There are 19 total results for your Chan Meditation search.
| Characters | Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
參禪 参禅 see styles |
cān chán can1 chan2 ts`an ch`an tsan chan noshi wo ri |
More info & calligraphy: Zen UnderstandingTo inquire, discuss, seek religious instruction. |
慧能 see styles |
huì néng hui4 neng2 hui neng enou / eno えのう |
More info & calligraphy: Huineng(person) Huineng (638-713) The power of wisdom. Huineng, name of a noted monk, sixth patriarch of the Intuitional or Meditation sect; died 713. |
禪宗 禅宗 see styles |
chán zōng chan2 zong1 ch`an tsung chan tsung Zenshū |
More info & calligraphy: Zen BuddhismThe Chan, meditative or intuitional, sect usually said to have been established in China by Bodhidharma, v. 達, the twenty-eighth patriarch, who brought the tradition of the Buddha-mind from India. Cf. 楞 13 Laṅkāvatāra sūtra. This sect, believing in direct enlightenment, disregarded ritual and sūtras and depended upon the inner light and personal influence for the propagation of its tenets, founding itself on the esoteric tradition supposed to have been imparted to Kāśyapa by the Buddha, who indicated his meaning by plucking a flower without further explanation. Kāśyapa smiled in apprehension and is supposed to have passed on this mystic method to the patriarchs. The successor of Bodhidharma was 慧可 Huike, and he was succeeded by 僧璨 Sengcan; 道信 Daoxin; 弘忍 Hongren; 慧能 Huineng, and 神秀 Shenxiu, the sect dividing under the two latter into the southern and northern schools: the southern school became prominent, producing 南嶽 Nanyue and 靑原 Qingyuan, the former succeeded by 馬祖 Mazu, the latter by 石頭 Shitou. From Mazu's school arose the five later schools, v. 禪門. |
壁觀 壁观 see styles |
bì guān bi4 guan1 pi kuan hekkan |
The wall-gazer, applied to Bodhidharma, who is said to have gazed at a wall for nine years. Also a name for the meditation of the Chan school. |
意學 意学 see styles |
yì xué yi4 xue2 i hsüeh igaku |
Mental learning, learning by meditation rather than from books, the special cult of the Chan or Intuitional school, which is also called the School of the Buddha-mind. |
禪僧 禅僧 see styles |
chán sēng chan2 seng1 ch`an seng chan seng zensō |
A monk of the Chan sect; a monk in meditation. |
禪堂 禅堂 see styles |
chán táng chan2 tang2 ch`an t`ang chan tang zendō |
meditation room (in Buddhist monastery) Meditation-hall of the Chan sect. A common name for the monastic hall. |
禪定 禅定 see styles |
chán dìng chan2 ding4 ch`an ting chan ting zenjō |
chan is dhyāna, probably a transliteration; ding is an interpretation of samādhi. chan is an element in ding, or samādhi, which covers the whole ground of meditation, concentration, abstraction, reaching to the ultimate beyond emotion or thinking; cf. 禪, for which the two words chan-ding are loosely used. |
禪師 禅师 see styles |
chán shī chan2 shi1 ch`an shih chan shih zenshi |
honorific title for a Buddhist monk A master, or teacher, of meditation, or of the Chan school. |
禪病 禅病 see styles |
chán bìng chan2 bing4 ch`an ping chan ping zenbyō |
The ills of meditation, i.e. wandering thoughts, illusions. The illusions and nervous troubles of the mystic. |
禪行 禅行 see styles |
chán xíng chan2 xing2 ch`an hsing chan hsing zengyō |
The methods employed in meditation; the practices, or discipline, of the Chan school. |
達磨 达磨 see styles |
dá mó da2 mo2 ta mo daruma(p); daruma だるま(P); ダルマ |
(1) (kana only) daruma; tumbling doll; round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted; (2) (kana only) Bodhidharma; (3) prostitute; (personal name) Daruma dharma; also 達摩; 達麼; 達而麻耶; 曇摩; 馱摩 tr. by 法. dharma is from dhara, holding, bearing, possessing, etc.; and means 'that which is to be held fast or kept, ordinance, statute, law, usage, practice'; 'anything right.' M.W. It may be variously intp. as (1) characteristic, attribute, predicate; (2) the bearer, the transcendent substratum of single elements of conscious life; (3) element, i.e. a part of conscious life; (4) nirvāṇa, i.e. the Dharma par excellence, the object of Buddhist teaching; (5) the absolute, the real; (6) the teaching or religion of Buddha; (7) thing, object, appearance. Also, Damo, or Bodhidharma, the twenty-eighth Indian and first Chinese patriarch, who arrived in China A.D. 520, the reputed founder of the Chan or Intuitional School in China. He is described as son of a king in southern India; originally called Bodhitara. He arrived at Guangdong, bringing it is said the sacred begging-bowl, and settled in Luoyang, where he engaged in silent meditation for nine years, whence he received the title of wall-gazing Brahman 壁觀婆羅門, though he was a kṣatriya. His doctrine and practice were those of the 'inner light', independent of the written word, but to 慧可 Huike, his successor, he commended the Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra as nearest to his views. There are many names with Dharma as initial: Dharmapāla, Dharmagupta, Dharmayaśas, Dharmaruci, Dharmarakṣa, Dharmatrāta, Dharmavardhana, etc. |
閉關 闭关 see styles |
bì guān bi4 guan1 pi kuan heikan |
to close the passes; to seal off the country; seclusion (monastic practice, e.g. of Chan Buddhists) To shut in; to isolate oneself for meditation. |
一字禪 一字禅 see styles |
yī zì chán yi1 zi4 chan2 i tzu ch`an i tzu chan ichiji zen |
A cryptic single-word reply to a question, requiring meditation for its apprehension; it is a Chan or Zen method. |
佛心宗 see styles |
fó xīn zōng fo2 xin1 zong1 fo hsin tsung Busshin Shū |
The sect of the Buddha-heart, i.e. the Chan (Zen) or Intuitive sect of Bodhidharma, holding that each individual has direct access to Buddha through meditation. |
口頭禪 口头禅 see styles |
kǒu tóu chán kou3 tou2 chan2 k`ou t`ou ch`an kou tou chan kōtō zen |
Zen saying repeated as cant; (fig.) catchphrase; mantra; favorite expression; stock phrase Mouth meditation, i.e. dependence on the leading of others, inability to enter into personal meditation. |
野狐禪 野狐禅 see styles |
yě hú chán ye3 hu2 chan2 yeh hu ch`an yeh hu chan yakozen |
heresy Wild-fox meditation, i.e. non-Buddhist ascetics, heterodoxy in general. |
暗證禪師 暗证禅师 see styles |
àn zhèng chán shī an4 zheng4 chan2 shi1 an cheng ch`an shih an cheng chan shih anshō zenji |
暗證; 暗禪, etc. A charlatan who teaches intuitional meditation differently from the methods of that school; an ignorant preceptor. |
茶禪一體 茶禅一体 see styles |
chá chán yī tǐ cha2 chan2 yi1 ti3 ch`a ch`an i t`i cha chan i ti chazen ittai |
tea and Chan; Seon meditation are one |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
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