budaismo

The root is a title, not a name. Sanskrit buddha means awakened, from budh, to wake or to perceive. Siddhartha Gautama was given the title after his awakening, and the religion is named from the title. Esperanto keeps the shape: Budao is the Buddha, budaano a Buddhist person - with -an-, the member-of-a-group suffix - and budaismo the doctrine, with -ism-.

The spelling is not settled, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. PIV, the standard dictionary, gives budao, budaano and budaismo, which is the form this course uses because the frequency list follows PIV. A great deal of published Esperanto, including most of the Esperanto Wikipedia, writes budho, budhano and budhismo with the h, closer to the Sanskrit dh. Both are in current use, both are understood everywhere, and neither is a mistake. Say budaismo and read budhismo.

Compare the shapes. Kristanismo is built on the adherent - kristano plus -ism- - while budaismo is built on the founder, Budao plus -ism-, and islamo is a plain root with islamano for the person. Three religions, three different constructions. Nobody designed that; the words arrived at different dates from different languages, and the countries and peoples article works through the -an- machine that half of it depends on.

Register and vocabulary. This is an encyclopedic word. Budaisma and budaana are the adjectives, the first for the doctrine and the second for the people. Around it: a templo is the building, a monaĥo the monk, nirvano the goal, mediti the practice, and religio the category all of it sits in. Esperanto kaj religioj covers the wider ground, including the movement's own quiet debt to Asian Esperantists.