“Foguang dacidian 佛光大辭典….The 22,608 main entries, over 100,000 subentries, and 2,700 illustrations contain a huge amount of information not found in any one place elsewhere. The team of scholarly nuns and lay women believers who compiled this useful reference work culled the main general Buddhist dictionaries in Japanese and Chinese. They also went through specialized dictionaries and much of the secondary literature. Occasionally definitions seem to be slightly off target, but in general this is a goldmine. Vol. 8 contains a 700-page stroke-count index to which there is a convenient Wade-Giles index. There are also separate indexes for foreign names and terms. Digital edition: online here. Foguangshan 佛光山 is a Buddhist order that was founded in Gaoxiong 高雄, southern Taiwan in 1967. There are today 200 branch temples world wide.” – Wilkinson, Endymion, Chinese history, a new manual, p. 394.