Wikipedia:WikiProject Buddhism
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The WikiProject Buddhism is a group of people dedicated on improving Buddhism-related contents in Wikipedia. This page contains only the suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you should not 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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[edit] 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.
[edit] Related Wikiprojects
- WikiProject Tibetan Buddhism
- WikiProject Hinduism
- WikiProject Hindu Mythology
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Jainism
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Zoroastrianism
[edit] Participants
If you would like to help, feel free to add your name below!
- कुक्कुरोवाच
- Pratyeka
- Jel
- KGF0
- Godric
- Nat Krause
- Phil179
- Eequor
- Clay Collier
- Linda Walters (Tâm Bi Nguyện)
- PY Lt
- deeptrivia I am managing Portal:Buddhism and would need a lot of support from here.
- Theli 93
- João Correia
- Kripkenstein
- Bob Gould
- Antony Woods
- ॐ Kris (☎ talk | contribs)
- Underneath-it-All
- Vap0rtranz (talk • contribs) — (ex-)Christians, meditation
- Rentwa
- Deebkie
- Charlene Not Buddhist, but I meditate, have adapted the Four Truths and Eighfold Path, and live the Middle Way.
- Sdorrance (interested mostly in Buddhist philosophy)
- Ghostexorcist - I tend to edit and create articles in some way associated with buddhism.
- Richard Buddhist, Writer and Educator
- User:WoodenbuddhaBuddhist and writer
- Saposcat
- Kungming2
- Eukesh
- LarryR (talk) - most comfortable contributing based on popular English translations of Pali texts.
- NinaEliza 03:58, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- AQu01rius (talk • contribs)
- jmlee369
[edit] Structure
[edit] Organizing pages:
Current:
- Buddhism provides an overview of the topic, with short descriptions of all the major subtopics.
- Buddhist terms and concepts is a rough glossary of terms, needing considerable work to bring it up to date.
- Timeline of Buddhism collects events in Buddhist history
- List of Buddhists lists all people notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia who happen to be Buddhist
- Buddhist texts discusses Buddhist texts, divided by tradition...
- Schools of Buddhism gives a tree of Buddhist sects
- Buddhism regions
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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:
[edit] 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:
| Author | Title | Publisher | Date | Notes |
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| 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?)
[edit] People
[edit] Monastic Article Naming Conventions?
I recently created and edited some articles about Thai Forest Tradition. And User:Nat_Krause was kind enough to clean up behind me a bit (redundant cats and redir Ayya Tataaloka Bhikkhuni=> Tataaloka after rm a title). I didn't realize that honorific titles are not used when naming an article about a monastic until I looked up Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles)#Clerical names. I had followed the naming of the many other articles on Theravadin monastics... which were mis-named. To prevent future confusion and re-work, I'd like to propose that we:
- Create and post article naming conventions for Buddhist monastics (I see that Tibetan titles have been discussed)
- Post the conventions on the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles) page.
- Clean up the existing monastic article titles (e.g.: Bhikkhu Bodhi) to be consistent with
Nat's editthe convention we choose. --- Deebki 09:32, 30 August 2006 (UTC) (strikeout done 21:46, 23 September 2006 (UTC) Deebki)
Naming WITH Titles for Now: Following a discussion amongst several editors, the Thai Forest Tradition articles were named WITH the titles (e.g.: Bhikkhu Bodhi and Ayya Tathaaloka). It was decided that not using titles was simply insulting and culturally inpappropriate. For now, that is the convention our small group will use. I would like that to be consistent with other editors. Anyone interested in helping us shape a convention, perhaps for specific traditions (to remain culturally appropriate)? --Deebki 21:53, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 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?
- But: What should the format for specifying languages be?
- 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
[edit] Formatting
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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?
- Reincarnation vs. Rebirth
- Discussion ongiong. See talk:reincarnation
[edit] Awards
The Wheel of Dhamma
The Wheel of Dhamma, introduced by User:Srkris is a special award, and unlike Barnstars, is granted through nomination and acclamation by the participants of this project.
Attention Wikiproject Buddhism participants: to nominate, or vote upon the nomination of another participant of this project whom you feel has contributed in an extraordinary way to the improvement of Wikipedia's Buddhism articles, click here.
Current Nominees:
[edit] Hall of Fame
In special recognition by their fellow participants, for exemplary contributions to the presentation of Buddhism on Wikipedia which go above and beyond all expectations, the following extraordinary Wikipedians have been presented the Wikiproject Buddhism's highest award, the Wheel of Dhamma:
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[edit] Discussion
[edit] Templates for Articles
...Forthcoming, hopefully/
[edit] Proposal for Infobox:Buddhist teachers
I'd like to propose that an Info box be created for Buddhist teachers, similar to the Template:Infobox Pope - see Wikipedia:List of infoboxes/Society scroll down to Religious leaders for the proposed color scheme. What items should be included?
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- Birth place
- Death date
- Death place
- Quote
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- School
- Lineage
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Are those the right things? What else, or what instead? It could automatically link to other pages or categories, but for now, that coding isn't something I know how to do. Thanks for considering this idea and for your input! Nightngle 14:11, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
- Can you give some examples of the sorts of things that you expect would go under "school", "lineage", and "order"?—Nat Krause(Talk!) 04:05, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
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- Thich Nhat Hanh, for example would be: school = Lâm Tế Dhyana/Zen (42nd generation), lineage = Liễu Quán (8th generation), and order = Order of Interbeing. His Holiness the Dalai Lama would be: school - Vajrayana (Tibetan), lineage - Gelugpa. That kind of thing. While this makes sense to me, are these the right words to organize a teacher's background/credentials for the different schools? There are a number of Buddhist teachers with articles on Wikipedia, so an appropriate info box seems to be a good idea. Nightngle 19:22, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
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- Thanks for the input Nat - I'm trying to think of better terminology as well. I think that the distinctions do apply to all Buddhist teachers, but perhaps examples would help with the right category names. Even though I'm using "Zen" as a school in the example I made for TNH, maybe Mahyana, Thervadin, and Vajrayana are actually the schools, since these the the big three when folks talk about the "schools of Buddhism". Then the "denomination" (clearly not the right term!) within the big three are Zen, Pure Land, Gelugpa, etc.; then a breakdown of the types of practice within those "denominations". Nightngle 22:09, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
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- I've been doing some reading of Buddhism 101 type articles, etc. It seems that the terms are far from standard with "the three major schools/branches of Buddhism" being common, but then it seems that other distinctions are either called "school" as well, or "sect" - not acceptable for this purpose, given the rather derogatory connoation. I'll keep looking... Nightngle 14:24, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
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I gave creating this template a shot (it's my first!) Template:Infobox Buddhist teacher - see what you think, and to see it in action, check out Thich Nhat Hanhs article. Please let me know if changes should be made. Nightngle 02:48, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Some general examples:
[edit] 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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[edit] Links to outside resources
- Pāli Text Society Dictionary (Commonly and delightfully abbreviated "PTSD", or more commonly "PED")
- Online interface to itrans. Choose "roman" for your language, and "html" for your output.
- For Windows users who deal in devanagari and/or romanization on a regular basis, try Itranslator
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