Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Hardcover by Buswell, Robert E., Jr.; Lopez...

Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Hardcover by Buswell, Robert E., Jr.; Lopez, Donald S., Jr.; Ahn, Juhn (CON); Bass, J. Wayne (CON); Chu, William (CON), ISBN 0691157863, ISBN-13 9780691157863, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UKBuddhist Scholars Robert E. Buswell, Jr. (humanities, UCLA) and Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (Buddhist and Tibetan studies, U. of Michigan) have edited a dictionary of Buddhism with more than 5,000 entries and more than a million words. Buswell, an academic specialist in Korean Buddhism, spent seven years as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Korea, and Lopez has worked extensively on Tibetan Buddhist texts; their dictionary is designed to represent these traditions of Buddhism as fully as those of India, China, and Japan, which have been more familiar in the West. This is currently the most comprehensive one-volume dictionary of Buddhism in English. Entries are alphabetical in English, and often use terms in their home language rather than translating the term into an English equivalent. In addition to its alphabetical entries, th offers front matter on transcription systems and Asian historical periods, a timeline of Buddhism, and a series of maps orienting readers to the cradle of Buddhism, ancient India and China, Japan, Korea, and Tibet, pilgrim routes, and the Mount Sumeru World System. Th's appendices include a List of Lists (most important numerical lists used in Buddhist traditions to organize ideas, viz. The Four Noble Truths, The Five Effects, The Eighteen Sciences, usually with a short explanation) and cross-references organized by language (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Pali, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Tibetan-phonetic). It is intended for serious students of Buddhism and its associated writings, historical figures, events, ceremonies, and artifacts. Though as a dictionary, the text is designed to allow readers familiar with Buddhism to look up these specifics, rather than to provide an introduction to Buddhism or a professional discourse on advanced topics in Buddhist philosophy, short essays on core ideas do provide orientation to topics in Buddhist thought. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()