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Ask a research question and this workbench will surface canonical passages,
lineage transmission, contemporary voices, teaching angles, and gaps.
For talk prep and teaching planning — not for public use.
What this is
A research workbench, not a teacher. Ask a question about any dharma topic and it surfaces relevant passages from the Pāli canon alongside how Insight lineage teachers have engaged the same teaching.
How it works
Your question is matched against a library of 116 suttas and writings from 34 teachers. The tool retrieves the most relevant passages with full attribution — it does not generate dharma teachings or paraphrase the texts.
What you'll see
Each response is structured: canonical ground first, then lineage voices, then contemporary teachers, with source links throughout. If the corpus doesn't have a strong answer, it says so.
Try asking something like
- What does the Buddha teach about working with fear?
- How do teachers talk about the relationship between grief and impermanence?
- I'm giving a talk on the second arrow — what canonical ground is there?
- How have BIPOC teachers engaged the teaching on belonging and refuge?
- What's in the corpus on mettā as a path factor vs. a standalone practice?
This tool retrieves and attributes source passages — it does not generate dharma teachings.
All canonical texts are CC0 (SuttaCentral). Teacher passages are cited with full attribution.
Not carbon-neutral, but built for efficiency: small models, renewable infrastructure, on-demand processing.
Built by Wayne Taylor · waynetaylor.org
Researching the corpus…
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