Composite Index of East Asian Buddhist Lexicographical Sources ("allindex.xml")

Primary Compilers: Urs App, Christian Wittern, Charles Muller, Michel Mohr, Hur In-Sub

Initial Release Date: 4/26/99

Updated: 03/01/2006


The "allindex" file set is an ongoing compilation of the indexes of East Asian dictionaries of Buddhism. It was initiated in the form of the Zendics.dat file published on the ZenBase CD-ROM, by the International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism (IRIZ), developed by Urs App and Christian Wittern. That file contained complete index information for the sources listed in the IRIZ bibliography below (58,563 entries). Using this file as a basis, we have been continuing to add indexes from other lexicons, among the most significant of which are the index to Nakamura Hajime's Bukkyōgo daijiten, the Fo Guang Dictionary, Ding Fubao, Hirakawa's Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary, the Bussho kaisetsu daijiten, the Oda and Mochizuki dictionaries, as well as a number of other smaller Buddhist dictionaries. This file will be further supplemented by the digitization of other East Asian Buddhist lexical resources, presently in progress.

Each entry contains a field for the headword (Chinese characters), the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese readings of these characters, an ID number, and a list of sources for the word that have been identified.


[Sample]

<entry ID="b4e00">

<hdwd></hdwd>

<pron lang="zh" system="py">yī</pron>

<pron lang="ko" system="hg"> </pron>

<pron lang="ja" system="hi">いち</pron>

<dictref>

<dict name="ZGD">28a</dict>

<dict name="Ina-Z">75</dict>

<dict name="ZD">269</dict>

<dict name="Naka">45a</dict>

<dict name="FKS">1111</dict>

<dict name="BCS">0001</dict>

<dict name="YBhI"/>

</dictref>

</entry>


Indexed works

1. From IRIZ

a. Urs APP and Christian WITTERN

b. At IRIZ; ABE Rie, Urs APP and Michel MOHR

2. At Toyo Gakuen University; Charles Muller, et. al.

3. At the Chung-Hwa Institute for Buddhist Studies; Christian Wittern, et. al.

4. At the Research Institute of the Tripitaka Koreana; In-Sub Hur, et. al.


Wherever possible, missing characters are encoded with Mojikyō numbers (&Mxxxxxx;). Kanjibase (&Cx-xxxx;) numbers that remain in the index have not yet been matched with their Mojikyō equivalent. Characters not yet contained in Mojikyō are encoded in algebraic format.


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At this time, this compilation contains approximately 290,000 terms, and is now included within the full-text search function of the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism.


Last modified: Sat Jul 19 13:59:17 JST 2008