The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism

This dictionary is the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of Buddhism in the English language. It contains well over 5,000 entries and is the first dictionary to cover all the Buddhist traditions and languages, including Korean, Japanese, Tibetan, Chinese, Pali and Sanskrit, as well as some terms and proper names in Vietnamese, Sinhalese, Lao, Thai, Mongolian, Khmer, Newar and vernacular Burmese. The same two major authors of this dictionary worked together to produce the two-volume Encyclopedia of Buddhism (Buswell, 2004), (RR 2004/300), and thus, were well-equipped to compile this dictionary on the same topic.

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