[Buddha-l] Buddhist words for "Buddhist"

[Joel Tatelman]

Doesn't "Bauddha" appear in some of the Sanskrit dramas? Plus I'm  
pretty sure the term occurs in Nepalese literature. Having said that,  
I don't know if the term is used for self- rather than other- 
identification.

Cheers,

Joel.


On 27-Jan-09, at 12:16 PM, Curt Steinmetz wrote:

> In Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, and/or any other language from a
> culture with a well-established "mainstream" Buddhist tradition, is
> there a consistent terminology of religious identification that
> Buddhists use to refer to themselves (and to distinguish themselves  
> from
> the followers of other religions)?
>
> The traditional word for what we denote in English as "Buddhism"  
> is, of
> course, "Buddhadharma". What I am asking is whether or not anyone  
> knows
> of one or more equivalent noun(s) for an adherent of the  
> Buddhadharma -
> preferably ones that map as neatly to "Buddhist" as "Buddhadharma"  
> does
> to "Buddhism"?
>
> Am I overlooking something obvious here? It wouldn't be the first  
> time.....
>
> Curt
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