[Buddha-l] karma or kamma

[Piya Tan]

Knut,

Karma is an anglicized word and found in large English dictionaries.
Kamma is a specific Pali term. Unless there is a special need that the
term applies only to particular notion or school, I would prefer to us the
universal anglicized term, which goes for all other such Buddhist terms.

Piya



On 10/19/07, Knut Heidelberg <knut_heidelberg at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I am writing an article about Theravada Buddhism for
> Christian readers and find it hard to decide to use
> the word "karma" or "kamma". It is no big deal because
> the problem is easy to solve but it made me think,
> what is most correct writing about Theravada for
> non-Buddhists, to use well known Sanskrit words or
> should we insist on Pali? Or both?
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> Best wishes from Knut in Norway
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> Knut Heidelberg
> http://heidelberg.no
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