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.

In the frame: what is typed in the message box of any chat or group, not in the bot's own chat.

If the word is in the built-in mini dictionary (the Pāli–English one, with a Russian translation for the Russian interface), its short meaning is shown in the list under the word, and in the sent message — between the word and the links:

kacchapa — masc. tortoise; turtle; lit. drinking marsh

A form is traced back to its dictionary word (kacchapā → kacchapa), up to four words are shown with … if there are more (the list is not exhaustive), the part of speech is in italics, and when there is no Russian translation of a word the English one is shown. Machine-translated Russian entries are marked [пер. ИИ].

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); its short meaning from the mini dictionary is already in the message, above the links;
• 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, dictionary and Memo.

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, with Bodh Gaya's real sunset, dawn and noon times.

@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). /uposatha <city> in the bot's chat also remembers the city, so the bare command keeps using it; /uposatha reset forgets it. The inline query does not remember the city.

An empty inline query — @dgift_bot and a space — shows the Uposatha list for your saved city, or for Bodh Gaya if there is none.

In the frame: what is typed in the message box of any chat or group, not in the bot's own chat.

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.

How to read these days is on the Uposatha days page. The same calendar is an app with widgets, Uposatha by the Suttas: App Store · Google Play · Microsoft Store.

In the bot's chat

Search and reading work here too — just without @dgift_bot: send a word (saariputta) or a text number (mn10), and you get the same message with the same links and buttons. For the Uposatha days use /uposatha: a plain uposatha is searched as a word. On top of that, the bot has commands and settings.

Command	What it does
/start	the welcome message, with a button that switches the interface language
/language	choose the interface language (English / Русский)
/extra	links to the Mini Apps: search, reading, dictionary, and the 🛞 Memo button (in the bot's own chat)
/docs	the link to this documentation
/uposatha	Uposatha days for the next 30 days

Settings

• Language — /language (two buttons, the current one is checked) sets it; the button under the /start welcome message and under any message (Lang En/Ru / Язык Ru/En) switches it. The choice is remembered and affects the links: the Russian interface leads to dhamma.gift/<query>?lang=ru and dict.dhamma.gift/ru/<query>.
• 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.