As early as in ancient time when the Buddhism was translated into China,translators,some famous Buddhists,advocated to translate the content rather than the form when translating,and contributed a great lot to make Buddhism understood with fidelity and accepted widely in China.

"Catching Meaning While Forgetting Words" is one of the propositions of the Chinese philosophy "the Distinction between Words and Meaning",which also comprises other two subordinatepropositions--"words being not able to convey meaningabsolutely" and "words being able to convey meaning absolutely".