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Simple Dictionary Definition |
肆 see styles |
sì si4 ssu shi ほしいまま |
four (banker's anti-fraud numeral); unrestrained; wanton; (literary) shop (adjectival noun) (kana only) selfish; self-indulgent; arbitrary; (numeric) four a market |
肚 see styles |
dù du4 tu hara はら |
belly (1) abdomen; belly; stomach; (2) womb; (3) one's mind; one's real intentions; one's true motive; (4) courage; nerve; willpower; (5) generosity; magnanimity; (6) feelings; emotions; (7) wide middle part; bulging part; (8) inside; interior; inner part; (9) (physics) anti-node; (suf,ctr) (10) counter for hard roe; (11) counter for containers with bulging middles (pots, vases, etc.) |
腹 see styles |
fù fu4 fu fuku はら |
abdomen; stomach; belly (1) abdomen; belly; stomach; (2) womb; (3) one's mind; one's real intentions; one's true motive; (4) courage; nerve; willpower; (5) generosity; magnanimity; (6) feelings; emotions; (7) wide middle part; bulging part; (8) inside; interior; inner part; (9) (physics) anti-node; (suf,ctr) (10) counter for hard roe; (11) counter for containers with bulging middles (pots, vases, etc.) The belly. |
膂 see styles |
lǚ lu:3 lü |
backbone; strength |
膽 胆 see styles |
dǎn dan3 tan sen せん |
gall bladder; courage; guts; gall; inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos) (given name) Sen |
臆 see styles |
yì yi4 i oku おく |
(bound form) chest; breast; (bound form) inner feelings; subjective (personal name) Oku |
自 see styles |
zì zi4 tzu ji じ |
(bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course (prefix) (1) self-; (prefix) (2) (See 至) from (a time or place); (female given name) Mizu sva, svayam; the self, one' s own, personal; of itself, naturally, of course; also, from (i. e. from the self as central). 自 is used as the opposite of 他 another, other's, etc., e. g. 自力 (in) one's own strength as contrasted with 他力 the strength of another, especially in the power to save of a Buddha or Bodhisattva. It is also used in the sense of ātman 阿怛摩 the self, or the soul. |
色 see styles |
shǎi shai3 shai shoku しょく |
(coll.) color; used in 色子[shai3 zi5] (counter) counter for colours; (female given name) Shiki rūpa, outward appearance, form, colour, matter, thing; the desirable, especially feminine attraction. It is defined as that which has resistance; or which changes and disappears, i. e. the phenomenal; also as 顯, 形 and 表色 colour and quality, form or the measurable, and mode or action. There are divisions of two, i. e. inner and outer, as the organs and objects of sense; also colour and form; of three, i. e. the visible object, e. g. colour, the invisible object, e. g. sound, the invisible and immaterial; of eleven, i. e. the five organs and five objects of sense and the immaterial object; of fourteen, the five organs and five objects of sense and the four elements, earth, water, fire, air. rūpa is one of the six bāhya-āyatana, the 六塵; also one of the five skandhas, 五蘊, i. e. the 色身. Keith refers to rūpa as 'material form or matter which is underived (no-utpādā) and which is derived (utpādā)', the underived or independent being the tangible; the derived or dependent being the senses, e. g. of hearing; most of their objects, e. g. sound; the qualities or faculties of feminity, masculinity, vitality; intimation by act and speech, space; qualities of matter, e. g. buoyancy and physical nutriment. |
藴 see styles |
yùn yun4 yün |
variant of 蘊|蕴, to accumulate; to hold in store; to contain; to gather together; to collect; depth; inner strength; profundity |
蘊 蕴 see styles |
yùn yun4 yün osamu おさむ |
