Charles Muller’s Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

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1. English2. Chinese3. Sanskrit

4. Pali5. Tibetan

You may use Muller’s Dictionary to search terms by the following:

Muller’s Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

(1) Dictionary Access 1. Full Text Search (檢索 )2. Radical (部首 )3. Total Strokes (總畫 )4. East Asian Romanized Readings5. 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.

Dictionary Accesses :

You will find different ways to

access Muller’s Dictionary from his website.

Dictionary Access : Full Text Search (檢索 )

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.

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 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”.

Dictionary Access : Full Text Search (檢索 )

Searched results of “karma” v.s. “ 業”

Dictionary Access : Full Text Search (檢索 )

Next, you may select the word of your interest for more details.

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 .

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.

At the bottom of each page you will find

Dictionary References which tells you where

Muller got his resources from.

What is a radical?

Encyclopedia Lookup!

Dictionary Access : Radical (部首 )

You may access the dictionary through the radical of the character that you are looking for.

Dictionary Access : Radical + remaining strokes

Find out the remaining stroke for the character

Dictionary Access :Total Strokes (總畫 ) You may access the character by counting the

character’s total strokes.

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

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

Searched Results:

Dictionary Access :East Asian Romanized Readings

Here you may access the dictionary by

“how you pronounce the word”.

Remember for each term that you found, there’s a section of

[pronunciation]. Let’s take a look what each one looks like!

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

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

Searched Results - Ping-Ying

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

Searched Results - Wade-Gile

Searched Result:

With different readings, we will find different number of

results.

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.

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.

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.

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.