[Buddha-l] karma or kamma

[Piya Tan]

That is to say, correlate the two at the first instance.
You could also have a small Pali/Sanskrit glossary at the end of
the paper or book.

Metta,

Piya


On 10/20/07, jkirk <jkirk at spro.net> wrote:
>
> A possible remedy for dilemmas like this one would be to use the word most
> well-known to  the intended audience for the book--karma--but follow it
> with
> (kamma) in parentheses plus a footnote about Skt. and Pali and the writing
> of the texts in Theravada tradition. After that, you could just continue
> to
> use the term karma.
>
> Good luck,
> Joanna K.
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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?
>
> Best wishes from Knut in Norway
>
> Knut Heidelberg
> http://heidelberg.no
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