A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms

With Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index

Lewis Hodous, William E. Soothill

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN:
  9780700714551
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135791223
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Buddhism

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 endeavoured 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.

SANSKRIT AND PALI INDEX

The page numbers are followed by “ a ” indicating the left-hand column and “ b ” the right-hand column. Words sometimes occur more than once in the column indicated.

A, 3b, 211b, 285a, 362a, 377a, 426b

Ababa, 252a

Ābhāsvara, 85b, 179a, 202b, 220b, 289a, 403a

Ābhāsvara-vimāna, 202b, 289a

Abhāva, 295a

Abhaya, 68b, 381a

Abhayadāna, 303b

Abhayagiri, 292b, 381a

Abhayagiri-vāsinaḥ, 56a, 166a

Abhayaṁkara, 286b

Abhayandada, 303b

Abhayapradāna, 381a

Abhicāra(ka), 123b, 288b, 317b

Abhidhāna, 428b

Abhidharma, 44b, 84b, 288b, 306a, 315b, 386b, 395a, 423b, 444a, 467b

Abhidharma-hṛdaya-śāstra, 256a

Abbidharma-jñāna-prasthāna-śāstra, 315b

Abhidharma-kośa-śāstra, 256a

Abhidharma-mahāvibhāṣā-śāstra, 122b

Abhidharmāmṛta-śāstra, 466a

Abhidharma-piṭaka, 221b, 305b, 330a, 434a, 444a

Abhidharma-prakaraṇa-pāda-śāstra, 384b

Abhidheya, 410a

Abhijit, 22b, 288b

Abhijñā, 138b

Abhimāna, 238b

Abhimukham, 288b

Abhimukhī, 47b, 288b

Abhimukti, 288b

Abhirati, 104b, 290a, 293b, 378a, 394b, 487a

Abhisamaya, 359b

Abhisaṁbodha, 288b

Abhisaṁbuddha, 288b, 473b

Abhiṣecana, 125a, 413b,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• PREFACES
• METHOD AND NOTES
• INDEX OF CLASSIFICATION BY STROKES
• LIST OF THE CHINESE RADICALS
• CHINESE CHARACTERS WITH RADICALS NOT EASILY IDENTIFIED
• CORRIGENDA
• A DICTIONARY OF CHINESE BUDDHIST TERMS, ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF STROKES: CHINESE—SANSKRIT—ENGLISH
• INDEXES :—