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Dictionaries

• Project name: Fo Kuang Shan Chinese Buddhist Dictionary.

Project representative(s): Ven. Hui Ray.
This is a CD-ROM version of the extensive Fo Kuang Shan Buddhist Dictionary, which was released in book format in 1988. This electronic dictionary includes 22,608 entries, with an impressive search engine. The presently available version needs Chinese Windows 95, but the wish list of the authors includes eventual availability on other platforms or at least beyond this specific version of Windows. At this stage, Sanskrit diacritics included in the dictionary are displayed following conventions proper to the Fo Kuang Shan dictionary's electronic text, and appear in the presented version without the actual diacritical marks.
Recent developments: The dictionary was presented at the 1997 Otani meeting, used in conjunction with the editing of a Big5 Buddhist text on-screen. An internet version of the dictionary is being planned.
• Project name: Digital CJK-English and Buddhist-CJK-English Dictionaries

Project representative(s): Charles Muller (acmuller@gol.com)
Project description: Charles has been compiling two dictionaries for use in the study and translation of classical East Asian Buddhist, Confucian and Taoist documents since 1986. In 1994 he began his first efforts and digitalizing these two works, placing the Buddhist dictionary on the Web in July of 1997 and the CJK-English dictionary on the Web in the spring of 1997. Both dictionaries are being updated in terms of content, and enhanced in terms of their electronic capabilities on an ongoing basis. These dictionaries are currently available only in JIS code, but Unicode versions are anticipated for the near future. Charles' web site houses, in addition to these two dictionaries, a wide range of resources for the study of East Asian Language and Thought.
Recent developments: At the Otani (1997) meeting, Charles demonstrated both works (which are now deeply interlinked with each other) in terms of their functionality through web browsing software. He also showed how both dictionaries can be used as an aid in textual study and editing inside a CJK-supported word processor by means of the construction of a simple macro.
• Project Name: Sanskrit Dictionary-Database

Project Representative(s): Jong-cheol Lee, Academy of Korean Studies, Seoul, Korea
Prof. Lee is developing a Sanskrit lexicographical polyglot database which will include mappings among Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese and Korean. The emphasis on this project will be towards electronic (WWWeb), rather than book implementation. It will be an open-ended project, both in terms of the gathering of content and the nature of the arrangement of data. It is hoped that this project will be able to hook up on a hyperlink basis with other related Sanskrit projects, such as that described in the following presentation. Dr. Lee, as head of the project, is currently assisted by three Indian Sanskrit scholars and a Tibetan monk.

 

• Project Name: Tibetan Dictionary Project

Project Representative(s): Leigh Brasington (Nepal-U.S.A
Leigh's group has created an an electronic Tibetan-English dictionary which will soon be available on the market. A fast search engine written in C makes the 81,950 entries of this tool readily available for Windows users. Although some difficulties remain when sorting the Tibetan composite alphabet, this contribution by a professional programmer demonstrates that the challenge of one of the most complex scriptures can be met with success when specialists are sufficiently motivated. No update has been received since the Taipei (1996) meeting.