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First, an important note for everyone to remember:

A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about Buddhism. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

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Title

WikiProject Buddhism

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Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to promote better coordination, content distribution, and cross-referncing between pages dealing with Buddhism and its sects, texts, terms, philosophies, etc.

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Related Wikiprojects

Some related WikiProjects are WikiProject Tibetan Buddhism, WikiProject Hinduism and WikiProject Hindu Mythology and...

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Participants

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Structure

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Organizing pages:

Current:

  • Buddhism provides an overview of the topic, with short descriptions of all the major subtopics.
  • List of Buddhists lists all people notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia who happen to be Buddhist
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Categories

We have the following categories currently:

We clearly need more. Possibly we need subcats for "Branches of Buddhism," but I've avoided making such so far becuase of the ensuing fracas that would doubtless cause. "Perfection of Wisdom Sutras" might be useful, and there may be other subcats of texts. Buddhist mythology is currently empty...surely there's some material that could be classified as Buddhist mythology, like "Supernatural Beings in Buddhism," or "Non-Humans in Buddhism", or whatever the hell we finally went with at the main Buddhism page.

We also need a general "Buddhists" or "People in Buddhism" category for everyday non-philosophers (Philosophers can then be subcatted to this), and a subcat for Buddhist clergymen and women.

Also, I'm working on Category:Buddhist philosophical concepts, unless someone has an objection to that wording.

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Article Construction

Discuss the format for each article based on the WikiProject. Include various categories applicable to the topic.

We should probably discuss article types, which may have different parameters. Example types might be:

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Texts

Articles on texts should include:

  • Authorship, if known. If the supposed authorship of a text is not established by scholarship, list it as an attribution: "The text is attributed to such-and-such."
  • Date
  • Place of origin (if known)
  • A rough overview of the contents of the text
  • Separate sections for particularly important ideas in the text. Alternatively, short descriptions and links to articles on said ideas.
  • Whatever caveats regarding disputes over readings of the text, etc.
  • Associated sect(s) (Indicate, where appropriate, whether the text originated within the sect or was adopted by it after the fact.)
  • A table of translations, like this one:
Mulamadhyakakarika
Author Title Publisher Date Notes
Garfield, Jay L. The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way
 Oxford University Press 1995 A translation of the Tibetan version together with commentary.
Inada, Kenneth K. Nagarjuna: A Translation of his Mulamadhyamakakarika With an Introductory Essay The Hokuseido Press 1970 Romanized text and translation.
Kalupahana, David J. Nagarjuna: The Philosophy of the Middle Way State University of New York Press 1986 Romanized text, translation, and commentary.
McCagney, N. Nagarjuna and the Philosophy of Openness Rowman & Littlefield 1997 Romanized text, translation and philosophical analysis.
Sprung, M. Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way RKP 1979 Partial translation of the verses together with Chandrakirti's commentary.
Streng, Frederick Emptiness: A Study in Religious Meaning Abdingdon Press 1967 Translation and considerable analysis.
Thurman, Robert Wisdom: The Fundamental Stanzas on the Middle Way draft
  • A "See also" section for internal links.
  • An "External links" section for articles about the text, electronic versions of the text. (Separate sections for this?)
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People

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Ideas

For concepts, special terms, and doctrines (e.g., "nirvāṇa"):

  • Ideally, the name of the article should correspond to the primary version of the term (i.e., anatta for anātman]]), with redirects sending commonly used alternatives the page.
  • The first paragraph should name the term, provide variants in different languages, identify in what sect or sects it has currency, and briefly describe it.
    • But: What should the format for specifying languages be?
      • Anatta (Pāli; Sanskrit: anātman) is a doctrine yadda yadda...
      • But one could also use abbreviations: "Anatta (Pāl. (or whatever the real abbreviation for Pāli is; Skt: anātman) is a doctrine yadda yadda..."
      • or even link off-page to a glossary (most likely Buddhist terms and concepts) that stores the language information.
      • Also, once the various terms have been defined, is it still necessary to use whatever the canonical term, or can they be regarded as interchangeable?
  • Following sections should include information like:
    • A fuller description of the idea
    • Its relation to previous ideas in and out of Buddhism. (e.g., "The doctrine of anātman is a rejection of the concept of the ātman, 'self,' or 'soul,' that is vital in several mainstream Indian philosophies. It also has implications that challenge the concept of Braḥman or Paramātman (as Braḥman), which are essential to Indian monism.")
    • Disputes or schisms involving the idea
    • Connections to common user practices
    • Discussions of important texts for understanding the idea
    • Quotes (preferably with full attribution)
    • See also
    • External links
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Formatting

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Transliteration

Transliterated terms from Sanskrit and Pāli should take advantage of Unicode diacritics; for example, "Nirvāṇa". These may be input either directly into the edit menu, as Unicode text, or as HTML character references such as ā. A list of relevant characters is currently available at IAST. Several template-based shortcuts also exist for transliterations, but these are strongly deprecated.

Transliterations from Chinese should be in Pinyin, not Wade-Giles.

Of related concern: how to express terms in origin language. (I.e., is it "Skt" or "Sanskrit", etc.)? Priority of languages? (See Talk:Buddhism)

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Terminology

We aim to build up a coherent and inclusive list of Buddhist terms at Buddhist terms and concepts, but that may be a while yet. In the mean time, there are certain tricky words or clusters of words about which we may need some degree of standardization. For example

  • Buddhism is a (blank)
    • Some concern has been raised that Buddhism should not be called "a faith"; this seems reasonable. But Buddhism is probably not a "philosophy" either. "Religion" seems the safest term...right?


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Discussion

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Templates for Articles

...Forthcoming, hopefully/

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Some general examples:


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Specific features and issues

  • Zen has an internal glossary. Should this feature be spread to other articles, or should there be a central glossary, or both?
  • Nagarjuna and Prajnaparamita feature tables comparing translations of texts. Does this feature seem sufficently valuable for us to make a standard of it?
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Links to outside resources

  • For Windows users who deal in devanagari and/or romanization on a regular basis, try Itranslator
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To-do

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