Cultural implication interpretation is a method of translation, which is applied in comparing concepts in Indian Buddhism to Confucian and Taoist understandings. This method is of global enlightenment in interpretation between different cultures. The academia has numerous studies about the history of the method, but few studies are made to explore the generating mechanism of cultural implication interpretation. In fact, cultural implication interpretation goes back to the practice of analogy used by early primitive people in knowing things in the world. Based on the preposition that other cultures are the strange deforms of our own culture, cultural implication interpretation follows the method of seeking and imagining the item of the same function for the item of the same structure to create an idea for “acceptable absence” in other cultures.

cultural implication interpretation; cultural morphology; item of the same structure; item of the same function; “acceptable absence”