A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms
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A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms

With Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index

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eBook - ePub

A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms

With Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index

About this book

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, klƩsa 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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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2003
Print ISBN
9780700714551
eBook ISBN
9781135791223
Edition
2
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Regional Studies
Index
Social Sciences
SANSKRIT AND PALI INDEX
The page numbers are followed by ā€œ a ā€ indicating the left-hand column and ā€œ b ā€ 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-vāsinaįø„, 56a, 166a
Abhayaį¹kara, 286b
Abhayandada, 303b
Abhayapradāna, 381a
Abhicāra(ka), 123b, 288b, 317b
Abhidhāna, 428b
Abhidharma, 44b, 84b, 288b, 306a, 315b, 386b, 395a, 423b, 444a, 467b
Abhidharma-hį¹›daya-śāstra, 256a
Abbidharma-jƱāna-prasthāna-śāstra, 315b
Abhidharma-kośa-śāstra, 256a
Abhidharma-mahāvibhāį¹£Ä-śāstra, 122b
Abhidharmāmį¹›ta-śāstra, 466a
Abhidharma-piį¹­aka, 221b, 305b, 330a, 434a, 444a
Abhidharma-prakaraį¹‡a-pāda-śāstra, 384b
Abhidheya, 410a
Abhijit, 22b, 288b
AbhijƱā, 138b
Abhimāna, 238b
Abhimukham, 288b
Abhimukhī, 47b, 288b
Abhimukti, 288b
Abhirati, 104b, 290a, 293b, 378a, 394b, 487a
Abhisamaya, 359b
Abhisaį¹bodha, 288b
Abhisaį¹buddha, 288b, 473b
Abhiį¹£ecana, 125a, 413b,...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. PREFACES
  7. METHOD AND NOTES
  8. INDEX OF CLASSIFICATION BY STROKES
  9. LIST OF THE CHINESE RADICALS
  10. CHINESE CHARACTERS WITH RADICALS NOT EASILY IDENTIFIED
  11. CORRIGENDA
  12. A DICTIONARY OF CHINESE BUDDHIST TERMS, ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF STROKES: CHINESEā€”SANSKRITā€”ENGLISH
  13. INDEXES :ā€”