Template:Buddhist term
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Translations of {{{sa}}} |
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Buddhism Glossary |
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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 |
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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 |
Buddhism Glossary |
{{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
- {{Chinese}}
- {{DisplayTranslations}}
- {{Buddhism}}