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| Characters | Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
業 业 see styles |
yè ye4 yeh waza わざ |
More info & calligraphy: Karmadeed; act; work; performance; (personal name) Hajime karman, karma, "action, work, deed"; "moral duty"; "product, result, effect." M.W. The doctrine of the act; deeds and their effects on the character, especially in their relation to succeeding forms of transmigration. The 三業 are thought, word, and deed, each as good, bad, or indifferent. Karma from former lives is 宿業, from present conduct 現業. Karma is moral action that causes future retribution, and either good or evil transmigration. It is also that moral kernel in which each being survives death for further rebirth or metempsychosis. There are categories of 2, 3, 4, 6, and 10; the 六業 are rebirth in the hells, or as animals, hungry ghosts, men, devas, or asuras: v. 六趣. |
五行 see styles |
wǔ xíng wu3 xing2 wu hsing gogyou / gogyo ごぎょう |
More info & calligraphy: Five Elements(1) (See 五大・ごだい・1) the five elements (in Chinese philosophy: wood, fire, earth, metal and water); the five phases; wu xing; (2) {Buddh} five practices of the Bodhisattvas; (3) (See 六信五行) the five pillars of Islam; (surname, given name) Gogyou The five lines of conduct. I. According to the 起信論 Awakening of Faith they are almsgiving; keeping the commandments; patience under insult; zeal or progress; meditation. II. According to the 涅槃經 Nirvana Sutra they are saintly or bodhisattva deeds; arhat, or noble deeds; deva deeds; children's deeds (i. e. normal good deeds of men, devas, and Hinayanists); sickness conditions, e. g. illness, delusion, etc.; — into all these lines of conduct and conditions a Bodhisattva enters. III. The five elements, or tanmātra— wood, fire, earth, metal, and water; or earth, water, ire, air, and ether (or space) as taught by the later Mahāyāna philosophy; idem 五大. |
善行 see styles |
shàn xíng shan4 xing2 shan hsing zenkou / zenko ぜんこう |
More info & calligraphy: Good Conduct(noun - becomes adjective with の) (ant: 悪行) good deed; good conduct; benevolence; (given name) Yoshiyuki practice of good deeds |
福德 see styles |
fú dé fu2 de2 fu te fukutoku |
More info & calligraphy: Fude |
為善最樂 为善最乐 see styles |
wéi shàn zuì lè wei2 shan4 zui4 le4 wei shan tsui le |
More info & calligraphy: Doing good is the greatest source of happiness |
万善 see styles |
manzen まんぜん |
(noun or adjectival noun) all good works; all good deeds; (place-name, surname) Manzen |
三因 see styles |
sān yīn san1 yin1 san yin sanin さんいん |
{Buddh} (See 三因仏性) three causes of Buddha nature; (place-name) Miyori The six "causes" of the Abhidharma Kośa 倶舍論 as reduced to three in the Satyasiddhi śāstra 成實論, i.e. 生因 producing cause, as good or evil deeds cause good or evil karma; 習因 habit cause, e.g. lust breeding lust; 依因 dependent or hypostatic cause, e.g. the six organs 六根 and their objects 六境 causing the cognitions 六識. |
三業 三业 see styles |
sān yè san1 ye4 san yeh sangou / sango さんごう |
{Buddh} (See 身口意) three activities (action, speech and thought) trividha-dvāra. The three conditions, inheritances, or karma, of which there are several groups. (1) Deed, word, thought, 身, 口, 意. (2) (a) Present-1ife happy karma; (6) present-life unhappy karma; (c) 不動 karma of an imperturbable nature. (3) (a) Good; (b) evil; (c) neutral karma. (4) (a) 漏業 Karma of ordinary rebirth; (6) 無漏業 karma of Hīnayāna nirvana; (c) 非漏非無漏 karma of neither, independent of both, Mahāyāna nirvana. (5) (a) Present deeds and their consequences in this life; (b) present deeds and their next life consequences; (c) present deeds and consequences after the next life, There are other groups of three. |
三行 see styles |
sān xíng san1 xing2 san hsing miyuki みゆき |
(g,p) Miyuki Three lines of action that affect karma, i.e. the ten good deeds that cause happy karma; the ten evil deeds that cause unhappy karma; 不動業 or 無動行 karma arising without activity, e.g. meditation on error and its remedy. |
事度 see styles |
shì dù shi4 du4 shih tu jido |
Salvation by observing the five commandments, the ten good deeds, etc. |
