[Buddha-l] Buddhist words for "Buddhist"
Curt Steinmetz
curt at cola.iges.org
Tue Jan 27 10:16:24 MST 2009
In Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, and/or any other language from a
culture with a well-established "mainstream" Buddhist tradition, is
there a consistent terminology of religious identification that
Buddhists use to refer to themselves (and to distinguish themselves from
the followers of other religions)?
The traditional word for what we denote in English as "Buddhism" is, of
course, "Buddhadharma". What I am asking is whether or not anyone knows
of one or more equivalent noun(s) for an adherent of the Buddhadharma -
preferably ones that map as neatly to "Buddhist" as "Buddhadharma" does
to "Buddhism"?
Am I overlooking something obvious here? It wouldn't be the first time.....
Curt
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