Tipitaka
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- prevent device from sleeping
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Tipitaka for Android is an app for reading the Theravada Buddhist Pali Tipitaka, commentaries and sub-commentaries in Pali. It is suitable for advanced students of the Pali language, as it does not include English translations. It does have several Pali-English dictionaries.
Features:
- Entire Pali Tipitaka, Commentaries and Sub-commentaries, as well as other texts
- Text search and in-page search
- Bookmarking
- Concordance for switching between Mula, Atthakatha and Tika passages
- Pali-English dictionary resources, including the PED, CPED, CEPD, and DPPN.
- Instant dictionary lookup with declension matching by highlighting words in text (Android 3+)
- Pali-English quiz to test vocabulary
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Android Tipitaka is based on the free and open source E-Tipitaka project by Sutee Sudprasert:
https://github.com/ssutee/E-Tipitaka-for-Android
and is available on github itself:
https://github.com/yuttadhammo/atipitaka
Tipitaka files are taken from the VRI tipitaka here:
http://tipitaka.org/romn/
On first run, the app will download the required database file (20+ MB). That's the only time it uses the Internet; there are no ads, etc. If it doesn't download the database properly, download the file here:
http://static.sirimangalo.org/pali/ATPK/ATPK.zip
put it in your sd card directory and unpack it with a file manager.
User reviews
- Easy to operate on phone and computer.
- Good interface and easy to use.
- Helpful for learning about Buddhism.
- English language functionality is broken.
- Errors when selecting English language or downloading English archives.
- Not optimized for the current version of Android.
- Issues with the English language version.
- Need for updates and improvements.
- Incompatibility with certain devices.
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