Explore the earliest recorded teachings of the Buddha with parallel Pāli-English texts, contextual tooltips, and personal study tools.

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Words of the Buddha

Explore the Buddha‘s earliest teachings through his words. Access over {routes.length.toLocaleString()} texts with parallel Pāli-English translations and built-in study tools.

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Fire: An Inquiry into Recurrent Experience

The Buddha cast his entire framework of liberation in the language of fire and its cessation. This essay traces that structure using what we now understand about how fire actually works.

Experience is examined starting with the texture of a single moment, to the cascade of experience, across the terrain where consciousness takes root, and to the extinguishing that is Nibbāna.

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Parallel Texts

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Last updated on February 20, 2026