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| Characters | Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
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. |
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. |
實道 实道 see styles |
shí dào shi2 dao4 shih tao jitsudō |
More info & calligraphy: True Religion / Buddha Truth |
渴法 see styles |
kě fǎ ke3 fa3 k`o fa ko fa katsuhō |
More info & calligraphy: Thirst for Truth |
行道 see styles |
xíng dào xing2 dao4 hsing tao yukimichi ゆきみち |
More info & calligraphy: Walk in the WayTo walk in the way, follow the Buddha-truth; to make procession round an image, especially of the Buddha, with the right shoulder towards it. |
道諦 道谛 see styles |
dào dì dao4 di4 tao ti doutai / dotai どうたい |
More info & calligraphy: Four Noble Truths: Path Leading Away From Sufferingmārga, the dogma of the path leading to the extinction of passion, the fourth of the four axioms, i.e. the eightfold noble path, v. 八聖道. |
釋迦牟尼 释迦牟尼 see styles |
shì jiā móu ní shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2 shih chia mou ni Shakamuni |
More info & calligraphy: Shakyamuni / The Buddha釋迦文 (釋迦文尼); 釋伽文 Śākyamuni, the saint of the Śākya tribe. muni is saint, holy man, sage, ascetic monk; it is: intp. as 仁 benevolent, charitable, kind, also as 寂默 one who dwells in seclusion. After '500 or 550' previous incarnations, Śākyamuni finally attained to the state of Bodhisattva, was born in the Tuṣita heaven, and descended as a white elephant, through her right side, into the womb of the immaculate Māyā, the purest woman on earth; this was on the 8th day of the 4th month; next year on the 8th day of the 2nd month he was born from her right side painlessly as she stood under a tree in the Lumbinī garden. For the subsequent miraculous events v. Eitel. also the 神通遊戲經 (Lalitavistara), the 釋迦如來成道記, etc. Simpler statements say that he was born the son of Śuddhodana, of the kṣatriya caste, ruler of Kapilavastu, and Māyā his wife; that Māyā died seven days later, leaving him to be brought up by her sister Prājapati; that in due course he was married to Yaśodharā who bore him a son, Rāhula; that in search of truth he left home, became an ascetic, severely disciplined himself, and finally at 35 years of age, under a tree, realized that the way of release from the chain of rebirth and death lay not in asceticism but in moral purity; this he explained first in his four dogmas, v. 四諦 and eightfold noble way 八正道, later amplified and developed in many sermons. He founded his community on the basis of poverty, chastity, and insight or meditation, ad it became known as Buddhism, as he became known as Buddha, the enlightened. His death was probably in or near 487 B.C., a few years before that of Confucius in 479. The sacerdotal name of his family is Gautama, said to be the original name of the whole clan, Śākya being that of his branch, v. 瞿, 喬.; his personal name was Siddhārtha, or Sarvārthasiddha, v. 悉. |
諦 谛 see styles |
dì di4 ti tai たい |
to examine; truth (Buddhism) {Buddh} satya; truth; (given name) Tai To judge, examine into, investigate, used in Buddhism for satya, a truth, a dogma, an axiom; applied to the āryasatyāni, the four dogmas, or noble truths, of 苦, 集, 滅, and 道 suffering, (the cause of its) assembly, the ( possibility of its cure, or) extinction, and the way (to extinction), i.e. the eightfold noble path, v. 四諦 and 八聖道. There are other categories of 諦, e.g. (2) 眞 and 俗 Reality in contrast with ordinary ideas of things; (3) 空, 假 and 中 q.v. (6) by the 勝論宗; and(8) by the 法相宗.; Two forms of statement: (a) 俗諦 saṃvṛti-satya, also called 世諦, 世俗諦, 覆俗諦, 覆諦, meaning common or ordinary statement, as if phenomena were real; (b) 眞諦 paramartha-satya, also called 第一諦, 勝義諦, meaning the correct dogma or averment of the enlightened. Another definition is 王法 and 佛法, royal law and Buddha law. |
