Database of Suttas

Windows Database of Suttas

The Sutta Pitaka, the second division of the Tipitaka, consists of over 10,000 suttas, or discourses, delivered by the Buddha and his close disciples during the Buddha's forty-five year teaching career, as well as many additional verses by other members of the Sangha. I have created a database of over 1000 sutta translations from material on the Access to Insight website. In order to access it, you need to:

Download the Unicode Document Processor and install it by running the downloaded program (you can accept all the defaults).
After the Unicode Document Processor has been installed, Download the Database and install it by running the downloaded program. The installer will place an icon on your desktop for easy access.
See the second record of the database for tips on how to use this database and UDP.

I have also created four Pali-English Dictionaries and an English-Pali Dictionary that work in conjunction with UDP and this Sutta Database. Click here for download and installation instructions.

Update History

24 May '13   Additional translation of Snp 4.11 by Andrew Olendzki
21 May '13   Additional translations: Snp 4.15, 5.6, 5.13 & 5.14; fixed formating of MN 131
05 Sep '12   Added four AN 4 and four AN 7 suttas
12 Jul '12   SN 35 sutta numbers now match Bhikkhu Bodhi's Wisdom Pub. sutta numbers
11 Jul '12   Added SN 2.26
23 Apr '12   Added MN 30 & MN 35, plus MN 136 & SN 46.53 trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
17 Apr '12   Added SN 48.12
11 Mar '12   Added suttas from AN 8 trans. by Nyanaponika Thera & Bhikkhu 
08 Mar '12   Added suttas from AN 7 trans. by Nyanaponika Thera & Bhikkhu 
07 Mar '12   Added MN 130
06 Mar '12   Added suttas from AN 6 trans. by Nyanaponika Thera & Bhikkhu 
03 Mar '12   Added suttas from AN 5 trans. by Nyanaponika Thera & Bhikkhu Bodhi
26 Feb '12   Added 2 SN suttas and 5 AN suttas
10 Feb '12   Added suttas from AN 4 trans. by Nyanaponika Thera & Bhikkhu Bodhi
09 Feb '12   Added suttas from AN 1, AN 2 & AN 3 trans. by Nyanaponika Thera & Bhikkhu Bodhi
08 Feb '12   Added MN 29, SN 21.1 & AN 5.29
27 Jan '12   Added MN 68 plus 24 AN suttas (trans. Nyanaponika Thera)
02 Jan '12   Added MN 41 (trans. Thanissaro Bhikkhu), 5 SN and 3 AN suttas
15 Oct '11   Added MN 38 (trans. Thanissaro Bhikkhu)
06 Oct '11   Added SN 21.6, SN 41.5, AN 5.95, Ud 7.5; minor comma & link cleanup
25 Aug '11   Added MN 113
11 Aug '11   Changed Sutta Nipata references from Sn [Roman] to Snp [Arabic]
09 Jun '11   Added 6 AN suttas
08 Jun '11   Fixed some formatting errors in Snp
06 Apr '11   Added 2 AN suttas and updated the AN index
05 Apr '11   Added an index for the Udana
01 Apr '11   Added SN 14.11, AN 3.76, AN 3.77, AN 8.28
07 Feb '11   Added 4 AN suttas
27 Dec '10   Added 43 SN suttas (translated by Maurice O'Connell Walshe)
22 Dec '10   Added Sutta-Nbr/Vol-Page Cross Reference Jump Tables for DN, MN, SN & AN
06 Aug '10   Added DN 1 (translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi)
31 Mar '10   Added SN 54.9
08 Feb '10   Added MN 93, SN 15.13, AN 2.18, 2.46, 6.51
24 Oct '09   Added SN 21.1 & SN 40.1
24 Aug '09   Added DN 13 & AN 10.72
14 Jun '09   Added 2 AN suttas; Corrected internal links to SN suttas
28 Feb '09   Added complete version of MN 36
20 Jan '09   Corrected links back to Access to Insight web site
18 May '08   Added 2 SN suttas
04 May '08   Added MN 60 & 97
11 Nov '07   Added 12 SN, 35 AN & 1 Theragatha suttas
10 Nov '07   Added 13 SN & 5 AN suttas
08 Nov '07   Added 12 SN, 4 AN, 10 Theragatha & 2 Therigatha suttas
03 Nov '07   Added 17 SN suttas; converted key fields from Roman #s to Arabic for SN & AN
31 Oct '07   Added 16 SN suttas
28 Oct '07   Added 9 AN suttas; changed name of database to sutta.ude
12 Sep '07   Added MN 49
14 Feb '07   Added MN 74 & 111
09 Aug '06   Added MN 43, 62 & 147
20 Jan '06   Added MN 27, 59 & 70
27 Nov '05   Added MN 101, 122 & 39 (trans. Thanissaro Bhikkhu)
19 Oct '05   Added MN 13, 14, 33, 34 & 52
14 Nov '04   Added 11 AN suttas
11 Jul '04   Added 19 AN suttas
22 May '04   Added MN 22 (trans. Thanissaro Bhikkhu)
22 May '04   Added AN IX.14, 15, 16 and AN X.6, 7, 20, 29, 70
19 Mar '04   Added MN 26
19 Dec '03   Added SN XXXV.80, AN IV.179 & 9 more verses from the Theragatha
17 Sep '03   Added MN 28 & 90
22 Jun '03   Added MN 66, 78 & 86 (trans. Thanissaro Bhikkhu)
09 Jun '03   Added MN 54 and 137
02 Jun '03   Added MN 53 and 4 AN suttas
18 May '03   Added DN 9 (trans. Thanissaro Bhikkhu) and MN 143
04 Jan '03   Added MN 39
28 Dec '02   Added DN 9 (adapted by Leigh Brasington) and MN 38
24 Dec '02   Added DN 26 and 7 AN suttas
17 Nov '02   Added 44 AN suttas, Ud III.7, Ud III.8, Ud V.2
16 Nov '02   Added DN 32; MN 4, 106, 146; 61 SN suttas
20 May '02   Limited support added for non-Windows systems and non-UDP databases
01 Apr '02   Added MN 22 & 86  (adapted by Leigh Brasington);
             Added Theragatha, Therigatha;
             rearranged Itivuttaka to 1 sutta per record
28 Jan '02   Added 300+ suttas from the Khuddaka Nikaya
23 Jan '02   Added 9 MN suttas
22 Jan '02   Initial Release of 300+ suttas from DN, MN, SN and AN

This is a work-in-progress. It will be revised from time to time to include additional material. If you wish to use this sutta database with some database program other than UDP, you can follow the non-Windows instructions and import these suttas into a database of your choice.

The HTML files from the Access to Insight website were converted from HTML to RTF format using the free Ishtar32_14.exe converter program. The RTF files were read into UDP using File - Append to create this database.

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