Buddhist Calendar - Bodhinook

Bodhinook is a calm, accurate companion for Buddhist practice: the observance days of your own tradition, the Pali suttas and Mahāyāna sutras, a meditation timer whose bells always ring, and a mala counter – everything stored and calculated on your phone. No ads, no subscription, no account, no data collection.

📅 CALENDAR FOR YOUR TRADITION
• Thailand, Laos, Cambodia: Wan Phra on waxing 8 and 15, waning 8 and 14/15 (Thai lunar calendar), Māgha, Visākha and Āsāḷha Pūjā, Khao Phansa, Ok Phansa, Kathina season, Loy Krathong
• Myanmar: uposatha days, Kason and Waso full moons, Thadingyut, Tazaungdaing, Thingyan
• Sri Lanka: every Poya day with its name, as published officially
• China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Vietnam: lunar date, fast days (1st and 15th, six or ten zhai ri), Buddha’s Birthday, Ullambana, Guanyin days, Bodhi Day and more – computed for each country’s own time zone
• Japan: Nehan-e, Hanamatsuri, Higan, Obon, Jōdō-e
• Tibet, Mongolia, Bhutan: Phugpa-system dates with leap months and repeated days, Losar, Saga Dawa, Chökhor Düchen, Lhabab Düchen, Ganden Ngamchoe
• Month view with the lunar day of every date, and a home-screen widget

🔔 REMINDERS YOU CONTROL
• The evening before and the morning of each uposatha or festival day
• Optional verse of the day from the Dhammapada
• Every reminder can be switched off

📖 TEXTS, EXACTLY AS PUBLISHED
• Dhammapada – all 423 verses in Pali with Bhikkhu Sujato’s translation
• Khuddakapāṭha, Metta Sutta, Maṅgala Sutta, Ratana Sutta, Dhammacakkappavattana, Anattalakkhaṇa, Satipaṭṭhāna, Ānāpānasati, Kālāma, Sigālovāda and more
• Daily chanting: homage, refuges, precepts, recollection of the Triple Gem
• Read the Pali in Roman, Thai, Myanmar, Sinhala, Khmer or Devanagari script – a letter-by-letter conversion
• Heart Sutra, Diamond Sutra, Amitābha Sutra, Universal Gate chapter and the Great Compassion Dhāraṇī in the Chinese canon, with Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese readings of the Heart Sutra
• Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ and the Seven-Line Prayer in Tibetan script
• German and Vietnamese translations where a CC0 translation exists; search, bookmarks, text size, continue where you left off

🧘 MEDITATION TIMER
• Singing bowl, small bell or wooden fish, synthesised in-house – no recordings
• Bells are scheduled as exact alarms, so they ring even with the screen off or the app closed
• Preparation time, interval bells, respect for silent mode, streak and history

📿 MALA
• 108, 54 or 27 beads with a long vibration at the end of each round, daily and lifetime totals

✅ CHECKED BEFORE RELEASE
• Thai Wan Phra days for 2026 match two published calendars exactly
• Every day of 2025–2028 matches the Hong Kong Observatory and Korean lunar tables
• Myanmar dates match the reference calendar; Tibetan dates match the published tables
• The app explains its calculations – see “How accurate is it?” inside the app

🌍 LANGUAGES
• 37 languages including Thai, Burmese, Sinhala, Khmer, Lao, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan and Mongolian

🔒 PRIVATE
• No internet permission in the store version, no analytics, no ads
• No horoscopes, no fortune-telling, no chatbot – just the calendar, the texts and the practice

Sources: Pali texts – Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka (CC0); English translations – Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0); German – Sabbamitta (CC0); Vietnamese Dhammapada – Thích Minh Châu (CC0), all via SuttaCentral. Chinese sutras – Taishō edition, public domain, transcribed by Wikisource. Calendars – pythaidate, mmcal, date-tibetan and Astronomy Engine (MIT).

Recent changes:
The home screen name of the app now appears in your device language.