英语词汇和佛教词汇影响中国文化比较论

英语词汇和佛教词汇对中国文化的影响存在客观的必然性。在时间上,佛教词汇的影响比英语词汇早出一千多年;在范围上,佛教词汇影响主要在道德伦理、文学艺术、哲学、词汇、民间习俗等,英语词汇所涉及的范围主要在当今的政治、经济、科技、文化等;在深度上,佛教词汇已融入中华民族传统思想文化的"本体",同时又成为人的个体的价值取向,而英语词汇影响主要表现在大众媒体和人们的日常用语方面,但随着全球化的进程,英语词汇的影响将进一步加深。

The Comparison between the Influence of English and Buddhist Words upon Chinese Culture

The influence of both English and Buddhist words upon Chinese culture has an objective inevitability. In terms of time, the influence of Buddhist words is over a thousand years earlier than that of English; about the incidence of affection, the Buddhist words refer to many fields, such as ethical relativism, literature, philosophy, vocabulary, folk custom. And the English is mostly related to contemporary politics, economics, technology, culture, and so on; about the influence depth, Buddhist words have already entered into the noumenon of Chinese traditional culture, in the meantime, became an individual value orientation, while it is manifested in the fact that English words are mainly used by mass medias and daily language. But with the process of globalization, English word's influence will go deeper.