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A "mini" English Dictionary of Buddhism for every library
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I am of the opinion that this contemporary dictionary is the yet the most concise, comprehensive, updated and historically accurate work about Buddhism written in English.
At first impression, this dictionary may appear to be a book fully dedicated to a religious topic and written with an intention to reach a limited audience.
On close inspection,however, I am convinced that the author has done a marvelous job in this well researched work to qualify this dictionary as a must-have reference book and mini English dictionary on Buddhism for Buddhist readers, academics, students and researchers in Asian studies.
The book is concisely written and could be read as a little encyclopedia with topics arranged in alphabetical order.
The author has not only successfully dealt with a subject which may otherwise appeal only to interested readers with a religious, spiritual and philosophical background. But interestingly, the author has also nicely done it from a secular and historically accurately perspective for the layman who wishes to acquire more knowledge about Buddhism.
I have used this book for more than 1 year and have managed to find every Buddhist terminologies, historical characters, notes on practices, ceremonies,listed in English which I have encountered in other English and Chinese books on Buddhism.
This dictionary could be used as an INDEX and starting point to studies and readings into more detailed areas of Buddhism.
The book also a very international outlook as even Buddhist societies in America and United Kingdom and their brief history was entered into the 2000+ entries.
To add and make things more interesting to the average readers, the dictionary include concise history of the development of Buddhism in the countries which Buddhism is widely practised or has left its footprints.
Interested readers could find themselves read this book like a mini encyclopedia reference written in English in alphabetical order. Just to let off a secret, section "Q" has only 2 rather meaningless entries and cross references to other topic but it took only 1 page as a formality.
There is also a wealth of commentaries by the author in the book from what I would see as from a historical researcher's perspective.
I strongly believe that the author has done painstaking and extensive if not exhaustive research before putting every entries into his work.
Finally,this book could be easily updated and expanded into an encyclopedia comprising several volumes if most of the mainstream Buddhist sutra are to be included (in English) with interpretation. If so, this would be a challenging task for any author, an <Encyclopedia of Buddhism> in English.
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