1. Charles Muller ’ s Digital Dictionary of Buddhism Click Here: http://www.buddhism-dict.net/ http://www.buddhism-dict.net/ REL 599 Dr. Lancaster Sandy Yang

2. 1. English 2. Chinese 3. Sanskrit 4. Pali 5. TibetanEnglishChineseSanskritPaliTibetan You may use Muller’s Dictionary to search terms by the following:

3. Muller ’ s Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (1) Dictionary Access 1. Full Text Search ( 檢索 ) Full Text Search 2. Radical ( 部首 ) Radical 3. Total Strokes ( 總畫 ) Total Strokes 4. East Asian Romanized Readings East Asian Romanized Readings 5. Terms, Texts, Persons, Temples, Schools, Places, Names (2) Front Matter (3) External Resources Here are categories of resources provided by Muller’s website. We will focus only on the Dictionary Access for now. You may click any link here directly.

4. Dictionary Accesses : You will find different ways to access Muller’s Dictionary from his website.Muller’s Dictionary

5. Dictionary Access : Full Text Search ( 檢索 )Full Text Search Let’s first try “Full Text Search”. You may type in the word of your interest in English or Chinese. Hit “Enter” or “Search” when you are finished.

6. Password Access :  Limited Use: Any user may access the dictionary by entering "guest" as the username with no password. This will allow a total of 20 searches in each of the DDB and CJKV-E dictionaries in a 24-hour period.  Unlimited Use Unlimited Use While you are accessing Muller’s website, you may encounter this window popping up your screen. This is how the website controls its users of different needs. If you don’t have an account, simply use Guest as your Username and click “ok” or “enter”.

7. Dictionary Access : Full Text Search ( 檢索 )Full Text Search  Searched results of “karma” v.s. “ 業 ”

8. Dictionary Access : Full Text Search ( 檢索 )Full Text Search  Next, you may select the word of your interest for more details.

9. http://www.acmuller.net/cgi-bin/xpr-ddb.pl?69.xml+id('b696d') Muller’s Dictionary provides you the term’s pronunciation, meaning, related terms. Click the words that are BLUE to view them.

10. Here’s the details of the terms that you just clicked, you may click “ “ on the top your page to go back to the previous page. Or continue searching.

11. At the bottom of each page you will find Dictionary References which tells you where Muller got his resources from.

12. What is a radical? Encyclopedia Lookup! Lookup! Dictionary Access : Radical ( 部首 ) Radical  You may access the dictionary through the radical of the character that you are looking for.

13. Dictionary Access : Radical + remaining strokes Radical  Find out the remaining stroke for the character

14. Dictionary Access : Total Strokes ( 總畫 ) Total Strokes  You may access the character by counting the character’s total strokes.

15. You may select the word of your interest from a list of words that have 13 Total Strokes

16. Searched Results: Now you may select the “terms” of your interest from a list of terms that contain the “word” that you’ve selected.

17. Searched Results:

18. Dictionary Access : East Asian Romanized Readings East Asian Romanized Readings Here you may access the dictionary by “how you pronounce the word”.

19. Remember for each term that you found, there’s a section of [pronunciation]. Let’s take a look what each one looks like!

20. When we click “pronunciations”, we will find a list of pronunciations that this word is being pronounced in different traditions.

22. Let us now practice using “Pinyin” to find “ye” (karma)

23. Searched Results - Ping-Ying

24. Now, let us try the Wade-Giles: “yeh” (karma)

25. Searched Results - Wade-Gile

26. Searched Result: With different readings, we will find different number of results.

27. English Terms A list of English terms are listed in alphabetical order. If you know the exact spelling of the English terms, you may press “ctrl” + “f” to search for the word.

28. Sanskrit Terms A list of Sanskrit terms are listed in alphabetical order. If you know the exact spelling of the Sanskrit terms, you may press “ctrl” + “f” to search for the word.

29. Pali Terms A list of Pali terms are listed in alphabetical order. If you know the exact spelling of the Pali terms, you may press “ctrl” + “f” to search for the word.

30. Tibetan Terms A list of Tibetan terms are listed in alphabetical order. If you know the exact spelling of the Tibetan term, you may press “ctrl” + “f” to search for the word.