A Research On Dunhuang Zen Documents

This dissertation,using a traditional academic way,discusses systematically important problems,data-sorting-out,vocabulary and phrase explanations and compiling of dictionaries of Dunhuang Zen Documents.The article consists of four chapters. The first chapter is an introduction to the contents,era,of Dunhuang Zen Documents,and it's history and present situation of research. The introduction reveals if s value to the research of the development of Zen,and of the development of thought of Zen in China.The second chapter tries to solve the problems of the decision of the names of some manual scripts in Dunhuang Zen Documents and some other problems .It clears the misunderstanding in a few important questions.The next chapter,stepping in from a researching and data-sorting-out view,discusses in details the writing symbols and their explanations in the Zen documents and the mistakes often seen in proof-reading,etymological and semantic explanations of words and phrases. It concludes that we have common rules in reading,explaining,data-sorting-out and researching of the Dunhuang Zen Documents.The fourth and the last chapter is about the value of the corpus of the Zen documents. It also discuses the limitations of big dictionaries that excluding common entries of words and phrases,that making mistakes in lexical explanations and that making etymological errors. It offers first-hand corpus for dictionary compiling and the establishing of the history of Classical Chinese.