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The World Tipiṭaka Project

The Buddhist Era 2500 Great International Council Pāḷi Tipiṭaka
40-Volume Edition in Roman Script B.E. 2548 (2005)

In the Buddhist Era 2542 (1999) the M.L. Maniratana Bunnag Dhamma Society Fund under the Patronage of His Holiness Somdet Phra Ñaṇasaṃvara, the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, initiated the Commemorative Romanised Pāḷi Tipiṭaka Project, upon request from abroad, to support the printing of the sacred texts of the Buddha’s word in Roman script.

The complete 40-volume Romanised edition of the 25-century old teaching of the Buddhist Theravāda tradition in the orthodox and original Pāḷi language has never been published before anywhere in the world.

This manuscript, known as the Chaṭṭhasaṅgīti Council Edition, the Pāḷi-language text in Burmese Script, was the result of the only Great International Council convened in B.E. 2500 (1956) at Yangon by 2,500 erudite Theravāda Buddhist monks from all over the world... (Read full text)