to accumulate; to hold in store; to contain; to gather together; to collect; depth; inner strength; profundity (given name) Osamu skandha, v. 塞; older tr. 陰, intp. as that which covers or conceals, implying that physical and mental forms obstruct realization of the truth; while the tr. 蘊, implying an accumulation or heap, is a nearer connotation to skandha, which, originally meaning the shoulder, becomes stem, branch, combination, the objects of sense, the elements of being or mundane consciousness. The term is intp. as the five physical and mental constituents, which combine to form the intelligent 性 or nature; rūpa, the first of the five, is considered as physical, the remaining four as mental; v. 五蘊. The skandhas refer only to the phenomenal, not to the 無爲 non-phenomenal. |
衣 see styles |
yì yi4 i koromo ころも |
to dress; to wear; to put on (clothes) (1) clothes; garment; (2) gown; robe; (3) coating (e.g. glaze, batter, icing); (female given name) Matoi Clothes, especially a monk's robes which are of two kinds, the compulsory three garments of five, seven, or nine pieces; and the permissive clothing for the manual work of the monastery, etc. The 三衣 or three garments are (1) 安陀會衣 antarvāsas, an inner garment; the five-piece 袈裟 cassock; (2) 鬱多羅僧衣 uttarāsaṇga, outer garment, the seven-piece cassock; (3) 僧伽梨衣 saṁghāti, assembly cassock of from nine to twenty-five pieces. The permissive clothing is of ten kinds. |
衷 see styles |
zhōng zhong1 chung makoto まこと |
inner feelings (given name) Makoto |
褟 see styles |
tā ta1 t`a ta |
inner shirt; to sew onto clothing; see also 禢[Ta4] |
護 护 see styles |
hù hu4 hu mori もり |
to protect (surname) Mori To protect, guard, succour.; The two protectors: the inner, oneself, by studying and following the Law; the outer, those who supply what is needful for one's body and mind, e. g. supporters. |
跩 see styles |
zhuǎi zhuai3 chuai |
to waddle; to swagger; (coll.) strutting; self-satisfied |
軜 see styles |
nà na4 na |
inner reins of a 4-horse team |
辱 see styles |
rǔ ru3 ju joku はじ |
disgrace; dishonor; to insult; to bring disgrace or humiliation to; to be indebted to; self-deprecating; Taiwan pr. [ru4] (out-dated or obsolete kana usage) shame; embarrassment; disgrace shame |
通 see styles |
tòng tong4 t`ung tung tsuu / tsu つう |
classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc) (n,n-suf,adj-na) (1) authority; expert; connoisseur; well-informed person; (counter) (2) counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; (noun or adjectival noun) (3) understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; insight; (4) supernatural powers; magical powers; (given name) Michiaki Permeate, pass through, pervade; perceive, know thoroughly; communicate; current; free, without hindrance, unimpeded universal; e.g. 神通 supernatural, ubiquitous powers. There are categories of 五通, 六通, and 十通, all referring to supernatural powers; the five are (1) knowledge of the supernatural world; (2) deva vision; (3) deva hearing; (4) knowledge of the minds of all others; (5) knowledge of all the transmigrations of self and all others. The six are the above together with perfect wisdom for ending moral hindrance and delusion. The ten are knowing all previous transmigrations, having deva hearing, knowing the minds of others, having deva vision, showing deva powers, manifesting many bodies or forms, being anywhere instantly, power of bringing glory to one's domain, manifesting a body of transformation, and power to end evil and transmigration. |
鄙 see styles |
bǐ bi3 pi hina ひな |
rustic; low; base; mean; to despise; to scorn countryside; rural areas; (female given name) Hina I (self-deprecatory) |
鉚 铆 see styles |
mǎo mao3 mao |
to fasten with rivets; (coll.) to exert one's strength |
閨 闺 see styles |
guī gui1 kuei neya ねや |
small arched door; boudoir; lady's chamber; (fig.) women (1) sleeping quarters; bedroom (mainly refers to one used by a married couple); (2) inner room; inner sanctum; (place-name, surname) Neya |
閫 阃 see styles |
kǔn kun3 k`un kun |
threshold; inner appartments; woman; wife (honorific) |
闉 𬮱 see styles |
yīn yin1 yin |
inner gates |
闥 闼 see styles |
tà ta4 t`a ta tatsu たつ |
door of an inner room (1) (obsolete) side gate (of the imperial court); imperial court; (2) (obsolete) gate; door An inner door (especially of the women's rooms); a recess, corner; translit. da, dha, etc. |
