Reference Works for the Study of Chan Literature in the Tang and Song Dynasties

Dictionaries and Resources on Chinese Language

  • Bái Yùlín 白玉林 and Chí Duó 遲鐸, eds. 2004. Gǔ Hànyǔ xūcí cídiǎn 古漢語虛詞詞典. Běijīng 北京: Zhōnghuá shūjú 中華書局. [**]

  • Baxter, William H., and Laurent Sagart. 2014. Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press.

  • Baxter, William H., and Laurent Sagart. 2014. “The Baxter-Sagart Reconstruction of Old Chinese (Version 1.1).” http://ocbaxtersagart.lsait.lsa.umich.edu/.

  • Gǔdài Hànyǔ cídiǎn 古代漢語詞典, ed. 2003. Gǔdài Hànyǔ cídiǎn (dàzì běn) 古代漢語詞典 (大字本). Běijīng 北京: Shāngwù yìnshūguǎn 商務印書館. [**]

  • Hànyǔ dàzìdiǎn biānjí wěiyuánhuì 漢語大字典編輯委員會, ed. 2010. Hànyǔ dàzìdiǎn 漢語大字典. 2nd edition. 9 vols. Chéngdū 成都; Wǔhàn 武漢: Sìchuān císhū chūbǎnshè 四川辭書出版社; Chóngwén shūjú 崇文書局. [***]

  • Harbsmeier, Christoph, Jiǎng Shàoyú 蔣紹愚, Christian Schwermann, and Christian Wittern, eds. 2021. “Thesaurus Linguae Sericae - An Historical and Comparative Encyclopaedia of Chinese Conceptual Scheme.” https://hxwd.org. [**]

  • Iriya Yoshitaka 入矢義高 and Koga Hidehiko 古賀英彦. 1991. Zengo jiten 禅語辞典. Kyōto 京都: Shibunkaku shuppan 思文閣出版. [***]

  • Jiāng Lánshēng 江藍生 and Cáo Guǎngshùn 曹廣順, eds. 1997. Táng Wǔdài yǔyán cídiǎn 唐五代語言詞典. Shànghǎi 上海: Shànghǎi jiàoyù chūbǎnshè 上海教育出版社.

  • Jiǎng Lǐhóng 蔣禮鴻, ed. 1994. Dūnhuáng wénxiàn yǔyán cídiǎn 敦煌文獻語言詞典. Hángzhōu 杭州: Hángzhōu dàxué chūbǎnshè 杭州大學出版社.

  • Kroll, Paul W. 2017. A Student’s Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese. Leiden: Brill. [**]

  • Lóng Qián’ān 龍潛庵. 1985. Sòng Yuán yǔyán cídiǎn 宋元語言詞典. Shànghǎi 上海: Shànghǎi císhū chūbǎnshè 上海辭書出版社.

  • Luó Zhúfēng 羅竹風, Hànyǔ dàcídiǎn biānjí wěiyuánhuì 漢語大詞典編輯委員會, and Hànyǔ dàcídiǎn biānzuǎnchù 漢語大詞典編纂處, eds. 1986–1994. Hànyǔ dàcídiǎn 漢語大詞典. 13 vols. Shànghǎi 上海: Shànghǎi císhū chūbǎnshè 上海辭書出版社. [***]

  • Morohashi Tetsuji 諸橋轍次. 1999. Daikanwa jiten 大漢和辞典. Edited by Kamata Tadashi 鎌田正 and Yoneyama Toratarō 米山寅太郎. Revised ed. 15 vols. Tōkyō 東京: Taishūkan shoten 大修館書店. [***]

  • Ōta Tatsuo 太田辰夫. 2003. Zhōngguó yǔ lìshǐ wénfǎ 中國語歷史文法. Translated by Jiǎng Shàoyú 蔣紹愚 and Xú Chānghuá 徐昌華. Dì èr bǎn 第二版. Běijīng 北京: Běijīng dàxué chūbǎnshè 北京大學出版社.

  • Péi Xuéhǎi 裴學海. 1996. Gǔshū xūzì jíshì 古書虛字集釋. Mínguó cóngshū 民國叢書 5. Shànghǎi 上海: Shànghǎi shūdiàn 上海書店.

  • Pulleyblank, Edwin G. 1991. Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation: In Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese and Early Mandarin. Vancouver: UBC Press. [**]

  • Pulleyblank, Edwin G. 1995. Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar. Vancouver: UBC Press.

