The Pali Cannon

In progress.

I was researching things about Buddhism when I remembered that NaNoGenMo exists. I thought I should combine the two and procedurally generate Buddhist sutras.

I chose the Pali Canon as my corpus because it's a particularly large corpus that's easy to get a hold of in its entirety in one place. Also, I couldn't resist the urge to make a pun. (SPOILER ALERT: that's actually the real reason)

Right now I am just using Markov chains because I'm pretty shit at procedural text generation and I had a Markov script handy. I'll post my results shortly. I can't find a plaintext version of the corpus, so I am downloading and scrubbing an HTML version with promising results.

Corpus Source:
"Tipitaka: The Pali Canon", edited by Access to Insight. Access to Insight, 10 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/index.html . Retrieved on 20 November 2013.

No repository files, tests, or entry points are mentioned. The description outlines an in-progress experiment using the Pali Canon corpus, HTML cleanup, and Markov chains; review the cited corpus source and existing Markov script, then document the generated results as the completion point.

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