Yiqiejing yinyi (Xuanying)
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Yiqiejing yinyi (Xuanying)
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The Yiqiejing yinyi is the oldest surviving Chinese dictionary of technical Buddhist terminology, and the archetype for later Chinese bilingual dictionaries. This specialized glossary was compiled by the Tang dynasty lexicographer and monk Xuanying (玄應), who was a translator for the famous pilgrim and Sanskritist monk Xuanzang. When Xuanying died he had only finished 25 chapters of the dictionary, but in 807 another Tang monk named Huilin (慧琳) compiled an enlarged 100-chapter version bearing the
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Chinese dictionary of Buddhism (c. 649)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiqiejing_yinyi_(Xuanying)
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2024-04-14T00:17:14Z
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