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A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms - With Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms - With Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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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 endeavored 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, "klesa" 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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