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Simple Dictionary Definition |
機 机 see styles |
jī ji1 chi hata はた |
More info & calligraphy: Opportunityloom; (surname) Hata The spring, or motive principle, machine, contrivance, artifice, occasion, opportunity; basis, root or germ; natural bent, fundamental quality. |
法 see styles |
fǎ fa3 fa hou / ho ほう |
More info & calligraphy: Dharma / The Law(n,n-suf) (1) law; act; principle; (n,n-suf) (2) method; (n,n-suf) (3) {gramm} mood; (n,n-suf) (4) {Buddh} dharma; law; (female given name) Minori Dharma, 達磨; 曇無 (or 曇摩); 達摩 (or 達謨) Law, truth, religion, thing, anything Buddhist. Dharma is 'that which is held fast or kept, ordinance, statute, law, usage, practice, custom'; 'duty'; 'right'; 'proper'; 'morality'; 'character'. M. W. It is used in the sense of 一切 all things, or anything small or great, visible or invisible, real or unreal, affairs, truth, principle, method, concrete things, abstract ideas, etc. Dharma is described as that which has entity and bears its own attributes. It connotes Buddhism as the perfect religion; it also has the second place in the triratna 佛法僧, and in the sense of 法身 dharmakāya it approaches the Western idea of 'spiritual'. It is also one of the six media of sensation, i. e. the thing or object in relation to mind, v. 六塵. |
理 see styles |
lǐ li3 li ri り |
More info & calligraphy: Science(1) reason; principle; logic; (2) {Buddh} (See 事・じ) general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); (3) the underlying principles of the cosmos (in neo-Confucianism); (given name) Wataru siddhānta; hetu. Ruling principle, fundamental law, intrinsicality, universal basis, essential element; nidāna, reason; pramāṇa, to arrange, regulate, rule, rectify. |
空 see styles |
kòng kong4 k`ung kung kuu / ku くう |
More info & calligraphy: Sky / Ether / Void / Emptiness / Unreality(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. |
道 see styles |
dào dao4 tao dou / do どう |
More info & calligraphy: Daoism / Taoism(1) (abbreviation) (See 道・みち・1) road; path; street; route; (2) (See 道・みち・5) way; set of practices; rules for conducting oneself; (3) (abbreviation) (in Japanese schools) (See 道徳教育) moral education; (4) Buddhist teachings; (5) Taoism; (6) administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido); (7) (hist) administrative region of Japan (Tokaido, Tosando, etc.); (8) province (administrative region of Korea); (9) circuit (administrative region of China); (10) (hist) province (Tang-era administrative region of China); (personal name) Wataru mārga. A way, road; the right path; principle, Truth, Reason, Logos, Cosmic energy; to lead; to say. The way of transmigration by which one arrives at a good or bad existence; any of the six gati, or paths of destiny. The way of bodhi, or enlightenment leading to nirvāṇa through spiritual stages. Essential nirvāṇa, in which absolute freedom reigns. For the eightfold noble path v. 八聖道.; The two Ways: (1) (a) 無礙道 or 無間道 The open or unhindered way, or the way of removing all obstacles or intervention, i. e. all delusion; (b) 解脫道 the way of release, by realization of truth. (2) (a) 難行道 The hard way of "works", i. e. by the six pāramitā and the disciplines. (b) 易行道 the easy way salvation, by the invocation of Amitābha. (3) (a) 有漏道 The way of reincarnation or mortality; (b) 無漏 the enlightened way of escape from the miseries of transmigration. (4) (a) 教道 The way of instruction; (b) 證道 the way of realization. (5) The two lower excretory organs. |
陽 阳 see styles |
yáng yang2 yang you / yo よう |
More info & calligraphy: Yako / Minami(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) (the) positive; (2) (ant: 陰・2) yang (in Chinese divination); (3) (See 陰に陽に) the open; visible place; public place; (personal name) Yōji The side on which the sun shines, the sun, heat, this life, positive, masculine, dynamic, etc. |
中道 see styles |
zhōng dào zhong1 dao4 chung tao nakamichi なかみち |
More info & calligraphy: The Middle WayThe 'mean' has various interpretations. In general it denotes the mean between two extremes, and has special reference to the mean between realism and nihilism, or eternal substantial existence and annihilation; this 'mean' is found in a third principle between the two, suggesting the idea of a realm of mind or spirit beyond the terminology of 有 or 無, substance or nothing, or, that which has form, and is therefore measurable and ponderable, and its opposite of total non-existence. See 中論. The following four Schools define the term according to their several scriptures: the 法相 School describes it as the 唯識, v. 唯識中道; the 三論 School as the 八不 eight negations, v. 三論; the Tiantai as 實相 the true reality; and the Huayan as the 法界 dharmadhātu. Four forms of the Mean are given by the 三論玄義. |
兼愛 兼爱 see styles |
jiān ài jian1 ai4 chien ai |
More info & calligraphy: Universal Love |
太極 太极 see styles |
tài jí tai4 ji2 t`ai chi tai chi taikyoku たいきょく |
More info & calligraphy: Tai Chi / Tai Jitaiji (in Chinese philosophy, the principle that embodies all potential things, incl. time and space); (personal name) Taikyoku |
志操 see styles |
shisou / shiso しそう |
More info & calligraphy: Personal Integrity |
理念 see styles |
lǐ niàn li3 nian4 li nien rinen りねん |
More info & calligraphy: Idea / Concept(Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology |
瑜伽 see styles |
yú jiā yu2 jia1 yü chia yuga ゆが |
More info & calligraphy: Yoga{Buddh} (See ヨーガ) yoga; (surname) Yuga yoga; also 瑜誐; 遊迦; a yoke, yoking, union, especially an ecstatic union of the individual soul with a divine being, or spirit, also of the individual soul with the universal soul. The method requires the mutual response or relation of 境, 行, 理, 果 and 機; i.e. (1) state, or environment, referred to mind; (2) action, or mode of practice; (3) right principle; (4) results in enlightenment; (5) motivity, i.e. practical application in saving others. Also the mutual relation of hand, mouth, and mind referring to manifestation, incantation, and mental operation; these are known as 瑜伽三密, the three esoteric (means) of Yoga. The older practice of meditation as a means of obtaining spiritual or magical power was distorted in Tantrism to exorcism, sorcery, and juggling in general. |
節操 节操 see styles |
jié cāo jie2 cao1 chieh ts`ao chieh tsao sessou / sesso せっそう |
More info & calligraphy: Honor and Integrityintegrity; fidelity; constancy; principle; faithfulness; honor; honour |
玉砕主義 see styles |
gyokusaishugi ぎょくさいしゅぎ |
More info & calligraphy: Honorable Death - No Surrender |
原則 原则 see styles |
yuán zé yuan2 ze2 yüan tse gensoku げんそく |
principle; doctrine; CL:個|个[ge4] (1) principle; general rule; (n,adv) (2) (See 原則として) as a rule; in principle; in general |
原理 see styles |
yuán lǐ yuan2 li3 yüan li genri げんり |
principle; theory principle; theory; fundamental truth; (given name) Genri |
法理 see styles |
fǎ lǐ fa3 li3 fa li houri / hori ほうり |
legal principle; jurisprudence legal principle; (surname) Houri |
一般原則 一般原则 see styles |
yī bān yuán zé yi1 ban1 yuan2 ze2 i pan yüan tse ippangensoku いっぱんげんそく |
general principle general principles; broad principles |
基本原則 基本原则 see styles |
jī běn yuán zé ji1 ben3 yuan2 ze2 chi pen yüan tse kihongensoku きほんげんそく |
fundamental doctrine; guiding principle; raison d'être fundamental principle; basic principle; general principle |
不確定性原理 不确定性原理 see styles |
bù què dìng xìng yuán lǐ bu4 que4 ding4 xing4 yuan2 li3 pu ch`üeh ting hsing yüan li pu chüeh ting hsing yüan li fukakuteiseigenri / fukakutesegenri ふかくていせいげんり |
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle (1927) {physics} uncertainty principle |
事 see styles |
shì shi4 shih ji じ |
matter; thing; item; work; affair; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2] {Buddh} (See 理・2) individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle); (male given name) Tsutomu artha 日迦他 (迦 being an error for 遏); affair, concern, matter; action, practice; phenomena; to serve. It is 'practice' or the thing, affair, matter, in contrast with 理 theory, or the underlying principle. |
側 侧 see styles |
zhāi zhai1 chai soku そく |
lean on one side (See 永字八法) first principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; tiny dash or speck; (surname) Soba lean to one side |
則 则 see styles |
zé ze2 tse soku そく |
(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items (suf,ctr) (1) counter for rules; (2) (rare) rule; regulation; (surname, given name) Nori Pattern, rule; then, therefore. |
啄 see styles |
zhuó zhuo2 cho taku たく |
to peck (See 永字八法) seventh principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; stroke that falls leftwards with slight curve; (given name) Taku |
坤 see styles |
kūn kun1 k`un kun kon こん |
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing earth; female principle; ☷; ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest) kun (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: earth, southwest); (given name) Mamoru earth |
塵 尘 see styles |
chén chen2 ch`en chen chiri ちり |
dust; dirt; earth (1) dust; (2) trash; garbage; rubbish; dirt; (3) (usu. as 塵ほども...ない) negligible amount; tiny bit; (4) hustle and bustle (of life); worldly cares; impurities of the world; (5) (abbreviation) {sumo} (See 塵手水) ritual gestures indicating that a fight will be clean guṇa, in Sanskrit inter alia means 'a secondary element', 'a quality', 'an attribute of the five elements', e.g. 'ether has śabda or sound for its guṇa and the ear for its organ'. In Chinese it means 'dust, small particles; molecules, atoms, exhalations'. It may be intp. as an atom, or matter, which is considered as defilement; or as an active, conditioned principle in nature, minute, subtle, and generally speaking defiling to pure mind; worldly, earthly, the world. The six guṇas or sensation-data are those of sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, and thought. |
如 see styles |
rú ru2 ju nyo にょ |
as; as if; such as {Buddh} (See 真如) tathata (the ultimate nature of all things); (female given name) Yuki tathā 多陀; 但他 (or 怛他), so, thus, in such manner, like, as. It is used in the sense of the absolute, the 空 śūnya, which is 諸佛之實相 the reality of all Buddhas; hence 如 ru is 賃相 the undifferentiated whole of things, the ultimate reality; it is 諸法之性 the nature of all things, hence it connotes 法性 faxing which is 眞實之際極 the ultimate of reality, or the absolute, and therefore connotes 實際 ultimate reality. The ultimate nature of all things being 如 ru, the one undivided same, it also connotes 理 li, the principle or theory behind all things, and this 理 li universal law, being the 眞實 truth or ultimate reality; 如 ru is termed 眞如 bhūtatathatā, the real so, or suchness, or reality, the ultimate or the all, i. e. the 一如 yiru. In regard to 如 ju as 理 li the Prajñā-pāramitā puṇḍarīka makes it the 中 zhong, neither matter nor nothingness. It is also used in the ordinary sense of so, like, as (cf yathā). |
掠 see styles |
lüè lu:e4 lu:e ryaku りゃく |
to take over by force; to rob; to plunder; to brush over; to skim; to sweep (See 永字八法) sixth principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; tapering thinning curve, usually concave left to rob |
旨 see styles |
zhǐ zhi3 chih shi むね |
imperial decree; purport; aim; purpose (1) center (centre); pillar; principle; (2) purport; gist; drift; meaning Purport, will; good. |
界 see styles |
jiè jie4 chieh kai かい |
(bound form) boundary; border; (bound form) realm (suffix noun) (1) community; circles; world; (n,n-suf) (2) {biol} kingdom; (n,n-suf) (3) {geol} erathem; (suffix noun) (4) field (electrical); (5) border; boundary; division; (place-name, surname) Sakai dhātu. 馱都 Whatever is differentiated; a boundary, limit, region; that which is contained or limited, e. g. the nature of a thing; provenance; a species, class, variety; the underlying principle; the root or underlying principles of a discourse. |
磔 see styles |
zhé zhe2 che taku たく |
old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters (e.g. the last stroke of 大[da4]), now called 捺[na4]; sound made by birds (onom.); (literary) to dismember (form of punishment); to spread (See 永字八法) eighth principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; stroke that falls rightwards and fattens at the bottom |
策 see styles |
cè ce4 ts`e tse saku さく |
policy; plan; scheme; bamboo slip for writing (old); to whip (a horse); to encourage; riding crop with sharp spines (old); essay written for the imperial examinations (old); upward horizontal stroke in calligraphy (n,n-suf) (1) plan; policy; means; measure; stratagem; scheme; (2) (See 永字八法) fifth principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; right upward flick; (male given name) Hakaru A treatise, book, memo, tablet, card; a plan, scheme; question; whip; etc. |
精 see styles |
jīng jing1 ching sei / se せい |
essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of something; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic) (1) spirit; sprite; nymph; (2) energy; vigor (vigour); strength; (3) fine details; (4) (See 精液) semen; (given name) Makoto Cleaned rice, freed from the husk, pure; essential, essence, germinating principle, spirit; fine, best, finest. |
綱 纲 see styles |
gāng gang1 kang tsuna つな |
head rope of a fishing net; guiding principle; key link; class (taxonomy); outline; program (1) rope; cord; line; (2) {sumo} grand champion's braided belt; (given name) Tsunashi A net rope, bond, social nexus, constant obligation, the restraints of society. |
線 线 see styles |
xiàn xian4 hsien sen せん |
thread; string; wire; line; CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3],根[gen1]; (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city) (n,n-suf) (1) line; stripe; stria; (n,n-suf) (2) line (e.g. telephone line); wire; (n,n-suf) (3) (See Ｘ線) ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; (n,n-suf) (4) line (e.g. of a railroad); track; route; lane; (n,n-suf) (5) outline; contours; form; (n,n-suf) (6) level; (n,n-suf) (7) division; (n,n-suf) (8) (See いい線) line (of action); position; approach; policy; principle; (n,n-suf) (9) (See 線が太い,線が細い) impression one leaves; air one gives off; (surname) Sen A thread, wire, clue, spy, lead, connection. |
趯 see styles |
yuè yue4 yüeh teki てき |
to jump (See 永字八法) fourth principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; hook at the end of a vertical or horizontal stroke |
陰 阴 see styles |
yīn yin1 yin hoto ほと |
overcast (weather); cloudy; shady; Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang); negative (electric.); feminine; moon; implicit; hidden; genitalia (archaism) female private parts; female genitals; (surname) Kage Shade, dark, the shades, the negative as opposed to the positive principle, female, the moon, back, secret. In Buddhism it is the phenomenal, as obscuring the true nature of things; also the aggregation of phenomenal things resulting in births and deaths, hence it is used as a translation like 蘊 q.v. for skandha, the 五陰 being the five skandhas or aggregates. |
一理 see styles |
yī lǐ yi1 li3 i li ichiri いちり |
(a) principle; (a) reason; (a) point; some truth; (given name) Ichiri one principle |
中宗 see styles |
zhōng zōng zhong1 zong1 chung tsung nakamune なかむね |
(surname) Nakamune The school or principle of the mean, represented by the 法相宗 Dharmalakṣaṇa school, which divides the Buddha's teaching into three periods, the first in which he preached 有 existence, the second 空 non-existence, the third 中 neither, something 'between' or above them, e. g. a realm of pure spirit, vide the 深密經 Saṃdhinirmocana-sūtra and the Lotus Sutra. |
主義 主义 see styles |
zhǔ yì zhu3 yi4 chu i shugi しゅぎ |
-ism; ideology doctrine; rule; principle; -ism |
事理 see styles |
shì lǐ shi4 li3 shih li jiri じり |
reason; logic reason; facts; propriety; sense Practice and theory; phenomenon and noumenon, activity and principle, or the absolute; phenomena ever change, the underlying principle, being absolute, neither changes nor acts, it is the 眞如 q. v. also v. 理. For 事理法界 (事理無礙法界) v. 四法界. |
五法 see styles |
wǔ fǎ wu3 fa3 wu fa gohō |
pañcadharma. The five laws or categories, of which four groups are as follows: I. 相名五法 The five categories of form and name: (1) 相 appearances, or phenomena; (2) 名 their names; (3) 分別 sometimes called 妄想 ordinary mental discrimination of them— (1) and (2) are objective, (3) subjective; (4) 正智 corrective wisdom, which corrects the deficiencies and errors of the last: (5) 如如 the 眞如 Bhutatathata or absolute wisdom, reached through the 如理智 understanding of the law of the absolute, or ultimate truth. II. 事理五法 The five categories into which things and their principles are divided: (1) 心法 mind; (2) 心所法 mental conditions or activities; (3) 色法 the actual states or categories as conceived; (4) 不相應法 hypothetic categories, 唯識 has twenty-four, the Abhidharma fourteen; (5) 無爲法 the state of rest, or the inactive principle pervading all things; the first four are the 事 and the last the 理. III. 理智五法 cf. 五智; the five categories of essential wisdom: (1) 眞如 the absolute; (2) 大圓鏡智 wisdom as the great perfect mirror reflecting all things; (3) 平等性智 wisdom of the equal Buddha nature of all beings; (4) 妙觀察智 wisdom of mystic insight into all things and removal of ignorance and doubt; (5) 成所作智 wisdom perfect in action and bringing blessing to self and others. IV. 提婆五法 The five obnoxious rules of Devadatta: not to take milk in any form, nor meat, nor salt; to wear unshaped garments, and to live apart. Another set is: to wear cast-off rags, beg food, have only one set meal a day, dwell in the open, and abstain from all kinds of flesh, milk, etc. |
令節 令节 see styles |
lìng jié ling4 jie2 ling chieh |
festive season; happy time; noble principle |
以理 see styles |
yǐ lǐ yi3 li3 i li i ri |
taking the principle (as...) |
伐柯 see styles |
fá kē fa2 ke1 fa k`o fa ko |
(cf Book of Songs) How to fashion an ax handle? You need an ax; fig. to follow a principle; fig. to act as matchmaker |
作者 see styles |
zuò zhě zuo4 zhe3 tso che sakusha さくしゃ |
author; writer creator (of a work); author; writer; artist; composer; playwright; dramatist kartṛ; a doer, he who does things, hence the ātman, ego, or person within; the active element, or principle; one of the sixteen non-Buddhist definitions of the soul. Also kāraṇa, a cause, maker, creator, deity. |
入理 see styles |
rù lǐ ru4 li3 ju li nyūri |
enter the principle |
動法 动法 see styles |
dòng fǎ dong4 fa3 tung fa dō hō |
principle of transmigration |
務虛 务虚 see styles |
wù xū wu4 xu1 wu hsü |
to discuss matters of principle (as opposed to concrete issues) |
化理 see styles |
huà lǐ hua4 li3 hua li keri |
The law of phenomenal change— which never rests. |
合気 see styles |
aiki あいき |
{MA} (See 合気道・あいきどう) aiki (principle that allows a conditioned practitioner to negate or redirect an opponent's power) |
同道 see styles |
tóng dào tong2 dao4 t`ung tao tung tao doudou / dodo どうどう |
same principle (n,vs,vt,vi) going with; accompanying; (place-name, surname) Dōdō |
命濁 命浊 see styles |
mìng zhuó ming4 zhuo2 ming cho myōjoku |
One of the 五濁, turbidity or decay of the vital principle, reducing the length of life. |
喩法 see styles |
yù fǎ yu4 fa3 yü fa yuhō |
metaphor and principle |
因道 see styles |
yīn dào yin1 dao4 yin tao indō |
The way, or principle, of causation. |
圓教 圆教 see styles |
yuán jiào yuan2 jiao4 yüan chiao engyō |
The complete, perfect, or comprehensive doctrine; the school or sect of Mahāyāna which represents it. The term has had three references. The first was by 光統 Guangtong of the Later Wei, sixth century, who defined three schools, 漸 gradual, 頓 immediate, and 圓 inclusive or complete. The Tiantai called its fourth section the inclusive, complete, or perfect teaching 圓, the other three being 三藏 Hīnayāna, 通 Mahāyāna-cum-Hīnayāna, 別 Mahāyāna. The Huayan so called its fifth section, i.e. 小乘; 大乘始; 大乘終; 頓 and 圓. It is the Tiantai version that is in general acceptance, defined as a perfect whole and as complete in its parts; for the whole is the absolute and its parts are therefore the absolute; the two may be called noumenon and phenomenon, or 空 and 假 (or 俗), but in reality they are one, i.e. the 中 medial condition. To conceive these three as a whole is the Tiantai inclusive or 'perfect' doctrine. The Huayan 'perfect' doctrine also taught that unity and differentiation, or absolute and relative, were one, a similar doctrine to that of the identity of contraries. In Tiantai teaching the harmony is due to its underlying unity; its completeness to the permeation of this unity in all phenomena; these two are united in the medial 中 principle; to comprehend these three principles at one and the same time is the complete, all-containing, or 'perfect' doctrine of Tiantai. There are other definitions of the all-inclusive doctrine, e.g. the eight complete things, complete in teaching, principles, knowledge, etc. 圓教四門 v. 四門. |
圓理 圆理 see styles |
yuán lǐ yuan2 li3 yüan li enri |
perfect principle |
増成 see styles |
zousei / zose ぞうせい |
(1) {med} expansion; build-up; hyperplasia; (2) {chem} Aufbau (principle); (surname) Masunari |
大節 大节 see styles |
dà jié da4 jie2 ta chieh daisetsu だいせつ |
major festival; important matter; major principle; high moral character (given name) Daisetsu key point |
好人 see styles |
hǎo rén hao3 ren2 hao jen yoshihito よしひと |
good person; healthy person; person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle (given name) Yoshihito |
妙理 see styles |
miào lǐ miao4 li3 miao li myouri / myori みょうり |
(female given name) Myōri wondrous principle |
妙諦 see styles |
myoutei; myoutai / myote; myotai みょうてい; みょうたい |
amazing truth; cardinal principle; key (to understanding) |
学理 see styles |
gakuri がくり |
scholarly principle; scientific principle |
學理 学理 see styles |
xué lǐ xue2 li3 hsüeh li |
scientific principle; theoretical standpoint See: 学理 |
宗要 see styles |
zōng yào zong1 yao4 tsung yao shūyō |
The fundamental tenets of a sect; the important elements, or main principle. |
定理 see styles |
dìng lǐ ding4 li3 ting li teiri / teri ていり |
theorem theorem; proposition; (given name) Teiri set principle |
實理 实理 see styles |
shí lǐ shi2 li3 shih li jitsuri |
true principle |
實諦 实谛 see styles |
shí dì shi2 di4 shih ti jittai |
A truth; the true statement of a fundamental principle. |
底理 see styles |
dǐ lǐ di3 li3 ti li teiri |
The fundamental principle or law. |
得理 see styles |
dé lǐ de2 li3 te li tokuri |
to apprehend the principle |
心理 see styles |
xīn lǐ xin1 li3 hsin li shinri しんり |
psychology; mentality state of mind; mentality; psychology principle of the mind |
指針 指针 see styles |
zhǐ zhēn zhi3 zhen1 chih chen shishin ししん |
pointer on a gauge; clock hand; cursor; (computing) pointer (1) needle (compass, gauge, etc.); hand (clock); indicator; pointer; index; (2) guiding principle; guideline; guide |
據理 据理 see styles |
jù lǐ ju4 li3 chü li |
according to reason; in principle |
政綱 政纲 see styles |
zhèng gāng zheng4 gang1 cheng kang seikou / seko せいこう |
political program; platform political principle, policy or platform; (surname) Masatsuna |
数理 see styles |
suuri / suri すうり |
(1) mathematical principle; mathematics; (2) arithmetic; figures; accounts |
文理 see styles |
wén lǐ wen2 li3 wen li bunri ぶんり |
arts and sciences (1) humanities and sciences; social sciences and hard sciences; (2) context; (3) (line of) reasoning; (surname) Bunri The written word and the truth expressed; written principles, or reasonings; a treatise; literary style. |
方針 方针 see styles |
fāng zhēn fang1 zhen1 fang chen houshin / hoshin ほうしん |
policy; guidelines; CL:個|个[ge4] (1) policy; course; plan (of action); principle; (2) (orig. meaning) (See 磁針) magnetic needle |
本位 see styles |
běn wèi ben3 wei4 pen wei honi ほんい |
standard; one's own department or unit standard; basis; principle |
本源 see styles |
běn yuán ben3 yuan2 pen yüan hongen ほんげん |
origin; source origin; root; cause; principle |
本義 本义 see styles |
běn yì ben3 yi4 pen i hongi ほんぎ |
original meaning; literal sense true meaning; underlying principle; (male given name) Motoyoshi |
本著 本着 see styles |
běn zhe ben3 zhe5 pen che |
based on...; in conformance with..; taking as one's main principle |
根元 see styles |
nemoto ねもと |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) root; source; origin; foundation; base; principle; (surname) Nemoto |
根原 see styles |
gēn yuán gen1 yuan2 ken yüan nebara ねばら |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) root; source; origin; foundation; base; principle; (place-name) Nebara faculties |
根源 see styles |
gēn yuán gen1 yuan2 ken yüan kongen こんげん |
origin; root (cause) (noun - becomes adjective with の) root; source; origin; foundation; base; principle origin |
格緻 格致 see styles |
gé zhì ge2 zhi4 ko chih |
to study the underlying principle to acquire knowledge; abbr. for 格物致知[ge2 wu4 zhi4 zhi1]; word for Western natural sciences during late Qing |
格致 see styles |
gé zhì ge2 zhi4 ko chih tadamune ただむね |
to study the underlying principle to acquire knowledge (abbr. for 格物致知[ge2 wu4 zhi4 zhi1]); word for Western natural sciences during late Qing (personal name) Tadamune |
極地 极地 see styles |
jí dì ji2 di4 chi ti kyokuchi きょくち |
polar region (1) polar regions; the pole; (2) farthest land; ends of the earth Reaching the ground; utmost; fundamental principle; the highest of all, i.e. Buddha. |
正理 see styles |
zhèng lǐ zheng4 li3 cheng li masari まさり |
(personal name) Masari to correct principle |
法喩 see styles |
fǎ yú fa3 yu2 fa yü hōyu |
principle and example |
法界 see styles |
fǎ jiè fa3 jie4 fa chieh hokkai; houkai / hokkai; hokai ほっかい; ほうかい |
(1) {Buddh} universe; (2) {Buddh} realm of thought; (3) {Buddh} underlying principle of reality; manifestation of true thusness; (4) (ほうかい only) (abbreviation) (See 法界悋気) being jealous of things that have nothing to do with one; being jealous of others who are in love with each other dharmadhātu, 法性; 實相; 達磨馱都 Dharma-element, -factor, or-realm. (1) A name for "things" in general, noumenal or phenomenal; for the physical universe, or any portion or phase of it. (2) The unifying underlying spiritual reality regarded as the ground or cause of all things, the absolute from which all proceeds. It is one of the eighteen dhātus. These are categories of three, four, five, and ten dharmadhātus; the first three are combinations of 事 and 理 or active and passive, dynamic and static; the ten are: Buddha-realm, Bodhisattva-realm, pratyekabuddha-realm, śrāvaka, deva, Human, asura, Demon, Animal, and Hades realms-a Huayan category. Tiantai has ten for meditaton, i.e. the realms of the eighteen media of perception (the six organs, six objects, and six sense-data or sensations), of illusion, sickness, karma, māra, samādhi, (false) views, pride, the two lower Vehicles, and the Bodhisattva Vehicle. |