  • Shāngwù yìnshūguǎn biānjíbù 商務印書館編輯部. 1998. Cíyuán 辭源. Xiūdìng běn 修訂本. 4 vols. Běijīng 北京: Shāngwù yìnshūguǎn 商務印書館.

  • Wáng Ānquán 王安全 and Guō Líng 郭玲, ed. 2000. Hàndà chéngyǔ dàcídiǎn (jīngbiān běn) 漢大成語大詞典 (精編本). Shànghǎi 上海: Hànyǔ dàcídiǎn chūbǎnshè 漢語大詞典出版社.

  • Wáng Jiànyǐn 王劍引, ed. 2000. Gǔ Hànyǔ dàcídiǎn 古漢語大詞典. Shànghǎi 上海: Shànghǎi císhū chūbǎnshè 上海辭書出版社. [**]

  • Wáng Lì 王力, ed. 2000. Wáng Lì Gǔ Hànyǔ zìdiǎn 王力古漢語字典. Běijīng 北京: Zhōnghuá shūjú 中華書局. [**]

  • Wáng Shūmín 王叔岷. 2007. Gǔjí xūzì guǎngyì 古籍虛字廣義. Běijīng 北京: Zhōnghuá shūjú 中華書局.

  • Wáng Zhèngbái 王政白, ed. 1986. Gǔ Hànyǔ xūcí cídiǎn 古漢語虛詞詞典. Héféi 合肥: Huángshān shūshè 黃山書社.

  • Xǔ Shǎofēng 許少峰, ed. 2008. Jìndài Hànyǔ dàcídiǎn 近代漢語大詞典. Běijīng 北京: Zhōnghuá shūjú 中華書局.

  • Yuán Bīn 袁宾. 1997. Sòng yǔyán cídiǎn 宋語言詞典. Shànghǎi 上海: Shànghǎi jiàoyù chūbǎnshè 上海教育出版社.

  • Zhāng Yùshū 張玉書 et al., ed. 2002. Kāngxī zìdiǎn (biāodiǎn zhěnglǐ běn) 康熙字典 (標點整理本). Shànghǎi 上海: Hànyǔ dàcídiǎn chūbǎnshè 漢語大詞典出版社.

  • Zhōngguó shèhuì kēxuéyuàn yǔyán yánjiūsuǒ 中國社會科學院語言研究所 and Gǔdài hànyǔ yánjiūshì 古代漢語研究室, eds. 1999. Gǔdài Hànyǔ xūcí cídiǎn 古代漢語虛詞詞典. Běijīng 北京: Shāngwù yìnshūguǎn 商務印書館. [**]

Dictionaries and Resources on Chinese Writing

  • Branner, David Prager. 2011. “Portmanteau Characters in Chinese.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 131 (1): 73–82.

  • Galambos, Imre. 2011. “Popular Character Forms (Súzì) and Semantic Compound (Huìyì) Characters in Medieval Chinese Manuscripts.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 131 (3): 395–409. [***]

  • Galambos, Imre. 2013. “Correction Marks in the Dunhuang Manuscripts.” In Studies in Chinese Manuscripts: From the Warring States Period to the 20th Century, edited by Imre Galambos, 191–210. Budapest: Institute of East Asian Studies, Eötvös Loránd University.

  • Galambos, Imre. 2013. “Taboo Characters in Buddhist Manuscripts from Dunhuang.” In Zhōnggǔ shídài de lǐyí, zōngjiào yǔ zhìdù 中古時代的禮儀、宗教與制度, edited by Yú Xīn 余欣, 109–25. Shànghǎi 上海: Shànghǎi gǔjí chūbǎnshè 上海古籍出版社.

  • Galambos, Imre. 2014. “Medieval Ways of Character Formation in Chinese Manuscript Culture.” Scripta 6: 49–73. [***]

  • Galambos, Imre. 2014. “Punctuation Marks in Medieval Chinese Manuscripts.” In Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field, edited by Jörg Quenzer and Jan-Ulrich Sobisch, 341–57. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter.

  • Galambos, Imre. 2014. “The Chinese Script.” Oxford Bibliographies. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199920082-0066. [**]

  • Galambos, Imre. 2015. “Variant Characters.” In Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, edited by Rint Sybesma, 4:483–84. Leiden: Brill.

