SUMMARY

The NTI Reader Chinese-English Buddhist dictionary can be used to find terms from Chinese with simplified, traditional, or or lookup with Hanyu pinyin. Reverse lookup from English equivalent is also supported. You can do multi-term lookup for longer Chinese phrases, and multi-language lookup with Sanskrit, Pali, Japanese, and Tibetan for common Buddhist terms.

The extension uses a multi-dictionary framework, currently including the NTI Reader and the Fo Guang Shan Humanistic Buddhism Glossary. It is like the https://ntireader.org web site but can be installed as a Chrome Extension. This can help you stay within the flow of a Chinese document, avoiding the need to switch back and forth between pages.

Try it out on web site like the University of Oslo's multilingual corpus Thesaurus Literaturae Buddhicae at https://www2.hf.uio.no/polyglotta/index.php. For example, with the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā 'Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Lines' Chinese-Sanskrit-Tibetan-English parallel text. It may also be useful on https://cbeta.org, the SAT online version of the Taishō Tripiṭaka, http://www.masterhsingyun.org, and the Fo Guang Shan Dictionary of Buddhism, a Chinese monolingual dictionary at http://etext.fgs.org.tw/search/index.aspx .

You can see a demo at
https://youtu.be/jtZSOtOanHQ

More information is available at
https://github.com/alexamies/chinesenotes-dart/blob/master/ntireader-chrome-ext/README.md

For developers: it is an open source project. You can find the source code at
https://github.com/alexamies/chinesenotes-dart

The latest version of NTI Reader Buddhist Dictionary is available on the Chrome web and is currently being used by 87 active users. The initial version was launched on 2021-04-27.

HOW TO INSTALL NTI Reader Buddhist Dictionary FROM A CRX FILE

1. Download NTI Reader Buddhist Dictionary CRX file
2. NOTE: Sometimes the browser may block downloading / installing CRX file from outside the Chrome Web Store. If so, you may need to download the ZIP file instead
3. In the URL bar, go to chrome://extensions
4. Enable Developer mode

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