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Teo Posted 20 years ago
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our era
With the advent of Buddhism, Indian civilization exerted a great impact upon a large part of Asia, especially on East and Southeast Asia. Chinese and some other East Asian languages were thus directly and indirectly influenced by ancient Indian languages. It is in the study of these influences that my chief interest lies.
The translations of Buddhist scriptures into the Chinese language beginning in the first century of our era caused the Chinese to take a more self-conscious interest in their own language....
The above is a personal statement from a Taiwan-born Chinese student to an American professor. What does our era refer to?
The translations of Buddhist scriptures into the Chinese language beginning in the first century of our era caused the Chinese to take a more self-conscious interest in their own language....
The above is a personal statement from a Taiwan-born Chinese student to an American professor. What does our era refer to?
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Unless the reference is to some other way of numbering years, I presume that "our era" or "the common era" refers to the years 0001 to 2006 (the present), formerly, and sometimes still, written 1 A.D., 2006 A.D.
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