Yathabhūta — usually translated as ‘as it really is’ — carries a precise, active meaning in the Pali Canon that goes far deeper than the standard rendering. Discover how this key term defines the direct seeing at the heart of insight meditation and the path to liberation.
Have you ever wondered where the Buddha’s “meditation instructions” are? Why doesn’t he talk about them in the Pali Canon? Or does he? Well, he does… In fact, he cannot be any clearer explaining how exactly your practice of Buddhist…
Frank Snow has made his newly developed Chatta Sangayana Tipitaka v.4 very accessible, especially when it comes to the dictionary. Here you can find a zip archive containing Buddhadatta’s Concise Pali-English and English-Pali dictionary in the correct format for the…
Update, March 2026: A modern command-line successor to Ksana is now available — see Tipitaka Search: A Modern CLI Tool for the Pali Canon for a zero-dependency Python tool that searches the entire Tipitaka including commentaries and sub-commentaries. Even if…