A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms : With Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index / / by Lewis Hodous and William E. Soothill

• Autore: Hodous Lewis
• Pubblicazione: Boca Raton, FL : , : Taylor and Francis, an imprint of Routledge, , 2003
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (535 p.)
• Disciplina: 294.303
• Soggetto topico: Buddhism - Chinese; Chinese language - English
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): SoothillWilliam E.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.)
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms
• ISBN: 1-135-79123-6; 1-282-81666-7; 9786612816666; 0-203-64186-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464409003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II