Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project Library
The full Pali Tipitika, i.e. the “Pali canon,” can be accessed online in several places. The edition of the Tipitaka agreed upon at the Sixth Buddhist Council in 1954 in Burma can be read in various scripts at tipitika.org. The Sri Lankan edition of the Tipitaka, based on editions compiled by the Pali Text Society, can be read in Roman script at Access to Insight and in Sinhala at several websites, including thripitakaya.org, pitaka.lk, and tipitaka.lk. In addition to canonical texts, the last of these websites also hosts a digital library with hundreds of books in Pali and Sinhala available for download. It contains commentaries on the Tipitaka in Pali and Sinhala, scholarship on the Vinaya, as well as historical books from Sri Lanka, including important rare texts such as Weliwita Sri Saranankara Thero’s Sārārttha Saṃgrahava. Additionally, there are many books by modern monks, with strengths in works about Abhidharma and meditation, along with the writings of Rerukane Chandrawimala Thero. The library also contains books used for teaching in pirivena schools and for learning Pali, as well as grammars and dictionaries for the Pali and Sinhala languages, the latter including the important Sinhala-Sinhala dictionary known as the “Sri Sumangala.” There are also many other books, including an eclectic miscellaneous folder. New volumes are regularly uploaded.
