Translations of {{{sa}}}
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Contents 1 Purpose 2 Usage 2.1 Example 3 See also

[edit] 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 Pali, Sanskrit, Sinhala, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Tibetan. Since this template is for the English-language Wikipedia, an English-language translation (if provided) is displayed at the top of the table.

[edit] Usage

Parameters are:

• en (English translation)
• pi (Pali in IAST) [This value is also the default template title]
• sa (Sanskrit in IAST) [If pi is not provided, this value is the title]
• si (Sinhalese)
• si-Latn (Sinhalese transliteration)
• my (Burmese)
• my-Latn (Burmese)
• zh (Chinese)
• zh-Latn (pinyin)
• ja (Japanese)
• ja-Latn (Japanese transliteration)
• vi (Vietnamese)
• bo (Tibetan)
• bo-Latn (Tibetan transliteration)
• kh (Khmer)
• th (Thai)
• fontsize (default=85%)
• collapsible (default=NULL and thus disabled; set TRUE to enable)

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

[edit] Example

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

Translations of abhidhamma
English:	higher teaching, meta-teaching
Pali:	abhidhamma
Sanskrit:	abhidharmā
Sinhala:	අභිධර්ම (abhidharma)
Chinese:	阿毗達磨 (pinyin: āpídámó)
Japanese:	阿毘達磨
Tibetan:	chos mngon pa
Thai:	อภิธรรม (apitam)
Vietnamese:	A-tì-đạt-ma
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 {{Buddhist term |pi=abhidhamma |sa=abhidharmā |si=අභිධර්ම |si-Latn=abhidharma |zh=[[:zh:阿毗達磨|阿毗達磨]] |zh-Latn=āpídámó |ja=[[:ja:阿毘達磨|阿毘達磨]] |kh=[[:kh:អភិធម្ម|អភិធម្ម]] (aphitam) |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 }} 

Note that, in this example, English is the last parameter passed but is the first value displayed in accordance with the enforced display order mentioned above.

[edit] See also

• {{Chinese}}
• {{DisplayTranslations}}
• {{Buddhism}}