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Asian Studies Languages and Cultures: Indian Subcontinental, Tibetan & Buddhist Studies

This guide includes information for Chinese studies, Japanese studies, Korean studies, Indonesian studies and Asian studies.

Key databases

ATLA Religion Database via EbscoHost (1949 - present)
References to scholarly works on religion, biblical studies and related fields.
World Religion Database
Contains statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world
Religious Periodicals via Proquest
Full text of articles from academic and popular journals on religion.

Journals - for the latest articles

Library Journal search
Use the library's journal title search to view available listings. Alternatively click the links below to view a selection of Indian/Buddhist-related material.
Global Buddhism
GRETIL : Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages and related Indological materials from Central and Southeast Asia
Journal of Buddhist ethics
The Western Buddhist review : the journal of the Western Buddhist Order

Web links

Dictionaries

Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries
Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
Includes Apte and Mcdonnell Sanskrit Dictionaries; PTS Pali-English Dictionary; Turner’s Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages.
Sanskrit Dictionary for Spoken Sanskrit
Digital Corpus of Sanskrit
Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism
This authoritative,up-to-date reference work covers Buddhist traditions across Asia.

Downloadable Introduction to Sanskrit

Devanāgarī script and fonts

Aksharamala
Devanāgarī fonts: Chandas
Devanāgarī fonts: Nakula and Sahadeva
Hindi script online tutor
The Devanagari Script Tutor was created in 2001 to help Hindi students familiarise themselves with the script. Its aim is to introduce students to Devanagari and to demonstrate how it is written and pronounced.
The Sanskrit Heritage site

McComas Taylor’s Little Red Book of Sanskrit Paradigms

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