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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Half Title; Original Title 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; 1. SANSKRIT AND PALI WITH PAGE AND COLUMN REFERENCE TO THE CHINESE; 2. NON-SANSKRIT TERMS (TIBETAN, ETC.) |
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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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Originally published in 1937 |
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Buddhism -- China -- Dictionaries
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Buddhism
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China
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dictionaries.
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Dictionaries
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionnaires.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Soothill, William E
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| ISBN |
9781135791230 |
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1135791236 |
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