Buddhist Text Repository Platform
A multilingual research hub for Buddhist texts, scripts, and academic translation work.
Built for college and university students studying Buddhist literature in vernacular languages, with room for source texts, layered translations, dictionaries, and navigation that can grow into a serious scholarly repository.
Source texts indexed
2,340 texts
Scripts & languages
15 scripts, 12 langs
Active translations
47 in workflow
Text discovery
Organize canonical sources by scripture, chapter, section, and edition so readers can move through the corpus without friction.
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Dictionary support
Connect source glossaries and language-specific dictionaries to help students read, compare, and translate texts across scripts.
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Translation workspace
Create room for academic annotation, aligned passages, and contribution workflows that can support future university projects.
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Open access
Keep the repository freely accessible for students while leaving space for curated editorial workflows and provenance.
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Platform at a glance
Live — Phase 2 complete2,340
Source texts indexed
15
Scripts supported
12
Translation languages
47
Translations in workflow
6
Active scholars
35+
Dictionary entries
What's built
Platform capabilities
Three-panel reader
Hierarchical text navigation on the left, source/translation/compare in the centre, and a click-to-lookup Pali dictionary on the right. Each panel independently collapsible.
15-script rendering
Switch any source text between Roman IAST, Devanagari, Bengali, Sinhala, Thai, Myanmar, Khmer, Tibetan, Lao, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Malayalam, and Kannada.
AI translation pipeline
Admin triggers an AI baseline draft → Scholar reviews and edits → Admin approves and publishes. Full editorial workflow with footnotes and bibliography at each stage.
Corpus browser
Filter 2,340 texts by collection, script, language, and translation status. Click any text for full metadata, available translations, bibliography, and linked discussions.
Translation compare
Side-by-side paragraph comparison of multiple language translations. Toggle source Pali column, switch language per column, highlight any row to focus it.
Pali dictionary
35+ entries with IAST, etymology, word class, corpus occurrence counts, and related terms. Click any word in the source text to look it up in the right panel.
Blog & scholarly articles
7 blog posts on methodology, workflow, and design. 7 long-form scholarly articles on Pali literature, transliteration, and the translation process. Category and tag filters.
Discussion threads
Topic-based scholarly discussion linked to specific text nodes and translations. Nested replies, upvotes, resolved/open status, and admin moderation tools.
Full admin panel
Dashboard with live workflow stats, hierarchy tree management, bulk content upload, user management with role assignment, and a moderation queue for flagged content.