OpenTipitaka is a multilingual Pali Tipiṭaka digitization project led by Buddhist monastics. The project has received invaluable support and endorsement from Maha Vajiralongkorn Pali Theravada Royal College and Pyin Oo Lwin Pa-Auk Tawya Meditation Centre, with generous logistical support provided from various sources through Dhamma Sarana LLC and various other supporters. Under the guidance of Venerable Kumārābhivaṃsa Sayadaw, the project uses modern technology to connect the Pali scriptures with contemporary multilingual study needs and to build a trustworthy platform for translating, parallel reading, and proofreading the Theravāda Tipiṭaka, Aṭṭhakathā, and Ṭīkā. Through its offline App and online website, OpenTipitaka provides a cross-platform reading service for Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Linux. It supports paragraph-aligned reading of the Pali original and multilingual translations, full-text search, professional dictionaries, bookmarks, split-screen reading, and text-to-speech, while inviting users worldwide to help proofread and improve the translations. For details, see the user guide.
Translation languages currently supported include Chinese, English, Vietnamese, Thai, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Burmese, Sinhala, Marathi, Khmer, Bengali, Tibetan, Lao, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Tamil, Czech, Slovak, and Nepali. More languages will be added over time.
Most current translations are AI-generated and have not been fully proofread. During AI translation, the vast majority of suttas, most commentaries, and some sub-commentaries were translated with reference to Myanmar word-by-word explanations (Nissaya) and Myanmar translations. Overall, the translations are approaching human translation quality and have high reference value. There is still room to improve accuracy, terminology consistency, and related areas; we will continue improving them and update them periodically.