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Book: How Buddhism Acquired a Soul on the Way to China

Chapter: 1. The Characteristics of Chinese Buddhist Translation

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.19534

Blurb:

It is the aim of this chapter to provide insights into the linguistic
and cultural circumstances in which the Buddhist translators in China could arbitrarily insert certain terms to indicate a permanent agent in saṃsāra.

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