駕 驾 see styles |
jià jia4 chia ga が |
to harness; to draw (a cart etc); to drive; to pilot; to sail; to ride; your good self; prefixed word denoting respect (polite 敬辭|敬辞[jing4 ci2]) vehicle; horse-drawn carriage; (place-name) Kago [horse] carriage |
一我 see styles |
yī wǒ yi1 wo3 i wo ichiga |
a unitary self |
七殿 see styles |
shichiden しちでん |
(See 後宮・1) seven residential pavilions for court ladies (in the inner Heian Palace) |
七聖 七圣 see styles |
qī shèng qi1 sheng4 ch`i sheng chi sheng nanasei / nanase ななせい |
(male given name) Nanasei v.七賢, 七聖, 七聖財, saptadhana. The seven sacred graces variously defined, e.g. 信 faith, 戒 observation of the commandments, 聞hearing instruction, 慙 shame (for self), 愧 shame (for others); 捨 renunciation; and慧 wisdom. |
三乘 see styles |
sān shèng san1 sheng4 san sheng minori みのり |
(surname) Minori Triyāna, the three vehicles, or conveyances which carry living beings across saṁsāra or mortality (births-and-deaths) to the shores of nirvāṇa. The three are styled 小,中, and 大. Sometimes the three vehicles are defined as 聲聞 Śrāvaka, that of the hearer or obedient disciple; 緣覺Pratyeka-buddha, that of the enlightened for self; these are described as 小乘 because the objective of both is personal salvation; the third is 菩薩Bodhisattva, or 大乘 Mahāyāna, because the objective is the salvation of all the living. The three are also depicted as 三車 three wains, drawn by a goat, a deer, an ox. The Lotus declares that the three are really the One Buddha-vehicle, which has been revealed in three expedient forms suited to his disciples' capacity, the Lotus Sūtra being the unifying, complete, and final exposition. The Three Vehicles are differently explained by different exponents, e.g. (1) Mahāyāna recognizes (a) Śrāvaka, called Hīnayāna, leading in longer or shorter periods to arhatship; (b) Pratyeka-buddha, called Madhyamayāna, leading after still longer or shorter periods to a Buddhahood ascetically attained and for self; (c) Bodhisattva, called Mahayana, leading after countless ages of self-sacrifce in saving others and progressive enlightenment to ultimate Buddhahood. (2) Hīnayāna is also described as possessing three vehicles 聲, 緣, 菩 or 小, 中, 大, the 小 and 中 conveying to personal salvation their devotees in ascetic dust and ashes and mental annihilation, the 大 leading to bodhi, or perfect enlightenment, and the Buddha's way. Further definitions of the Triyāna are: (3) True bodhisattva teaching for the 大; pratyeka-buddha without ignorant asceticism for the 中; and śrāvaka with ignorant asceticism for the 小. (4) (a) 一乘 The One-Vehicle which carries all to Buddhahood: of this the 華嚴 Hua-yen and 法華 Fa-hua are typical exponents; (b) 三乘法 the three-vehicle, containing practitioners of all three systems, as expounded in books of the 深密般若; (c) 小乘 the Hīnayāna pure and simple as seen in the 四阿合經 Four Āgamas. Śrāvakas are also described as hearers of the Four Truths and limited to that degree of development; they hear from the pratyeka-buddhas, who are enlightened in the Twelve Nidānas 因緣; the bodhisattvas make the 六度 or six forms of transmigration their field of sacrificial saving work, and of enlightenment. The Lotus Sūtra really treats the 三乘. Three Vehicles as 方便 or expedient ways, and offers a 佛乘 Buddha Vehicle as the inclusive and final vehicle. |
三修 see styles |
sān xiū san1 xiu1 san hsiu san shū |
The three ways of discipline, i.e. three śrāvaka and three bodhisattva ways. The three śrāvaka ways are 無常修 no realization of the eternal, seeing everything as transient; 非樂修 joyless, through only contemplating misery and not realizing the ultimate nirvāṇa-joy; 無我修 non-ego discipline, seeing only the perishing self and not realizing the immortal self. The bodhisattva three are the opposite of these. |
三族 see styles |
sān zú san1 zu2 san tsu sanzoku さんぞく |
(old) three generations (father, self and sons); three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's) three types of relatives (e.g. father, children and grandchildren; parents, siblings, wife and children; etc.) |
