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A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms: With Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index |
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Hodous, Lewis
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Soothill, William Edward
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| Date | 2004.03.01 |
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| Pages | 512 |
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| Publisher | RoutledgeCurzon Press=Routledge=Curzon Press |
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http://www.routledge.com/
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| Location | Thousand Oaks, CA, US [紹曾德奧克斯, 加利福尼亞州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 工具書=Reference Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Bilingual edition |
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| Keyword | dictionary |
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| Abstract | This invaluable interpretive tool, first published in 1937, is now available for the first time in a paperback edition specially aimed at students of Chinese Buddhism.
Those who have endeavored to read Chinese texts apart from the apprehension of a Sanskrit background have generally made a fallacious interpretation, for the Buddhist canon is basically translation, or analogous to translation. In consequence, a large number of terms existing are employed approximately to connote imported ideas, as the various Chinese translators understood those ideas. Various translators invented different terms; and, even when the same term was finally adopted, its connotation varied, sometimes widely, from the Chinese term of phrase as normally used by the Chinese.
For instance, klésa undoubtedly has a meaning in Sanskrit similar to that of, i.e. affliction, distress, trouble. In Buddhism affliction (or, as it may be understood from Chinese, the afflicters, distressers, troublers) means passions and illusions; and consequently fan-nao in Buddhist phraseology has acquired this technical connotation of the passions and illusions. Many terms of a similar character are noted in the body of this work. Consequent partly on this use of ordinary terms, even a well-educated Chinese without a knowledge of the technical equivalents finds himself unable to understand their implications. |
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| ISBN | 0700714553 (pbk); 9780700714551 (pbk) |
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| Hits | 574 |
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| Created date | 2005.04.08 |
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| Modified date | 2014.04.29 |
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