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==Buddhism and Sanskrit==

==Buddhism and Sanskrit==

Despite many people thinking that Sanskrit is only associated with [[Hinduism]], all of the [[Dharma|Dharmic]] [[religion]]s use Sanskrit. To this day, there are many Buddhist scholars, professors and linguists who have formally learned Sanskrit at places such as [[University of California, Berkeley]], [[Stanford University]] and [[Harvard]] and have translated into [[English]] several hundred Buddhist Sutras and Shastras from the classic Buddhist masters such as [[Nagarjuna]], [[Shantideva]], [[Atisha]] and [[Vasubandhu]]. These Sutras and Shastras use a special form of Sanskrit referred to by Sanskritists as "BHS" or Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit. During the [[Tang dynasty]].

Despite many people thinking that Sanskrit is only associated with [[Hinduism]], all of the [[Dharma|Dharmic]] [[religion]]s use Sanskrit. To this day, there are many Buddhist scholars, professors and linguists who have formally learned Sanskrit at places such as [[University of California, Berkeley]], [[Stanford University]] and [[Harvard]] and have translated into [[English]] several hundred Buddhist Sutras and Shastras from the classic Buddhist masters such as [[Nagarjuna]], [[Shantideva]], [[Atisha]] and [[Vasubandhu]]. These Sutras and Shastras use a special form of Sanskrit referred to by Sanskritists as "BHS" or Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit. During the [[Tang dynasty]] in [[China]] there were vast facilities dedicated to the translation from Devanagari and Siddham-based Sanskrit to [[Hanzi]] traditional characters, the [[Chinese]] script used continuously since the [[Han dynasty]] until [[Chairman Mao]] forced China to switch to simplified characters so they could only read [[Communist]] works.