由任继愈同志主编,上海辞书出版社编辑出版的《宗教词典》就要和读者见面了。我参加这部词典部分佛教词目的编写,想就编写工作中遇到的问题谈谈自己的感想。在世界文化史上,宗教占有一定的重要地位。作为一种意识形态,宗教从它产生的那一天起,就对人类的精神文化以至于社会历史进程发生相当大的影响;直到现在,它还在世界各地不同程度地影响着人们的精神,影响着社会。了解和研究人类历史和文化, Edited by Ren Jiyu comrades, Shanghai Dictionary Editor published “Dictionary of Religion” will meet with the reader. I participated in the preparation of some of the Buddhist terms in this dictionary, and I would like to talk about my feelings about the problems I encountered during my writing. In the history of world culture, religion occupies a certain important position. As an ideology, from its day of its birth, religion has had a considerable impact on the spiritual and cultural history of mankind and social history. Until now, it has also affected people’s spirit and influence in various parts of the world With society. Understand and study human history and culture,