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There are 24 total results for your Infinity search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

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kòng
    kong4
k`ung
    kung
 kuu / ku
    くう
to empty; vacant; unoccupied; space; leisure; free time
(1) empty air; sky; (2) {Buddh} shunyata (the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon); emptiness; (3) (abbreviation) (See 空軍) air force; (noun or adjectival noun) (4) fruitlessness; meaninglessness; (noun or adjectival noun) (5) (See 五大・1) void (one of the five elements); (can be adjective with の) (6) {math} empty (e.g. set); (female given name) Ron
śūnya, empty, void, hollow, vacant, nonexistent. śūnyatā, 舜若多, vacuity, voidness, emptiness, non-existence, immateriality, perhaps spirituality, unreality, the false or illusory nature of all existence, the seeming 假 being unreal. The doctrine that all phenomena and the ego have no reality, but are composed of a certain number of skandhas or elements, which disintegrate. The void, the sky, space. The universal, the absolute, complete abstraction without relativity. There are classifications into 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 13, 16, and 18 categories. The doctrine is that all things are compounds, or unstable organisms, possessing no self-essence, i.e. are dependent, or caused, come into existence only to perish. The underlying reality, the principle of eternal relativity, or non-infinity, i.e. śūnya, permeates all phenomena making possible their evolution. From this doctrine the Yogācārya school developed the idea of the permanent reality, which is Essence of Mind, the unknowable noumenon behind all phenomena, the entity void of ideas and phenomena, neither matter nor mind, but the root of both.

無限


无限

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wú xiàn
    wu2 xian4
wu hsien
 mugen
    むげん
unlimited; unbounded
(1) infinity; infinitude; eternity; (adj-no,adj-na) (2) infinite; limitless; (given name) Mugen
infinite

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miǎo
    miao3
miao
a flood; infinity

三身

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sān shēn
    san1 shen1
san shen
 sanjin; sanshin
    さんじん; さんしん
{Buddh} trikaya (three bodies of the Buddha); (surname) Sanmi
trikāya. 三寶身 The threefold body or nature of a Buddha, i.e. the 法, 報, and 化身, or dharmakāya, sambhogakāya, and nirmāṇakāya. The three are defined as 自性, 受用, and 變化, the Buddha-body per se, or in its essential nature; his body of bliss, which he "receives" for his own "use" and enjoyment; and his body of transformation, by which he can appear in any form; i.e. spiritual, or essential; glorified; revealed. While the doctrine of the trikāya is a Mahāyāna concept, it partly results from the Hīnayāna idealization of the earthly Buddha with his thirty-two signs, eighty physical marks, clairvoyance, clairaudience, holiness, purity, wisdom, pity, etc. Mahāyāna, however, proceeded to conceive of Buddha as the Universal, the All, with infinity of forms, yet above all our concepts of unity or diversity. To every Buddha Mahāyāna attributed a three-fold body: that of essential Buddha; that of joy or enjoyment of the fruits of his past saving labours; that of power to transform himself at will to any shape for omnipresent salvation of those who need him. The trinity finds different methods of expression, e.g. Vairocana is entitled 法身, the embodiment of the Law, shining everywhere, enlightening all; Locana is 報身; c.f. 三賓, the embodiment of purity and bliss; Śākyamuni is 化身 or Buddha revealed. In the esoteric sect they are 法 Vairocana, 報 Amitābha, and 化 Śākyamuni. The 三賓 are also 法 dharma, 報 saṅgha, 化 buddha. Nevertheless, the three are considered as a trinity, the three being essentially one, each in the other. (1) 法身 Dharmakāya in its earliest conception was that of the body of the dharma, or truth, as preached by Śākyamuni; later it became his mind or soul in contrast with his material body. In Mādhyamika, the dharmakāya was the only reality, i.e. the void, or the immateria1, the ground of all phenomena; in other words, the 眞如 the tathāgatagarbha, the bhūtatathatā. According to the Huayan (Kegon) School it is the 理or noumenon, while the other two are氣or phenomenal aspects. "For the Vijñānavāda... the body of the law as highest reality is the void intelligence, whose infection (saṃkleҫa) results in the process of birth and death, whilst its purification brings about Nirvāṇa, or its restoration to its primitive transparence" (Keith). The "body of the law is the true reality of everything". Nevertheless, in Mahāyāna every Buddha has his own 法身; e.g. in the dharmakāya aspect we have the designation Amitābha, who in his saṃbhogakāya aspect is styled Amitāyus. (2) 報身Sambhogakāya, a Buddha's reward body, or body of enjoyment of the merits he attained as a bodhisattva; in other words, a Buddha in glory in his heaven. This is the form of Buddha as an object of worship. It is defined in two aspects, (a) 自受用身 for his own bliss, and (b) 他受用身 for the sake of others, revealing himself in his glory to bodhisattvas, enlightening and inspiring them. By wisdom a Buddha's dharmakāya is attained, by bodhisattva-merits his saṃbhogakāya. Not only has every Buddha all the three bodies or aspects, but as all men are of the same essence, or nature, as Buddhas, they are therefore potential Buddhas and are in and of the trikāya. Moreover, trikāya is not divided, for a Buddha in his 化身 is still one with his 法身 and 報身, all three bodies being co-existent. (3) 化身; 應身; 應化身 nirmāṇakāya, a Buddha's transformation, or miraculous body, in which he appears at will and in any form outside his heaven, e.g. as Śākyamuni among men.