  • Galambos, Imre. 2017. “The Chinese Writing System.” In The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (1000 BCE-900 CE), edited by Wiebke Denecke, Wai-Yee Li, and Xiaofei Tian, 1:31–45. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Guójiā jiàoyù yánjiùyuàn yǔwén jiàoyù jí biānyì yánjiū zhōngxīn 國家教育研究院語文教育及編譯研究中心 and Guóyǔ tuīxíng wěiyuánhuì 國語推行委員會. 2017. “Jiàoyùbù Yìtǐzì Zìdiǎn 教育部異體字字典 (6th ed.).” https://dict.variants.moe.edu.tw/. [***]

  • Handel, Zev. 2019. Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script. Language. Leiden: Brill.

  • Huáng Zhēng 黄征. 2005. Dūnhuáng súzìdiǎn 敦煌俗字典. Shànghǎi 上海: Shànghǎi jiàoyù chūbǎnshè 上海教育出版社. [***]

  • Nishihara Kazuyuki 西原一幸. 2013. “The Longkan Shoujing in View of the Tang Orthographic Standard of the Kai Script.” Kinjōgakuin daigaku ronshū 金城学院大学論集 9 (2): 84–95.

  • Qiú Xīguī 裘錫圭. 1995. Wénzìxué gàiyào 文字學概要. Edited by Xǔ Tánhuī 許錟輝. Revised ed. Táiběi 臺北: Wànjuǎnlóu túshū gǔfèn yǒuxiàn gōngsī 萬卷樓圖書股份有限公司. [***]

  • Qiu Xigui. 2000. Chinese Writing. Translated by Gilbert Louis Mattos and Jerry Norman. Berkeley, CA: Society for the Study of Early China.

  • Tián Qíshí 田其湜, ed. 2004. Liùtǐ shūfǎ dàzìdiǎn 六體書法大字典. 2 vols. Chángshā 長沙: Húnán rénmín chūbǎnshè 湖南人民出版社.

  • Wáng Hǎigēn 王海根, ed. 2006. Gǔdài Hànyǔ tōngjiǎzì dàzìdiǎn 古代漢語通假字大字典. Fúzhōu 福州: Fújiàn rénmín chūbǎnshè 福建人民出版社.

  • Wáng Huī 王輝, ed. 2008. Gǔwénzì tōngjiǎ zìdiǎn 古文字通假字典. Běijīng 北京: Zhōnghuá shūjú 中華書局. [**]

  • Wú Chéngyuān 吳澄淵, ed. 2001. Xīnbiān zhōngguó shūfǎ dàzìdiǎn 新編中國書法大字典. Běijīng 北京: Shìjiè túshū chūbǎn gōngsī 世界圖書出版公司.

  • Xú Hán 徐寒, ed. 2009. Shūfǎ dàzìhǎi 書法大字海. Revised ed. 2 vols. Běijīng 北京: Shāngwù yìnshūguǎn guójì yǒuxiàn gōngsī 商務印書館國際有限公司.

  • Zhāng Yǒngquán 張涌泉. 2015. Dūnhuáng súzì yánjiū 敦煌俗字研究. 2nd ed. Shànghǎi 上海: Shànghǎi jiàoyù chūbǎnshè 上海教育出版社. [***]

Dictionaries and Resources on Chinese Buddhism and Chan

  • App, Urs. “Reference Works for Chan Research.” Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 7, no. 1 (1993): 357–409. https://doi.org/10.3406/asie.1993.1072. [**]

  • Buswell, Robert E., and Donald S. Lopez. 2013. The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

  • Cornu, Philippe. 2006. Dictionnaire Encyclopédique du Bouddhisme. Paris: Seuil.

  • Fóguāng dàcídiǎn biānxiū wěiyuánhuì 佛光大辭典編修委員會, ed. 1989. Fóguāng dàcídiǎn 佛光大辭典. Gāoxióng 高雄: Fóguāng chūbǎnshè 佛光出版社. Available online: https://www.fgs.org.tw/fgs_book/fgs_drser.aspx. [**]

  • Fóxué míngxiāng guīfàn zīliàokù jiànzhì jìhuà 佛學名相規範資料庫建置計畫 (Buddhist Studies Authority Database Project). 2021. “Rénmíng guīfàn zīliào kù 人名規範資料庫 (Person Authority Database).” http://authority.dila.edu.tw/person.

  • Hōbōgirin 法寶義林: Dictionnaire encyclopédique du bouddhisme d’après les sources chinoises et japonaises. [*]

    • Lévi, Sylvain, Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎, and Paul Demiéville, eds. 1929. Hōbōgirin: Dictionnaire encyclopédique du bouddhisme d’après les sources chinoises et japonaises. Fasc. 1: A - Bombai. Paris: Libr. d’Amérique et d’Orient Adrien Maisonneuve [u.a.].

