freococo/vinaya-pitaka-pali-myanmar-parallel

Vinaya Pitaka: Pali-Myanmar Parallel Dataset

Description

This dataset provides a professionally aligned, paragraph-level parallel corpus of the Vinaya Pitaka (The Code of Monastic Discipline). It features the original Pali text (presented in Myanmar script) alongside its modern Myanmar translation.

The dataset covers all five major volumes of the Vinaya:

1. Pārājika (ပါရာဇိကပါဠိ / ပါရာဇိကဏ်)
2. Pācittiya (ပါစိတ္တိယပါဠိ / ပါစိတ်)
3. Mahāvagga (မဟာဝဂ္ဂပါဠိ / မဟာဝါ)
4. Cūḷavagga (စူဠဝဂ္ဂပါဠိ / စူဠဝါ)
5. Parivāra (ပရိဝါရပါဠိ / ပရိဝါ)

Dataset Structure

The data is provided in JSONL (JSON Lines) format. Each of the 3,335 rows contains:

• basket: The division of the Tipitaka (Vinaya Pitaka).
• book_pali: The title of the original Pali book.
• book_mm: The title of the Myanmar translation.
• chapter: The specific chapter context.
• sutta: The specific Sutta or rule title.
• paragraph: The canonical paragraph number.
• mm_page: The page number corresponding to the Myanmar printed edition.
• pali: The original Pali text (Burmese script).
• myanmar: The aligned Myanmar translation.

Source & Provenance

The raw digital files were sourced from the repository of pndaza (Github), whose work in digitizing Buddhist scriptures is foundational to this project.

The text itself follows the tradition of the Chattha Saṅgāyana (Sixth Buddhist Council), ensuring high accuracy and canonical integrity.

Credits and Acknowledgments

The creation of this dataset was made possible by the collective effort of many generations of scholars and practitioners:

• The Sangha: The distinguished monks and noble elders who preserved the Tipitaka orally and through palm-leaf manuscripts for over 2,500 years.
• Translators & Scholars: The unnamed monks and lay scholars who worked on the modern Myanmar translations to make the Dhamma accessible to the public.
• The Sixth Buddhist Council: For the rigorous editing and standardization of the Pali text.
• Digital Preservationists: Specifically pndaza, for making these texts available in modern digital formats.
• Creator/Compiler: freococo for the alignment, cleaning, and structuring of this parallel dataset.

Potential Use Cases

• Machine Translation: Fine-tuning LLMs or NMT models for Pali-to-Myanmar translation.
• Semantic Search: Building search engines for monastic law and Buddhist ethics.
• NLP Research: Morphological analysis of Pali and Myanmar languages.

License

This dataset is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0 Universal. You may copy, modify, and distribute this work, even for commercial purposes, without asking permission.