"Scripture" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 经文 | jīng wén | scripture / scriptures / CL:本[ben3] |   |
| 经 |  jīng | classics / sacred book / scripture / to pass through / to undergo / to bear / to endure / warp (textile) / longitude / menstruation / channel (TCM) / abbr. for economics 經濟|经济[jing1 ji4] | |
| 竺书 | Zhú shū | Buddhist texts (archaic) / scripture | |
| 佛经 | Fó jīng | Buddhist texts / Buddhist scripture | |
| 念经 | niàn jīng | to recite or chant Buddhist scripture | |
| 传经 | chuán jīng | to pass on scripture / to teach Confucian doctrine / to pass on one's experience | |
| 道藏 | dào zàng | Daoist scripture | |
| 藏 | zàng | storehouse / depository / Buddhist or Taoist scripture | |
| 忏 | chàn | (bound form) to feel remorse / (bound form) scripture read to atone for sb's sins (from Sanskrit "ksama") | |
| 梵册贝叶 | fàn cè bèi yè | Sanskrit on Talipot palm leaves (idiom) / Buddhist scripture | |
| 佛书 | Fó shū | Buddhist scripture | |
| 圣经贤传 | shèng jīng xián zhuàn | lit. holy scripture and biography of sage (idiom) / refers to Confucian canonical texts | |
| 藏经洞 | zàng jīng dòng | cave holding scripture depository, part of Mogao cave complex 莫高窟, Dunhuang 敦煌 | |
| 拜忏 | bài chàn | to hold a daytime Buddhist mass / (of a monk or nun) to read scripture to atone for sb's sins | |
| 经堂 | jīng táng | scripture hall (Buddhism) | |