    • Lévi, Sylvain, Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎, and Paul Demiéville, eds. 1930. Hōbōgirin: Dictionnaire encyclopédique du bouddhisme d’après les sources chinoises et japonaises. Fasc. 2: Bombai - Bussokuseki. Paris: Libr. d’Amérique et d’Orient Adrien Maisonneuve [u.a.].

    • Lévi, Sylvain, Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎, and Paul Demiéville, eds. 1937. Hōbōgirin: Dictionnaire encyclopédique du bouddhisme d’après les sources chinoises et japonaises. Fasc. 3: Bussokuseki - Chi. Paris: Libr. d’Amérique et d’Orient Adrien Maisonneuve [u.a.].

    • Demiéville, Paul, and Jacques May, eds. 1967. Hōbōgirin: Dictionnaire encyclopédique du bouddhisme d’après les sources chinoises et japonaises. Fasc. 4: Chi - Chōotsushō. Paris: Libr. d’Amérique et d’Orient Adrien Maisonneuve [u.a.].

    • Demiéville, Paul, and Jacques May, eds. 1979. Hōbōgirin: Dictionnaire encyclopédique du bouddhisme d’après les sources chinoises et japonaises. Fasc. 5: Chōotsushō - Chūu. Paris: Libr. d’Amérique et d’Orient Adrien Maisonneuve [u.a.].

    • Demiéville, Paul, Jacques Gernet, Hubert Durt, Anna Seidel, and Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, eds. 1983. Hōbōgirin: Dictionnaire encyclopédique du bouddhisme d’après les sources chinoises et japonaises. Fasc. 6: Da - Daijizaiten. Paris: Libr. d’Amérique et d’Orient Adrien Maisonneuve [u.a.].

    • Durt, Hubert, Anna Seidel, and Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, eds. 1994. Hōbōgirin: Dictionnaire encyclopédique du bouddhisme d’après les sources chinoises et japonaises. Fasc. 7: Daijō - Daishi. Paris: Libr. d’Amérique et d’Orient Adrien Maisonneuve [u.a.].

    • Gernet, Jacques, Sylvain Lévi, and Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, eds. 2003. Hōbōgirin: Dictionnaire encyclopédique du bouddhisme d’après les sources chinoises et japonaises. Vol. 8: Daishō Kongō - Den’e. Paris: Libr. d’Amérique et d’Orient Adrien Maisonneuve [u.a.].

  • Iriya Yoshitaka 入矢義高 and Koga Hidehiko 古賀英彦. 1991. Zengo jiten 禅語辞典. Kyōto 京都: Shibunkaku shuppan 思文閣出版. [***]

  • Jì Xiànlín 季羨林, ed. 1998. Dūnhuángxué dàcídiǎn 敦煌學大辭典. Shànghǎi 上海: Shànghǎi císhū chūbǎnshè 上海辭書出版社. [**]

  • Komazawa daigaku nai zengaku daijiten hensanjo 駒澤大學内禪學大辭典編纂所, ed. 1985. Zengaku daijiten 禪學大辭典. Tōkyō 東京: Taishūkan shoten 大修館書店. [***]

  • Mochizuki Shinkō 望月信亨, ed. 1932–1936. Mochizuki Bukkyō daijiten 望月佛教大辞典. 10 vols. Tōkyō 東京: Sekai seiten kankō kyōkai 世界聖典刋行協會. [**]

  • Nakamura Hajime 中村元, ed. 2001. Kōsetsu bukkyōgo daijiten 広説佛教語大辞典. 4 vols. Tōkyō 東京: Tōkyō shoseki 東京書籍. [***]

  • Nakamura Hajime 中村元, ed. 2002. Iwanami Bukkyō jiten 岩波仏教辞典. 2nd ed. Tōkyō 東京: Iwanami Shoten 岩波書店. [未參]

  • Oda Tokunō 織田得能. 1954. Oda Bukkyō daijiten 織田佛教大辭典. Revised ed. Tōkyō 東京: Daizō shuppan 大藏出版. [未參]

  • Soothill, William Edward, and Lewis Hodous. 2010 [1977]. A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms (Digital Version of the Digital Archives Section, Library and Information Center of Dharma Drum Buddhist College 法鼓佛教學院圖書資訊館數位典藏組). Taipei: Dharma Drum Buddhist College 法鼓佛教學院.

