Chinese Transcription of Buddhist Terms in the Late Hàn Dynasty - Dataset

This dataset is a compilation of Chinese transcriptions of Buddhist terms produced by translators<br> from the late Hàn period. It is a compilation of the previous works of (Coblin, 1983), (Karashima,<br> 2010), (Vetter, 2012), (Hill, Nattier, Granger, &amp; Kollmeier, 2020) for the Chinese transcriptions. To<br> these were added phonological reconstructions of the Chinese terms for late Hàn from (Schuessler,<br> 2009) and Middle Chinese from (Baxter &amp; Sagart, 2014a), as well as the Gandhari equivalents of<br> Sanskrit and Pāli terms from (Baums &amp; Glass, 2002). This dataset, shared on Zenodo, aims at<br> being the new state-of-the-art dataset on Buddhist transcription material and can be used by anyone<br> working on Hàn Chinese phonology and will help better understanding the possible language sources<br> of the Chinese transcriptions, as well as the phonology of the target Chinese dialects.