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Tipitaka.ai
Explore the Pali Canon with AI and verifiable sources
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Explore the Pali Canon with AI and verifiable sources
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Ask questions in your own language and explore the Pali Canon with sources you can open and check. Tipitaka.ai brings together AI-assisted research, a digital library, a Pali dictionary, and a Buddhist encyclopedia. Follow citations into the texts, explore available translations, and save or share what you learn. Built for practitioners, monastics, researchers, and curious readers. Free to use and ad-free, with optional donations.
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Hi Product Hunt — I’m Surmon, the maker of Tipitaka.ai.
I’m a software engineer with more than a decade of development experience, and I have also received the novice precepts in the Theravada tradition. Studying the texts made one problem very familiar: a simple question can mean searching across collections, translations, dictionaries, and commentaries before you can check what a passage actually says.
I built Tipitaka.ai to make that journey easier.
You can ask in your own language, follow citations into the collected texts, and keep reading from there. Alongside the AI conversation, there is a digital library of the Pali Canon and related literature, a Pali dictionary for word meanings and forms, and an encyclopedia for people, places, and concepts.
Try asking: “Which discourses discuss anger? Please show the sources.” Then open a citation and read the surrounding passage. You can also try a question in your own language or explore a Pali term such as saṅkhāra.
The distinction between a canonical text, a later commentary, and an AI explanation matters to me. Citation checks help, but they cannot guarantee that every interpretation is right. Please check important conclusions against the texts and tell me when something is wrong.
Tipitaka.ai is free to use, with no ads or subscriptions. Optional donations help with its costs, but never buy features or extra usage. I currently bear most of the costs myself. There are usage limits, and higher quotas can be requested based on need.
I’m grateful to SuttaCentral, the Digital Pāli Dictionary, and the scholars, translators, and practitioners whose work makes resources like this possible.
I’d especially value feedback on two things: does opening a citation help you check the answer, and how clear are the explanations and Pali terms in your language?
Thank you for taking a look.