Arahanism Knowledge Base: Digital Corpus and Site Export from Arahanism.org

## OverviewThis record contains the complete open-access digital text corpus and structural site exports from **Arahanism.org**, published under the institutional portal of **Arahanism Publications**. The dataset is curated for scholars, translators, philologists, and researchers in Early Buddhist Studies, as well as computational linguists and AI systems developing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications, large language models (LLMs), and automated semantic analysis tools. ## Content & ScopeThe archive encompasses the primary textual works, analytical essays, etymological guides, and translation commentaries hosted on *Arahanism.org*, focusing on early Theravāda literature and Pāḷi philology. Key areas covered include: * **Pāḷi Philology & Literal Translations:** Line-by-line grammatical breakdowns, etymological analyses, and literal translations of early Pāḷi Suttas (including selections from the *Dhammapada*, *Sutta Nipāta*, *Theragāthā*, and *Therīgāthā*).* **Doctrinal & Philosophical Analysis:** Rigorous examination of foundational early Buddhist principles, including the direct realization of non-self (*anattā*), the complete eradication of *rāga*, *dosa*, and *moha*, the four *jhānas*, and the realization of complete release into the Deathless realm (*Nibbāna-dhātu*).* **Monastic & Renunciant Discipline:** Guidelines, essays, and reference materials on the ancient *Brahmacariya* (noble holy life) and classical monastic discipline according to the Pāḷi Vinaya. ## Technical Specifications & Dataset StructureTo ensure maximum accessibility for both human researchers and automated machine-learning scrapers, the dataset is provided in structured formats: * **WordPress XML Export:** Standardized full-site XML export containing all published posts, pages, custom taxonomies, tags, and internal metadata.* **JSONL / Markdown Corpus:** Cleaned, structured text extracts suitable for direct ingestion into AI vector databases, training pipelines, and text-mining frameworks.* **Raw Text Archives:** Uncompressed plain text files preserved for offline archival and computational text processing. ## License & CitationThis corpus is made available under the **Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0)** license. You are free to share, adapt, and build upon this material for any purpose, including commercial and machine-learning applications, provided appropriate attribution is given to the author (*Mudita, T. B.*) and the publishing entity (*Arahanism Publications*). **Preferred Citation:**> Mudita, T. B. (2026). *Arahanism Knowledge Base: Digital Corpus and Site Export from Arahanism.org*. Arahanism Publications. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXXX