Buswell / Jr. / Lopez The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4805-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Buswell, Robert E.

Jr., Robert E. Buswell

Lopez, Donald S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Acknowledgments ix

Conventions xi

Transcription Systems xiii

Asian Historical Periods xv

Timeline of Buddhism xix

Maps

Cradle of Buddhism xxv

Ancient India xxvi

Ancient China xxvii

Japan and Korea xxviii

Tibet xxix

Routes of Chinese Pilgrims xxx

Mount Sumeru World System (overview) xxxi

Mount Sumeru World System (side view) xxxii

Entries A-Z 1-1063

List of Lists 1065

Cross-References by Language

Chinese Cross-References 1103

Japanese Cross-References 1135

Korean Cross-References 1177

Pali Cross-References 1219

Sanskrit Cross-References 1229

Tibetan Cross-References 1231

Tibetan Phonetic Cross-References 1259

Über Autor(innen)

Robert E. Buswell Jr. holds the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is also Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies and founding director of the Center for Buddhist Studies. He is the editor-in-chief of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Buddhism and the author of The Zen Monastic Experience (Princeton), among many other books. Donald S. Lopez Jr. is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography and the editor of Buddhism in Practice (both Princeton), among many other books.