一極 一极 see styles |
yī jí yi1 ji2 i chi ikkyoku いっきょく |
monopole; singular pole; unipole The one ultimate, or finality; ultimate enlightenment; the one final truth or way; the 一實 or Absolute. |
六慧 see styles |
liù huì liu4 hui4 liu hui rokue |
The six kinds of wisdom. Each is allotted seriatim to one of the six positions 六位 q. v. (1) 聞慧 the wisdom of hearing and apprehending the truth of the middle way is associated with the 十住; (2) 思慧 of thought with the 十行; (3) 修慧 of observance with the 十廻向; (4) 無相慧 of either extreme, or the mean, with the 十地; (5) 照寂慧 of understanding of nirvana with 等覺慧; (6) 寂照慧 of making nirvana illuminate all beings associated with 佛果 Buddha-fruition. They are a 別教 Differentiated School series and all are associated with 中道 the school of the 中 or middle way. |
化誘 化诱 see styles |
huà yòu hua4 you4 hua yu keyū |
To convert and entice (into the way of truth). |
十地 see styles |
shí dì shi2 di4 shih ti juuji / juji じゅうじ |
{Buddh} dasabhumi (forty-first to fiftieth stages in the development of a bodhisattva); (place-name) Jūji daśabhūmi; v. 十住. The "ten stages" in the fifty-two sections of the development of a bodhisattva into a Buddha. After completing the十四向 he proceeds to the 十地. There are several groups. I. The ten stages common to the Three Vehicles 三乘 are: (1) 乾慧地 dry wisdom stage, i. e. unfertilized by Buddha-truth, worldly wisdom; (2) 性地 the embryo-stage of the nature of Buddha-truth, the 四善根; (3) 八人地 (八忍地), the stage of the eight patient endurances; (4) 見地 of freedom from wrong views; (5) 薄地 of freedom from the first six of the nine delusions in practice; (6) 離欲地 of freedom from the remaining three; (7) 巳辨地 complete discrimination in regard to wrong views and thoughts, the stage of an arhat; (8) 辟支佛地 pratyeka-buddhahood, only the dead ashes of the past left to sift; (9) 菩薩地 bodhisattvahood; (10) 佛地 Buddhahood. v. 智度論 78. II. 大乘菩薩十地 The ten stages of Mahāyāna bodhisattva development are: (1) 歡喜地 Pramuditā, joy at having overcome the former difficulties and now entering on the path to Buddhahood; (2) 離垢地 Vimalā, freedom from all possible defilement, the stage of purity; (3) 發光地 Prabhākarī, stage of further enlightenment; (4) 焰慧地 Arciṣmatī, of glowing wisdom; (5) 極難勝地 Sudurjayā, mastery of utmost or final difficulties; (6) 現前地 Abhimukhī, the open way of wisdom above definitions of impurity and purity; (7) 遠行地 Dūraṁgamā, proceeding afar, getting above ideas of self in order to save others; (8) 不動地 Acalā, attainment of calm unperturbedness; (9) 善慧地 Sādhumatī, of the finest discriminatory wisdom, knowing where and how to save, and possessed of the 十力 ten powers; (10) 法雲地 Dharmamegha, attaining to the fertilizing powers of the law-cloud. Each of the ten stages is connected with each of the ten pāramitās, v. 