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Websites[]
For resources , some Buddhist websites are listed here, more can be added:
1.Vipassana Research Institute :
https://www.vridhamma.org
2.A great attempt by Vipassana Research Institute to collect & compile the entire original Theravada Tipitaka originating from The Sixth_Buddhist_council of 1954 (in Yangon Burma now Myanmar) held exactly 2500 years after Buddha fulfilling the prediction that Buddha's path would again begin to spread after 2500 years of Buddha. This is a great resource for archiving, research and for meditation practitioners. A Complete Pali Source originally as spoken by Lord Buddha, in Many Scripts-Roman, Devanagari, Thai, Burmese, Sinhala, Cyrillic, Khmer, Tibetan etc:
https://tipitaka.org/
3.Vipassana Meditation Courses Booking (worldwide) Free of Cost But Runs on Your Voluntary Donations:
https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index
4.Works of Ven.Ledi Sayādaw:
http://www.aimwell.org/ledi.html
5.Access To Insight website contains translations in modern English, but still, in order to understand true meaning, a knowledge of Pali is still required :
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/index.html
6.Pariyatti website:
https://pariyatti.org/
7.This site contains many suttas not listed elsewhere. This is the most organised website with suttas in Pali as well as many translations for comparison. Most suttas are of PTS (Pali Text Society) which were translated (in west) more than 100 years ago around 1910 hence these are in archaic English. In order to understand true meanings, one must read Pali version:
http://obo.genaud.net
8.The Wisdom Library:
http://www.wisdomlib.org/buddhism
9.The Sacred texts Archive:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/
10.This site has detailed Dhammapada:
http://www.tipitaka.net/tipitaka/
11.Buddhasasana website(English section):
http://budsas.net/ebud/ebidx.htm
12.It has many good translations:
https://suttacentral.net .
13.Several .pdfs available for download:
http://www.dhammadownload.com
14.Has good collection of many Buddhist literatures. Many latest ones provided by Ven. Bhikku Bodhi & freely available thanks to him:
https://archive.org
15. Pali Text Society aka PTS:
http://www.palitext.com/
16. http://theravada.triratna.info/
17. http://www.buddhanet.net/
18. http://www.bps.lk/
19. http://www.abhidhamma.com/frameset.html?http://www.abhidhamma.com/abhidhamma_books.html#Vipassanā%20Kamaṭṭhāna%3C/a%3E,%20%3Ci%3EPa%20Auk%20Sayadaw%3C/i%3E.
20. https://dhamma.fandom.com/wiki/WikiDhamma:DhammaTexts
21. https://www.dhammawheel.com
22. https://www.suttas.com
Donations[]
Donations to monks & meditation community is highly regarded in Buddhism for making divine merit(punya), the currency for afterlife. Following link is provided for donating to Vipassana Research Institute (VRI) that runs several meditation centres worldwide on donations only, without any fee :
https://www.vridhamma.org/Donation-to-VRI
(pl. note that the author of the page does not benefit from it nor formally belongs to VRI)