Feb. 4, 2014
Contact: Rachel Reed, (734) 615-6456, rachreed@umich.edu
Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism Wins Dartmouth Medal for Most Outstanding Reference Work
ANN ARBOR – The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, co-authored by University of Michigan
Professor Donald Lopez, has been awarded the prestigious Dartmouth Medal for 2015, which honors the
most outstanding reference work of the past year according to the American Library Association (ALA).
“If you can apply the word ‘elegant’ to a reference work, this would be the book,” said the ALA in their
award announcement.
The dictionary, co-authored with Robert E. Buswell of UCLA, features more than 5,000 entries totaling
more than a million words on Buddhism and is the most comprehensive book of its kind in English. It
draws from a burgeoning body of scholarship on the religion around the world, as well as centuries of
Buddhist literature.
The selection committee praised The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism for its accessibility to novices as
well as its suitability for experts and academics, and for its extensive coverage of the religion, which was
born on the Indian subcontinent more than two and a half millennia ago.
The First International Conference on Chinese Translation History
Organized by Research Centre for Translation,
Institute of Chinese Studies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: 17–19 December 2015
Venue: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
Sponsor: Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK
The “International Conference on Chinese Translation History” series aspires to explore Chinese translation history within the bigger framework of world civilization and human thought, and aims to lay groundwork for new models, methods, and perspectives in this innovative interdisciplinary branch of learning through detailed case studies. The conference series will be held every two years, with a different central theme for every conference, and welcomes researchers from across the world to participate.
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