Buddhist Dictionary – Ven Nyanatiloka Thero

From The Preface To The First Edition:

As a first attempt of an authentic dictionary of Buddhist doctrinal terms, used in the Pāli Canon and its Commentaries, this present manual will fill a real gap felt by many students of Buddhism. It provides the reader not with a mere superficial enumeration of important Pāli terms and their English equivalents, but offers him precise and authentic definitions and explanations of canonical and post-canonical terms and doctrines, based on Sutta, Abhidhamma and Commentaries, and illustrated by numerous quotations taken from these sources, so that, if anyone wishes, he could, by intelligently joining together the different articles, produce without difficulty a complete exposition of the entire teachings of Buddhism.

This text is a Gift of Dhamma. You may print this file for your personal use, and you may make and distribute unaltered copies of this file, provided that you charge no fees of any kind for its distribution.

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    • Gamunu on November 25, 2012 at 6:21 am
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    Thnk you so much for the link it is so usefull ,and enlightning, can you publish about Ven Nayanathiloka also cos he had done so much to the Buddhism and for the people.

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