The present volume Dictionary of Buddhist Doctrinal and Technical Terms based on the Pali and Sanskrit-Buddhist literature has been compiled by Professor Binayendra Nath Chaudhury. The most important Buddhist doctrinal terms such as Cattari Ariya-saccani (four noble truths), viz., Dukkha (suffering), Dukkhasamudaya (cause of suffering), Dukkhanirodha (cessation of suffering), Dukkhanirodha-gamini-patipada (way to cessation of suffering) otherwise called Ariya Atthangika Magga (noble eight-fold path) or Majjhima Patipada (middle path), Paticcasamuppada (law of dependent origination), Paccaya (causal relation), Nibbana (nirvana), Anatta (soullessness), Anicca (impermanence), Jhana or Dhyana (meditation), Samvrti-satya (conventional truth), Paramartha-satya (absolute truth), Alayavijnana (store of consciousness), etc. and doctrines of different Buddhist sects such as Theravada, Mahasanghika, Sarvastivada, Yogacara or Vijnanavada, Madhyamika or Sunyavada, Vaibhasika, Sautrantika, Mantrayana, Vajrayana and so on have been treated critically and analytically in accordance with the interpretation of the term in question by the Buddha himself or by later famous commentators like Buddhadatta, Buddhaghosa and Dhammapala along with interpretations and explanations of the modern scholars. Thus the dictionary reflects fair and true understanding of the entire Buddhist doctrine to the readers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Binayendra Nath Chaudhury
Professor Binayendra Nath Chaudhury (born on 2nd March, 1931) passed the B.A. (with Honours in Pali) and M.A. Examinations standing first in the first class from the University of Calcutta as a student of the Presidency College, Kolkata. He was selected as Premchand Roychand Scholar (P.R.S.) for his thesis entitled ‘Buddhism in Ancient Magadha’ in 1961 and obtained Ph.D. degree in 1964. He joined the Sanskrit College, Kolkata in 1959 and remained there till retirement as Professor of Pali. For some times he acted as Principal of the College and published many research books and for many years he was associated with the Department of Pali, University of Calcutta as teacher and faculty member. He served the Asiatic Society, Kolkata for five years as Dr. M.B. Barua Research Professor in Pali. He was a collaborator for compiling the Critical Pali Dictionary of the Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen (1966-86). The Sanskrit College conferred the title sambuddhagamavaridhi on him. He has written many books and contributed research papers on Buddhism published in Indian and foreign journals. Books written by him are as follows: Buddhist Centres in Ancient India, Abhidhamma Terminology in the Ruparupa ibhaga, Bauddhasahitya (In Bengali), Pali Alankara (in Bengali), Madhyama Nikaya (III), edited Dr. B.M. Barua’s Inscriptions of Asoka, Parts I & II, edited 12 Papers of Dr. Barua under the title ‘Studies in Buddhism’.
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