Research Guides: Buddhist Studies: Languages

Pāli

OCBS Courses -- Online courses from the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies
Online Pāli course
Free Pāli course by Bhikkhu Bodhi
This course is designed to help you to learn the basics of Pali grammar and vocabulary through direct study of selections from the Buddha’s discourses. It thus aims to enable you to read the Buddha’s discourses in the original as quickly as possible.
Digital Pāli Reader

UBC Sanskrit Learning Tools
Resources for learning Sanskrit Language
Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon (DSBC)
Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon: "The Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon (DSBC) is an ambitious project to preserve the original intellectual and spiritual heritage of Buddhism through digitization and organization of these texts into a complete and comprehensive Sanskrit Buddhist Canon that may be freely accessed online.
Heart Sūtra in Sanskrit by Vidhya Rao
Tibetan & Sanskrit lyrics, English subtitles available
GRETIL - Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages and related Indological materials from Central and Southeast Asia
The Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages (GRETIL) and related Indological materials from Central and Southeast Asia is a resource platform providing standardized machine-readable texts in Indian languages that have been contributed by various individuals and institutions.
Monier-Williams Sanskrit- English Dictionary (2008 Revision)

Nettle: Tibetan Language Learning Online
Nettle is open-source, open-access software developed for online delivery of instruction in Classical Tibetan language.

SEAlang Projects
Major Southeast Asian inscription database for "Hindu" and Buddhist epigraphy.
Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
South Asian languages dictionaries

Nepali Primer: Conversation and Grammar
Department of Asian Studies
South Asia Program
Cornell University