Siregetü Güüsi Čorǰi’s Treatise that Contains the Complete Meanings of the Most Important [Buddhist Concepts] To Be Used (The Last Chapter)

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Abstract This chapter presents the last part of the manual of Buddhism composed by Siregetü Güüsi Čorǰi entitled Čiqula kereglegči tegüs udq-a-tu šastir. It is a lexicon of Buddhist technical terms, which are sometimes accompanied by short explanations. Siregetü Güüsi Čorǰi’s work can be regarded as a pioneering attempt of rendering diverse Buddhist terms in the Mongolian language, before a full translation of the Tibetan Kanjur (T. bka’ ’gyur) into Mongolian was completed in 1629. Moreover, Mongolian Buddhist terminological dictionaries appeared much later in the eighteenth century. The manual was used by Siregetü Güüsi Čorǰi’s contemporaries and by the later generations of Mongolian Buddhists until modern times.