Thursday, November 23, 2006

I don't know how to pronounce 'tathagata'...

or most of the other Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese and Japanese words I've encountered whilst studying Buddhism. I just guess at them.

I had been pronouncing 'tathagata' tah-tha-GAH-tah, like it was Spanish or Italian, when, according to my Buddhist friend Jen, it's actually tah-THA-gah-tah.

Anyone who knows where on the Internets to find pronunciations of these words, post a comment.

1 comment:

Swanditch said...

Jen's right:

http://dictionary.infoplease.com/tathagata

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Tathagatas