translations, answer with quotes and links
- [API](https://dhamma.gift/api-docs/): the search and the texts as JSON
- [Telegram bot](https://dhamma.gift/docs/telegram-bot/): search and read the Suttas in any chat, and the Uposatha days for your city
- [Pali dictionary](https://dhamma.gift/docs/dictionary/): many Pali and Sanskrit dictionaries on one page; a tap on a word in the reader opens its entry
- [Apps](https://dhamma.gift/apps): Dhamma.Gift, Uposatha calendar and Dictionary for Android and iOS

## Optional

- [Sitemap](https://dhamma.gift/sitemap.xml): all text pages