Help:Basic Tutorial

Adding new page

To add new page write the title of the page into search box.

Then it will tell you :

Create the page "Page title what you typed in" on this wiki!

Then click on the red part of it.

Categorys

Adding article to category

Write [[Category:Here you write the category name]] at the end of a page. You can add as many category's you like.

Creating new category

To make new category write Category:New Category name into the search box and do as you did creating a page.

Assigning new category

Add [[Category:Category name]] into the text. The category name is under what category it will go. Example you create new category named China and add [[Category:Mahayana]] Then the category China would be sub category to Mahayana

Adding pictures

Please try to put pictures in every article, so it would look more nice.

This is picture caption

First upload picture using Upload file under Toolbox on the left sidebar. In section Summary you write the category where to put this picture your going to upload. Example you want to upload file to category Tibet pics then simply write [[Category:Tibet pics]]

If you want to make new category for pictures then simply write the new category name and later go and edit this category by writing [[Category:Pictures]] inside it and save(same way you edit the article).

Category:Pictures here is all the pictures uploaded in different category's.

Then copy the file name and add it to article like this.

Example uploaded file name is Dharma Wheel.png then add it like this

[[File:Dharma Wheel.png|thumb|250px|This is picture caption]] and it will come out like the picture on right.

250px is the size and you can change it as you want.

And Dharma Wheel after the 250px| is the caption for picture you can put there what you need.

Poem function

If you want to keep original format like poem (few words in line) use

 at start and

at the end.

Example

<poem>
To write
like this
in different
lines
use
poem

</poem> and you get

To write
like this
in different
lines
use
poem

Writing quotes

Method 1

Simply add : in front of the line

Example

: "'the liberated mind (citta) that no longer clings' means nibbāna"
::(Majjhima Nikaya 2-Att. 4.68).
:::-Buddha

you get

"'the liberated mind (citta) that no longer clings' means nibbāna"

(Majjhima Nikaya 2-Att. 4.68).

-Buddha

Method 2

use <blockquote></blockquote> function

Padmasambhava said:
<blockquote>My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ). My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་མོ). I belong to the caste of non-duality of the sphere of awareness. My name is the Glorious Lotus-Born. I am from the unborn sphere of all phenomena. I act in the way of the Buddhas of the three times. </blockquote>

and you get

Padmasambhava said:

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ). My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་མོ). I belong to the caste of non-duality of the sphere of awareness. My name is the Glorious Lotus-Born. I am from the unborn sphere of all phenomena. I act in the way of the Buddhas of the three times.

REDIRECT

Please try to make Redirects so linking would be easier.

When you make and article named Theravāda but also want that Theravada will be the same then use #REDIRECT

Example I want Theravada to redirect to Theravāda

So i make new page called Theravada and add #REDIRECT[[Theravāda]] inside it.