三明 see styles |
sān míng san1 ming2 san ming sanmyou / sanmyo さんみょう |
Sanming, prefecture-level city in Fujian {Buddh} (See 宿命通,天眼通,漏尽通) three kinds of awareness; (surname, given name) Mitsuaki The three insights; also 三達. Applied to Buddhas they are called 三達, to arhats 三明. (a) 宿命明 Insight into the mortal conditions of self and others in previous lives; (b) 天眼明 supernatural insight into future mortal conditions; (c) 漏盡明 nirvāṇa insight, i.e. into present mortal sufferings so as to overcome aIl passions or temptations. In the 倶舍論 27 the three are termed 住智識證明; 死生識證明 and 漏盡識證明. For 三明經 v. 長阿含16. |
三疑 see styles |
sān yí san1 yi2 san i sangi |
The three doubts— of self, of teacher, of the dharma-truth. |
三空 see styles |
sān kōng san1 kong1 san k`ung san kung sankū |
The three voids or immaterialities. The first set of three is (a) 空, (b) 無相, (c) 無願, v. 三三昧. The second, (a) 我空 , (b) 法空 , (c) 倶空 the self, things, all phenomena as "empty" or immaterial. The third relates to charity: (a) giver, (b) receiver, (c) gift, all are "empty". |
三自 see styles |
sān zì san1 zi4 san tzu sanji |
abbr. for 三自愛國教會|三自爱国教会[San1 zi4 Ai4 guo2 Jiao4 hui4], Three-Self Patriotic Movement Three divisions of the eight-fold noble path, the first to the third 自調 self-control, the fourth and fifth 自淨 self-purification, the last three 自度 self-development in the religious life and in wisdom. Also 自體, 自相, 自用 substance, form, and function. |
三覺 三觉 see styles |
sān jué san1 jue2 san chüeh sankaku |
The three kinds of enlightenment: (1) (a) 自覺 Enlightenment for self; (b) 覺他 for others; (c) 覺行圓 (or 窮) 滿 perfect enlightenment and accomplishment; the first is an arhat's, the first and second a bodhisattva's, all three a Buddha's. (2) From the Awakening of Faith 起信論 (a) 本覺 inherent, potential enlightenment or intelligence of every being; (b) 始覺 , initial, or early stages of such enlightenment, brought about through the external perfuming or influence of teaching, working on the internal perfuming of subconscious intelligence; (c) 究竟覺 completion of enlightenment, the subjective mind in perfect accord with the subconscious (or superconscious) mind, or the inherent intelligence. |
三輪 三轮 see styles |
sān lún san1 lun2 san lun sanrin さんりん |
three wheels; (p,s,f) Miwa The three wheels: (1) The Buddha's (a) 身 body or deeds; (b) 口 mouth, or discourse; (c) 意 mind or ideas. (2) (a) 神通 (or 變) His supernatural powers, or powers of (bodily) self-transformation, associated with 身 body; (b) 記心輪 his discriminating understanding of others, associated with 意 mind; (c) 敎誡輪 or 正敎輪 his (oral) powers of teaching, associated with 口. (3) Similarly (a) 神足輪 ; (b) 說法輪 ; (c) 憶念輪 . (4) 惑, 業, and 苦. The wheel of illusion produces karma, that of karma sets rolling that of suffering, which in turn sets rolling the wheel of illusion. (5) (a) Impermanence; (b) uncleanness; (c) suffering. Cf. 三道. |
三障 see styles |
sān zhàng san1 zhang4 san chang sanshō |
The three vighna, i.e. hinderers or barriers, of which three groups are given: (1) (a) 煩惱障 the passions, i.e. 三毒 desire, hate, stupidity; (b) 業障 the deeds done; (c) 報障 the retributions. (2) (a) 皮煩惱障 ; (b) 肉煩惱障 ; (c) 心煩惱障 skin, flesh, and heart (or mind) troublers, i.e. delusions from external objects: internal views, and mental ignorance. (3) 三重障 the three weighty obstructions: (a) self-importance, 我慢; (b) envy, 嫉妬; (c) desire, 貧欲. |
上士 see styles |
shàng shì shang4 shi4 shang shih joushi / joshi じょうし |
(hist) high-ranking retainer of a daimyo (Edo Period) The superior disciple, who becomes perfect in (spiritually) profiting himself and others. The 中士 profits self but not others; the 下士 neither. |
上轉 上转 see styles |
shàng zhuǎn shang4 zhuan3 shang chuan jōten |
The upward turn: (1) progress upward, especially in transmigration; (2) increase in enlightenment for self, while下轉 q.v. is for others. |
不惑 see styles |
bù huò bu4 huo4 pu huo fuwaku ふわく |
without doubt; with full self-confidence; forty years of age past forty; following right course |
