Template:Buddhist term

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Translations of

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[edit] Purpose

The purpose of this template, Buddhist term, is to display a set of term-specific translations from languages historically associated with Buddhist texts. For this template, these languages are Pali, Sanskrit, Sinhala, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Tibetan. Since this template is for the English-language Wikipedia, an English-language translation (if provided) is displayed at the top of the table.

[edit] Usage

Parameters are:

  • en (English translation)
  • pi (Pali in IAST) [This value is also the default template title]
  • sa (Sanskrit in IAST) [If pi is not provided, this value is the title]
  • si (Sinhalese)
  • si-Latn (Sinhalese transliteration)
  • zh (Chinese)
  • zh-Latn (pinyin)
  • ja (Japanese)
  • ja-Latn (Japanese transliteration)
  • vi (Vietnamese)
  • bo (Tibetan)
  • bo-Latn (Tibetan transliteration)
  • th (Thai)
  • fontsize (default=85%)
  • collapsible (default=NULL and thus disabled; set TRUE to enable)

Required parameter: Either pi (Pali) or sa (Sanskrit) is a required parameter.

Display order: Above is the actual order in which provided translations are displayed regardless of the order in which the parameters are passed to this template.

Multiword values: Language-specific parameters can be passed multiword strings as demonstrated in the example below for the parameters en (English) and bo (Tibetan).

[edit] Example

The following text on the left is displayed as the template on the right.

Translations of

abhidhamma
English: higher teaching,
meta-teaching
Pali: abhidhamma
Sanskrit: abhidharmā
Sinhala: අභිධර්ම
(abhidharma)
Chinese: 阿毗達磨
(pinyin: āpídámó)
Japanese: 阿毘達磨
Vietnamese: A-tì-đạt-ma
Tibetan: chos mngon pa
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{{Buddhist term
|pi=abhidhamma
|sa=abhidharmā
|si=අභිධර්ම
|si-Latn=abhidharma
|zh=[[:zh:阿毗達磨|阿毗達磨]]
|zh-Latn=āpídámó
|ja=[[:ja:阿毘達磨|阿毘達磨]]
|vi=[[:vi:A-tì-đạt-ma|A-tì-đạt-ma]]
|bo=chos mngon pa
|en=higher teaching,<br>meta-teaching
}}

Note that, in this example, English is the last parameter passed but is the first value displayed in accordance with the enforced display order mentioned above.

[edit] See also

Languages