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• •Religions en Inde: Hindouisme
• •Religions au Japon: termes généraux
• •Religions au Japon: termes bouddhiques des Ecrits de Nichiren

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• •Egypt Ancient
• •Religions in China: Confucianism and Taoism
• •Religions in India: Pali & Buddhist terms

Age*, or Respect for Age | Analects | Ancestor Worship* | Augury* | Ch'i* | Chun Tzu* | Chuang Tzu | Confucius* | Confucianism* | Divination* | Doctrine of the Mean* | Family* | Filial Piety* | Five Constant Relationships* | I-Ching | Jen* | Kung Fu-Tzu* | Lao Tzu* | Li* | Mencius | Mohism | Philosophical Taoism* | Rectification of Names* | Religious Taoism* | Shang Ti* | She Chi* | Tao* | Tao Chiao | Tao Te Ching* | Taoism* | Taoist Hygiene and Yoga* | Te* | Tradition* | Ti* | Tien* | Wen* | Wu-Wei* | Yin-Yang*

Religion von CN
Religion von China

• Anhänger von Volksreligionen - 20,0 %
• Buddhisten - 6,0 %
• Konfessionslose - 71,0 %
• Moslems - 2,0 %
• Sonstige - 1,0 %

Hodous, Lewis / Soothill, William Edward
A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms
With Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index

Synopsis
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, klesa 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.