二嚴 二严 see styles |
èr yán er4 yan2 erh yen ni gon |
The dual adornment, that of 智慧 wisdom and that of 福德; good deeds, 涅槃經 27. |
二因 see styles |
èr yīn er4 yin1 erh yin niin / nin にいん |
{Buddh} two causes Two causes, of which there are various definitions: (1) 生因 The producing cause (of all good things); and 了因 the revealing or illuminating cause i.e. knowledge, or wisdom. (2) 能生因 The 8th 識 q. v.: the cause that is able to produce all sense and perceptions, also all good and evil; and 方便因 the environmental or adaptive cause, which aids the 8th 識, as water or earth does the seed, etc. (3) 習因 or 同類因 Practice or habit as cause e. g. desire causing desire; and 報因 or 果熟因 the rewarding cause, or fruit-ripening cause, e. g. pleasure or pain caused by good or evil deeds. (4) 正因 Correct or direct cause i.e. the Buddha-nature of all beings; and 緣因 the contributory cause, or enlightenment (see 了因 above) which evolves the 正因 or Buddha-nature by good works. (5) 近因 Immediate or direct cause and 遠因 distant or indirect cause or causes. |
五果 see styles |
wǔ guǒ wu3 guo3 wu kuo goka ごか |
(1) five fruits (peach, Japanese plum, apricot, jujube, Japanese chestnut); (2) (Buddhist term) five types of effect in cause-and-effect relationships; (3) (Buddhist term) five effects of ignorance and formations on one's current life The five fruits, or effects; there are various groups, e. g. I. (1) 異熟果 fruit ripening divergently, e. g. pleasure and goodness are in different categories; present organs accord in pain or pleasure with their past good or evil deeds; (2) 等流果 fruit of the same order, e. g. goodness reborn from previous goodness; (3) 土用果 present position and function fruit, the rewards of moral merit in previous lives; (4) 增上果 superior fruit, or position arising from previous earnest endeavor and superior capacity: (5) 離繋果 fruit of freedom from all bonds, nirvana fruit. II. Fruit, or rebirth: (1) 識 conception (viewed psychologically); (2) 名色 formation mental and physical; (3) 六處 the six organs of perception complete; (4) 觸 their birth and contact with the world; (5) 受 consciousness. III. Five orders of fruit, with stones, pips, shells (as nuts), chaff-like (as pine seeds), and with pods. |
人因 see styles |
rén yīn ren2 yin1 jen yin ninin |
The causative influences for being reborn as a human being, i.e. a good life. Those in positions of honour have obtained them by former deeds of benevolence, reverence to Buddhas and monks, patience, humility, devotion to the sutras, charity, morality, zeal and exhortation, obedience, loyalty - hence they have obtained affluence, long life, and are held in high regard. Those in mean condition are thus born because of the opposite characteristics in previous incarnation. |
修善 see styles |
xiū shàn xiu1 shan4 hsiu shan shuzen; shuuzen / shuzen; shuzen しゅぜん; しゅうぜん |
(noun/participle) (しゅぜん is a Buddhist term) accumulating good deeds; doing good; (personal name) Nobuyoshi To cultivate goodness; the goodness that is cultivated, in contrast with natural goodness. |
八憍 see styles |
bā jiāo ba1 jiao1 pa chiao hakkyō |
The eight kinds of pride, or arrogance, resulting in domineering: because of strength; of clan, or name; of wealth; of independence, or position; of years, or age; of cleverness, or wisdom; of good or charitable deeds; of good looks. Of these, eight birds are named as types: 鴟梟 two kinds of owl, eagle, vulture, crow, magpie, pigeon, wagtail. |
六因 see styles |
liù yīn liu4 yin1 liu yin rokuin |
The six causations of the 六位 six stages of Bodhisattva development, q. v. Also, the sixfold division of causes of the Vaibhāṣikas (cf. Keith, 177-8); every phenomenon depends upon the union of 因 primary cause and 緣 conditional or environmental cause; and of the 因 there are six kinds: (1) 能作因 karaṇahetu, effective causes of two kinds: 與力因 empowering cause, as the earth empowers plant growth, and 不障因 non-resistant cause, as space does not resist, i. e. active and passive causes; (2) 倶有因 sahabhūhetu, co-operative causes, as the four elements 四大 in nature, not one of which can be omitted; (3) 同類因 sabhāgahetu, causes of the same kind as the effect, good producing good, etc.; (4) 相應因 saṃprayuktahetu, mutual responsive or associated causes, e. g. mind and mental conditions, subject with object; Keith gives 'faith and intelligence'; similar to (2); (5) 遍行因 sarvatragahetu, universal or omnipresent cause, i. e. of illusion, as of false views affecting every act; it resembles (3) but is confined to delusion; (6) 異熟因 vipākahetu, differental fruition, i. e. the effect different from the cause, as the hells are from evil deeds. |