波. Each of the 四乘 or four vehicles has a division of ten. III. The 聲聞乘十地 ten Śrāvaka stages are: (1) 受三歸地 initiation as a disciple by receiving the three refuges, in the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha; (2) 信地 belief, or the faith-root; (3) 信法地 belief in the four truths; (4) 内凡夫地 ordinary disciples who observe the 五停心觀, etc.; (5) 學信戒 those who pursue the 三學 three studies; (6) 八人忍地 the stage of 見道 seeing the true Way; (7) 須陀洹地 śrota-āpanna, now definitely in the stream and assured of nirvāṇa; (8) 斯陀含地 sakrdāgāmin, only one more rebirth; (9) 阿那含地 anāgāmin, no rebirth; and (10) 阿羅漢地 arhatship. IV. The ten stages of the pratyekabuddha 緣覺乘十地 are (1) perfect asceticism; (2) mastery of the twelve links of causation; (3) of the four noble truths; (4) of the deeper knowledge; (5) of the eightfold noble path; (6) of the three realms 三法界; (7) of the nirvāṇa state; (8) of the six supernatural powers; (9) arrival at the intuitive stage; (10) mastery of the remaining influence of former habits. V. 佛乘十地 The ten stages, or characteristics of a Buddha, are those of the sovereign or perfect attainment of wisdom, exposition, discrimination, māra-subjugation, suppression of evil, the six transcendent faculties, manifestation of all bodhisattva enlightenment, powers of prediction, of adaptability, of powers to reveal the bodhisattva Truth. VI. The Shingon has its own elaborate ten stages, and also a group 十地十心, see 十心; and there are other groups. |
四依 see styles |
sì yī si4 yi1 ssu i shi e |
The four necessaries, or things on which the religious rely. (1) 行四依 The four of ascetic practitioners— rag clothing; begging for food; sitting under trees; purgatives and diuretics as moral and spiritual means; these are also termed 四聖種. (2) 法四依 The four of the dharma: i. e. the truth, which is eternal, rather than man, even its propagator; the sutras of perfect meaning i. e. of the 道實相 the truth of the 'middle' way; the meaning, or spirit, not the letter; wisdom 智, i.e. Buddha-wisdom rather than mere knowledge 識. There are other groups. Cf. 四事. |
四等 see styles |
sì děng si4 deng3 ssu teng shitō |
The four virtues which a Buddha out of his infinite heart manifests equally to all; also called 四無量 q. w. They are: 慈悲喜捨 maitrī, karuṇā, muditā, upekṣā, i. e. kindness, pity, joy and indifference, or 護 protection. Another group is 字語法身, i. e. 字 that all Buddhas have the same title or titles; 語 speak the same language; 法 proclaim the same truth; and 身 have each the threefold body, or trikāya. A third group is 諸法 all things are equally included in the bhūtatathatā; 發心 the mind-nature being universal, its field of action is universal; 道等 the way or method is also universal; therefore 慈悲 the mercy (of the Buddhas) is universal for all. |
圓悟 圆悟 see styles |
yuán wù yuan2 wu4 yüan wu engo えんご |
(personal name) Engo Completely to apprehend the truth. In Tiantai, the complete apprehension at the same time of noumenon, phenomenon, and the middle way. |
実は see styles |
jitsuha じつは |
(exp,adv) as a matter of fact; by the way; to tell you the truth; to be honest; frankly |
悟道 see styles |
wù dào wu4 dao4 wu tao godou / godo ごどう |
{Buddh} (the path of spiritual) enlightenment; (given name) Norimichi To awaken to the truth. |
有様 see styles |
ariyou / ariyo ありよう arisama ありさま |
state; condition; circumstances; the way things are or should be; truth |
樂說 乐说 see styles |
lè shuō le4 shuo1 le shuo gyōsetsu |
Joy in preaching, or telling the way of salvation; joy in that which is preached. It is also called pratibhāna, bold and illuminating discourse, or freedom in expounding the truth with correct meaning and appropriate words, one of the 無礙智 four pratisaṃvids. |
理り see styles |
kotowari ことわり |
reason; truth; way of things; justice |
眞道 see styles |
zhēn dào zhen1 dao4 chen tao mamichi まみち |
