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A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms

By Lewis Hodous

A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms General education

A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms

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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, "klesa" 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
536
Release Date:
2003-12-18
Publication Date:
2003-12-18
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0700714553
ISBN13:
9780700714551
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
1
Maximum Reading Age:
110
Weight:
805 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
29 cm
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