Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c8.s3.t2.4

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The *Sound and Meaning of the Tripitaka* is also otherwise known as *Sound and Meaning of All Sutras* and *Sound and Meaning of Hui Lin*, consisting of about 100 volumes with plenty of quotations from normal dictionaries and rhyming dictionaries such as *Analytical Dictionary of Chinese Characters*, *Dictionary of Characters*, *Uniform Characters*, *Category of Sounds*, *Three Cangs*, *Essentials of Rhyming*, *Jade Chapters*, *Ancient and Modern Standard Characters*, *Classical Dictionary of Characters* and *Kai-yuan Sounds and Meanings of Characters*. It has also a lot of references about many classical books, history and on many volumes of *Sounds and Meanings of Sutras* authored by eminent monks such as Xuanying, Hui Yuan, Yun Gong and Kuiji of the previous generations. The same work of Huilin's too provides various annotations on a large quantity of words and terms of more than 1,300 sutras translated into Chinese that amounts to over 5,700 chapters. The *Sounds and Meanings of All Sutras* has been divided into many volumes with many catalogues based on the contents of the *sutra* and it is roughly the same as the order followed in compiling the Records of Sakyamuni's Teachings of the Kaiyuan Period.