Environmental Science
8 years ago

Ancient Buddhist scripture characters redefined, shedding light on hidden meanings.

Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University
Annotations of Some Characters in Liu Du Ji Jing(Buddhist Scripture of Six Ways for Becoming Saints)——Discussing with Mr. PU Zheng-xin
Chen Yuan-yuanb

Paper Summary

The article discusses annotations made by PU Zheng-xin on characters in the Buddhist scripture Liu Du Ji Jing. Some characters' meanings and pronunciations were found to need further discussion, such as xiong meaning old and weak, ruo being a noun related to 荷(he), wu referring to kill as a verb, ze pronounced as ze not zha, and correcting the annotation of die(氎).

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