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List of Zen Research Tools

• 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

• Zen Dictionary Tools

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  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 ZGDIWA.Passport dictionary into the Extensions folder. This dictionary works with the Demo version. 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 IRIZZen.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-F7 (or another function key if you have installed it so). This will bring up the TSM window with all references; it can be scrolled. Refer to the TSM manual and the included Readme file for the demo ver sion for more information and uses.

  1. 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. Its JIS incarnation is called Hokei. Install them in a directory which is in the path statement in your autoexec.bat and simply type Hokei or Faxi on the commandline. 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 put a test version of the Hokeizu tool for Passport on the CD. To take advantage of this you need the full version of TSM Passport.