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Source: Prepared by jtb for Access to Insight.

Access to Insight edition © 2005

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The Essentials:

How to use the search engine
Frequently asked questions about Access to Insight and about Buddhism
Beginnings — good starting points for newcomers to this site
Downloading the entire website — step-by-step instructions
Subscribe to Access to Insight via RSS feed — keeping up-to-date with changes and additions to the website
Abbreviations and symbols that are used throughout the website
Glossary of Pali and Buddhist Terms appearing in many texts offered here
Biographical notes about the contributing authors and translators

Site Map

Getting help

• Frequently Asked Questions (Access to Insight)
• Frequently Asked Questions (Buddhism)
• Glossary
• Abbreviations, symbols, and sutta numbering schemes
• How to download: files | the entire website

Finding things

• Search engine
• Indexes: General | Author | Title | Sutta | Proper Names | Similes | Number
• What's new | What's old
• Other Theravada sources

For beginners
(and everyone else, too)

• Getting Started
• Frequently Asked Questions (Buddhism)
• Learning Pali
• Study guides

• Path to Freedom:

Generosity (dana)
Virtue (sila): 5 | 8 | 10 precepts; uposatha days
Heaven (sagga): 31 planes of existence
Drawbacks (adinava)
Renunciation (nekkhamma)
Four noble truths: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Eightfold path: right view | resolve |
speech | action | livelihood |
effort | mindfulness | concentration; jhana

Tipitaka
(Pali canon)

• Vinaya Pitaka

• Sutta Pitaka:

Digha Nikaya
Majjhima Nikaya
Samyutta Nikaya
Anguttara Nikaya

Khuddaka Nikaya:

Khuddakapatha
Dhammapada
Udana
Itivuttaka
Sutta Nipata
Vimanavatthu
Petavatthu
Theragatha
Therigatha
Milindapañha

• Abhidhamma Pitaka
• Commentaries and post-canonical texts

Theravada Library

• Contributing authors and translators

• Thai Forest Traditions:

Sao | Mun | Thate | Lee | Khamdee |
Sim | Boowa | Fuang | Chah | Suwat |
Kee Nanayon | Nararatana

• Buddhist Publication Society

• Study guides

Technical Notes

• Dhamma Transcription Project
• The Elements of ATI Style
• List of all files

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