Description
| Product ID: | 9780700714551 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms |
| Subtitle: | With Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index |
| Authors: | Author: Lewis Hodous, William E. Soothill |
| Page Count: | 536 |
| Subjects: | Linguistics, linguistics, Literature: history and criticism, Regional / International studies, Religion: general, Buddhism, Literature: history & criticism, Regional studies, Religion: general, Buddhism, Asia |
| Description: | 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2003-12-18 |
