{"product_id":"a-dictionary-of-chinese-buddhist-lewis-hodous-9780700714551","title":"A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms: With Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eThose 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. \u003cbr\u003eFor instance, \u003cem\u003ekl駸a\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003efan-nao\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lewis Hodous, William E. Soothill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0700714553\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780700714551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/18\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.14h x 6.32w x 1.57d","brand":"Lewis Hodous","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44159214747903,"sku":"9780700714551","price":84.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b0bb2ad7-4014-44e9-bbaa-3e5615796c78.jpg?v=1689081282","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-dictionary-of-chinese-buddhist-lewis-hodous-9780700714551","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}