Skip to main content

How to install The Digital Pali Reader

Installing the Digital Pali readerHot News. The Digital Pali Reader is now available online as a webpage.
Digital Pali Reader (alpha)

---  The remainder of this article is now out of date ---
Are you struggling to install the Digital Pali Reader - especially now the DPR requires a version of Mozilla Firefox that supports legacy extensions to operate? Well this is installation guide will walk you through the following stages:
  • Have the right Browser installed,
  • Download the DPR Extensions,
  • Load the Extensions into the Browser,
  • Finding the Extension in the Browser

 The Digital Pali Reader is a most useful tool for the amateur translator. It provides a database of the Tipiṭaka in romanised script with a search facility and the inbuilt dictionaries allow for instant lookup of any word. Although, it does not provide full text translations - which is where SuttaCentral is useful - it is well worth taking the time to install.

A Digital Pali Reader Installation guide

1, Have the right Web-Browser installed

First, you must have  Palemoon, for it to run on as legacy extension became unsupported by Firefox after version 56.0. Personally I recommend installing Palemoon. If you install Firefox then you must turn off the auto updates - which will leave you open to security violations.

 So this is fairly straight forward go to the browser installation page and follow the instructions.

2, Download the DPR Extensions

Download DPR extensions
Once you have one of the browsers installed, you can download the extensions.
https://pali.sirimangalo.org/ no longer lists them but I have archive copies available here:
Archived DPR XPI files
download both:
  • the DPR extension (digitalpalireader@yuttadhammo.bhikkhu.xpi)
  • and Myanmar Tipitaka extensions (DPRMyanmar@yuttadhammo.bhikkhu.xpi)
  • plus optionally the Thai Tipitaka & the Sanskrit dictionary extensions.

3, Load the Extensions into the Browser

Next the extensions are loaded into the browser as follows:
  1. Find the downloaded extension files; the .xpi filetype in Windows Explorer (probably in the downloads directory).
  2. Start your target browser (either Palemoon or ESR Firefox) if not already running,
  3. Drag and drop an XPI files into the browser window, one at a time,
  4. A notification will appears that an external source wants to install an add-on: click install
  5. Repeat for each XPI file
  6. Restart the Browser if necessary

4, Finding the Extension in the Browser window

Digital Pali Reader installationThe DPR should appear now as a side bar in the browser. If the DPR sidebar is not visible on the left then:
  • Go to the 'Open Menu' tab
  • Click on the DPR icon

Finally, Click on the ? symbol on the DPR sidebar to access the help instructions.

 I've recently made a video guide to installing and using the DPR:

Navigate Tipitaka with Digital Pali Reader (DPR) :Step-by-step Guide #2

Once you've installed the Digital Pali Reader, you'll be faced with many options. Well this tutorial explains how to navigate around the Pāli Tipitaka within the Digital Pali Reader firefox extension...


Next up: Navigating  the various numbering systems of the Suttas.

Labels:
More posts

Comments

IEBH said…
Hello, I would like to recommend the Tipitaka.app (https://tipitaka.app/ - https://www.facebook.com/tipitaka.org/).
January 09, 2019
Pali Studies said…
Thanks,
That's very cool. I'll add it to the resource page too.
January 09, 2019
Tiffany Maynor said…
A very informative post is this. I got all the info about how to install the digital pail reader. It will be beneficial for my work But I am getting an issue it was showing an error and written as Refill Canon Printer’s Ink while I was working on it. After some time it got solved automatically.
October 18, 2019
Bhante D said…
i went to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/enterprise/#download tht site downloaded the version that supports ESR then downloaded the ZIP from your link but it keeps saying the extension is corrupted...
July 08, 2020
Pali Studies said…
Sorry to hear that. I've just tested my version and I get the same result. It appears the ESR version of Firefox is now rejecting the extension.
Have you tried Palemoon?
There is the online DPR version.
https://www.digitalpalireader.online/_dprhtml/index.html
But if you need offline, you could also try the TPP:
https://github.com/bksubhuti/Tipitaka-Pali-Projector
And an introductory vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64PwmEf3utI
July 08, 2020
arichandran said…
thank you and very greatful.Installed DPR.
February 04, 2021
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