不肖 see styles |
bù xiào bu4 xiao4 pu hsiao fushou / fusho ふしょう |
(literary) unlike one's parents; degenerate; unworthy (adj-no,adj-na,n) (1) unworthy (of one's father, teacher, etc.); (pronoun) (2) (humble language) I; me; (adj-no,adj-na,n) (3) (form) (used self-referentially) incompetent; unskilled; inexperienced; foolish; (noun or adjectival noun) (4) (archaism) unfortunate; unlucky; (given name) Fushou does not reject |
中心 see styles |
zhōng xīn zhong1 xin1 chung hsin chuushin / chushin ちゅうしん |
center; heart; core (noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) center; centre; middle; heart; core; focus; pivot; emphasis; balance; (suffix) (2) -centered; -centred; -focused; -oriented; centered on; focused on idem 忠心經. |
中栓 see styles |
nakasen なかせん |
inner plug (bottle, etc.) |
中箱 see styles |
nakabako なかばこ |
inner box; inner case |
中臈 see styles |
chuurou / churo ちゅうろう |
(1) court ladies of the middle rank serving in the inner palace (Heian period); (2) female servant for a samurai family; (3) lady-in-waiting working in the inner palace of the Edo castle (Edo period) |
中蓋 see styles |
nakabuta なかぶた |
(1) inner lid; (2) medium sized lid |
中衣 see styles |
chuui / chui ちゅうい |
(See 上衣・1,下衣・1) inner layer of clothing; inner garment (other than underwear) |
中辺 see styles |
chuuhen / chuhen ちゅうへん |
(adj-no,n) (1) moderate; middle-of-the-road; (2) inner edge (othello); (surname) Nakabe |
中門 see styles |
chuumon / chumon ちゅうもん |
(1) (See 寝殿造り,対の屋,釣り殿) gate in the middle of the corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture); (2) central gate (between the main gate and main hall of a temple); (3) central gate (separating the inner and outer gardens of a teahouse); (surname) Nakakado |
主体 see styles |
chuche チュチェ |
(1) (kana only) (See 主体思想) Juche (North Korean political ideology) (kor:); self-reliance; (2) (kana only) Juche (North Korean calendar) |
主力 see styles |
zhǔ lì zhu3 li4 chu li shuryoku しゅりょく |
main force; main strength of an army (noun - becomes adjective with の) main force; chief object; mainline |
主我 see styles |
shuga しゅが |
ego; self |
乏力 see styles |
fá lì fa2 li4 fa li |
lacking in strength; weak; feeble; not up to the task |
二力 see styles |
èr lì er4 li4 erh li nika にか |
(female given name) Nika Dual powers; there are three definitions: (1) 自力 one's own strength, or endeavours, i.e. salvation by cultivating 戒, 定, and 慧; 他カ another's strength, e.g. the saving power of Amitābha. (2) 思擇力 Power of thought in choosing (right principles); 修習力 power of practice and performance. (3) 有力 and 無力 positive and negative forces: dominant and subordinate; active and inert energy. |
二執 二执 see styles |
èr zhí er4 zhi2 erh chih nishū |
The two (erroneous) tenets, or attachments: (1) 我執 or 人執 that of the reality of the ego, permanent personality, the ātman, soul or self. (2) 法執 that of the reality of dharma, things or phenomena. Both are illusions. "All illusion arises from holding to the reality of the ego and of things." |
二我 see styles |
èr wǒ er4 wo3 erh wo niga |
(二我見) The two erroneous views of individualism: (a) 人我見 The erroneous view that there is an independent human personality or soul, and (b) 法我見 the like view that anything exists with an independent nature. |
二湯 二汤 see styles |
èr tāng er4 tang1 erh t`ang erh tang |
second bouillon, a light broth obtained by reboiling ingredients that were previously used to make a full-strength first bouillon 頭湯|头汤[tou2 tang1] |
二連 二连 see styles |
èr lián er4 lian2 erh lien niren にれん |
Erlian Basin in Inner Mongolia (can be adjective with の) bipartite; in two parts; double; (place-name) Niren |
二邊 二边 see styles |
èr biān er4 bian1 erh pien nihen |
(a) 有邊 That things exist; (6) 無邊 that since nothing is self-existent, things cannot be said to exist. (2) (a) 增益邊 The plus side, the common belief in a soul and permanence; (b) 損減邊 the minus side, that nothing exists even of karma. (3) (a) 斷邊見 and (b) 常邊見 annihilation and immortality; v. 見. |
五原 see styles |
wǔ yuán wu3 yuan2 wu yüan |
Wuyuan county in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔[Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3], Inner Mongolia |
五品 see styles |
wǔ pǐn wu3 pin3 wu p`in wu pin gohon |
A division of the disciples, in the Lotus Sutra, into five grades— those who hear and rejoice; read and repeat; preach; observe and meditate; and transform self and others. |
五因 see styles |
wǔ yīn wu3 yin1 wu yin goin |
The five causes, v. 倶舍論 7. i. e. (1) 生因 producing cause; (2) 依因supporting cause; (3) 立因 upholding or establishing cause; (4) 持因 maintaining cause; (5) 養因 nourishing or strengthening cause. These all refer to the four elements, earth, water, fire, wind, for they are the causers or producers and maintainers of the infinite forms of nature. Another list from the Nirvana-Sutra 21 is (1) 生因 cause of rebirth, i. e. previous delusion; (2) 和合因 intermingling cause, i. e. good with good, bad with bad, neutral with neutral; (3) 住因 cause of abiding in the present condition, i. e. the self in its attachments; (4) 增長因 causes of development, e. g. food, clothing, etc.; (5) 遠因 remoter cause, the parental seed. |
五悔 see styles |
wǔ huǐ wu3 hui3 wu hui gokai |
The five stages in a penitential service. Tiantai gives: (1) confession of past sins and forbidding them for the future; (2) appeal to the universal Buddhas to keep the law-wheel rolling; (3) rejoicing over the good in self and others; (4) 廻向 offering all one's goodness to all the living and to the Buddha-way; (5) resolve, or vows, i. e. the 四弘誓. The Shingon sect 眞言宗 divides the ten great vows of Samantabhadra 普賢 into five 悔, the first three vows being included under 歸命 or submission; the fourth is repentance; the fifth rejoicing; the sixth, seventh, and eighth appeal to the Buddhas; the ninth and tenth, bestowal of acquired merit. |
五明 see styles |
wǔ míng wu3 ming2 wu ming gomyou / gomyo ごみょう |
(hist) the five sciences of ancient India (grammar and composition, arts and mathematics, medicine, logic, and philosophy); (surname) Gomei pañca-vidyā, the five sciences or studies of India: (1) śabda, grammar and composition; śilpakarmasthāna, the arts and mathematics; cikitsā, medicine; hetu, logic; adhyātma, philosophy, which Monier Williams says is the 'knoowledge of the supreme spirit, or of ātman', the basis of the four Vedas; the Buddhists reckon the Tripiṭṭaka and the 十二部教 as their 内明, i. e. their inner or special philosophy. |
五智 see styles |
wǔ zhì wu3 zhi4 wu chih gochi ごち |
(place-name, surname) Gochi The five kinds of wisdom of the 眞言宗 Shingon School. Of the six elements 六大 earth, water, fire, air (or wind), ether (or space) 曇空, and consciousness (or mind 識 ), the first five form the phenomenal world, or Garbhadhātu, the womb of all things 胎藏界, the sixth is the conscious, or perceptive, or wisdom world, the Vajradhātu 金剛界, sometimes called the Diamond realm. The two realms are not originally apart, but one, and there is no consciousness without the other five elements. The sixth element, vijñāna, is further subdivided into five called the 五智 Five Wisdoms: (1) 法界體性智 dharmadhātu-prakṛti-jñāna, derived from the amala-vijñāna, or pure 識; it is the wisdom of the embodied nature of the dharmadhātu, defined as the six elements, and is associated with Vairocana 大日, in the centre, who abides in this samādhi; it also corresponds to the ether 空 element. (2) 大圓鏡智 adarśana-jñāna, the great round mirror wisdom, derived from the ālaya-vijñāna, reflecting all things; corresponds to earth, and is associated with Akṣobhya and the east. (3) 平等性智 samatā-jñāna, derived from mano-vijñāna, wisdom in regard to all things equally and universally; corresponds to fire, and is associated with Ratnasaṃbhava and the south. (4) 妙觀察智 pratyavekṣaṇa-jñāna, derived from 意識, wisdom of profound insight, or discrimination, for exposition and doubt-destruction; corresponds to water, and is associated with Amitābha and the west. (5) 成所作智 kṛtyānuṣṭhāna-jñāna, derived from the five senses, the wisdom of perfecting the double work of self-welfare and the welfare of others; corresponds to air 風 and is associated with Amoghasiddhi and the north. These five Dhyāni-Buddhas are the 五智如來. The five kinds of wisdom are the four belonging to every Buddha, of the exoteric cult, to which the esoteric cult adds the first, pure, all-refecting, universal, all-discerning, and all-perfecting. |
