The Study On Chinese Buddhism-source-Words’ Semantic And Evolution Motivation

The localization of Buddhism, not only impacts the traditional Chinese cultural system, but also affects the Chinese language system. Chinese vocabulary produced a new member of colorful scene influenced by Buddha culture. They have a distinctive Buddhist culture in forms or in contents, which is called " Chinese Buddhism-Source-Words". They came from Buddhist books or activities related to Buddhism. Based on the perspective of the Meaning classification, Buddhism-Source-Words mainly include Buddhist worldview and moral principles, practice and Buddhist rituals, musical instruments or related things, the name and title of Buddhism. Based on the perspective of form classification, Buddhism-Source-Words mainly include morphemes, words, phrases and other fixed forms; Examine the evolution of the Buddhism-Source-Words’type, they keep meaningful unchanged or keep pace with the Buddhism meaning or disappeared the Buddhism meaning. Buddhism-Source-Words transmutation main by the ways below:expanding, transferring or changing colorful meanings; Buddhism-source-words’evolution mechanism is mostly based on the similarity which associated with the original meaning; Language inside structure which content morpheme, word, phrase, and semantic systems’internal imbalances constitute the semantic evolution of the Buddhism-source-words’intrinsic motivation; Propagation of Buddhism, Chinese culture’s influence, social development constitute the Buddhism-source-words’ external motivation of Semantic Evolution. Buddhism-Source-Words’study on internal and external motivation is a deep study based culture linguistics and sociolinguistics. The study on Buddhism-Source-Words’internal and external motivation has an important significance in Chinese vocabulary learning.