Template talk:Infobox Buddhist term

message: I suggest that the parameter "sa-Latn" be renamed to "sa-IAST" in order to make it unambiguous that IAST is used as the romanization method.  Also, can this parameter accept an embedded IAST tag as an argument, and is that desirable? Buddhipriya 19:07, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: it's just a parameter name. sa-Latn is a valid ISO code while "sa-IAST" isn't. dab (𒁳) 09:05, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem is that many users do not understand the variant methods of romanization, as is clear from the talk page on the Buddhism article.  Since "it's just a parameter name" making the parameter unambiguous that it is for IAST would be better than leaving it as sa-Latin, which is not clearly defining which romanization method it uses.  The issue may be clear to you, but it is likely to be unclear to at least some users of the template.  The use of the term "Latin" is ambiguous.  The term "IAST" is not ambiguous. Buddhipriya 07:49, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion of "sa-Latn" variable name

message: Should this table also be able to display Burmese, Korean and Thai? - Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 16:27, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Off the top of my head, I think Buddhism arrived in Japan before Vietnam, but that needs checking. Peter jackson (talk) 17:10, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: FWIW, I added Thai today (hopefully in a manner that works) so that ศีลห้า can be represented in the sidebar in Five Precepts. Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 17:56, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Burmese, Korean, Thai 

message: Due to a need in the WP Paritta article, I've added code to this template so that if a Sinhala term exists only in its Latin transliteration (that is, there is no "si=" term but there is an "si-Latn=" term), then the transliteration ("si-Latn" term) is displayed.  I implemented this as best I could given limited time and, frankly, skills.  
I have not generalized this to the other currently existing "-Latn" parameters ("my-Latn," "zh-Latn," "ja-Latn," "bo-Latn") — mostly due to my lack of confidence that the above fix (kludge?) is worthy of generalization.  However, if someone identifies a WP article that needs this fix for a non-Sinhala term, please just leave a note here or on my talk page and I'll try to implement the "-Latn-only" fix for the needed language. - Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 22:04, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Displaying "-Latn" only expressions 

message: I don't think the parameters for Khmer are functioning correctly. Even in the template example, Khmer doesn't show up in Aphidharma box using the KH parameter (which I think should be changed to km, given that km is the language code also used for the Khmer-language Wikipedia and is the ISO​ code). In the Nirvana box, it doesn't show up either using km or km-Latn. --Dara (talk) 12:23, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parameters for Khmer not functioning 

message: I've created a proposed style guide for Buddhist terms on one of my user pages:
* User:Dorje108/Naming_conventions_(Buddhism)
This guide is intended for Buddhist terms that originated in Sanskrit or Pali and are translated to other languages. It deals with choosing a title for the article and formatting the leading sentence. 
This proposal is intended to compliment the proposed guidelines for Indic terms: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic). I think there are particular issues with regard to Sanskrit/Pali-derived Buddhist terms that are best addressed separately.
If there is some consensus that this proposal is a good start, I can move the proposal to a proper "project" page. It may be difficult to achieve a consensus for all of the topics in the proposal, but if can build a consensus for even some of the topics, that should help move things in the right direction.  - Dorje108 (talk) 21:30, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed style guide for Buddhist terms

message: Note: This was moved here from Talk:Prajnaparamita, since I thought it was more relevant for the template talking page.
I need to take issue with the use of the word "translation" in this context.
The box at the left lists several "translations" of the phrase, yet the only one that is not a transliteration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration
seems to be English. I do not know Sanskrit, but I do know Thai, and given that much of Thai is based both semantically and in its orthography on Sanskrit/Pali, it might be more appropriate to call the Thai version given on this page a "rendering" rather than a translation. The sound is almost the same as "prajna paramita." I also know Chinese, and can say definitively that 般若波罗蜜多 is simply a transliteration of "prajna paramita." (116.55.65.71)
:Yes, I agree with what you are saying. This is perhaps an issue with Template:Buddhist term, which seems to presume that the equivalent terms used in other languages are translations rather than transliterations. Many Buddhist terms in Chinese and other languages are simply transliterations from Sanskrit or Pali. Maybe "renderings" or "equivalent terms" would be more suitable? Does anyone else have input on the matter? Tengu800 16:45, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I see the box still reads "Translations" and I too agree that this term should be changed as it is inaccurate. Isn't there a technical term for "How to write this word in different scripts or languages"? My foggy brain isn't pulling it up. It's not "equivalent terms". "Transliterations" seems most accurate, yet not necessarily as clear to new readers as something like "terms'. Yet, when in doubt, I would go with accurate. Best, AD64 (talk) 05:31, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Update. I was just looking at this article, Om_mani_padme_hum and the language box on the right side of the article might work for this purpose. It has the mantra at the top of the box, and in this case, "Prajnaparamita" could be at the top of the box. Under that are sections like "Chinese name" or "Tibetan name." This is clear, accurate and useful. Could this be done for this template box too? Best, AD64 (talk) 05:40, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation of "Prajna Paramita" 

message: I suggest to expand the infobox for adding proper names to it as well. E.g. the Maudgalyayana Thera article could include a infobox with the name of the disciple in several languages. Currently his name is written in several languages between brackets in the lead, which looks messy.
If proper names are already allowed in this infobox, please let me know. A glossary, the word used in the infobox, often does not include proper names.--S Khemadhammo (talk) 20:07, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to include proper names as well 

message: I believe it is fixed now. I checked five different pages that use the template and it works fine. Shabidoo | Talk 23:29, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Template fix

message: Hello, I wonder if I can add Javanese language into this list because historically there were a lot of Buddhist adherents in Java (especially during the time of Borobudur). There are surviving Buddhists text written in Javanese too. The trace of Buddhist terms also can be found in modern Javanese dictionary. Pinerineks (talk) 08:56, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Adding Javanese