Telegram bot

It's the same bot under two names — @Dhammagift_bot and its short form @Dgift_bot — same functionality, either one works. It works in two ways: inline, right in the message box of any chat or group, and in its own chat, where the same things work plus the commands and the settings.

Inline

Type @dgift_bot in the message box of any chat and then a Pali word (kacchapa), a text number (mn10, sn56.11) or Velthuis transliteration (.t .d .n ~n aa ii uu → ṭ ḍ ṇ ñ ā ī ū, so satipa.t.thaana works as well as satipaṭṭhāna). Telegram answers with:

• ✏️ Send: <text> — the main result: that text with links to the site and the dictionary;
• dictionary words that match what you typed — pick one, and the message uses the proper spelling with diacritics.

Above the list there is a button — 🔎 Open Dhamma.gift En: sn56.11 — it opens Dhamma.gift as a Mini App with the query already searched.

Search and read

A picked result lands in the chat as a message of the bot: the text, the links and, under the message, the buttons.

• 🔎 Dhamma.gift — the word or the text in the site's search;
• 📘 Dictionary — the word in the dictionaries (dict.dhamma.gift);
• Read at 🔎 Dhamma.gift En — the text itself, in the reader.

An extra word does not break the link: mn10 metta still opens mn10.

The same search and reader are the Mini Apps behind /extra: search, reading and dictionary.

Uposatha days

/uposatha in the bot's chat, or @dgift_bot uposatha in any chat — the next 30 days as the suttas count them: the 8th, 14th and 15th lunar day of each half-month, six days a month. Without a city the list is the one for Bodh Gaya, where the day runs from 18:00 to 18:00.

@dgift_bot uposatha Chiang Mai (or /uposatha Chiang Mai) — the same days with the real sun times of a city: when the day begins (sunset), dawn, noon and when it ends (the next sunset). The city is remembered, so the bare command keeps using it; /uposatha reset forgets it. The city is looked up in a local gazetteer of every city above ~15 000 people (34k of them, spelling mistakes tolerated), with the Open-Meteo geocoder for the rest.

The dates are the same for everybody — the moon is one — and only the sun times are local. The list ends with Times: begin · dawn · noon · end, and two buttons sit under the message: the Ru/En switch and the link to the full calendar at dhamma.gift/uposatha-calendar.

In the bot's chat

Everything above works here too — just without @dgift_bot: send a word (saariputta), a text number (mn10) or uposatha, and you get the same message with the same links and buttons. On top of that, the bot has commands and settings.

Command	What it does
/start	the welcome message and the interface language
/extra	links to the Mini Apps: search, reading, dictionary
/uposatha	Uposatha days for the next 30 days
/help	help (in progress)

Settings

• Language — /start switches it, and so does the button under any message (Lang En/Ru / Язык Ru/En). The choice is remembered and affects the links: the Russian interface leads to dhamma.gift/ru and dict.dhamma.gift/ru.
• The city for the Uposatha list — /uposatha <city> remembers it, /uposatha reset forgets it, and the empty /uposatha keeps showing it.
• The Menu button next to the message box (DG en / DG ru) — opens dhamma.gift as a Mini App in the language you chose.