勧善 see styles |
kanzen かんぜん |
(See 勧善懲悪) rewarding good deeds |
善事 see styles |
shàn shì shan4 shi4 shan shih zenji ぜんじ |
good deeds good thing; good deed good deed |
善根 see styles |
shàn gēn shan4 gen1 shan ken zenkon ぜんこん |
good deeds; charity; (surname) Yoshine wholesome roots |
善業 善业 see styles |
shàn yè shan4 ye4 shan yeh zengou / zengo ぜんごう |
(ant: 悪業) good deeds good actions |
四行 see styles |
sì xíng si4 xing2 ssu hsing shigyō |
The four disciplinary processes: enlightenment; good deeds; wisdom; and worship. |
宿善 see styles |
sù shàn su4 shan4 su shan sukuzen |
Good deeds done in previous existence. |
小草 see styles |
xiǎo cǎo xiao3 cao3 hsiao ts`ao hsiao tsao ogusa おぐさ |
(surname) Ogusa Smaller herbs, those who keep the five commandments and do the ten good deeds, thereby attaining to rebirth as men or devas, v. 三草二木. |
果報 果报 see styles |
guǒ bào guo3 bao4 kuo pao kahou / kaho かほう |
karma; preordained fate (Buddhism) (noun or adjectival noun) (1) good fortune; luck; happiness; (noun or adjectival noun) (2) {Buddh} (See 業・ごう・1) vipaka (retribution); (female given name) Kaho 異熟 Retribution for good or evil deeds, implying that different conditions in this (or any) life are the variant ripenings, or fruit, of seed sown in previous life or lives. |
淨業 淨业 see styles |
jìng yè jing4 ye4 ching yeh jōgō |
Good karma; also the deeds which lead to birth in the Pure Land. |
留難 留难 see styles |
liú nàn liu2 nan4 liu nan runan |
to make something difficult; to create obstacles The difficulty of one's good deeds being hindered by evil spirits. |
白黑 see styles |
bái hēi bai2 hei1 pai hei byakukoku |
white and dark, e. g. 白黑業 good and evil deeds, or karma. |
福因 see styles |
fú yīn fu2 yin1 fu yin fukuin |
That which causes or gives rise to blessing, i.e. all good deeds. |
積善 积善 see styles |
jī shàn ji1 shan4 chi shan sekizen せきぜん |
accumulation of good deeds; (surname) Tsumiyoshi to accumulate virtue |
行善 see styles |
xíng shàn xing2 shan4 hsing shan yukiyoshi ゆきよし |
to do good works; to be merciful (personal name) Yukiyoshi To do good; deeds that are good; to offer up deeds of goodness. |
陰騭 阴骘 see styles |
yīn zhì yin1 zhi4 yin chih |
charitable acts performed in secret; hidden good deeds |
隨喜 随喜 see styles |
suí xǐ sui2 xi3 sui hsi zuiki |
(Buddhism) to be moved at the sight of good deeds; to join in charitable deeds; to tour temples To rejoice in the welfare of others. To do that which one enjoys, to follow one's inclination. |
顕彰 see styles |
kenshou / kensho けんしょう |
(noun, transitive verb) honouring (publicly); honoring; making someone's good deeds or achievements well-known; (male given name) Teruaki |
三等流 see styles |
sān děng liú san1 deng3 liu2 san teng liu santōru |
Three equal or universal currents or consequences, i.e. 眞等流 the certain consequences that follow on a good, evil, or neutral kind of nature, respectively; 假等流 the temporal or particular fate derived from a previous life's ill deeds, e.g. shortened life from taking life; 分位等流 each organ as reincarnated according to its previous deeds, hence the blind. |
二種子 二种子 see styles |
èr zhǒng zǐ er4 zhong3 zi3 erh chung tzu ni shūji |
Two kinds of seed: (1) (a) 本有種子 the seed or latent undivided (moral) force immanent in the highest of the eight 識, i.e. the ālaya-vijñāna; (b) 新薰種子the newly influenced, or active seed when acted upon by the seven other 識, thus becoming productive. (2) (a) 名言種子 The so-called seed which causes moral action similar to 本有種子, e.g. good or evil seed producing good or evil deeds; (b) 業種子 karma seed, the sixth 識 acting with the eighth. |
倶生神 see styles |
jù shēng shén ju4 sheng1 shen2 chü sheng shen gushōjin |
