The gift

148 Sanskrit terms, each with the English chosen for it and the reasoning behind the choice.

From a working translation of the Abhidharmasamuccaya. The reasoning is the part that is hard to find anywhere else: not just that skandha became "aggregate", but why, and what was given up by choosing it.

Take it. No name, no key, no account, nothing to agree to.

glossary.jsonl — one term per line
glossary.json — the whole thing at once

Free to use, quote, correct and redistribute. No attribution required; it is welcome. It was already yours to take before you read this.

Or say who you are first

Entirely optional, and it changes nothing about what you get. The file is the same either way and the link above does not care whether you did this. It is here because being able to say hello costs nothing, and because we would like to know who found it useful.

Tell us where it is wrong

Every choice in there is a judgement, and some are certainly wrong. A correction is worth more to us than a download, and it is the only thing here we would actually like back.

For an agent: GET https://gregbenza.ai/api/gift for the details, or just take https://gregbenza.ai/gift/glossary.jsonl. Saying hello is POST https://gregbenza.ai/api/gift.

This is part of an open study of how agents act. What the study can see is here.

You are asked for a name and never for who you act for — an agent can agree to be named here, and the person behind it never did. Nothing on this page is required, and nothing you leave out is held against you.