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Temple During The Accounting Instruments Words In Buddhism

Posted on:2011-06-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L L JiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360308467724Subject:Chinese Philology
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In the book the research of Dun Huang Temple's accounting and documentations,Mr. Tang Gengou indicates the accounting and documentations of Dun Huang Temple is the book to record all the temples and agencies of Dun Huang Temple's property registration, financial activities, which can be divided into two aspects the permanent belongings and financial. The accounting and documentations of Dun Huang Temple is today the only preserved original book before Ming and Qing dynasties, which records the monastery's income, expenses and the status of activities. Those documentations were sealed in caves or hidden in the ground over a thousand years or even longer, which directly respond the socio-economic life of the monastery during the Tang and Five Dynasties period. It also has a very important historical value and mainly embodies in the areas of ancient economy and scrolls, which provide a very important reference and literature historical data, such as accounting, social relations, contract system, the household registration system, the relationship between Buddhist temples.It also has a very important language research value. The accounting and documentations of Dun Huang monasteries play an important part in the Dun Huang socio-economic literature, and the latter also has a large proportion of the Dun Huang excavated literature. Therefore, exploring and explaining the difficult words in them is very significant. Those fruitful results included Dictionary of Dun Huang Studies edited by Ji Xianlin, Tang and Five Language Dictionary edited by Jiang Lansheng and Cao Guangshun, Dun Huang Manuscripts literal interpretation by Zeng Liang, Research on Dunhuang Tang Dynasty Food Culture by Gao Qi an, socio-economic study of literature of Dun Huang, Turban that is the doctor paper of my teacher Hei Weiqiang, and many papers in all kinds of journals, especially the paper of Dong Zhiqiao, of which show an increasing and prosperity scenes. Although in recent years, the research of Dun Huang economic literature has yielded fruitful results, it is just a book, which recorded the Buddha inside the temple and the activities of monks, and there are many unknown words. So it is worth researching.So, in this paper I explain the meanings of the 38 words difficult to understand, by using reference books such as the great Chinese dictionary, Tang and Five Language Dictionary, and Dun Huang Manuscripts literal interpretation, being Based on ancient documents referring to other people's research results, distinguishing comprehensively. literacy meanings of them, parataxis and summing up, gaining the meanings from the sounds, referring and proving dialects, inquiring etymology, combining the historical background. This paper also attempts to examine etymology in the angle the words development, seek the last meanings of the words and get the reasons, and to further explore the track of its semantic evolution, hoping to helpfully understand the original text, and offer some references to the economic literature of compiling the Dun Huang terminology dictionaries or supplementary, revised misinterpretation, or ahead of time used, or being rich in illustration. And in the end, the paper can provide a little tips and inspiration to the Dun Huang documents, as well as the Chinese vocabulary words.
Keywords/Search Tags:Dun Huang, accounting and documentations of temples, words, research and explain
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