Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

電子佛教辭典

(1) Dictionary Access: Search

(2) Dictionary Access: Indexes

Radical (部首)

Total Strokes (總畫)

Names (gods, buddhas, bodhisattvas, demons, etc.)

(3) Front Matter

• Introduction
• Password Access
• Collaborators and Contributors
• Contribution Authoring Guidelines
• Subscribing Libraries
• Citing the DDB and CJKV-E Dictionaries
• Lexicographical and Canonical References
• Comprehensive East Asian Buddhist Reference Works Combined Index Project ("Allindex")
• Background Papers

(4) External Resources: Lexical

• CJKV-English Dictionary
• WWWJDic Server (Jim Breen)
• Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon
• Monier-Williams (local cache)
• The Online Tibetan to English Dictionary and Translation Tool
• Thesaurus Linguae Sericae An Historical and Comparative Encyclopaedia of Chinese Conceptual Schemes
• Nitartha Tibetan-English Dictionary
• Pali-English Dictionary (Pali Text Society)
• A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, by Soothill and Hodous

(5) External Resources: Textual Databases and Collections

• SAT Taisho shinshu daizokyo (Japan — linked with DDB)
• CBETA Buddhist Texts (Taiwan)
• Korean Tripitaka
• Korean Buddhism: Collected Works (Hanguk bulgyo jeonseo)
• IRIZ Zen Texts (Hanazono University)
• Thesaurus Literaturae Buddhicae (Jens Braarvig)

(6) External Resources: Searchable Article and Bibliographical Databases

• NTU Bibliography Retrieval
• Article Database of the Japan Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies
• Indica et Buddhica: Materials for Indology and Buddhology (Richard Mahoney)

Paste full sentences or paragraphs to parse text and lookup via:

1. SmartHanzi-DDB Web Application
2. Locally installable DDB Access Windows Application

For OpenOffice users: OpenOffice Hanzi Toolbar (including direct lookup for the DDB and CJKV-E dictionaries) by Louis-Dominique Dubeau

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