Simple search
- Default search matches titles, descriptions, IDs, and topics/qualities/similes. Use Search the sutta texts under the results to look in the full discourses (one-time download).
quest — finds “quest” (fuzzy)^SN or ^AN — only in that collection (e.g. SN, AN, MN, DHP)!word — exclude discourses containing word'sammāsati or "sammāsati" — exact whole word, diacritic-exact (matches “sammāsati”, not “sammasati” or “sammāsatima”)"letting go" — exact phrase (each word exact)illusion | ignorance — either wordakuppa cetovimutti or animmita — Pali terms (fuzzy)
Combining
^SN consciousness — SN discourses that mention consciousness!^DHP — all collections except DHP^AN urgency !mindfulness — AN discourses with “urgency” and without “mindfulness”
By field (advanced)
Restrict to title or body: title:..., content:...
title:element content:consciousness — title contains “element”, body contains “consciousness”title:element (content:space | content:consciousness) — title “element”, body has “space” or “consciousness”
PTS citations
Look up a discourse by Pali Text Society volume/page. Use a pts: (or volpage: / leading PTS) prefix so ordinary searches are not affected.
pts:AN V. 91 — Anguttara volume V, page 91 (covers mid-sutta pages too)pts:MN 2 or pts:MN ii — all discourses in that PTS volumepts:SN V 31 or volpage:SN ii 4 — Samyutta citationspts:SN 1.3, pts:SN 1 1.3, or pts:SN 1. 1. 3 — SN volume 1, page 3 (the PTS 1.3 label, not sutta SN 1.3)PTS 4.152 — numeric volume.page (may match more than one nikāya)pts:Iti 27 — single-volume collections (Iti, Ud, Snp, Dhp, …)