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A Dictionary Of Chinese Buddhist Terms

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Author : William Edward Soothill
language : en
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Release Date : 1977

A Dictionary Of Chinese Buddhist Terms written by William Edward Soothill and has been published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Religion categories.

Here is an outstanding work for which two eminent scholars of Chinese Buddhism separated by 2000 miles of ocean collaborated for complete ten years during which the manuscript crossed the Atlantic four times. The authors aim has been to provide a key for the student with which to unlock a closed door and which does serve to reveal the riches of the great Buddhist thesaurus in China. In the absence of a dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms it was small wonder that the translation of Chinese texts has made little progress important thought these are to the understanding of Mahayana buddhism especially in its Far Eastern development.

A Dictionary Of Chinese Buddhist Terms

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Author : Lewis Hodous
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-12-18

A Dictionary Of Chinese Buddhist Terms written by Lewis Hodous and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-18 with Foreign Language Study categories.

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.

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Author : William Edward Soothill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962

written by William Edward Soothill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Buddhism categories.

A Dictionary Of Chinese Buddhist Terms

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Author : W. E. Soothill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977

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language : en
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Release Date : 1937

written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1937 with Buddhism categories.