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DharmaDictionary.net

Mission & aims

This website has the purpose of being dynamic and growing, a dictionary of current usage, full of resources for translators, as non-sectarian and open-minded as possible, and available on the Internet for free use by everyone.
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Contents

• Backmatter material of old and new translation works
• Buddhist Masters a listing of historically important teachers
• Categories
• Database of translations of major and minor texts.
• Dictionaries - list of published Tibetan-English dictionaries
• Indices of old and new translation works
• Lineages & Teachings
• Literature
• Lotsawas the lotsawa-network
• Quotes used in Tibetan literature
• Resources
• Shedra schools list Tibetan philosophy/language schools in international locations
• Tibetan Buddhist teachers a record of the recent and present-day masters who have actively taught the Dharma to our generation
• Tibetan texts in Wylie format available online, here or elsewhere
• Translation-tools for lotsawas and scholars

Samples

• Sample of an entry for the Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary on DharmaDictionary.net
  
• Sample page of teacher Longchenpa, Chatral Rinpoche, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
• Sample page of translator Gyurme Dorje

Editors/contributors

As this online dictionary of current usage comes up-and-running, there will be plenty of opportunity to add and edit. To nominate the best person you know, write to: dictionary@rangjung.com -- (currently you can just create your own account)

Note to editors and contributors

Edit access requires user id and password.

Please read the

• User's Guide for usage and configuration help and the
• documentation on customizing the interface for the more complex stuff.