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Chinese

I’m posting here resources I’m finding useful for by very tentative steps toward the study of Chinese language, with the aspiration to learn enough classical Chinese to read Buddhist texts.

Links

The amazing Digital dictionary of Buddhism http://www.buddhism-dict.net/ddb/

Hanxi to Pinyin converter: https://www.chineseconverter.com/en/convert/chinese-to-pinyin

Posts

• Chinese Buddhist terms lookup
  by Tenzin
  July 20, 2023
  From Nan Tien, Fo Guang Shan Australia: https://ntireader.org/ “The Nan Tien Institute (NTI) Buddhist Text Reader (NTI Reader) is a free, open source project for use in reading and analyzing Chinese Buddhist texts. For more a more detailed description of the NTI Reader, see the page Description of the NTI Reader. To find out what… Read more: Chinese Buddhist terms lookup
• Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
  by Tenzin
  July 20, 2023
  A monumental work edited by Charles Muller: http://www.buddhism-dict.net/ddb/ From the site introduction: “This dictionary is a compilation of Buddhist terms, texts, temple, schools, persons, etc. found in Buddhist canonical sources. Its compilation was initiated in 1986 during my first semester of graduate school, upon my realization of the dearth of comprehensive English language reference works… Read more: Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
• Chinese Buddhist text resources
  by Tenzin
  January 10, 2023
  John Kieschnick at Stanford has compiled these resources for study of Chinese Buddhist texts: https://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/primer-chinese-buddhist-writings
• Learning Chinese characters
  by Tenzin
  January 10, 2023
  This book uses ancient memory techniques as described in Lynne Kelly’s “Memory Code” specifically visual association and and story-telling methods. In my opinion the idea is good, but the execution may be overly complex. I find better recall if I derive my own images and make stories with whatever association is spontaneous and natural. https://www.tuttlepublishing.com/language-books/chinese/character-books/tuttle-learning-chinese-characters
• Chinese Etymology
  by Tenzin
  January 10, 2023
  “Uncle hanzi” A useful online etymology resource for classical and simplified Chinese. Uses small seal, bone scripts etc. https://hanziyuan.net/#%E5%8D%B3