Topical Indexes

Radical (部首)

Total Strokes (總畫)

Terms Texts Persons Temples Schools Places

Names (gods, buddhas, bodhisattvas, demons, etc.)

East Asian Language Pronunciations

Paste full sentences or paragraphs to parse text and lookup via:

1. SmartHanzi-DDB Web Application
2. Locally installable DDB Access applications

About the DDB

• Introduction (日本語)
• Access Policies and Registration
• How to Contribute
• Sample files and extracts on Github
• Subscribe to the DDB Newsletter
• Subscribing Libraries
• Citing the DDB and CJKV-E Dictionaries
• Lexicographical and Canonical References
• Comprehensive East Asian Buddhist Reference Works Combined Index Project ("Allindex")
• Background Papers
• Last Month's New Entries
• DDB Style Sheet

External Resources: Lexical

• CJKV-English Dictionary
• Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries
• Thesaurus Linguae Sericae An Historical and Comparative Encyclopaedia of Chinese Conceptual Schemes
• Pali-English Dictionary (Pali Text Society)

External Resources: Textual Databases and Collections

• SAT Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō (Japan—linked with DDB)
• CBETA (Taishō plus other collections)
• The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue, by Lancaster and Park
• Korean Tripitaka (unofficial)
• Korean Buddhism: Collected Works (Hanguk bulgyo jeonseo) (unofficial)
• Chinese Buddhist Canonical Attributions Database
• IRIZ Zen Texts (Hanazono University)
• Thesaurus Literaturae Buddhicae (Jens Braarvig)

External Resources: Searchable Article and Bibliographical Databases

• Bibliography of Translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon into Western Languages
• H-Buddhism Zotero Bibliography: (maintained by the members of H-Buddhism)
• Article Database of the Japan Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies