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Anyone have experience with this? Is it worth the steep price?
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
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Queequeg wrote: Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:51 am Anyone have experience with this? Is it worth the steep price?
No experience with it, but you can access the online version for a fee to see if you would like it invest in a hardcopy.

https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/ ... f-buddhism

There is a fee scale:

Full access to Brill Online Reference Works for 1 day $13.95
Full access to Brill Online Reference Works for 7 days $24.95
Full access to Brill Online Reference Works for 30 days $69.95

I see that only Vol 1 is currently online. Vol 2 to be added next year.
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If you have a subscription to Academia.edu, do a search. There's about a 100 papers related to Brill's. For example,

"Tathāgatagarbha Scriptures." In Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Volume One: Literature and Languages, edited by Jonathan Silk, Oskar von Hinüber, and Vincent Eltschinger, 261-273. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
Michael Radich

“Vinayas,” in Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism.
Shayne Clarke

Monastic Organizational Guidelines
2014, Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism, volume 1: Literature and Language, Preview
Berthe Jansen

Take a look at those perhaps to assess whether it is something you need.
The antidote—to be free from the suffering of samsara—you need to be free from delusion and karma; you need to be free from ignorance, the root of samsara. So you need to meditate on emptiness. That is what you need. Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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Depends on how much value you put on the academic approach. Only two thematic volumes of the six are out now.
Not an "essential tool for anyone" to my mind.
Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism is the first comprehensive academic reference work devoted to the plurality of Buddhist traditions across Asia, offering readers a balanced and detailed treatment of this complex phenomenon in six thematically arranged volumes: literature and languages (I, publ. 2015), lives (II, publ. 2019), thought (III), history (IV), life and practice (V), index and remaining issues (VI).
Each volume contains substantial original essays by many of the world’s foremost scholars, essays which not only cover basic information and well-known issues but which also venture into areas as yet untouched by modern scholarship. An essential tool for anyone interested in Buddhism.
An online resource will provide easy access to the encyclopedia’s ever-growing corpus of information.
Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism is under the general editorial control of Jonathan Silk (Leiden University, editor-in-chief), Richard Bowring (University of Cambridge) and Vincent Eltschinger (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris). In addition, each volume has a dedicated board of specialist editors.
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Queequeg wrote: Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:51 am Anyone have experience with this? Is it worth the steep price?
I have used this occasionally but I don't know about buying it for personal use, it is quite expensive. If you want me to scan an entry for reference purposes, send me a PM. Probably the best way to see if it is as comprehensive as you might want.
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Thanks folks.

I'll check out those entries on Academia.

It is expensive, which is what sparked my curiosity about it. Trying to understand what function this set of volumes play/will play as a source of information going forward. I suspect it will exert influence in the English speaking Buddhist community. I suppose we can't know that for at least a few years.

Anyway, cost is prohibitive for now. I imagine only university libraries will have it.
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
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In the academic world, Brill is a publisher known as a reliable source.
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