On-line Tools

Sparsabhumi
A large list of Indian and Buddhist language software tools including word processors, translators, dictionaries, on-line dictionaries, and fonts.

Keiko Schneider’s Bookmarks
A site for teachers and students of Japanese. It has links to language learning resources, teacher resources, bookstores, newspapers and mass media, culture links, relevant organizations, study abroad programs, computing in Japanese to name just a few" (supplied note).

Rangjung Yeshe Tibetan-English Dictionary of Buddhist Culture
This dictionary of more than 66,000 entries consists of "verified entries from existing dictionaries, word-lists and glossaries . . . terminology used by translators who have received extensive teachings from living Buddhist masters, selected definitions and clarifications from classical literary works, and information of literary personages, sacred places, and names of scriptures" (supplied note).

Sadhu! (click on Pali education section.)
The Theravada Buddhism Web Directory and Portal provides a list of on-line Pali language resources.

Web Assisted Chinese Language Learning Forum of Harvard University
Provides a variety of on-line learning tools and exercises from a classical Chinese reader to Chinese pop songs.

Courses in Buddhist Primary Languages

We hope to add to our collection of links to courses in Buddhist primary languages and would greatly appreciate any information you could share with us regarding institutions not included on this page. Please contact us at asiaedit@po-box.mcgill.ca.

Brown University
Classical Chinese, Sanskrit.

Columbia University
Pali, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Classical Chinese.

Harvard University
Pali, Sanskrit, Classical Chinese, Tibetan.

Karma Kagyu Institute
Tibetan language seminars.

McGill University 
Pali, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Classical Chinese.

Sadhu! The Theravada Buddhism Web Directory and Portal
An on-line Pali tutorial.

Stanford
Classical Chinese, Kanbun.
(Other Buddhist languages are available through cross registration with UC Berkeley or through Stanford’s Special Languages Program.)

University of Alberta
Sanskrit, Classical Chinese, Tibetan.

University of California at Berkeley
Pali, Sanskrit, Classical Chinese, Tibetan.

University of California at Los Angeles
Sanskrit, Pali, Classical Chinese.

University of Wisconsin at Madison
Pali, Sanskrit, Classical Chinese, Tibetan.

Yale University
Classical Chinese, Sanskrit.