The App covers beliefs, doctrines, concepts, schools, sects, practices, major texts, major historical scholars, place names, artefacts and contemporary issues. Provides chronology of important dates, pronunciation guide, and guide to canonical scriptures

This new dictionary, now available on Apps Store as part of the best-selling Oxford Paperback Reference series:

• Covers both historical and contemporary issues in Buddhism, and includes all Buddhist schools and cultures.
• Over 2,000 broad-ranging entries cover beliefs, doctrines, major teachers and scholars, place names, and artefacts, in a clear and concise style.
• The text is illustrated with line drawings of religious structures, iconographic forms and gestures, and ritual objects.

The perfect guide for undergraduate students following courses on Buddhism, Religious Studies, Theology, and a range of Social Science disciplines such as Anthropology; postgraduate students, academics, practising Buddhists, and the general reader or researcher seeking information on Buddhism.

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A comprehensive and authoritative dictionary with over 5,100 entries. Over 200 new entries have been added to this edition and it has been fully updated to reflect recent developments in the industry, such as structured finance and the sub-prime lending crisis. Defines terms from all aspects of personal and international finance, including money markets, private investments and borrowing, foreign exchanges, and public and government finance. Now with expanded coverage of central banking, monetary policy, and financial institutions. Feature entries have been included in this edition for the fuller explanation of topical and complex areas, e.g. Financial Times Share Indexes, and Bankruptcy Law. Recommended up-to-date web links for many entries, accessed via the Dictionary of Finance and Banking website, provide valuable extra information.

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