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s.4nt.org private personal edition has full set of bodhi translations aligned, with his footnotes

  Wisdom only licensed some of Bodhi's translations for public on suttacentral,  about 50 of 152 MN suttas for example, and no footnotes. Just completed this past weekend: My personal private edition of s.4nt.org has Bodhi's MN, AN, SN, Snp (sutta nipāta), all line by line aligned with pali,  and footnotes. verbatim validated against the wisdom epubs I purchased for a few hundred dollars many years ago.

s.4nt.org footnotes section and sidebar table of contents improvement

  sample page https://s.4nt.org/mn/mn125/index.html footnotes section now lives in bottom left corner, sharing left sidebar with table of contents. see settings > help page  for details. the whole left sidebar can be adjusted in size for width,  and how much footnotes takes up. settings > font size for footnotes lets you individually customize that. This new UX (user interface) improvement allows DPD (digital pali dictionary) to coexist peacefully as it uses the right sidebar.

DN digha nikāya, PTS Rhys David Eng. translation aligned pali+eng, for s.4nt.org

DN 2 is a good sample: https://s.4nt.org/dn/dn2/index.html This took AI about 6 hours to mostly autonomously process DN (34 long suttas). Compared to MN, this one aligned poorly (line by line...). partly because PTS fills out pali source ...pe... elisions with long paragraphs of repetitions. But the one guarantee of s.4nt.org is the aligned translations, even if they're off on line by line, they are as an entire sutta a verbatim diff of the original source (minus some white space and punctuation mark normalization).  PTS DN Can be aligned very well with some human guidance and better section marks identifying chunk points for large suttas This would require volunteer help from someone technically savvy in ai, programming, and competent in pali. competent in those areas enough to not take any meaningful amount of my time. contact me if interested. I have too much on my plate to bring PTS DN up to par with the other aligned nikayas. Summary of AI session   PTS Dīgha Nikāya — Tru...

AN 4.141 what's brighter than the sun?

  AN 4.141 “Monks, there are these four kinds of brightness. “Catasso imā, bhikkhave, ābhā. What four? Katamā catasso? The brightness of the moon, sun, fire, and wisdom. Candābhā, sūriyābhā, aggābhā, paññābhā— These are the four kinds of brightness. imā kho, bhikkhave, catasso ābhā. The best of these four kinds of brightness is the brightness of wisdom.” Etadaggaṁ, bhikkhave, imāsaṁ catunnaṁ ābhānaṁ yadidaṁ paññābhā”ti. desktop wallpaper 2k video clip

"orthodox" Theravada

excerpt from merriam webster dict. orthodox /ˈôrTHəˌdäks/ The term orthodox generally refers to beliefs, behaviors, or traditions that are widely accepted, conventional, or aligned with established standards. Literally translated from Greek, it means "right belief" or "correct teaching". [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ] Etymology and Literal Meaning The word comes from the Greek words orthos (meaning "right," "straight," or "true") and doxa (meaning "opinion," "belief," or "glory"). Therefore, the literal meaning is "right opinion" or "true doctrine". [ 1 , 2 ] What is "orthodox" Theravada? Whenever you hear someone claim they're orthodox, you should be asking, "Orthodox with respect to what or who?" Is it orthodox with respect to the Buddha's spoken words during his lifetime? Is it orthodox with respect to the Buddha's recorded words within the first few hundred years?...

notes.lucid24.org : This blog now using my custom domain name

If you access the old address which is still valid, https://notesonthedhamma.blogspot.com/, It will give you a scary message: You're about to be redirected The blog that used to be here is now at https://notes.lucid24.org/. Do you wish to be redirected? This blog is not hosted by Blogger and has not been checked for spam, viruses and other forms of malware. Don't worry,  I didn't get taken over by hackers. it's just google not being smart enough in this instance.  I set up Blogspot to use my custom domain notes.lucid24.org instead of Google's blogspot.com . But the underlying data and servers are still the same Google Blogspot. Their redirect just isn't smart enough to realize that, so it complains unnecessarily (for my case).