Access to Insight

The website has been around for many years, and the teachings found here have been influential in my life. I started learning dhamma while in my teens, 25 years ago, and it truly helped me to find myself. The detail, authenticity, and presentation help to make the teachings sink in. Although I am not a practicing Buddhist, but a Christian, I recommend anyone seeking balance in their lives to study the principles found here and they will improve their lives.

Thank you for your commitment to the Dharma. This app with the words of Buddha is so valuable. 🙏🏼

Large collection of incredible teachings. May all gain insight and be happy!

This is an incredible resource and we are fortunate to have it. The inclusion of dark mode is awesome! Many thanks

The Dharma in this app helped me learn fluent German, obtain a 68k scholarship, and race in a track state championship against someone who went on the play for the NFL. Practicing Dhamma is work, but it’s the most fulfilling and rewarding work I found in my years on this earth.

Nothing else can compare with this app it’s fully Loaded with everything you could Possibly need. It’s practical and extremely useful.

This is a great app to spread the Buddha’s word I would like to see an ability to highlight parts and mark them for later reading

There are a number of so-called "Buddha quotes" apps, which are mostly pithy sayings and pseudo-Buddhist-sounding, New Age pablum. There isn't necessarily annoying deeply wrong with such stuff in general, but when it claims authority by attaching the Buddha's name to it, well... That's misleading and, potentially, detrimental to one's progress on the Path. Fortunately, we have Acces to Insight, which corrects this issue in a major way. The core texts are all legitimate suttas from the Pali canon (the earliest and most authoritative record of the historical Buddha's teachings), with scholarly yet readable translations; in addition, ATI provides many more recent commentaries and texts from Thailand, the US, and other places, which are clearly identified by author and translator, so that no one will mistake them for ancient texts or proceed under false assumptions. There is, quite simply, nothing else even remotely like ATI that is both widely available and free. If you want to gain a more historical understanding of Buddhist thought and practice, with easy, on-the-go access, then ATI is your best bet, no question about it.

I've been using the Access to Insight web site for years to study the Pali Cannon. So happy to see it become an app. Not many other FREE apps that offer so many resources to study Buddhist sutras.

This is a very nice compendium of suttas as well as study guide.