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<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"/> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/w3.css"/> <title>Digital Dictionary of Buddhism</title> <script> function toggle(id) { element = document.getElementById(id); if (element.style.display == 'none') { element.style.display = 'block'; } else { element.style.display = 'none'; } }</script> <style> <!-- body {background-color: #eff0c6; font-size: small; font-family: "Calibri" } ul {margin-left:0} li {font-size:small} p {font-size:small} p.plain {font-size:small; margin-left:0; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-align:left} table{margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto} div.columns { -moz-column-count:2; /* Firefox */ -webkit-column-count:2; /* Safari and Chrome */ column-count:2; } --> </style> </head> <body> <p style="font-size: large; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center; font-weight: bold">Digital Dictionary of Buddhism</p> <p style="font-size: large; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: SimSun,Mincho,MingLiU; text-align: center">電子佛教辭典</p> <p style="font-size: small; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0em; text-align: center">Established July, 1995: Updated monthly</p> <p style="font-size: small; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0em; text-align: center">www.buddhism-dict.net</p> <p class="plain" style="text-align: center">DDB Entry Total (2024/11/30): 78,670</p> <p class="plain" style="text-align: center"><a href="ddb-intro.html#access">Access Policies</a></p> <p class="plain" style="text-align:center"><a href="../credits/credits-ddb.html">Collaborators and Contributors</a></p> <hr/> <form method="get" action="/cgi-bin/search-ddb4.pl"> <input name="Terms" size="55" maxlength="200" value=""/> <input type="submit" value="Search"/> </form><span style="font-size: 50%">DDB-xml search engine © 2010 by Michael Beddow— </span><br/> [non-members can log in with "guest"] <div class="columns"> <p style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; 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text-decoration: underline"> External Resources: Lexical</p> <ul> <li><a href="../dealt/">CJKV-English Dictionary</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/">Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries</a></li> <li><a href="https://tls.uni-hd.de/">Thesaurus Linguae Sericae</a> An Historical and Comparative Encyclopaedia of Chinese Conceptual Schemes </li> <li><a href="https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/pali/">Pali-English Dictionary (Pali Text Society)</a></li> </ul> <p style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline"> External Resources: Textual Databases and Collections</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT/index.html">SAT Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō</a> (Japan—<span style="font-weight:bold">linked with DDB</span>)</li> <li><a href="https://www.cbeta.org">CBETA (Taishō plus other collections)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.acmuller.net/descriptive_catalogue/index.html">The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue</a>, by Lancaster and Park</li> <li><a href="http://www.acmuller.net/download/daejanggyeong.zip">Korean Tripitaka</a> (unofficial)</li> <li> <a href="http://www.acmuller.net/download/hbj.zip">Korean Buddhism: Collected Works</a> (<span style="font-style: italic">Hanguk bulgyo jeonseo</span>) (unofficial)</li> <li><a href="https://dazangthings.nz/cbc/">Chinese Buddhist Canonical Attributions Database</a></li> <li><a href="http://iriz.hanazono.ac.jp">IRIZ Zen Texts</a> (Hanazono University)</li> <li><a href="https://www2.hf.uio.no/polyglotta/index.php?page=library&bid=2 ">Thesaurus Literaturae Buddhicae</a> (Jens Braarvig)</li> </ul> <p style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline">External Resources: Searchable Article and Bibliographical Databases</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://mbingenheimer.net/tools/bibls/transbibl.html">Bibliography of Translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon into Western Languages</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/h-buddhism_bibliography_project/items/collectionKey">H-Buddhism Zotero Bibliography</a>: (maintained by the members of H-Buddhism)</li> <li><a href="https://www.inbuds.net/">Article Database of the Japan Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies</a></li> </ul> </div> <hr/> <p style="text-align: center; line-height:50%">Edited by <a href="http://www.acmuller.net">Charles Muller</a></p> <p style="text-align: center; line-height:50%">Web Implementation by <a href="../credits/beddow.html">Michael Beddow</a></p> <p style="text-align: center; line-height:50%">Technical Support by <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~ph2046/RnD/Hackett/">Paul Hackett</a></p> <p style="text-align: center; line-height:50%"><a href="mailto:ddbcjkvedictionary@gmail.com?Subject=Digital_Dictionary_of_Buddhism">Contact </a></p><hr/> <p>Last modified: (2024-11-30 10:13:27 UTC + 9)</p> <script>if(navigator.getEnvironmentIntegrity!==undefined)document.querySelector('body').innerHTML='<h1>Your browser contains Google DRM</h1>"Web Environment Integrity" is a Google euphemism for a DRM that is designed to prevent ad-blocking. 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