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A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms: With Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index

A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms: With Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index

Hodous, Lewis
Soothill, William E.

Hardcover

BuddhismGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0700703551
ISBN13: 9780700703555
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 23 1995
Pages: 536
Weight: 2.01
Height: 1.73 Width: 6.18 Depth: 9.68
Language: English

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.

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