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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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Table of Contents
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.)