Buddhism and Asian religions: Reference works
This guide is intended to help students, faculty, and researchers locate and access sources and reference tools for the study of Buddhism and other Asian religions.
Reference works
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- Brill's Chinese-English Dictionary OnlineOnline Chinese-English dictionary based on Paul Kroll's Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese.
- Brill's Encyclopedia of BuddhismOnline interface for Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism, compiled in 2015 and edited by Jonathan A. Silk.
- Cologne Digital Sanskrit DictionariesSearch interface for 36 different Sanskrit dictionaries, including the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary and Edgerton's Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary.
- Daojiao cidianOnline searching interface for Li Shuhuan's Daojiao da cidian.
- Dictionary of BuddhismOnline interface for Damien Keown's A Dictionary of Buddhism.
- Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist TermsOnline search interface for the dictionary of Buddhist terms compiled by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous.
- Digital Dictionary of BuddhismCrowd-sourced dictionary for Buddhist studies featuring contributions from many prominent scholars.
- Digital 法寶義林 (Hôbôgirin)Digital version of the Hôbôgirin 法寶義林, an annotated catalog of the Taisho Tripitaka
- Encyclopedia of BuddhismOnline version of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism compiled in 2004 and edited by Robert E. Buswell.
- Foguang da cidianOnline search interface for this Chinese-language dictionary of Buddhist terms.
- Glossaries for Buddhist StudiesSearchable collection of downloadable glossaries for Buddhist studies.
- Old Tibetan DictionaryOld Tibetan (OT) Dictionary is an online reference work intended to help scholars to read, analyse, and translate Old Tibetan documents in their lexical specificity.
- Princeton Dictionary of BuddhismWith more than 5,000 entries totaling over a million words, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English. It is also the first to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- Rangjung Yeshe Dharma DictionaryWiki and dictionary of Tibetan Buddhist terms.
- Reibun bukkyōgo daijitenJapanese-language dictionary of Buddhist terms.
- Sanskrit Heritage SiteFeatures a number of useful tools, including dictionary search, declension and conjugation engines, a lemmatizer, and a Sanskrit text parsing engine.
- Tibetan-English DictionaryDictionary application developed by Christian Steinert that searches a combined index of over twenty dictionaries and glossaries.
- Tibetan Living DictionaryThe Tibetan Living Dictionary is intended to have a comprehensive scope for the Tibetan literary and spoken languages. It has recorded pronunciations of most terms in the three major dialects, and increasingly has associated photos, audio-video recordings, and detailed passages exemplifying terms’ usage.
- Treasury of LivesThe Treasury of Lives is a biographical encyclopedia of all known past masters of Himalayan religion, both Buddhist and Bon.
Databases
- Buddhist Studies Authority Database ProjectCollection of databases from Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts that includes dates, person and place names, and Tripitika catalogs.
- China Biographical Database Project (CBDB)The China Biographical Database is a freely accessible relational database with biographical information about approximately 470,000 individuals, primarily from the 7th through 19th centuries.
- Chinese Buddhist Canonical Attributions databaseThe aim of the database is to record information about ascriptions of Chinese Buddhist texts, especially in the very many cases in which scholars have questioned received ascriptions (as embodied, for example, in Taishō bylines).
- Chinese Religious Text AuthorityThe Chinese Religious Text Authority (CRTA) is a project that seeks to collect and present reliable bibliographic and scholarly information about religious texts in Chinese produced prior to 1949.
- Digital Database of Buddhist Tripitika CataloguesMulti-lingual collection of Chinese, Tibetan, Pali, and Sanskrit Tripitika catalogs.
- OSAGE: Online Spiritual Atlas of the Global EastThe Online Spiritual Atlas of the Global East was created by the Center on Religion and the Global East (CRGE) at Purdue University. OSAGE allows users to visualize the spatial distribution of individual religious sites in the Global East, as well as see how geographic regions compare with each other in terms of the number of religious sites.
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