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. |
五舎 see styles |
gosha ごしゃ |
(See 後宮・1) five residences for court ladies (in the inner Heian Palace) |
五見 五见 see styles |
wǔ jiàn wu3 jian4 wu chien gomi ごみ |
(surname) Gomi The five wrong views: (1) 身見 satkāya-dṛṣṭi, i. e. 我見 and 我所見 the view that there is a real self, an ego, and a mine and thine: (2) 邊見 antar-grāha, extreme views. e. g. extinction or permanence; (3) 邪見 mithyā, perverse views, which, denying cause and effect, destroy the foundations of morality; (4) 見取見 dṛṣṭi-parāmarśa, stubborn perverted views, viewing inferior things as superior, or counting the worse as the better; (5) 戒禁取見 śīla-vrata-parāmarśa, rigid views in favour of rigorous ascetic prohibitions, e. g. covering oneself with ashes. Cf. 五利使. |
五障 see styles |
wǔ zhàng wu3 zhang4 wu chang goshou / gosho ごしょう |
(1) {Buddh} five hindrances (that prevent a woman from becoming a Buddha, a Brahmā, a Shakra, a devil king, or a wheel-turning king); five obstructions to women's attainment; (2) {Buddh} five hindrances (that impede ascetic practices; sensory desire, ill-will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and worry, doubt) The five hindrances, or obstacles; also 五礙; 五雲. I. Of women, i. e. inability to become Brahma-kings, Indras, Māra-kings, Caikravarti-kings, or Buddhas. II. The hindrances to the five 五力 powers, i. e. (self-) deception a bar to faith, as sloth is to zeal, anger to remembrance, hatred to meditaton, and discontent to wisdom. III. The hindrances of (1) the passion-nature, e. g. original sin; (2) of karma caused in previous lives; (3) the affairs of life; (4) no friendly or competent preceptor; (5) partial knowledge. |
五食 see styles |
wǔ shí wu3 shi2 wu shih gojiki |
The five kinds of spiritual food by which roots of goodness are nourished: correct thoughts; delight in the Law; pleasure in meditation; firm resolve, or vows of self-control; and deliverance from the karma of illusion. |
人力 see styles |
rén lì ren2 li4 jen li jinriki; jinryoku じんりき; じんりょく |
manpower; labor power human power; human strength; human effort; human agency |
人品 see styles |
rén pǐn ren2 pin3 jen p`in jen pin jinpin じんぴん |
character; moral strength; integrity; (coll.) looks; appearance; bearing personal appearance; character; personality |
人我 see styles |
rén wǒ ren2 wo3 jen wo jinga じんが |
oneself and others Personality, the human soul, i.e. the false view, 人我見 that every man has a permanent lord within 常一生宰, which he calls the ātman, soul, or permanent self, a view which forms the basis of all erroneous doctrine. Also styled 人見; 我見; 人執; cf. 二我. |
人空 see styles |
rén kōng ren2 kong1 jen k`ung jen kung ningū |
Man is only a temporary combination formed by the five skandhas and the twelve nidānas, being the product of previous causes, and without a real self or permanent soul. Hīnayāna is said to end these causes and consequent reincarnation by discipline in subjection of the passions and entry into nirvana by the emptying of the self. Mahāyāna fills the "void" with the Absolute, declaring that when man has emptied himself of the ego he realizes his nature to be that of the absolute, bhūtatathatā; v. 二空. |
今吾 see styles |
kongo こんご |
(archaism) (See 故吾) one's present self |
他力 see styles |
tā lì ta1 li4 t`a li ta li tariki たりき |
(1) outside help; help from without; (2) {Buddh} salvation by faith; (surname) Tariki Another's strength, especially that of a Buddha, or bodhisattva, obtained through faith in Mahāyāna salvation. |
他律 see styles |
tā lǜ ta1 lu:4 t`a lü ta lü taritsu たりつ |
