Explanations of Words in Chinese Mediaeval Buddhist Scriptures

The four nuclear scriptures of A-han Bu(阿含部)in Chinese mediaeval Buddhist scriptures have great values on Ancient Chinese research.There appeared a lot of new words,new meanings and difficult words which can remedy some defects of Hanyu Da Cidian(汉语大词典)and The Big Buddhism Glossary(佛学大辞典)and Ci Yuan(辞源).These words and meanings have two main characteristics: firstly,colloquial and dialect words came to be widely used,which might be closely conerned with buddhas’purpose of gaining the masses;secondly,there appeared more buddhist Chinese words,which made Chinese disyllables be more widely used and accelerated Chinese disyllabicd evelopment.