DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17532377
title: Sutta Pitaka TTS

description: This dataset contains a text-to-speech (TTS) rendering of the Sutta Piṭaka, generated to support academic study, accessibility, and comparative religious research.

The material is provided for educational and scholarly use only. It is not intended as religious instruction, endorsement, or advocacy.

Full stack providing neural net [randomized] voices for the suttas:

VITS Neural Network:  Kim, J., Kong, J., & Son, J. (2021). Conditional Variational Autoencoder with Adversarial Learning for End-to-End Text-to-Speech. Proceedings of the 38th International   Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 139:5530-5540.

  VCTK Voice Dataset:  Veaux, C., Yamagishi, J., & MacDonald, K. (2017). CSTR VCTK Corpus: English Multi-speaker Corpus for CSTR Voice Cloning Toolkit (version 0.92). University of  Edinburgh, Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR). [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/2645

  TTS Implementation (Coqui TTS):https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS;  Coqui TTS v0.x [Software]. (2021-2023).

 Sutta Source Text (CC0):  Bhikkhu Sujato (trans.), [Sutta Name], SuttaCentral, CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain), https://suttacentral.net/. The text of this page is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. To view a copy of the license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0.

Each sutta is spoken in a random CSTR voice.



The Sutta Pitaka, the second division of the Tipitaka, consists of more than 10,000 suttas (discourses) delivered by the Buddha and his close disciples during and shortly after the Buddha's forty-five year teaching career, as well as many additional verses by other members of the Sangha. More than one thousand sutta translations are available on this website.

The suttas are grouped into five nikayas, or collections:

Digha NikayaThe "Long" Discourses (Pali digha = "long") consists of 34 suttas, including the longest ones in the Canon. The subject matter of these suttas ranges widely, from colorful folkloric accounts of the beings inhabiting the deva worlds (DN 20) to down-to-earth practical meditation instructions (DN 22), and everything in between. Recent scholarship suggests that a distinguishing trait of the Digha Nikaya may be that it was "intended for the purpose of propaganda, to attract converts to the new religion." [1]Majjhima NikayaThe "Middle-length" Discourses (Pali majjhima = "middle") consists of 152 suttas of varying length. These range from some of the most profound and difficult suttas in the Canon (e.g., MN 1) to engaging stories full of human pathos and drama that illustrate important principles of the law of kamma (e.g., MN 57, MN 86).Samyutta NikayaThe "Grouped" Discourses (Pali samyutta = "group" or "collection") consists of 2,889 relatively short suttas grouped together by theme into 56 samyuttas.Anguttara NikayaThe "Further-factored" Discourses (Pali anga = "factor" + uttara = "beyond," "further") consists of several thousand short suttas, grouped together into eleven nipatas according to the number of items of Dhamma covered in each sutta. For example, the Eka-nipata ("Book of the Ones") contains suttas about a single item of Dhamma; the Duka-nipata ("Book of the Twos") contains suttas dealing with two items of Dhamma, and so on.Khuddaka NikayaThe "Division of Short Books" (Pali khudda = "smaller," "lesser"), consisting of fifteen books (eighteen in the Burmese edition):

Khuddakapatha — The Short PassagesDhammapada — The Path of DhammaUdana — ExclamationsItivuttaka — The Thus-saidsSutta Nipata — The Sutta CollectionVimanavatthu — Stories of the Celestial MansionsPetavatthu — Stories of the Hungry GhostsTheragatha — Verses of the Elder MonksTherigatha — Verses of the Elder NunsJataka — Birth StoriesNiddesa — ExpositionPatisambhidamagga — Path of DiscriminationApadana — StoriesBuddhavamsa — History of the BuddhasCariyapitaka — Basket of ConductNettippakarana (Burmese Tipitaka only)Petakopadesa (Burmese Tipitaka only)Milindapañha — Questions of Milinda (Burmese Tipitaka only)Notes1.Bhikkhu Bodhi, Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Somerville, Mass.: Wisdom Publications, 2000), p.31, referring to Joy Manné's "Categories of Sutta in the Pali Nikayas and Their Implications for Our Appreciation of the Buddhist Teaching and Literature," Journal of the Pali Text Society 15 (1990): 29-87.See also: "Befriending the Suttas: Tips on Reading the Pali Discourses"

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The Sutta Pitaka, the second division of the Tipitaka, consists of more than 10,000 suttas (discourses) delivered by the Buddha and his close disciples during and shortly after the Buddha's forty-five year teaching career, as well as many additional verses by other members of the Sangha. More than one thousand sutta translations are available on this website.

The suttas are grouped into five nikayas, or collections:
Digha Nikaya The "Long" Discourses (Pali digha = "long") consists of 34 suttas, including the longest ones in the Canon. The subject matter of these suttas ranges widely, from colorful folkloric accounts of the beings inhabiting the deva worlds (DN 20) to down-to-earth practical meditation instructions (DN 22), and everything in between. Recent scholarship suggests that a distinguishing trait of the Digha Nikaya may be that it was "intended for the purpose of propaganda, to attract converts to the new religion." [1] Majjhima Nikaya The "Middle-length" Discourses (Pali majjhima = "middle") consists of 152 suttas of varying length. These range from some of the most profound and difficult suttas in the Canon (e.g., MN 1) to engaging stories full of human pathos and drama that illustrate important principles of the law of kamma (e.g., MN 57, MN 86). Samyutta Nikaya The "Grouped" Discourses (Pali samyutta = "group" or "collection") consists of 2,889 relatively short suttas grouped together by theme into 56 samyuttas. Anguttara Nikaya The "Further-factored" Discourses (Pali anga = "factor" + uttara = "beyond," "further") consists of several thousand short suttas, grouped together into eleven nipatas according to the number of items of Dhamma covered in each sutta. For example, the Eka-nipata ("Book of the Ones") contains suttas about a single item of Dhamma; the Duka-nipata ("Book of the Twos") contains suttas dealing with two items of Dhamma, and so on. Khuddaka Nikaya

The "Division of Short Books" (Pali khudda = "smaller," "lesser"), consisting of fifteen books (eighteen in the Burmese edition):



Khuddakapatha — The Short Passages

Dhammapada — The Path of Dhamma

Udana — Exclamations

Itivuttaka — The Thus-saids

Sutta Nipata — The Sutta Collection

Vimanavatthu — Stories of the Celestial Mansions

Petavatthu — Stories of the Hungry Ghosts

Theragatha — Verses of the Elder Monks

Therigatha — Verses of the Elder Nuns

Jataka — Birth Stories

Niddesa — Exposition

Patisambhidamagga — Path of Discrimination

Apadana — Stories

Buddhavamsa — History of the Buddhas

Cariyapitaka — Basket of Conduct

Nettippakarana (Burmese Tipitaka only)

Petakopadesa (Burmese Tipitaka only)

Milindapañha — Questions of Milinda (Burmese Tipitaka only)




Notes
1. Bhikkhu Bodhi, Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Somerville, Mass.: Wisdom Publications, 2000), p.31, referring to Joy Manné's "Categories of Sutta in the Pali Nikayas and Their Implications for Our Appreciation of the Buddhist Teaching and Literature," Journal of the Pali Text Society 15 (1990): 29-87.



See also: "Befriending the Suttas: Tips on Reading the Pali Discourses"











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How to cite this document (a suggested style): "Sutta Pitaka: The Basket of Suttas", edited by Access to Insight. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sutta.html .