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Editions of the Canon
- 1st Siamese edition (incomplete), 39 volumes, 1893. This edition is now available in electronic form at [1].
- 1st Burmese edition, based on the Fifth Council inscriptions, 1900, 38 volumes. It was later superseded by the Sixth Council edition.
- Pali Text Society edition, 1877-1927, 57 volumes, including index volumes. Individual volumes and subsets are also available separately. Details can be found on the Society's website. A few volumes have been replaced with new editions since 1927.
- CD-ROM from Dhammakaya Foundation, Thailand: 1st edition no longer available; 2nd edition in preparation
- 2nd Siamese edition, 45 volumes, 1925-1928. It is more accurate than the PTS edition, but gives fewer variant readings.[1]
- CD-ROM available from BUDSIR (BUDdhist Studies Information Retrieval), Mahidol University, Thailand; it is also supposed to be available online at [2], with options for Latin, Thai, Sinhalese and devanagari scripts, but there seem to be problems with accessing this site.
- Sixth Council edition, 1954-1956, 40 volumes. This is more accurate than the Siamese edition, but with fewer variant readings.[2] Recently, in addition to the original Burmese script edition, Latin and devanagari versions have appeared in print. Three online transcripts are now available:
- Nalanda edition (first Indian edition), 39 nominal volumes in 41 actual volumes (in devanagari script), 1957-1961. It was based mainly on the 6th Council text. It gradually went out of print.
- Khmer edition: This is a parallel-text edition, with Khmer translations on facing pages. 1931-1969. The Khmers Rouges burnt every set in the country, with only a few surviving elsewhere.
- Buddha Jayanti edition: This Sinhalese edition is another parallel-text one, 1958-?1993, 52 nominal volumes in 58 actual volumes. An electronic transcript, not yet fully proofread, is available online at [7]; the files can be downloaded from [8].
- Bhumibalo edition (Thailand) This is a currently ongoing project.
Translations
- Pali Canon in English Translation, 1895- , in progress, 43 volumes so far, Pali Text Society, Bristol; for details see website.
Anthologies:
- Buddhist Suttas, ed & tr T. W. Rhys Davids, Sacred Books of the East, volume XI, Clarendon/Oxford, 1881; reprinted by Book Tree, Escondido, California
- Some Sayings of the Buddha, ed & tr F. L. Woodward, Oxford World Classics, 1924
- The Life of Gotama the Buddha, ed E. H. Brewster, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London, 1926
- Buddhist Scriptures, ed & tr E. J. Thomas, Wisdom of the East Series, John Murray, London, 1931
- The Word of the Buddha, ed & tr Nyanatiloka, 1935
- The Vedantic Buddhism of the Buddha, ed & tr J. G. Jennings, pub Geoffrey Cumberlege, London, 1947
- The Living Thoughts of Gotama the Buddha, ed Ananda K. Coomaraswamy & I.B. Horner, Cassell, London, 1948
- The Lion's Roar, ed & tr David Maurice, Rider, London, 1962
- Early Buddhist Poetry, ed I. B. Horner, Ananda Semage, Colombo, 1963
- The Life of the Buddha, ed & tr Nanamoli, Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 1972
- The Book of Protection, tr Piyadassi, Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 1981; translation of paritta
- In the Buddha's Words, ed & tr Bodhi, Wisdom Pubns, 2005
- Early Buddhist Discourses, ed & tr John J. Holder, 2006
- Basic Teachings of the Buddha, ed & tr Glenn Wallis, Modern Library, New York, 2007
- Sayings of the Buddha, ed & tr Rupert Gethin, Oxford University Press, 2008
Secondary sources
- History of Pali Literature, B. C. Law, volume I
- Analysis of the Pali Canon, Russell Webb, Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, Sri Lanka
- Pali Literature, K. R. Norman, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1983
- Handbook of Pali Literature, Oskar von Hinüber, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1996
- Guide to Tipitaka, Ko Lay, originally published in Burma, reprinted in Thailand, now accessible online at [9]