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Buddhology, n.
Brit. |bʊˈdɒlədʒi|, U.S. |buˈdɑlədʒi|, |bʊˈdɑlədʒi|
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
[‹ Buddha n. + -ology comb. form. Compare Buddhological adj., Buddhologist n.]
Originally: the study of Buddhahood; a theory or doctrine of the nature or role of the Buddha or a Buddha. Now usually: the study of Buddhism and Buddhist culture; Buddhist studies.
1912Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 22 169 Both christology and buddhology, from different standpoints, have exhausted themselves in trying to grapple with the mystery of the superhuman person. 1955Monumenta Nipponica 11 303 Tao-Sheng must have developed some kind of Buddhology from his concepts of an indivisible li and of the Buddha as the Center of the Universe. 1997J. S. Walters in J. Schober Sacred Biogr. in Buddhist Trad. of S. & S.E. Asia ii. 162 Here more than anywhere else in the vast world of Buddhology, the work of epigraphers and textual specialists has closely overlapped. |