  • Taya Raishun 多屋頼俊, Ōchō Enichi 横超慧日, and Funahashi Issai 舟橋一哉, eds. 1995. Shinpan Bukkyōgaku jiten 新版仏教学辞典. Kyōto 京都: Hōzōkan 法藏館. [未參]

  • Ui Hakuju 宇井伯壽, ed. 1965. Konsaisu Bukkyō jiten コンサイス佛敎辭典. Tōkyō 東京: Daitō shuppansha 大東出版社. [未參]

  • Wang, Youru. 2017. Historical Dictionary of Chan Buddhism. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

  • Yuán Bīn 袁賓 and Kāng Jiàn 康健, eds. 2010. Chánzōng dàcídiǎn 禪宗大詞典. Wǔhàn 武漢: Chóngwén shūjú 崇文書局.

  • Zen bunka kenkyūjo 禅文化研究所, ed. 1991. Zengo jisho ruijū 禪語辭書類聚. Kyōto 京都: Zen bunka kenkyūjo 禅文化研究所. [未參]

  • Zhān Xùzuǒ 詹緖左. 2018. Chánjí cíyǔ yánjiū: yǐ ‘Zǔtáng jí’ wéi zhǔyào kǎochá duìxiàng 禪籍詞語研究: 以’祖堂集’為主要考察對象. Běijīng 北京: Kēxué chūbǎnshè 科学出版社. [**]

Others (e.g., Chinese-Sanskrit, Official Titles, Geography)

  • Dài Jūnliáng 戴均良 et al., ed. 2005. Zhōngguó gǔjīn dìmíng dàcídiǎn 中國古今地名大詞典. Shànghǎi 上海: Shànghǎi císhū chūbǎnshè 上海辭書出版社. [***]

  • Fóxué míngxiāng guīfàn zīliàokù jiànzhì jìhuà 佛學名相規範資料庫建置計畫 (Buddhist Studies Authority Database Project). 2021. “Dìmíng guīfàn zīliào kù 地名規範資料庫 (Place Authority Database).” http://authority.dila.edu.tw/place.

  • Harvard University, Academia Sinica 中央研究院, and Peking University 北京大學. 2021. “China Biographical Database Project (CBDB).” 2021. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdb.

  • Hirakawa Akira 平川彰, ed. 1997. A Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary 佛教漢梵大辭典. Tōkyō 東京: Reiyūkai 霊友会.

  • Hucker, Charles O. 1985. A Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. [**]

  • Karashima Seishi 辛嶋静志. 2010. A Glossary of Lokakṣema’s Translation of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā. Tōkyō: International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University.

  • Karashima Seishi 辛嶋静志. 2012. A Glossary of Lokakṣema’s Translation of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (Digital Version). Edited by Digital Archives Section, Library and Information Center of Dharma Drum Buddhist College 法鼓佛教學院, 圖書資訊館, 數位典藏組. Taipei: Dharma Drum Buddhist College 法鼓佛教學院.

  • Lǐ Fāngmín 李芳民. 2006. Táng Wǔdài fósì jíkǎo 唐五代佛寺輯考. Běijīng 北京: Shāngwù yìnshūguǎn 商務印書館. [**]

  • Ogiwara Unrai 荻原雲来, Tsuji Naoshirō 辻直四郎, and Suzuki Gakujutsu Zaidan 鈴木学術財団, eds. 1979. Kan’yaku taishō bonwa daijiten 漢訳対照梵和大辞典. Revised ed. Tōkyō 東京: Kōdansha 講談社. [**]

  • Sturgeon, Donald. 2021. “Chinese Text Project 中國哲學書電子化計劃.” https://ctext.org.

  • Zhèng Tiāntǐng 鄭天挺, Wú Zé 吳澤, Yáng Zhìjiǔ 楊志玖, and Tán Qíxiāng 譚其驤, eds. 1996. Zhōngguó lìshǐ dàcídiǎn: lìshǐ dìlǐ 中國歷史大辭典: 歷史地理. Shànghǎi 上海: Shànghǎi císhū chūbǎnshè 上海辭書出版社. [***]

  • Zhōu Zǔzhuàn 周祖譔, ed. 1992. Zhōngguó wénxuéjiā dàcídiǎn: Táng Wǔdài juàn 中國文學家大辭典: 唐五代卷. Běijīng 北京: Zhōnghuá shūjú 中華書局. [***]