[Buddha-l] RE: seeking the Pali and Sanskrit term for "holy/religious/, sacred objects"

[Stephen Hodge]

Richard Nance wrote:

> This fact makes the work somewhat cumbersome to
> use, but it provides an interesting window into the way in which some
> Buddhist scholars of the period thought that the terms and phrases
> they were regularly encountering in Buddhist texts could be
> categorized.
But, of course, this is how many early Indian lexicons are arranged, cf the 
famous Amarakosha.  Other ways included arrangements based on syllable 
count.

>There is a category devoted to "mchod pa'i yo byad kyi
> ming la," a phrase that translates to something to something like
> "names pertaining to the practice of worship"
The reason why this category is devoted to the material things that are 
offered is simply because that is exactly what the Tibetan actually says --  
"Names for the equipment / things for offering".   Korosi was an early 19th 
century pioneer in Tibetan studies so his English equivalents need to be 
used with caution in many cases.

Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge