There are 46 total results for your Perpetual search.
| Characters | Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
永 see styles |
yǒng yong3 yung hisashi ひさし |
More info & calligraphy: Eternity / Forever(pref,suf) long; (adj-na,n,adj-no) eternity; perpetuity; immortality; (given name) Hisashi Perpetual, eternal, everlasting (like the unceasing flow of water). |
永久 see styles |
yǒng jiǔ yong3 jiu3 yung chiu eikyuu / ekyu えいきゅう |
More info & calligraphy: Eternal / Long-Lasting(n,adj-na,adj-no) (1) eternity; permanence; perpetuity; (2) (hist) Eikyū era (1113.7.13-1118.4.3); (female given name) Haruku |
永生 see styles |
yǒng shēng yong3 sheng1 yung sheng eisei / ese えいせい |
More info & calligraphy: Eternal Life / Everlasting Life / Immortalityeternal life; immortality; (personal name) Hisaki Eternal life; immortality; nirvana is defined as 不生 not being born, i. e. not reborn, and therefore 不滅 not dying; 永生 is also perpetual life; the Amitābha cult says in the Pure Land. |
不老長寿 see styles |
furouchouju / furochoju ふろうちょうじゅ |
More info & calligraphy: Forever Young / Long Life |
常 see styles |
cháng chang2 ch`ang chang toko とこ |
always; ever; often; frequently; common; general; constant (prefix) constant; unchanging; eternal; (female given name) Hisashi nitya; śāśvata. Prolonged, constant, always, unceasing, permanent, perpetual, ever, eternal; normal, ordinary, regular. |
八味 see styles |
bā wèi ba1 wei4 pa wei hachimi |
The eight savours (or pleasures) of the Buddha's nirvāṇa: 常住 perpetual abode, 寂滅extinction (of distress, etc.), 不老 eternal youth, 不死 immortality, 淸淨 purity, 虛通 absolute freedom (as space), 不動 imperturbility, and 快樂 joy. |
十心 see styles |
shí xīn shi2 xin1 shih hsin jisshin |
The ten kinds of heart or mind; there are three groups. One is from the 止觀 4, minds ignorant and dark; affected by evil companions; not following the good; doing evil in thought, word, deed; spreading evil abroad; unceasingly wicked; secret sin; open crime; utterly shameless; denying cause and effect (retribution)―all such must remain in the flow 流 of reincarnation. The second group (from the same book) is the 逆流 the mind striving against the stream of perpetual reincarnation; it shows itself in devout faith, shame (for sin), fear (of wrong-doing), repentance and confession, reform, bodhi (i.e. the bodhisattva mind), doing good, maintaining the right law, thinking on all the Buddhas, meditation on the void (or, the unreality of sin). The third is the 眞言 group from the 大日經疏 3; the "seed" heart (i.e. the original good desire), the sprout (under Buddhist religious influence), the bud, leaf, flower, fruit, its serviceableness; the child-heart, the discriminating heart, the heart of settled judgment (or resolve). |
吳越 吴越 see styles |
wú yuè wu2 yue4 wu yüeh |
states of south China in different historical periods; proverbially perpetual arch-enemies |
小乘 see styles |
xiǎo shèng xiao3 sheng4 hsiao sheng shōjō |
Hinayana, the Lesser Vehicle; Buddhism in India before the Mayahana sutras; also pr. [Xiao3 cheng2] Hīnayāna 希那衍. The small, or inferior wain, or vehicle; the form of Buddhism which developed after Śākyamuni's death to about the beginning of the Christian era, when Mahāyāna doctrines were introduced. It is the orthodox school and more in direct line with the Buddhist succession than Mahāyānism which developed on lines fundamentally different. The Buddha was a spiritual doctor, less interested in philosophy than in the remedy for human misery and perpetual transmigration. He "turned aside from idle metaphysical speculations; if he held views on such topics, he deemed them valueless for the purposes of salvation, which was his goal" (Keith). Metaphysical speculations arose after his death, and naturally developed into a variety of Hīnayāna schools before and after the separation of a distinct school of Mahāyāna. Hīnayāna remains the form in Ceylon, Burma, and Siam, hence is known as Southern Buddhism in contrast with Northern Buddhism or Mahāyāna, the form chiefly prevalent from Nepal to Japan. Another rough division is that of Pali and Sanskrit, Pali being the general literary language of the surviving form of Hīnayāna, Sanskrit of Mahāyāna. The term Hīnayāna is of Mahāyānist origination to emphasize the universalism and altruism of Mahāyāna over the narrower personal salvation of its rival. According to Mahāyāna teaching its own aim is universal Buddhahood, which means the utmost development of wisdom and the perfect transformation of all the living in the future state; it declares that Hīnayāna, aiming at arhatship and pratyekabuddhahood, seeks the destruction of body and mind and extinction in nirvāṇa. For arhatship the 四諦Four Noble Truths are the foundation teaching, for pratyekabuddhahood the 十二因緣 twelve-nidānas, and these two are therefore sometimes styled the two vehicles 二乘. Tiantai sometimes calls them the (Hīnayāna) Tripiṭaka school. Three of the eighteen Hīnayāna schools were transported to China: 倶舍 (Abhidharma) Kośa; 成實 Satya-siddhi; and the school of Harivarman, the律 Vinaya school. These are described by Mahāyānists as the Buddha's adaptable way of meeting the questions and capacity of his hearers, though his own mind is spoken of as always being in the absolute Mahāyāna all-embracing realm. Such is the Mahāyāna view of Hīnayāna, and if the Vaipulya sūtras and special scriptures of their school, which are repudiated by Hīnayāna, are apocryphal, of which there seems no doubt, then Mahāyāna in condemning Hīnayāna must find other support for its claim to orthodoxy. The sūtras on which it chiefly relies, as regards the Buddha, have no authenticity; while those of Hīnayāna cannot be accepted as his veritable teaching in the absence of fundamental research. Hīnayāna is said to have first been divided into minority and majority sections immediately after the death of Śākyamuni, when the sthāvira, or older disciples, remained in what is spoken of as "the cave", some place at Rājagṛha, to settle the future of the order, and the general body of disciples remained outside; these two are the first 上坐部 and 大衆部 q. v. The first doctrinal division is reported to have taken place under the leadership of the monk 大天 Mahādeva (q.v.) a hundred years after the Buddha's nirvāṇa and during the reign of Aśoka; his reign, however, has been placed later than this by historians. Mahādeva's sect became the Mahāsāṅghikā, the other the Sthāvira. In time the two are said to have divided into eighteen, which with the two originals are the so-called "twenty sects" of Hīnayāna. Another division of four sects, referred to by Yijing, is that of the 大衆部 (Arya) Mahāsaṅghanikāya, 上座部 Āryasthavirāḥ, 根本說一切有部 Mūlasarvāstivādaḥ, and 正量部 Saṃmatīyāḥ. There is still another division of five sects, 五部律. For the eighteen Hīnayāna sects see 小乘十八部. |
常夜 see styles |
tokoyo; jouya / tokoyo; joya とこよ; じょうや |
(1) perpetual night; (2) (じょうや only) continuing all night |
恆住 恒住 see styles |
héng zhù heng2 zhu4 heng chu gōjū |
perpetual abodes |
永續 永续 see styles |
yǒng xù yong3 xu4 yung hsü |
sustainable; perpetual |
蓬莱 see styles |
hourai / horai ほうらい |
(1) {chmyth} Mount Penglai; Penglai Island; enchanted land of perpetual youth from Chinese mythology; (2) (See 三蓬莱) sacred mountain (e.g. Mount Fuji, Mount Kumano, etc.); (3) (abbreviation) (See 蓬莱飾り) Kansai New Year decoration (made from food); (4) Formosa; Taiwan; (surname) Yomogirai |
餓鬼 饿鬼 see styles |
è guǐ e4 gui3 o kuei gaki; gaki がき; ガキ |
sb who is always hungry; glutton; (Buddhism) hungry ghost (1) (kana only) (colloquialism) brat; kid; urchin; little devil; (2) {Buddh} (orig. meaning) preta; hungry ghost pretas, hungry spirits, one of the three lower destinies. They are of varied classes, numbering nine or thirty-six, and are in differing degrees and kinds of suffering, some wealthy and of light torment, others possessing nothing and in perpetual torment; some are jailers and executioners of Yama in the hells, others wander to and fro amongst men, especially at night. Their city or region is called 餓鬼城; 餓鬼界. Their destination or path is the 餓鬼趣 or 餓鬼道. |
万年暦 see styles |
mannengoyomi まんねんごよみ |
perpetual calendar (for reckoning lucky and unlucky days) |
万年雪 see styles |
mannenyuki まんねんゆき |
perpetual snow |
六恆住 六恒住 see styles |
liù héng zhù liu4 heng2 zhu4 liu heng chu roku gōjū |
six perpetual abodes |
常動曲 see styles |
joudoukyoku / jodokyoku じょうどうきょく |
{music} moto perpetuo; perpetuum mobile; perpetual motion |
恒久的 see styles |
koukyuuteki / kokyuteki こうきゅうてき |
(adjectival noun) permanent; perpetual; lasting |
永動機 永动机 see styles |
yǒng dòng jī yong3 dong4 ji1 yung tung chi |
perpetual motion machine |
永子作 see styles |
eikosaku / ekosaku えいこさく |
perpetual land lease; perpetual tenant farmer |
永小作 see styles |
eikosaku / ekosaku えいこさく |
perpetual land lease; perpetual tenant farmer |
永続的 see styles |
eizokuteki / ezokuteki えいぞくてき |
(adjectival noun) permanent; perpetual; persistent; lasting |
無窮動 see styles |
mukyuudou / mukyudo むきゅうどう |
{music} (See 常動曲) moto perpetuo; perpetual motion |
萬年曆 万年历 see styles |
wàn nián lì wan4 nian2 li4 wan nien li |
perpetual calendar; ten thousand year calendar; Islamic calendar introduced to Yuan China by Jamal al-Din 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁 |
不老不死 see styles |
furoufushi / furofushi ふろうふし |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (yoji) perpetual youth and longevity; immortality |
兆載永劫 兆载永劫 see styles |
zhào zài yǒng jié zhao4 zai4 yong3 jie2 chao tsai yung chieh chōsai yōkō |
The perpetual aeon of millions of years, the kalpa beyond numbers. |
四不可得 see styles |
sì bù kě dé si4 bu4 ke3 de2 ssu pu k`o te ssu pu ko te shi fuka toku |
The four unattainables, perpetual youth, no sickness, perennial life, no death. There is a work, the Catur-lābha-sūtra, tr. into Chinese under this title. |
常寂光土 see styles |
cháng jí guāng tǔ chang2 ji2 guang1 tu3 ch`ang chi kuang t`u chang chi kuang tu joujakkoudo / jojakkodo じょうじゃっこうど |
{Buddh} (See 寂光浄土) land of eternally tranquil light (highest realm in Tendai Buddhism) The realm (of spirit) where all are in perpetual peace and glory; Tiantai's fourth Buddhakṣetra. |
永久公債 see styles |
eikyuukousai / ekyukosai えいきゅうこうさい |
perpetual bond |
永久機関 see styles |
eikyuukikan / ekyukikan えいきゅうきかん |
{physics} perpetual motion machine; perpetual motion engine; perpetuum mobile |
永久運動 see styles |
eikyuuundou / ekyuundo えいきゅううんどう |
{physics} perpetual motion |
永代借地 see styles |
eitaishakuchi / etaishakuchi えいたいしゃくち |
perpetual lease |
永子作権 see styles |
eikosakuken / ekosakuken えいこさくけん |
perpetual land lease |
八百比丘尼 see styles |
yaobikuni; happyakubikuni; obikuni やおびくに; はっぴゃくびくに; おびくに |
yao bhikkhuni; mythical nun who acquired perpetual youth by consuming mermaid flesh |
永遠の旅人 see styles |
eiennotabibito / eennotabibito えいえんのたびびと |
(exp,n) perpetual traveller (traveler); permanent traveller; permanent tourist |
絶え間ない see styles |
taemanai たえまない |
(adjective) incessant; constant; continuous; perpetual; everlasting |
絶え間無い see styles |
taemanai たえまない |
(adjective) incessant; constant; continuous; perpetual; everlasting |
日本書紀通証 see styles |
nihonshokitsuushou / nihonshokitsusho にほんしょきつうしょう |
(work) Perpetual Commentary on the Chronicles of Japan (by Tanikawa Kotosuga, 1762); (wk) Perpetual Commentary on the Chronicles of Japan (by Tanikawa Kotosuga, 1762) |
Variations: |
eikosaku / ekosaku えいこさく |
perpetual land lease; perpetual tenant farmer |
Variations: |
mannen(万年)(p); yorozutose(ok) まんねん(万年)(P); よろずとせ(ok) |
(1) ten thousand years; eternity; (prefix noun) (2) (まんねん only) perennial; perpetual |
永遠平和のために see styles |
eienheiwanotameni / eenhewanotameni えいえんへいわのために |
(work) Perpetual Peace (by Immanuel Kant); (wk) Perpetual Peace (by Immanuel Kant) |
パーマネントトラベラー see styles |
paamanentotoraberaa / pamanentotorabera パーマネントトラベラー |
perpetual traveller (traveler) (wasei:); permanent traveller; permanent tourist |
Variations: |
taemanai たえまない |
(adjective) incessant; constant; continuous; perpetual; everlasting |
パーマネント・トラベラー see styles |
paamanento toraberaa / pamanento torabera パーマネント・トラベラー |
perpetual traveller (traveler) (wasei:); permanent traveller; permanent tourist |
Variations: |
paamanentotoraberaa; paamanento toraberaa / pamanentotorabera; pamanento torabera パーマネントトラベラー; パーマネント・トラベラー |
(See 永遠の旅人) perpetual traveller (traveler) (wasei:); permanent traveller; permanent tourist |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
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