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There are 8 total results for your Seek the Way search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

勤求

see styles
qín qiú
    qin2 qiu2
ch`in ch`iu
    chin chiu
 gongu
    ごんぐ

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Buddha Seeking
inquiring the Buddha way
To seek diligently (after the good).

二流

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èr liú
    er4 liu2
erh liu
 niryuu / niryu
    にりゅう
second-rate; second-tier
(noun - becomes adjective with の) second-rate; inferior
The two ways in the current of transmigration: 順流 to flow with it in continual re-incarnation; 逆流 resist it and seek a way of escape by getting rid of life's delusions, as in the case of the saints.

闖蕩


闯荡

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chuǎng dàng
    chuang3 dang4
ch`uang tang
    chuang tang
to leave home to make one's way in the world; to leave the life one knows to seek success

三種悔法


三种悔法

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sān zhǒng huǐ fǎ
    san1 zhong3 hui3 fa3
san chung hui fa
 sanshu kehō
(or 三種懺法) Three modes of repentance: (a) 無生悔 to meditate on the way to prevent wrong thoughts and delusions; (b) 取相悔 to seek the presence of the Buddha to rid one of sinful thoughts and passions; (c) 作法懺 in proper form to confess one's breach of the rules before the Buddha and seek remission.

問道於盲


问道于盲

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wèn dào yú máng
    wen4 dao4 yu2 mang2
wen tao yü mang
lit. to ask a blind man the way (idiom); fig. to seek advice from an incompetent

棄暗投明


弃暗投明

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qì àn tóu míng
    qi4 an4 tou2 ming2
ch`i an t`ou ming
    chi an tou ming
to renounce the dark and seek the light; to give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a better one

道を探る

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 michiosaguru
    みちをさぐる
(exp,v5r) to seek a path; to find one's way

死中に活を求める

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 shichuunikatsuomotomeru / shichunikatsuomotomeru
    しちゅうにかつをもとめる
(exp,v1) to search for a way out of a potentially fatal situation; to seek for a way out of a desperate situation

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

This page contains 8 results for "Seek the Way" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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