See also Access to Insight's Pali Language Study Aids.

The Pali Canon

On-line editions

• » Ancient Buddhist Texts (Ven. Anandajoti Bhikkhu) offers a number of English translations of suttas and Vinaya texts, some line-by-line Pali-English translations (a useful aid to Pali students), and several metrical analyses of Pali and Sanskrit verse forms.
• » Digital Pali Reader (Ven. Yuttadhammo) is an extraordinary and highly recommended cross-platform tool for Pali students of every level. Allows intermediate Pali students to read the Pali Canon. Automatically recognizes Pali words and gives definitions from the CPED and PED, as well as DPPN if available. Includes text search and dictionary lookup.
• » The Pali Tipitaka Project (Vipassana Research Institute, India) contains the Chattha Sangayana (Sixth Council, 1954-1956) edition of the Tipitaka, transcribed from the Myanmar print edition.
• » The Sri Lanka Tripitaka Project (SLTP) (in association with the Journal of Buddhist Ethics) offers a free public-domain edition (ASCII text files, zipped) of the Sri Lanka Buddha Jayanti Tripitaka edition of the Tipitaka and Commentaries (in romanized Pali). Although this edition hasn't yet been thoroughly proofread, it's still a tremendously valuable resource.
• » Pali Canon Online Database (LaTrobe University, Australia) offers an online searchable version of the SLTP edition of the Pali Canon.
• » SuttaCentral's Online Sutta Correspondence Project enables one to identify the Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit "parallels" or "counterparts" to the suttas of the four main Pali Nikayas — and vice-versa.

CD-ROM editions

• » BUDSIR — Buddhist Scriptures Information Retrieval (Mahidol University, Thailand) is a CD-ROM containing the Thai edition of the Pali Tipitaka and Atthakatha (commentaries) in romanized script. Cost: about US$300.
• » Chattha Sangayana (Sixth Council) Tipitaka CD (Vipassana Research Institute, India) is a CD-ROM containing the Chattha Sangayana (Sixth Council, 1954-1956) edition of the Tipitaka, transcribed from the Myanmar print edition. It also includes the Tipitaka, Atthakatha (commentaries), and Tika and AnuTika (sub-commentaries), all displayed in seven scripts, including Roman and Devanagari. Cost: varies according to shipping destination.

Pali language learning resources

• » All Things Pali Discussion Group, a Yahoo! group, has some very knowledgeable and helpful members who can help you with your Pali studies. A most valuable resource.
• » BuddhaDust (Michael Olds) is a fascinating and often illuminating practical guide through the Buddha's teachings, based on Olds's refreshing translations of the Pali texts.
• Elementary Pali Course by Ven. Narada Thera is available from several sources:
  • » BuddhaNet (downloadable PDF document)
  • » Pali Language Sources and Resources (on-line edition)
  • » Pratyeka (downloadable PDF document). This version contains many corrections that are not present in other online transcriptions.
  • » Tipitaka.net (on-line edition)
• A Guide to Learning the Pali Language (John Bullitt, USA).
• » Pali-English Dictionary (PTS & U. of Chicago, USA), the best Pali-English Dictionary around, is now available online.
• » Pali Forum (Alan McClure) is a new discussion forum that hosts discussions on topics of interest to Pali students. They are currently engaged in a number of translation and grammatical analysis projects.
• » Pali Language Sources and Resources (Maximilian Sendor) offers an online Pali dictionary, an online edition of Narada's Elementary Pali Course, Pali sound files, and more.
• » The Pali Primer (VRI) Lily de Silva's excellent brief introductory textbook to Pali.
• » Transliteration and Devanagari Fonts for Sanskrit (Ulrich Stiehl) has an extensive review of Pali and Sanskrit fonts.
• » Resources for Learning Pali (Eisel Mazard) offers information for Pali students interested in reading the language in non-Roman scripts (Sinhalese, Burmese, and Muul-Khmer). Also offers a PDF edition of Duroiselle's A Practical Grammar of the Pali Language.
• The » UK Association for Buddhist Studies (UK) has a number of useful resources, including an outline of » The Contents and Structure of the Pali Canon and its Commentaries.
• The University of Minnesota (USA) maintains a » searchable list of institutions in North America offering academic courses in "Less Commonly Taught Languages" (including Pali).