法相 see styles |
fǎ xiàng fa3 xiang4 fa hsiang hossou / hosso ほっそう |
(1) {Buddh} (See 法性) dharmalaksana (dharma characteristics, the specific characteristics of all manifest phenomena); (2) (abbreviation) (See 法相宗) Hosso sect of Buddhism The aspects of characteristics of things-all things are of monad nature but differ in form. A name of the 法相宗 Faxiang or Dharmalakṣaṇa sect (Jap. Hossō), called also 慈恩宗 Cien sect from the Tang temple, in which lived 窺基 Kuiji, known also as 慈恩. It "aims at discovering the ultimate entity of cosmic existence n contemplation, through investigation into the specific characteristics (the marks or criteria) of all existence, and through the realization of the fundamental nature of the soul in mystic illumination". "An inexhaustible number" of "seeds" are "stored up in the Ālaya-soul; they manifest themselves in innumerable varieties of existence, both physical and mental". "Though there are infinite varieties. . . they all participate in the prime nature of the ālaya." Anesaki. The Faxiang School is one of the "eight schools", and was established in China on the return of Xuanzang, consequent on his translation of the Yogācārya works. Its aim is to understand the principle underlying the 萬法性相 or nature and characteristics of all things. Its foundation works are the 解深密經, the 唯識論, and the 瑜伽論. It is one of the Mahāyāna realistic schools, opposed by the idealistic schools, e.g. the 三論 school; yet it was a "combination of realism and idealism, and its religion a profoundly mystic one". Anesaki. |
深理 see styles |
shēn lǐ shen1 li3 shen li miri みり |
(female given name) Miri Profound principle, law, or truth. |
滅理 灭理 see styles |
miè lǐ mie4 li3 mieh li metsuri |
The principle or law of extinction, i.e. nirvāṇa. |
無理 无理 see styles |
wú lǐ wu2 li3 wu li muri(p); muri むり(P); ムリ |
irrational; unreasonable (noun or adjectival noun) (1) unreasonable; unnatural; unjustifiable; (noun or adjectival noun) (2) impossible; (noun or adjectival noun) (3) (oft. adverbially as 〜に) forcible; forced; compulsory; (adjectival noun) (4) excessive (work, etc.); immoderate; (vs,vi) (5) to work too hard; to try too hard; (interjection) (6) (colloquialism) no way; not a chance; never; dream on; (can be adjective with の) (7) {math} irrational; (female given name) Muri no principle |
照理 see styles |
zhào lǐ zhao4 li3 chao li teri てり |
according to reason; usually; in the normal course of events; to attend to (personal name) Teri to illuminate the principle |
物機 物机 see styles |
wù jī wu4 ji1 wu chi motsu ki |
That on which anything depends, or turns; the motive or vital principle. |
玄則 玄则 see styles |
xuán zé xuan2 ze2 hsüan tse harunori はるのり |
(given name) Harunori profound principle |
玄理 see styles |
xuán lǐ xuan2 li3 hsüan li harumasa はるまさ |
profound theory; philosophical theory of Wei and Jin 玄學|玄学 sect (personal name) Harumasa unfathomably deep principle of the Way |
理事 see styles |
lǐ shì li3 shi4 li shih riji りじ |
member of council; (literary) to take care of matters director; trustee Noumena and phenomena, principle and practice, absolute and relative, real and empirical, cause and effect, fundamental essence and external activity, potential and actual; e.g. store and distribution, ocean and wave, static and kinetic. |
理入 see styles |
lǐ rù li3 ru4 li ju rinyū |
Entry by the truth, or by means of the doctrine, or reason, as 行入 is entry by conduct or practice, the two depending one on the other, cf. 二入. |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
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