佛教双语字书与隋唐胡语风气

唐代是翻译佛经和西行求法运动的高峰时期,为了更好地理解深奥佛法的真谛以及学习域外知识,与梵语等外语(或西域民族语言)相关的启蒙著作及工具书,包括佛教词典、梵汉字书、佛经音义著作等等更是急需的热门.讨论唐代社会的胡语学习及使用风气,从时代背景来分析佛教双语字书以及音义著作形成的原因,有助于更深入地了解这些文献的价值.

Buddhist Bilingual Dictionaries and the Vogue of Study of Foreign Languages during Sui-Tang Period

Sui and Tang Dynasties were the most important period of translation of Buddhist canons and movement of study Buddhism to India and Central Asia. In order to understand complicated Buddhism and study foreign knowledge, people had first to learn Indian Sanskrit or other ethnic languages in western regions. As a result, Buddhist and non-Buddhist scholars began to write or edit various kinds of rudimental books and imperative reference books, for example, Buddhist dictionaries, Sanskrit-Chinese wordbooks, inte...