---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for Chinese Studies Newsletter http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 01 Jul 2003 (HL) New in IGCS - Dictionaries: A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms Ed./Corp.: William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous [ed. of orig. print version]; Charles Muller [ed. digitized version]. URL.: http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/soothill/soothill-hodous.html Language: English, Chinese (UTF-8). Self description: [... Although] an extremely dated work, having reached completion during the mid 1930's, [... and thus] the understanding of the philosophical terminology coming out of such systems as Mâdhyamika and Yogâcâra [... tending] to be simplistic, if not completely erroneous [...,] about every serious scholar of East Asian Buddhism has a copy of the Soothill/Hodous dictionary in her/his personal library (perhaps stashed somewhere next to a copy of Mathew's). This is an indication of an important fact about the dictionary: there is a large amount of information contained within it that can't readily be found elsewhere. Most notably information on Indian and Central Asian place names, personal names, temple names and so forth, but also lots of information on hybrid Sanskrit and transliterations that one will not find in any other dictionary, East Asian or otherwise. Contents: (1) Preface to the Digital Edition (Why Digitize Soothill?; Status of the Digital Document and Treatment of its Contents; Acknowledgments); (2) Professor Soothill's Preface; (3) Professor Hodous' Preface; (4) A Dictionary of Chinese-Buddhist Terms; (5) Download (HTML file and XML Source). Note: Large file (3,5 MB)! Resource suggested by Matthias Arnold, Heidelberg University, Germany. _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno E. Lecher INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINESE STUDIES -- editor http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ An archive of this list as well as an subscribe/unsubscribe facility is available at: http://listserv.uni-heidelberg.de/archives/igcs-l.html