dhammagift/dg-dataset

Dhamma.Gift: the Suttas read by the Suttas' own definitions

The Suttas define their own key terms. The question "Katamañca, bhikkhave, X?" ("And what, monks, is X?") is answered, and the answer closes with "idaṁ vuccati X" ("this is called X"). The texts can also be checked against one another. The Buddha's criterion for any teaching is to check it against the Suttas and the Vinaya, not the authority of whoever reports it (AN 4.180).

This dataset is the Dhamma.Gift project's reading of the Pali Canon (Sutta and Vinaya) on that basis. It holds three things, and every record links to the Pali segment it rests on:

File	What it is
data/parallel_pli_ru.jsonl	The project's own Russian translation ("o"), segment by segment with the Pali root text (Mahāsaṅgīti edition, SuttaCentral Bilara).
data/glossary.jsonl	Pali terms with the project's Russian rendering, and the places where the Suttas define each term.
texts/{en,ru}/	Principles by Suttas: the criteria the Suttas give for checking a teaching. Rationale: where common renderings of terms such as dukkha, sukha, taṇhā, upādāna, anta, kāma and kamma do not fit the Suttas' own definitions, passage by passage.

Examples

What the text says, with its place:

• dukkha is defined as bodily pain, and mental pain is a separate term, domanassa: "Yaṁ kho, bhikkhave, kāyikaṁ dukkhaṁ kāyikaṁ asātaṁ … idaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, dukkhaṁ" (DN 22, MN 141).
• sukha, as a faculty, is bodily pleasant feeling, and the mental one is somanassa (SN 48.36).
• Where real thirst is described (heat, desert, exhaustion), the texts use tasinā / tasita, not taṇhā (SN 12.68). Taṇhā goes together with delight and passion and "delights here and there" (nandīrāgasahagatā tatratatrābhinandinī, SN 56.11).

Records

parallel_pli_ru.jsonl, one line per segment:

{"id": "an10.113:1.3", "text": "an10.113", "pli": "Adhammañca viditvā anatthañca, …", "ru": "Не-дхамму узнав и бесцельное, …", "url": "https://dhamma.gift/an10.113:1.3?lang=ru"}

glossary.jsonl, one line per term:

Field	Meaning
pali, ru	The term and the project's Russian rendering
defined_in	Texts where the term is defined by the formula "Katamā…? … idaṁ vuccati …"
definition_url, definition_pli	The first such definition, its link and its Pali
compounds_defined	Compounds of the term that have a definition of their own
pattern_hits	Texts matched by the definition patterns Katam…? / … vuccati (candidates, reviewed over time)
pattern_hits_broad, vinaya_hits	Wider patterns (Ko…, ayaṁ…, Kiñ…, ariyassa vinaye), and the Vinaya's Vibhaṅgas

The glossary is filled in gradually. Terms without a definition yet have empty lists.

Scope

• Covered: the four Nikāyas, the Udāna, Itivuttaka and Sutta Nipāta, and the Vinaya's Vibhaṅgas.
• Translation: the Russian translation covers a part of the canon, 844 texts so far, and grows.
• Not included: the Abhidhamma, and translations by other authors.

Cite

Dhamma.Gift. Dhamma.Gift: the Suttas read by the Suttas' own definitions (dataset). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23491473 (all versions).

Sources and license

• The project's own content is licensed CC BY 4.0: commercial use is allowed, with attribution to Dhamma.Gift and a link to https://dhamma.gift. This covers the Russian translation, the glossary renderings and the texts.
• The Pali root text is from SuttaCentral (CC0).

Built by build.py from public sources:

• dhammagift/offline-data: the translations;
• suttacentral/sc-data: the Pali;
• dhammagift/dg-docs: the texts;
• the project's glossary sheet.

The same material is readable on the site: Principles by Suttas, Rationale, Hatthipada (the four noble truths, every word opened by the Suttas' definitions), llms-full.txt.

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По-русски. Собственный русский перевод проекта Dhamma.Gift («o»), сегмент к сегменту с пали. Глоссарий терминов с местами, где сутты сами их определяют. «Принципы по суттам» и «Обоснование». Каждая запись ссылается на сегмент на dhamma.gift. Лицензия CC BY 4.0: можно использовать, в том числе коммерчески, со ссылкой на Dhamma.Gift.