ABSTRACT
Fa Yun 法雲, a monk in the Song Dynasty (960–1279 CE), was attached to Jingde Monastery 景德寺 in what is now Suzhou in Jiangsu Province. He edited A Collection of Names and Their Explanations in Buddhist Translations 翻譯名義集 (Fanyi mingyi ji), a major reference work for the study of Buddhist literature. Comprising seven fascicles, it is divided into sixty-four chapters, with over two thousand and forty items of transliteration from Sanskrit terms. It also provides alternative transliterations, variant names, and annotations of Buddhist terms quoted from canonical Buddhist texts and other Buddhist and non-Buddhist works. In addition, Fa Yun himself made many theoretical observations and remarks about translation.
