The Study On Loanwords Of Vimalakirti-Nivdesa Sutra

Among the researches of History of Chinese Language History, history of Chinese-vocabulary-studying is relatively weak. The Middle-Ancient-Chinese language is belonging to a special period which the Ancient Chinese language was changing into Modern Chinese.The research of middle ancient Chinese vocabulary history is helpful to improve the framework of the history of Chinese vocabulary, and valuable to the research on the entire history of Chinese language.The introduction of Buddhism is of a great impact on the culture and language of Han. Being a basic unit, Chinese vocabulary is the most sensitive part. Various translation of Buddhist texts accurately shows the vocabulary that period, and is an integral information of researching Middle-Ancient-Chinese language.Appeared in Jin Dynasty, the philosophy of Vimalakirti Sutra is expressed in a dialogue form which is easily understood, and retains a lot of spoken vocabulary of Wei,Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties. It comprehensively and objectively shows the language that time.Via investigates on spoken words, multisyllabic words and new lexical meaning, we could summarize disciplinarian of words’development, impact of Buddhism on Chinese and culture of Han.