SPPU to launch multi-lingual dictionary for comparative Buddhist studies tomorrow

Scholars conducting comparative studies on different comparative studies on different Buddhist traditions can now easily access a multi-lingual Buddhist vocabulary dictionary.

SPPU to launch multi-lingual dictionary for comparative Buddhist studies tomorrow

Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) has announced that it will launch a new book by the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies tomorrow. Scholars conducting comparative studies on different comparative studies on different Buddhist traditions can now easily access a multi-lingual Buddhist vocabulary dictionary.

Dictionary of Buddhist Terms

The ‘Dictionary of Buddhist Terms’ will be a single book dealing with headwords in Pali, Sanskrit, Tibetan and English languages. Until now, Buddhist vocabulary was available in all these languages but as individual dictionaries. The book contains the second and the third fascicules of a dictionary released last year. 

This latest dictionary will take headwords in Pali, the basis, and provide meanings in English. It will also provide equivalents in Tibetan, Sanskrit and Buddhist terminologies along with their respective attestation in the literature. The book aims to simultaneously be used in tracing the changing meanings of Buddhist terminologies across space and time. Besides, it may reveal both the common and unique vocabularies used in Pali and Sanskrit Buddhist traditions.

The multilingual dictionary project, supported by Deshana, an Institute of Buddhist and Allied Studies and Khyentse Foundation, was initiated in June 2020.

Earlier, SPPU had moved the science park to a new building of 15,000 sqft was inaugurated on the occasion of Science Day. In 2014, the center of science education and communication which is also known as the science park was started.
In addition to the microbiology and chemistry laboratory, four separate laboratories have been made available for the students. The science park also has a projection room for displaying science documentaries and two large telescopes for space observation.

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