What is Pali Language? A little history

In all these grammar tutorials we have never stopped to ask: What is Pali?” “What does the word mean?” “What are the origins of Pali? And this is what we will investigate in this post.... What is Pali & Who Speaks it? Well, let's get the obvious answer out of the way: Pali is an ancient Middle Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language, in which, the scriptures of Theravada school of Buddhism - or Tipiṭaka - have been preserved and passed down. True. Today Pali is studied mainly to gain access to Theravada Buddhist scriptures, and is frequently chanted in a ritual context. But when we say a ' language ', most languages are named either after a population or a region, and we have no evidence of a region called Pali or even a population of Pali speakers... Along side this, nowhere in the Pali canon itself is there a mention of a language called Pali!
5 comments
Read more

Sutta Number to PTS reference converter

Easily look up PTS references in the Sutta Piṭaka. [New expanded coverage tables. Includes alternate numbering. Search accepts space, comma or period separated numbers, case insensitive, diacritic insensitive.] Quick Jump Table   PTS Vol Dīgha Nikāya (DN) D i , D ii , D iii Majjhima Nikāya (MN)   M i , M ii , M iii Saṁyutta Nikāya (SN) S i , S ii , S iii , S iv , S v Aṅguttara Nikāya (AN)   A i , A ii , A iii , A iv , A v Go to Khuddaka Nikaya (KN) ( New! KN ref converter ) Use the quick jump table above; Note: For Vol. i of SN, there are two sets of PTS page numbers for each sutta. This is because the L. Feer editions differs from Somaratne 1999. Or type a Sutta number or name into the search boxes below to search that column of the table!
4 comments
Read more

Pali Alphabet & using the PED Dictionary

What is the Pali Alphabet? How is it arranged? How do you use a Pali dictionary? Well, the first thing to note is that Pāli is written in many different scripts. As the buddhist canon travelled, local people used either Indian scripts or switched to their own local scripts. For more on local scripts see here . But for now we are just interested in the Romanized Pali alphabet. This runs Vowels first, then consonants. as follows: a, ā, i, ī, u, ū, e, o (ṃ*) k, kh, g, gh, (ṅ) c, ch, j, jh, ñ ṭ, ṭh, ḍ, (ḍh), (ṇ) t, th, d, dh, n p, ph, b, bh, m y, r, l, (ḷ), (ḷh), v, s, h [Note: the letters in brackets have no entries in the dictionary.] Pali is a phonetic  language so each entry above represents a single sound. Every letter always has the same pronunciation regardless of its context, so no letter has more than one pronunciation, and no sounds are represented by more than one letter. As there are more sounds in Pāli than letters in the roman alphabet, to make distinctions, special
Post a Comment
Read more

Learn Pali: Best way to start? 5 Tips to make it easy

Once people have answered the question: "Why learn Pali?" The next query is: "How do I learn Pali?" Here’s the way I suggest you begin with your study of Pali. Build foundations for language learning Start at the right level Stick with it Build vocabulary Make use of the Pali language tools 1 Build foundations for language learning One thing that you really should have before beginning to learn Pali is a basic understanding of general grammatical terms and concepts. Many of the Pali language grammar guides seem to assume you have studied Sanskrit or Latin before. If you haven’t, and you really don’t know the difference between a subject and an object, or the meanings of such terms as nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, prepositions, or declension and conjugation - then perhaps you should spend some time studying English grammar. I found that even though I'm a native English sp
13 comments
Read more

PTS reference converter: Khuddaka Nikaya

Easily look up PTS references in the Khuddaka Nikaya. (Or look up PTS references in the first four Nikayas ) The Khuddaka Nikaya is the fifth Nikaya known as Collection of Minor Texts , it consists of 15 to 18 books depending on tradition. I beleive, the original Pali Canon has 15 books while the Thai edition has 17 and the Burmese edition 18 books. These then have been arranged and numbered in a couple of different ways.
Post a Comment
Read more