Template:Infobox Buddhist term/doc

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 Sanskrit, Pali, Sinhala, Burmese, Chinese, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Mon, Shan, Thai, Tibetan, Vietnamese, and Indonesian. Since this template is for the English-language Wikipedia, an English-language translation (if provided) is displayed at the top of the table.

Usage

Blank template

{{ Infobox Buddhist term
| title = 
| en = 
| pi = 
| sa =  
| my  = 
| my-Latn =
| zh = 
| zh-Latn =  
| ja = 
| ja-Latn = 
| km = 
| km-Latn = 
| ko = 
| ko-Latn = 
| lo =
| mnw = 
| mnw-Latn = 
| shn = 
| shn-Latn = 
| si = 
| si-Latn = 
| ta = 
| th = 
| bo = 
| bo-Latn = 
| vi = 
| id =
}}

Parameters

Parameters are:

• title (optional template title) [if not specified, then the "pi" or "sa" parameter is used for the title]
• en (English translation)
• sa (Sanskrit in IAST) [if "title" and "pi" are both not provided, then this value is the defaulted title]
• pi (Pali in IAST) [if "title" is not provided, then this value is the defaulted title]
• si (Sinhalese)
• si-Latn (Sinhalese transliteration)
• bn (Bengali)
• my (Burmese)
• my-Latn (Burmese IPA)
• mnw (Mon)
• mnw-Latn (Mon IPA)
• shn (Shan)
• shn-Latn (Shan IPA)
• zh (Chinese)
• zh-Latn (pinyin)
• ja (Japanese)
• ja-Latn (Japanese transliteration)
• km (Khmer)
• ko (Korean)
• ko-Latn (Korean transliteration: RR)
• lo (Lao)
• vi (Vietnamese)
• bo (Tibetan)
• bo-Latn (Tibetan transliteration)
• th (Thai)
• ta (Tamil)
• id (Indonesian)
• fontsize (default=85%)
• collapsible (default=NULL and thus disabled; set TRUE to enable)

Required parameter: Either "title" or "sa" (Sanskrit) or "pi" (Pali) 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).

Examples

Translations of Four Noble Truths
Sanskrit	catvāri āryasatyāni
Pali	cattāri ariyasaccāni
Bengali	[চতুরার্য সত্য chôturarjô sôtyô] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)
Burmese	သစ္စာလေးပါး (IPA: [θiʔsà lé bá])
Chinese	四聖諦(T) / 四圣谛(S) (Pinyin: sìshèngdì)
Khmer	អរិយសច្ចៈទាំង៤
Korean	사성제 (RR: saseongje)
Indonesian	Empat Kebenaran Mulia
Glossary of Buddhism

Example 1

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

{{Buddhist term
|title=Four Noble Truths
|pi=cattāri ariyasaccāni
|sa=catvāri āryasatyāni
|bn=চতুরার্য সত্য (chôturarjô sôtyô)
|zh=四聖諦(T) / [[:zh:四圣谛|四圣谛]](S)
|zh-Latn=sìshèngdì
|ko=[[:ko:사성제|사성제]]
|ko-Latn=sa-seong-je
|my=သစ္စာလေးပါး
|my-Latn=θiʔsà lé bá
|id=Empat Kebenaran Mulia
}}

In this example, there is no "en" (English) parameter specified since the title is in English.

Translations of abhidhamma
English	higher teaching, meta-teaching
Sanskrit	abhidharmā
Pali	abhidhamma
Bengali	[অভিধর্ম্ম ôbhidhôrmmô] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)
Burmese	အဘိဓမ္မာ (IPA: [əbḭdàɴma̰])
Chinese	阿毗達磨 (Pinyin: āpídámó)
Japanese	阿毘達磨
Khmer	អភិធម្ម (aphitam)
Korean	아비달마 (RR: abidalma)
Sinhala	අභිධර්ම (abhidharma)
Tibetan	chos mngon pa
Thai	อภิธรรม (apitam)
Vietnamese	A-tì-đạt-ma
Glossary of Buddhism

Example 2

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

{{Buddhist term
|pi=abhidhamma
|sa=abhidharmā
|si=අභිධර්ම
|si-Latn=abhidharma
|bn=অভিধর্ম্ম (ôbhidhôrmmô)
|zh=[[:zh:阿毗達磨|阿毗達磨]]
|zh-Latn=āpídámó
|ja=[[:ja:阿毘達磨|阿毘達磨]]
|km=[[:km:អភិធម្ម|អភិធម្ម]] (aphitam)
|ko=[[:ko:아비달마|아비달마]]
|ko-Latn=a-bi-dal-ma
|my=အဘိဓမ္မာ
|my-Latn=əbḭdàɴma̰
|th=[[:th:อภิธรรม|อภิธรรม]] (apitam)
|vi=[[:vi:A-tì-đạt-ma|A-tì-đạt-ma]]
|bo=chos mngon pa
|en=higher teaching,<br />meta-teaching
}}

In this example, no "title" parameter is specified, so the "pi" (Pali) parameter is used for the title. In addition, English is the last parameter passed but is the first value displayed in accordance with the enforced display order mentioned above.

See also

• {{Infobox Chinese}}
• {{Buddhism}}