Thursday 9 January 2014

Scholars produce massive new cross-cultural Buddhist dictionary

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=10,11703,0,0,1,0

by Meg Sullivan, Source: http://phys.org/news/2013-12-scholars-massive-cross-cultural-buddhist-dictionary.html, Dec 10, 2013


Berkeley, CA (USA) -- Creating a 1.2 million–word dictionary devoted to the principles, practices, people, places and pennings of Buddhism might seem like the kind of feat possible only through the intervention of nirmanakaya, a kind of doppelganger of the Buddha, or manomanakaya, subtle magical bodies acquired during meditation.

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