A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms
Author: William Edward Soothill
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9788120803190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is an outstanding work for which two eminent scholars of Chinese Buddhism separated by 2000 miles of ocean collaborated for complete ten years during which the manuscript crossed the Atlantic four times. The authors aim has been to provide a key for the student with which to unlock a closed door and which does serve to reveal the riches of the great Buddhist thesaurus in China. In the absence of a dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms it was small wonder that the translation of Chinese texts has made little progress important thought these are to the understanding of Mahayana buddhism especially in its Far Eastern development.