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 from the late Hàn period. It is a compilation of the previous works of (Coblin, 1983), (Karashima, 2010), (Vetter, 2012), (Hill, Nattier, Granger, & Kollmeier, 2020) for the Chinese transcriptions. To these were added phonological reconstructions of the Chinese terms for late Hàn from (Schuessler, 2009) and Middle Chinese from (Baxter & Sagart, 2014a), as well as the Gandhari equivalents of Sanskrit and Pāli terms from (Baums & Glass, 2002). This dataset, shared on Zenodo, aims at being the new state-of-the-art dataset on Buddhist transcription material and can be used by anyone working on Hàn Chinese phonology and will help better understanding the possible language sources of the Chinese transcriptions, as well as the phonology of the target Chinese dialects.本数据集汇编了汉代晚期译者所创制的佛教术语汉语音译文本。本数据集整合了Coblin（1983）、Karashima（2010）、Vetter（2012）以及Hill、Nattier、Granger与Kollmeier（2020）等学者关于汉语音译的既往研究成果。此外，本数据集还补充了Schuessler（2009）提出的汉代晚期汉语词汇音系重构（phonological reconstructions）结果、Baxter与Sagart（2014a）提出的中古汉语（Middle Chinese）音系重构结果，以及Baums与Glass（2002）整理的梵语（Sanskrit）、巴利语（Pāli）术语对应的犍陀罗语（Gandhari）对应形式。本数据集已发布于Zenodo平台，旨在成为佛教音译材料领域的全新顶尖数据集，可供所有从事汉代汉语音系研究的人员使用，将有助于深化对汉语音译文本潜在语言来源及目标汉语方言音系特征的理解。