宗教用语

    （注：至今，已收集各种宗教用语六万余条，这里只展示其中的一些）

神仙对下凡的渴望：the human quest for freedom

太子的白马：Kanthaka

阿刍婆：Aksobhya/ Second Dhyani Buddha

阿罗罗迦罗摩（其次造访者）：Arada Kalama

阿门：amen

阿弥陀佛：Amitabha/ Fourth Dhyani Buddha

阿难迦叶：Ananda and Kasyapa, his two favourite disciples

阿难陀：Ananda / He and Kasyapa are frequently depicted in attendance on the Master

阿修陀（作预言的隐士）：a hermit called Asita

安世高：An-shi-kao(who translated from about 148 to 171 A.D.)

安息国：Parthia

庵：nunnery

八卦：Eight Trigrams

八仙：the Eight Immortals

跋迦巴（第一个去造访者）：the hermit Bhagava

白毫：urna/ the luminous tuft of hair between the eye-brows of the Buddha

拜偶像：idolatry

半跏坐：to sit with one leg pendant and the other crossing it and resting upon its knee

宝盖：canopy above image

宝冠：crown/coronet/diadem/the headdress of a Bodhisattva

宝瓶：amrta-kalasa/nectar vessel as carried by certain Bodhisattvas

宝生：Ratnasambhava/ Third Dhyani Buddha

报恩经：Ullambana Sutra

报身佛：Sambhoga-kaya Buddha

北方多闻天王：Dhanada/ Northern Lokapala

贝叶经：Buddhist scriptures on pattra (palm leaves used as paper)

背光：nimbus

本生：Jataka story (about Buddha's earlier incarnations)

比丘：bhiksu/ religious mendicant/ a Buddhist monk

碧霞元君：Princess of Coloured Clouds / Princess Aurora, daughter of the Spirit of Mt. Tai

波罗奈村：Baranasi

波罗奈国：Kingdom of Benares

波斯匿王：King Prasenajit

波斯萨珊朝：Sassanid Dynasty of Persia

钵：patra/ a monk's alms-bowel

不动如来：Aksobhya/ Second Dhyani Buddha

不空成就：Amoghasiddhi/ Fifth Dhyani Buddha/ the Infallibly Wise

财神：God of Wealth

藏经洞：vault for keeping Buddhist scriptures

藏经楼：Tripitaka Pavilion/ library of Buddhist scriptures

藏经楼：Buddhist Sutra Tower

曹国舅：Cao Guojiu, the Imperial Brother-in-Law, an elderly bearded figure carrying a pair of castanets

禅：dhyana/ meditation/ abstraction/ trance

禅定佛：Buddha in meditation

禅那：dhyana/ meditation/ abstraction/ trance

禅衣：monastic robe

禅宗：the Chan Sect/ the meditative or intuitional sect

忏悔：confession; shrift

超度：expiation of the sins of the dead

朝拜：worship; to pay religious homage to

朝觐：to go on a pilgrimage (to a shrine or a sacred place)

朝圣：pilgrimage