tripitaka91

A collection of HTML files for the Thai Tripitaka Mahamakut Buddhist University 91 Blue Books Edition พระไตรปิฎกและอรรถกถาแปล ชุด 91 เล่ม ฉบับมหามกุฏราชวิทยาลัย (เล่มสีน้ำเงิน)

Usage

Just import the files and use. Each folder represents a book volume number. The files are organized by sutta. The files are named after the first database row number that the sutta was found in from the original database thaimm.sqlite

Each sutta has three files.

1. A raw file that is copied from the database
2. A converted HTML file
3. A JSON meta file

The JSON meta file contains all the metadata about the sutta. Here is an example structure.

{
    "title": "มงคลสูตรที่ ๔",
    "subtitle": "ว่าด้วยอุดมมงคล ๓๘",
    "summary": "การไม่คบคนพาล การคบบัณฑิต การบูชาบุคคลที่ควรบูชา",
    "row": 27580,
    "volume": 47,
    "volume_orig": 25,
    "page_start": 124,
    "page_end": 198,
    "item": [317, 318],
    "status": "in progress",
    "creator": "jackchalat"
}

Note: This is a work in progress. So some files may be incomplete. Please check status attribute of the sutta.

What?

This is a collection of HTML files for the Thai Tripitaka Mahamakut Buddhist University 91 Blue Books Edition. The data is converted from E-Tipitaka's (https://etipitaka.com/) database thaimm.sqlite

Why?

The data in the existing form is not a well-formed HTML. It is raw text data that was scanned from the original Tripitaka physical books. As a result, the data looks and feels like a book's page. There are many extra spaces and line breaks that do not make sense to exist on a web page. This makes the Tripitaka hard to read on a screen. To make the Tripitaka easier to read, there needs to be some formatting and cleanup.

When?

No idea. This is a work in progress since Tripitaka is huge.

Who?

Anyone who wants to build an app that reads Tripitaka can use this.