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It shall be the world's largest Buddhist encyclopedia known to man.
 
It shall be the world's largest Buddhist encyclopedia known to man.
  
Using the same technology Wikipedia uses, The Dhamma Encyclopedia lets anyone edit and contribute.  If every Buddhist in the world wrote just one article in his lifetime, then the encyclopedia would have 1,581,029,084 articles<ref name="statistics">{{cite web
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Using the same technology Wikipedia uses, The Dhamma Encyclopedia lets anyone edit and contribute.  If ten percent of all Buddhists in the world wrote just one article in his lifetime, then the encyclopedia would have 158,102,908 articles<ref name="statistics">{{cite web
 
|url = http://www.thedhamma.com/buddhists_in_the_world.htm
 
|url = http://www.thedhamma.com/buddhists_in_the_world.htm
 
|title = Buddhists in the World
 
|title = Buddhists in the World
 
|author = Snyder, David, N.
 
|author = Snyder, David, N.
 
|accessdate = September 27, 2008
 
|accessdate = September 27, 2008
}}</ref>, which is 1,578,468,084 more articles than Wikipedia has.
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}}</ref>, which is more articles than Wikipedia has.
  
 
You can help.
 
You can help.

Revision as of 21:15, 29 September 2008

The Dhamma Encyclopedia is an effort to make Buddhist concepts and information available to anyone.

It shall be the world's largest Buddhist encyclopedia known to man.

Using the same technology Wikipedia uses, The Dhamma Encyclopedia lets anyone edit and contribute. If ten percent of all Buddhists in the world wrote just one article in his lifetime, then the encyclopedia would have 158,102,908 articles[1], which is more articles than Wikipedia has.

You can help.

Write an article.

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References

  1. Snyder, David, N.. "Buddhists in the World". Retrieved on September 27, 2008.