A New Look at the Earliest Chinese Buddhist Texts [27]
A New Look at the Earliest Chinese Buddhist Texts [27]
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重新审视中国最早的佛教文献 [27]
DOI：
10.1163/9789004263291_016
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发表时间：
2013
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0.3
通讯作者：
J. Silk
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作者：
J. Silk
这一章总结了早期汉语佛教文本的纯语言特征，并集中讨论了术语和文体问题。人们可以假设，圣经成语的白话性质被写在一个已经完全适应了基本上是人为的单音节文学语言的手稿中的事实削弱了。尽管偶尔会借用儒家和道家的术语，但汉代佛教最引人注目的方面是它的新颖性。在许多情况下，这些可能是宗教和魔法知识的共同基金中的变体，与儒家或道家没有任何特殊的亲和力。事实上，佛教典籍中的术语包含许多古雅的中文“等价物”，看起来像是从未知来源的中国宗教知识中借来的。关键词：中国宗教传说；儒学；道教；中国早期佛教典籍；汉传佛教；单音节文学语言；经文习语；术语借用
This chapter presents a summary of the purely linguistic features of early Chinese Buddhist texts, and concentrates on matters of terminology and style. One can assume that the vernacular character of the scriptural idiom was weakened by the very fact of its being written down in a script which had become fully adapted to a largely artificial monosyllabic literary language. In spite of occasional terminological borrowings from Confucian and Daoist lore, the most striking aspect of Han Buddhism is its novelty. In many cases these may have been variations within a common fund of religious and magical lore without any special affinity either to Confucianism or to Daoism. In fact, the terminology of Buddhist texts contains a number of quaint Chinese "equivalents" that look like borrowings from unknown sources of Chinese religious lore. Keywords: Chinese religious lore; Confucianism; Daoism; early Chinese Buddhist texts; Han Buddhism; monosyllabic literary language; scriptural idiom; terminological borrowings