Lewis Hodous: 2 books
Buddhism and Buddhists
In China
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Buddhism was not an indigenous religion of China. Its founder was Gautama of India in the sixth century B.C. Some centuries later it found its way into China by way of central Asia. There is a tradition that as early as 142 B.C. Chang Ch'ien, an ambassador of the Chinese emperor, Wu Ti, visited the...
A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms
With Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
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...