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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