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Publication News
= Now in preparation =
A Comprehensive Dictionary of Buddhism
By Hisao Inagaki

It has been my long-cherished desire and, I believe of all Buddhist students, to have a comprehensive, and yet practical, dictionary of Buddhism. A Dictionary of JapaneseBuddhist Terms., first published in 1984, was my initial attempt to realize this desire. Over the years, this handy dictionary, with some 5,000 entries packed in less than 480 pages, has served the purpose of making general Japanese Buddhist terms accessible to Western students. The demand for this disctionary has necessitated reprints in enlarged editions; the most recent (fifth) edition published in 2003 contained about 5,500 entries in nearly 550 pages.
My wish to enlarge this dictionary substantially proved impractical due to the fact that the printing which used to be set manually is now electronically processed. Therefore, I had no other choice but to edit a new version using more updated methods. As it turned out, this change has given me unlimited freedom in relation to both the scope and content of this work. Many new entries drawn from various sources in India and China - not just Japan - have been added, covering the range of different schools of thought and including even non-Buddhist thoughts, such as the Vedas and Upanishads from India, Confucianism and Taoism from China, and Shinto and new religions from Japan. Apart from adding a number of entries derived from Chinese and Japanese Pure Land texts, I have ventured to explore further dimensions of Buddhist studies, both Mahayana and Hinayana, esoteric and exoteric, historical as well as doctrinal. Although the entry words are in Romanized Japanese, I have tried to give their Sanskrit and Chinese equivalents wherever possible.
The total number of entries is now nearing 13,000 covering more than 1,200 pages. Single entries often cover a number of pages. A separate volume comprising comprehensive indeces of terms in various languages, e.g. an index of Chinese characters, arranged according to the number of strokes, will prove a useful guide for readers with varied interests.
I hope that this discionary will be published in 2007. If you would like to make a tentative reservation of your own copy, please write to me at: A-1911, 1-2 Akutagawacho.
Takatsuki, Osaka 569-1123, Japan.
Please include your postal address
and email address.
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Notice: For some unforeseen reasons, the publication
of this dictionary will be delayed indefinitely.-July, 2009

last update: 09/05/2011

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