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

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

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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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