(surname) Mamichi The Truth; the true way; reality. |
見道 见道 see styles |
jiàn dào jian4 dao4 chien tao mimichi みみち |
(surname) Mimichi The way or stage of beholding the truth (of no reincarnation), i. e. that of the śrāvaka and the first stage of the Bodhisattva. The second stage is 修道 cultivating the truth; the third 無學道 completely comprehending the truth without further study. |
證道 证道 see styles |
zhèng dào zheng4 dao4 cheng tao shōdō |
The way of (mystic) experience; to witness to the truth. |
貧道 贫道 see styles |
pín dào pin2 dao4 p`in tao pin tao hindou / hindo ひんどう |
poor Taoist (1) {Buddh} imperfect (Buddhist) training; imperfection in one's (Buddhist) training; incomplete training; poor training; (pronoun) (2) (humble language) (used by Buddhist monks) I; me The way of poverty, that of the monk and nun; also, a poor religion, i.e. without the Buddha-truth. |
道化 see styles |
dào huà dao4 hua4 tao hua douke / doke どうけ |
(noun/participle) (1) antics; buffoonery; clowning; (2) (abbreviation) (See 道化方・どうけがた) clown; jester To transform others through the truth of Buddhism; converted by the Truth. |
道流 see styles |
dào liú dao4 liu2 tao liu michiru みちる |
(female given name) Michiru The stream of Truth; the flow, or progress, of Buddha, truth; the spread of a particular movement, e.g. the Chan school. |
道眼 see styles |
dào yǎn dao4 yan3 tao yen dōgen |
The eye attained through the cultivation of Buddha-truth; the eye which sees that truth. |
道者 see styles |
dào zhě dao4 zhe3 tao che dōja |
One who practises Buddhism; the Truth, the religion. |
道芽 see styles |
dào yá dao4 ya2 tao ya dōge |
The sprouts, or seedlings, of Buddha-truth. |
道行 see styles |
dào héng dao4 heng2 tao heng michiyuki みちゆき |
skills acquired through religious practice; (fig.) ability; skill; Taiwan pr. [dao4 hang5] (irregular okurigana usage) (1) going down the road; travelling; traveling; (2) lyric composition describing scenery a traveler sees on the way (traveller); (3) eloping; (surname, given name) Michiyuki Conduct according to Buddha-truth; the discipline of religion. |
道門 道门 see styles |
dào mén dao4 men2 tao men dōmon |
The gate of the Way, or of truth, religion, etc.; the various schools of Buddhism. |
道體 道体 see styles |
dào tǐ dao4 ti3 tao t`i tao ti dōtai |
The embodiment of truth, the fundament of religion, i.e. the natural heart or mind, the pure nature, the universal mind, the bhūtatathatā. |
あり様 see styles |
ariyou / ariyo ありよう arisama ありさま |
state; condition; circumstances; the way things are or should be; truth |
有り様 see styles |
ariyou / ariyo ありよう arisama ありさま |
state; condition; circumstances; the way things are or should be; truth |
求道者 see styles |
qiú dào zhě qiu2 dao4 zhe3 ch`iu tao che chiu tao che kyuudousha; gudousha / kyudosha; gudosha きゅうどうしゃ; ぐどうしゃ |
seeker after truth; one who seeks the way religious practitioner |
無上道 无上道 see styles |
wú shàng dào wu2 shang4 dao4 wu shang tao mujō dō |
The supreme way, or truth, that of Buddha. |
無學道 无学道 see styles |
wú xué dào wu2 xue2 dao4 wu hsüeh tao mugaku dō |
The way of the arhat, especially his attainment to complete truth and freedom from all illusion, with nothing more to learn. |
無礙人 无碍人 see styles |
wú ài rén wu2 ai4 ren2 wu ai jen muge nin |
The unhindered one, the Buddha, who unbarred the way to nirvāṇa, which releases from all limitations; the omnipresent one; the one who realizes nirvāṇa-truth. |
道聖諦 道圣谛 see styles |
dào shèng dì dao4 sheng4 di4 tao sheng ti dō shōtai |
