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The Library

Every volume in the programme as it will be printed — its cover, what it is, who wrote it and when it was written. One hundred and fifty-seven volumes in four layers. Click any cover to read its history.

The programme

Aṭṭhakathā — commentary
47
Ṭīkā — sub-commentary
24
Anuṭīkā — sub-sub-commentary
3
Pakaraṇavisesa — treatises
83

Aṭṭhakathā — the commentaries 47

Dīgha Nikāya

3 volumes

Majjhima Nikāya

3 volumes

Saṁyutta Nikāya

5 volumes

Aṅguttara Nikāya

4 volumes

Khuddaka Nikāya

24 volumes

Vinaya Piṭaka

5 volumes

Abhidhamma Piṭaka

3 volumes

Ṭīkā — the sub-commentaries 24

Dīgha Nikāya

3 volumes

Majjhima Nikāya

3 volumes

Saṁyutta Nikāya

5 volumes

Aṅguttara Nikāya

4 volumes

Khuddaka Nikāya

1 volume

Vinaya Piṭaka

3 volumes

Abhidhamma Piṭaka

3 volumes

Path Of Purification

2 volumes

Anuṭīkā — the sub-sub-commentaries 3

Abhidhamma Piṭaka

3 volumes

Pakaraṇavisesa — the treatises 83

Vinaya Tradition

10 volumes

Sutta Tradition

5 volumes

Abhidhamma Tradition

8 volumes

Path Of Purification

1 volume

Devotional Tradition

8 volumes

Chronicle Tradition

3 volumes

Grammatical Tradition

13 volumes

Sixth Council

7 volumes

Didactic Tradition

10 volumes

Miscellany

3 volumes

Sinhalese Tradition

15 volumes

About these volumes

Each history is written from the volume's own opening verses and colophon where it has them, and from the published handbooks where it does not. Where a source is named in the text, that is the source the statement rests on.

A volume marked Not yet translated has its Pali text and its cover but no English draft. The English appears as each volume is drafted; nothing here is confirmed by review yet.

Reading the Pali

The catalogue of volumes and paragraph counts is on the Pali Literature page.

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