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Learn
Learn is the part of the app that explains rather than translates: 35 short articles about what the book takes for granted.
Who the figures in the prayers are. What a section does and why it stands where it does. How the ceremony runs, and which kinds of text it contains — a sūtra, an invocation, a mantra and a repentance formula are not the same thing and are not read the same way.
Tied to what you are reading
The articles do not stand apart: a term in the lookup sheet leads to the article that explains it, and an article points back at the sections of the book it is about. There is a search too, for when all you have is one word.
Written against sources, not asserted
Canonical statements — sūtra titles, the names of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, claims about what a text says — are checked against authoritative sources before an article appears. That check is not printed under the article: the app keeps no source list. How it is done is here on the website, on Sources and verification.