List of Zen Research Tools

The KANAKANJ and the TOOLS directories contain a number of electronic tools that should prove useful to many Chan / Zen researchers, students, and teachers. They range from specialized conversion dictionaries (that convert your input roman letters or kana into the appropriate kanji) to various innovative electronic research tools that are listed below.
More detailed explanations are found on the Electronic Bodhidharma home page on the World Wide Web.

Input tools
1. The IRIZ Kana-Kanji input dictionary for Zen and Buddhist terms (for VJE, ATOK, Kotoeri, MS-IME, and WX2 for use on DOS, Windows, and Macintosh). This large dictionary contains most Zen terms, personal names, text titles etc. that you'll ever need to input. Additionally, it includes the full names of many modern Zen researchers.
2. Urs App's Character shape dictionary for OCR of the Taisho canon (NEC-9801).
Electronic tools for Zen research
1. Zen Dictionary Tools
  . These tools cover the lookup words of almost a dozen specialized dictionaries such as the
  - Zengaku daijiten (ZGD)
  - Koga/Iriya's Zengo jiten (Koga)
  - Mujaku Dochu Zenrin shokisen (SKS)
  - Katto gosen (KG)
  - the Zenrin kushu (KU)
  - Inagaki's Glossary of Zen Terms (Ina)
  - Chinese characters in R.F. Sasaki's Zen Dust (Dust)
  - Yokoi's Japanese English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yo)
  - Daito shuppansha's Japanese-English Buddhist dictionary (JE)
  - Genkyo Zenji's Zengaku zokugokai (Genkyo)
  - Iwanami Bukkyo jiten (Iwa) .
  Additionally, this database contains a footnote index to all 17 volumes of the Zen no goroku series (Gor).
  
  On DOS: Use fgrep for a fast line-based search of the whole database.
  On the Mac: Install Mercury Software's TSM Passport demo version in your Japanese system, and then drag the ZGD-IWANAMI.Passport dictionary into the Extensions folder. After restarting your machine, set the kana-kanji henkan mode to TSM and then input a word such as Rinzai. Instead of converting the kana into kanji by pressing the space key, you then enter shift-return. This will open the TSM information window.
  If you own the full version of TSM Passport, you can also install the huge IRIZZendic.Passport dictionary which contains the lookup words of all of the dictionaries listed above. With the full version, you can also select single characters or whole expressions in an electronic text, and then press command-shift-0 (zero; or another number key as you installed it). This will bring up the TSM window with all references; it can be scrolled. Refer to the TSM manual for more information and uses.
2. A Lineage chart tool
  
  This tool automatically creates a skeleton lineage chart for any Chinese Zen master and allows finding any name in the Zengaku daijiten's charts. So far, we have only generated this for use on DOS. It is called Hokei and is called by typing Hokei at the command line. The program will then ask you who you are looking for, and you input the person's name (or part of it).
  For the Mac, we are working on a TSM Passport version.
Author:Urs APP
Last updated: 95.4.16

List of Zen Research Tools

Input tools

Electronic tools for Zen research

Zen Dictionary Tools

A Lineage chart tool