external regulation (e.g. by means of a regulatory body, as opposed to self-regulation 自律[zi4 lu:4]); (ethics) heteronomy (1) {phil} (See 自律・1) heteronomy (in Kantian ethics); (2) heteronomy |
伏忍 see styles |
fú rěn fu2 ren3 fu jen buku nin |
The first of the 五忍 five forms of submission, self-control, or patience. |
似我 see styles |
sì wǒ si4 wo3 ssu wo jiga |
apparent self |
住地 see styles |
zhù dì zhu4 di4 chu ti jūji |
living area; residential area Dwelling-place; abiding place in the Truth, i.e. the acquirement by faith of a self believing in the dharma and producing its fruits. |
余力 see styles |
yoryoku よりょく |
(1) remaining strength; surplus energy; reserve power; (2) money to spare; (surname) Yoriki |
佛媛 see styles |
fó yuán fo2 yuan2 fo yüan |
Buddhist griftress (female Internet influencer who exploits Buddhist imagery for self-promotion or commercial purposes) |
佛檀 see styles |
fó tán fo2 tan2 fo t`an fo tan butsudan |
buddha-dāna, Buddha-giving contrasted with Māra-giving; Buddha-charity as the motive of giving, or preaching, and of self-sacrifice, or self-immolation. |
作戒 see styles |
zuò jiè zuo4 jie4 tso chieh sakai |
Obedience to the commandments, external fulfillment of them; also called 表色, in contrast with 無作戒, 無表色 the inner grace; moral action in contrast with inner moral character. |
使勁 使劲 see styles |
shǐ jìn shi3 jin4 shih chin |
to exert all one's strength |
使盡 使尽 see styles |
shǐ jìn shi3 jin4 shih chin |
to exert all one's strength |
供奉 see styles |
gòng fèng gong4 feng4 kung feng gubu ぐぶ |
to consecrate; to enshrine and worship; an offering (to one's ancestors); a sacrifice (to a god) (noun/participle) (1) accompanying; being in attendance on; (2) (abbreviation) (See 内供奉) inner offerer (any of the 10 high-ranking monks serving at the inner offering hall) To offer; the monk who serves at the great altar. |
依他 see styles |
yī tā yi1 ta1 i t`a i ta eta |
Dependent on or trusting to someone or something else; trusting on another, not on self or 'works.' |
依自 see styles |
yī zì yi1 zi4 i tzu eji |
self-dependence |
侠客 see styles |
kyoukyaku / kyokyaku きょうきゃく kyoukaku / kyokaku きょうかく |
self-styled humanitarian; chivalrous person; persons acting under the pretence of chivalry who formed gangs and engaged in gambling |
俗我 see styles |
sú wǒ su2 wo3 su wo zokuga |
The popular idea of the ego or soul, i.e. the empirical or false ego 假我 composed of the five skandhas. This is to be distinguished from the true ego 眞我 or 實我, the metaphysical substratum from which all empirical elements have been eliminated; v.八大自在我. |
保甲 see styles |
bǎo jiǎ bao3 jia3 pao chia |
historical communal administrative and self-defence system created during the Song Dynasty and revived during the Republican Era, in which households are grouped in jia 甲[jia3] and jia are grouped in bao 保[bao3] |
保身 see styles |
hoshin ほしん |
self-protection; (personal name) Yasumi |
修真 see styles |
xiū zhēn xiu1 zhen1 hsiu chen shuuma / shuma しゅうま |
to practice Taoism; to cultivate the true self through spiritual exercises (personal name) Shuuma |
修身 see styles |
xiū shēn xiu1 shen1 hsiu shen shuushin / shushin しゅうしん |
to cultivate one's moral character; (fashion) slim-fit; body-hugging morals; ethics; moral training; (personal name) Masami self-cultivation |
修道 see styles |
xiū dào xiu1 dao4 hsiu tao shuudou / shudo しゅうどう |
to practice Daoism (n,vs,vi) learning; studying the fine arts; (given name) Nagamichi To cultivate the way of religion; be religious; the way of self-cultivation. In the Hīnayāna the stage from anāgāmin to arhat; in Mahāyāna one of the bodhisattva stages. |
個我 个我 see styles |
gè wǒ ge4 wo3 ko wo kaga |
individual self |
倒我 see styles |
dào wǒ dao4 wo3 tao wo tōga |
The conventional ego, the reverse of reality. |
倒體 倒体 see styles |
dào tǐ dao4 ti3 tao t`i tao ti tōtai |
to erroneously believe in the existence of an inherent self |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
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