Thread:User talk:Internoob/Bodhipathapradīpa

I was all set to create this entry but came upon a warning it had been deleted. I think it is a settled issue that words like this will be created on Wiktionary. Maybe it was previously deleted because it indicated "Tibetan" as the language and thus proceeding is not a problem as long as it is coded as "English"

Bodhipathapradīpa is the name of an influential book which a lot of Americans read in translation. It even has English commentaries. The basis given was that theoretically it is not kosher to write in "Latin" letters words that were previously written in some other script. Obviously that would throw out all derivatives of Greek, Teutonic languages, etcetera. Also we would have to toss out words like karma.

I posted this question on Information desk but thought I would ask you as well. Geof Bard 06:25, 18 February 2011 (UTC)