Buddhist Studies Lab
Buddhist Canon & Research
Free
New in 1.1: Q&A — ask about the exact passage you are reading, answer, give lotuses. Read and search the Pāli Canon, CBETA and Vietnamese canons offline.
Buddhist Studies Lab is a workbench for reading and researching the Buddhist canon.
NEW: Q&A
• Ask a question attached to the exact passage you are reading; readers tap it to jump straight to that passage.
• Answer, reply, give lotuses, mark the best answer; profiles, journals, and messages between friends.
• Sign in with Apple or Google to write — reading needs no account.
• Community rules; moderators review photos and links; report and block right in the app.
OFFLINE CANON LIBRARIES
• Pāli Tipiṭaka (SuttaCentral) with Vietnamese and English translations.
• CBETA Chinese Canon (Taishō, Xuzangjing and more) with page–column–line references for citation.
• Vietnamese canons: Linh Sơn, VBETA with printed page numbers, Vietnamese translations of Chinese texts, Āgamas.
• Sanskrit Buddhist texts (GRETIL), Buddhist books, liturgy, and multilingual Buddhist dictionaries.
Each library is a data pack downloaded once; after that, reading and searching work without a network.
READ AND COMPARE
• Two versions side by side: Pāli ↔ Vietnamese, Chinese ↔ Vietnamese, one translation ↔ another.
• Full-text search with or without diacritics, in Chinese characters and Sanskrit; matches highlighted.
• Margin notes, reading bookmarks, per-text tables of contents.
CITATIONS AND LIBRARY
• APA, MLA and Chicago citations in Vietnamese, English or Chinese — in-text and bibliography forms.
• Passage notebook, collections, RIS/BibTeX export.
• Search scholarly literature (OpenAlex, Crossref, DOAJ, DOAB…) and fetch open-access PDFs.
SYNC
• Library, notebook, notes and bookmarks sync between Mac and iPad through your own iCloud.
No ads, no tracking. Your library, notes and notebook stay on your device and in your own iCloud; only what you post in Q&A goes to the Q&A server.]]ư
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Version 1.1 — Q&A
• New Q&A community: ask a question or write a post attached to the exact passage (or the whole text) you are reading — readers tap it to jump straight there.
• Answer, reply, give lotuses to helpful posts, and mark the best answer.
• Search questions; filter by Sutta · Vinaya · Abhidharma · Books and by topic; paged lists.
• Profiles, following, journals, and messages between friends.
• Notifications for new answers, lotuses and messages.
• Sign in with Apple or Google — only needed to write; reading needs no account. Delete your account in the app.
• Community rules, reporting and blocking; photos and unfamiliar links are reviewed by moderators before they appear.
The developer, Hieu Ho Duc, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
- Seller
- Hieu Ho Duc
- Size
- 43.5 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
- iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPad
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Messaging and Chat
User-Generated Content
- Copyright
- © 2026 Không Hoa