四喩

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sì yú
    si4 yu2
ssu yü
 shiyu
The four metaphors (of infinity, etc. ): 山斤 the weight of all the mountains in pounds; 海 the drops in the ocean; 地塵 the atoms of dust in the earth; 空 界 the extent of space.

八解脫


八解脱

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bā jiě tuō
    ba1 jie3 tuo1
pa chieh t`o
    pa chieh to
 hachi gedatsu
aṣṭa-vimokṣa, mokṣa, vimukti, mukti. Liberation, deliverance, freedom, emancipation, escape, release―in eight forms; also 八背捨 and cf. 解脫 and 八勝處. The eight are stages of mental concentration: (1) 内有色想觀外色解脱 Liberation, when subjective desire arises, by examination of the object, or of all things and realization of their filthiness. (2) 内無色想觀外色解脫 Liberation, when no subjective desire arises, by still meditating as above. These two are deliverance by meditation on impurity, the next on purity. (3) 淨身作證具足住解脫 Liberation by concentration on the pure to the realization of a permanent state of freedom from all desire. The above three "correspond to the four Dhyānas". (Eitel.) (4) 空無邊處解脫 Liberation in realization of the infinity of space, or the immaterial. (5) 識無邊處解脫 Liberation in realization of infinite knowledge. (6) 無所有處解脫Liberation in realization of nothingness, or nowhereness. (7) 非想非非想處解脫 Liberation in the state of mind where there is neither thought nor absence of thought. These four arise out of abstract meditation in regard to desire and form, and are associated with the 四空天. (8) 滅受 想定解脫 Liberation by means of a state of mind in which there is final extinction, nirvāṇa, of both sensation, vedanā, and consciousness, saṁjñā.

無量義


无量义

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wú liáng yì
    wu2 liang2 yi4
wu liang i
 muryō gi
Infinite meaning, or the meaning of infinity; the meaning of the all, or all things.

無限大

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 mugendai
    むげんだい
(noun or adjectival noun) infinity

空處定


空处定

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kōng chù dìng
    kong1 chu4 ding4
k`ung ch`u ting
    kung chu ting
 kūsho jō
(or 空無邊處定) The dhyāna, or meditation connected with the above, in which all thought of form is suppressed.

限無し

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 kirinashi
    きりなし
(irregular okurigana usage) (1) boundlessness; endlessness; infinity; (2) incessantness; continuousness

無窮遠點


无穷远点

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wú qióng yuǎn diǎn
    wu2 qiong2 yuan3 dian3
wu ch`iung yüan tien
    wu chiung yüan tien
point at infinity (math.); infinitely distant point

無量空處


无量空处

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wú liáng kōng chù
    wu2 liang2 kong1 chu4
wu liang k`ung ch`u
    wu liang kung chu
 muryō kūsho
sphere of the infinity of space

無限遠点

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 mugenenten
    むげんえんてん
{math} point at infinity

生佛一如

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shēng fó yī rú
    sheng1 fo2 yi1 ru2
sheng fo i ju
 shōbutsu ichinyo
生佛一體; 生佛不二; 凡聖一如 The living and the Buddha are one, i. e. all are the one undivided whole, or absolute; they are all of the same substance: all are Buddha, and of the same 法身 dharmakāya, or spiritual nature; all are of the same 空 infinity.

空無邊處


空无边处

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kōng wú biān chù
    kong1 wu2 bian1 chu4
k`ung wu pien ch`u
    kung wu pien chu
 kū muhen sho
the sphere of the infinity of space

限り無し

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 kirinashi
    きりなし
(1) boundlessness; endlessness; infinity; (2) incessantness; continuousness

空無邊處定


空无边处定

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kōng wú biān chù dìng
    kong1 wu2 bian1 chu4 ding4
k`ung wu pien ch`u ting
    kung wu pien chu ting
 kū muhen sho jō
the sphere of the infinity of space

無量義處三昧


无量义处三昧

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wú liáng yì chù sān mèi
    wu2 liang2 yi4 chu4 san1 mei4
wu liang i ch`u san mei
    wu liang i chu san mei
 muryō gisho zanmai
The anantanirdeśapratiṣṭhāna samādhi, into which the Buddha is represented as entering before preaching the doctrine of infinity as given in the Lotus Sūtra.

インフィニティ

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 infiniti
    インフィニティ
infinity

インフィニティー

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 infinitii / infiniti
    インフィニティー
infinity

Variations:
限り無し
限無し(io)

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 kirinashi
    きりなし
(1) (usu. used adverbially as 限り無しに) boundlessness; endlessness; infinity; (2) incessantness; continuousness

Variations:
インフィニティ
インフィニティー

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 infiniti; infinitii / infiniti; infiniti
    インフィニティ; インフィニティー
infinity

Variations:
インフィニティプール
インフィニティ・プール

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 infinitipuuru; infiniti puuru / infinitipuru; infiniti puru
    インフィニティプール; インフィニティ・プール
infinity pool

Variations:
エタニティリング
エタニティーリング
エタニティ・リング
エタニティー・リング

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 etanitiringu; etanitiiringu; etaniti ringu; etanitii ringu / etanitiringu; etanitiringu; etaniti ringu; etaniti ringu
    エタニティリング; エタニティーリング; エタニティ・リング; エタニティー・リング
eternity ring; infinity ring

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 24 results for "Infinity" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



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