noble truth of the Way |
開道者 开道者 see styles |
kāi dào zhě kai1 dao4 zhe3 k`ai tao che kai tao che kaidōsha |
The Way-opener, Buddha; anyone who opens the way, or truth. |
不二法門 不二法门 see styles |
bù èr fǎ mén bu4 er4 fa3 men2 pu erh fa men funi hōmon |
the one and only way; the only proper course to take is similar to 不二之法; also the cult of the monistic doctrine; and the immediacy of entering into the truth. |
二諦用中 二谛用中 see styles |
èr dì yòng zhōng er4 di4 yong4 zhong1 erh ti yung chung nitai yūchū |
use the twofold truth to reveal the middle way |
支吾其詞 支吾其词 see styles |
zhī wú qí cí zhi1 wu2 qi2 ci2 chih wu ch`i tz`u chih wu chi tzu |
(idiom) to talk in a roundabout way to cover up the truth; evasive |
有りさま see styles |
arisama ありさま |
state; condition; circumstances; the way things are or should be; truth |
無言說道 无言说道 see styles |
wú yán shuō dào wu2 yan2 shuo1 dao4 wu yen shuo tao mu gonsetsu dō |
The way, or teaching, without speech; the school which teaches that speaking of things is speaking of nothing, or the non-existent; the acquisition of truth through contemplation without the aid of words. |
目を開く see styles |
meohiraku めをひらく |
(exp,v5k) (1) to open one's eyes; (exp,v5k) (2) (idiom) to open one's eyes (to the truth, a new way of thinking, etc.); to awaken; to discover |
中道第一義 中道第一义 see styles |
zhōng dào dì yī yì zhong1 dao4 di4 yi1 yi4 chung tao ti i i chūdō daiichi gi |
The 'mean' is the first and chief of all principles, nothing is outside it. |
巴陵三轉語 巴陵三转语 see styles |
bā líng sān zhuǎn yǔ ba1 ling2 san1 zhuan3 yu3 pa ling san chuan yü Haryō san tengo |
The three cryptic sayings of Hàojiàn 顥鑑 styled Baling, name of his place in Yuèzhōu 嶽州. He was the successor of Yunmen 雲門. 'What is the way ? The seeing fall into wells. What is the feather-cutting sword (of Truth)? Coral branches (i. e. moonbeams) prop up the moon. What is the divine (or deva) throng ? A silver bowl full of snow. ' |
中道第一義諦 中道第一义谛 see styles |
zhōng dào dì yī yì dì zhong1 dao4 di4 yi1 yi4 di4 chung tao ti i i ti chūdō daiichi gi tai |
cardinal truth of the middle way |
道之所存，師之所存 道之所存，师之所存 see styles |
dào zhī suǒ cún , shī zhī suǒ cún dao4 zhi1 suo3 cun2 , shi1 zhi1 suo3 cun2 tao chih so ts`un , shih chih so ts`un tao chih so tsun , shih chih so tsun |
If sb has grasped the truth before you, take him as your teacher (Tang dynasty essayist Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈[Han2 Yu4]).; We should learn from one who knows the way. |
道所存者，乃師所存者 道所存者，乃师所存者 see styles |
dào suǒ cún zhě , nǎi shī suǒ cún zhě dao4 suo3 cun2 zhe3 , nai3 shi1 suo3 cun2 zhe3 tao so ts`un che , nai shih so ts`un che tao so tsun che , nai shih so tsun che |
If sb has grasped the truth before you, take him as your teacher (Tang dynasty essayist Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈[Han2 Yu4]).; We should learn from one who knows the way. |
Variations: |
arisama(p); ariyou(有様, 有ri様, ari様) / arisama(p); ariyo(有様, 有ri様, ari様) ありさま(P); ありよう(有様, 有り様, あり様) |
(1) state; condition; circumstances; sight; spectacle; (2) (ありよう only) (See あるべき姿・あるべきすがた) the way things should be; ideal state; (3) (ありよう only) truth |
Variations: |
kakehanareru かけはなれる |
(v1,vi) (1) to be far apart (from); to be a long way off (from); to be remote; to be distant; (v1,vi) (2) to be very different (from); to be quite unlike; to be far from (e.g. the truth); to be far removed (from) |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
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