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Tools to help you find what you're looking for

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
Download the whole website — step-by-step instructions
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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

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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

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