The spirit, born at the same time as the individual, which records his deeds and reports to Yama. Another version is the two spirits who record one's good and evil. Another says it is the ālaya-vijñāna. |
浄玻璃 see styles |
jouhari / johari じょうはり |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) fine crystal; clear glass; (expression) (2) (abbreviation) (See 浄玻璃の鏡) mirror found in hell in Enma's chamber that allows people to see their good and bad deeds |
三覆八校 三复八校 see styles |
sān fù bā xiào san1 fu4 ba1 xiao4 san fu pa hsiao sanfuku hakkyō |
The three reports 三覆 and eight investigations 八校. Two angels, 同生 and 同名, observe each individual, the first a female at his right shoulder noting the evil deeds; the second, a male, at his left shoulder noting the good deeds; both report on high and in hades six times a month. Thus in each month there are 六齋 and in each year 三覆 and 八校. |
十金剛心 十金刚心 see styles |
shí jīn gāng xīn shi2 jin1 gang1 xin1 shih chin kang hsin jū kongō shin |
Ten characteristics of the "diamond heart" as developed by bodhisattva: (1) complete insight into all truth; (2) saving of all creatures; (3) the glorifying of all Buddha-worlds; (4) supererogation of his good deeds; (5) service of all Buddhas; (6) realization of the truth of all Buddha-laws; (7) manifestation of all patience and endurance; (8) unflagging devotion to his vocation; (9) perfection of his work; (10) aiding all to fulfill their vows and accomplish their spiritual ends. 華嚴經 55. |
嘉言善行 see styles |
kagenzenkou / kagenzenko かげんぜんこう |
(yoji) good words and good deeds |
四階成道 四阶成道 see styles |
sì jiē chéng dào si4 jie1 cheng2 dao4 ssu chieh ch`eng tao ssu chieh cheng tao shikai jōdō |
(or 四階成佛) The four Hīnayāna steps for attaining Buddhahood, i. e. the myriad deeds of the three asaṃkhyeya kalpas; the continually good karma of a hundred great kalpas; in the final body the cutting off of the illusions of the lower eight states; and the taking of one's seat on the bodhi-plot for final enlightenment, and the cutting off of the thirty-four forms of delusive thought. |
將功補過 将功补过 see styles |
jiāng gōng bǔ guò jiang1 gong1 bu3 guo4 chiang kung pu kuo |
to make up for one's faults by doing good deeds (idiom) |
廣結良緣 广结良缘 see styles |
guǎng jié liáng yuán guang3 jie2 liang2 yuan2 kuang chieh liang yüan |
to earn people's praise through one's good deeds (idiom) |
福德莊嚴 福德庄严 see styles |
fú dé zhuāng yán fu2 de2 zhuang1 yan2 fu te chuang yen fukudoku shōgon |
The adornment of blessedness and virtue. i.e. of good deeds. |
功罪相償う see styles |
kouzaiaitsugunau / kozaiaitsugunau こうざいあいつぐなう |
(expression) (idiom) the good and bad deeds cancel each other out; good deeds make up for the bad |
浄玻璃の鏡 see styles |
jouharinokagami / joharinokagami じょうはりのかがみ |
(expression) {Buddh} (See 閻魔) mirror found in hell in Enma's chamber that allows people to see their good and bad deeds |
好事不出門，惡事傳千里 好事不出门，恶事传千里 see styles |
hǎo shì bù chū mén , è shì chuán qiān lǐ hao3 shi4 bu4 chu1 men2 , e4 shi4 chuan2 qian1 li3 hao shih pu ch`u men , o shih ch`uan ch`ien li hao shih pu chu men , o shih chuan chien li |
lit. good deeds do not go beyond the door, evil deeds spread a thousand miles; a good deed goes unnoticed, but scandal spreads fast (idiom) |
積善の家には必ず余慶あり see styles |
sekizennoienihakanarazuyokeiari / sekizennoienihakanarazuyokeari せきぜんのいえにはかならずよけいあり |
(expression) one's good deeds shall be repaid even to one's descendants |
積善の家には必ず余慶有り see styles |
sekizennoienihakanarazuyokeiari / sekizennoienihakanarazuyokeari せきぜんのいえにはかならずよけいあり |
(expression) one's good deeds shall be repaid even to one's descendants |
Variations: |
hyoushou / hyosho ひょうしょう |
(noun, transitive verb) (official) commendation; public recognition (of someone's achievements, good deeds, etc.); awarding; honouring |
Variations: |
sekizennoienihakanarazuyokeiari / sekizennoienihakanarazuyokeari せきぜんのいえにはかならずよけいあり |
(expression) (proverb) (See 積不善の家には必ず余殃あり) a virtuous family enjoys long prosperity; one's good deeds shall be repaid even to one's descendants |
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