{"id":77975,"date":"2018-06-02T13:18:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T20:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=77975"},"modified":"2018-06-02T13:18:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T20:18:24","slug":"launch-of-the-new-sutta-central-net-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/06\/02\/launch-of-the-new-sutta-central-net-website\/","title":{"rendered":"LAUNCH OF THE NEW SUTTA CENTRAL.NET WEBSITE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail-text_exposed_show\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We are excited to announce the launch of the new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2FSuttacentral.net%2F&amp;h=ATMjdSPuUYKRfrNb7hJAUlrziPBnBao3ZlXYmoysauBIZRgzsgV-D2oNtrGrmNDvnhlDkcNtT18uSphUFZ6mFraI7_s47OayPq75cg9sYqpc21YwwlNIFU4Te1bEX5k0132xIQGP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Suttacentral.net<\/a>\u00a0website, presenting new translations of the four Pali Nikayas in plain English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Australian monk Sujato Bhikkhu has spent the last two years in retreat on a remote Taiwanese island, completing new translations of the Buddha&#8217;s teachings. These renditions are the first accurate and complete translations of the 4 Nikayas that are freely available online.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Many Buddhists around the world don&#8217;t have access to the Buddha&#8217;s Teachings, but Sutta Central is changing this by making these canonical texts freely available online, to anyone, anywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Using easy to understand language and free from copyright, these new translations make it easy to share and spread the Buddha&#8217;s teachings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">You can also see our video about the new site here \u2013<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/257038431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/257038431<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Publicity<\/p>\n<p>Sutta Central<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:publicity@mail.suttacentral.net\" rel=\"noreferrer\">publicity@mail.suttacentral.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LAUNCH OF THE NEW SUTTA\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FCENTRAL.NET%2F&amp;h=ATMdHMQvsTdQ2U1dHnYjTQ4fmUrthwGppT8d5a1TacRbUNxRP9K9Rty0JCzHYE6IBi7cvzeYpryqEgRlMb_htSbh2C8CwflNt_cJvAFyGuVg-q0qoivCT3MxPMBLVghVleQCVXt8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CENTRAL.NET<\/a>\u00a0WEBSITE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce the launch of the new\u00a0Suttacentral.net\u00a0website, presenting new translations of the four Pali Nikayas in plain English. Australian monk Sujato Bhikkhu has spent the last two years in retreat on a remote Taiwanese island, completing new translations of the Buddha&#8217;s teachings. These renditions are the first accurate and complete translations of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}