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道天地將法 is a list of five key points to analyzing your situation from the first chapter of Sun Tzu's Art of War.
This reads like a 5-part military proverb. Sun Tzu says that to sharpen your skills, you must plan. To plan well, you must know your situation. Therefore, you must consider and discuss the following:
1. Philosophy and Politics: Make sure your way or your policy is agreeable among all of your troops (and the citizens of your kingdom as well). For when your soldiers believe in you and your way, they will follow you to their deaths without hesitation and will not question your orders.
2. Heaven/Sky: Consider climate / weather. This can also mean considering whether God is smiling upon you. In the modern military, this could be waiting for clear skies so that you can have air support for an amphibious landing.
3. Ground/Earth: Consider the terrain in which the battle will take place. This includes analyzing defensible positions, and exit routes, while using varying elevations to your advantage. When you plan an ambush, you must know your terrain and the best location from which to stage that ambush. This knowledge will also help you avoid being ambushed, as you will know where the likely places in which to expect an ambush from your enemy.
4. Leadership: This applies to you as the general and your lieutenants. A leader should be smart and be able to develop good strategies. Leaders should keep their word, and if they break a promise, they should punish themselves as harshly as they would punish subordinates. Leaders should be benevolent to their troops, with almost a fatherly love for them. Leaders must have the ability to make brave and fast decisions. Leaders must have steadfast principles.
5. [Military] Methods: This can also mean laws, rules, principles, models, or systems. You must have an efficient organization in place to manage both your troops and supplies. In the modern military, this would be a combination of how your unit is organized and your SOP (Standard Operating Procedure).
Notes: This is a simplistic translation and explanation. Much more is suggested in the actual text of the Art of War (Bing Fa). It would take a lot of study to master all of these aspects. In fact, these five characters can be compared to the modern military acronyms such as BAMCIS or SMEAC.
CJK notes: I have included the Japanese and Korean pronunciations but in Chinese, Korean and Japanese, this does not make a typical phrase (with subject, verb, and object) it is a list that only someone familiar with Sun Tzu’s writings would understand.
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Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your analysis search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
VA see styles |
bui ee; buiee(sk) ブイ・エー; ブイエー(sk) |
(1) (See 価値分析) value analysis; (2) volt-ampere; (3) visual aid |
伺察 see styles |
sì chá si4 cha2 ssu ch`a ssu cha shisatsu |
deep, subtle analysis that penetrates to the core of things |
分析 see styles |
fēn xī fen1 xi1 fen hsi bunseki ぶんせき |
to analyze; analysis; CL:個|个[ge4] (noun, transitive verb) analysis To divide; leave the world; separation.; To divide, separate, leave the world, v. 析. |
分解 see styles |
fēn jiě fen1 jie3 fen chieh bunkai ぶんかい |
to resolve; to decompose; to break down (n,vs,vt,vi) (1) disassembly; dismantling; disaggregating; taking apart; breaking up; analysis; parsing; (n,vs,vt,vi) (2) {chem} decomposition; resolution; disintegration; degradation; (noun, transitive verb) (3) {math} factorization analysis |
均差 see styles |
jun chā jun1 cha1 chün ch`a chün cha |
(numerical analysis) divided differences; (statistics) mean absolute difference |
尋伺 寻伺 see styles |
xún sì xun2 si4 hsün ssu jinshi |
vitarka and vicāra, two conditions in dhyāna discovery and analysis of principles; vitarka 毘擔迦 a dharma which tends to increase, and vicāra 毘遮羅one which tends to diminish, definiteness and clearness in the stream of consciousness; cf. 中間定. |
思擇 思择 see styles |
sī zé si1 ze2 ssu tse shichaku |
critical analysis |
拈提 see styles |
niǎn tí nian3 ti2 nien t`i nien ti nentei |
to raise a matter for question and analysis |
擇滅 择灭 see styles |
zé miè ze2 mie4 tse mieh chakumetsu |
pratisaṃkhyānirodha. nirvāṇa as a result of 擇 discrimination, the elimination of desire by means of mind and will. |
明弁 see styles |
meiben / meben めいべん |
(noun/participle) (1) discernment; clear analysis; (2) clear expression; distinguished speech |
明辨 see styles |
míng biàn ming2 bian4 ming pien meiben / meben めいべん |
to discern; to distinguish clearly (out-dated kanji) (noun/participle) discernment; clear analysis |
校異 校异 see styles |
xiào yì xiao4 yi4 hsiao i kōi |
variation analysis |
校量 see styles |
xiào liáng xiao4 liang2 hsiao liang kyōryō |
To compare, or collate, and measure; comparative. |
検討 see styles |
kentou / kento けんとう |
(noun, transitive verb) consideration; examination; investigation; study; scrutiny; discussion; analysis; review |
淺析 浅析 see styles |
qiǎn xī qian3 xi1 ch`ien hsi chien hsi |
primary, elementary or coarse analysis |
畢竟 毕竟 see styles |
bì jìng bi4 jing4 pi ching hikkyō ひっきょう |
after all; all in all; when all is said and done; in the final analysis (adv,n) after all absolute |
科文 see styles |
kē wěn ke1 wen3 k`o wen ko wen kamon |
A set portion of a book, a lesson. |
精闢 精辟 see styles |
jīng pì jing1 pi4 ching p`i ching pi |
clear and penetrating (e.g. analysis); incisive; insightful |
覺觀 觉观 see styles |
jué guān jue2 guan1 chüeh kuan kakukan |
Awareness and pondering, acts of intellectuation, later called 尋伺, both of them hindrances to abstraction, or dhyāna. They are described as 麤 and 細, general and particular, respectively. |
解剖 see styles |
jiě pōu jie3 pou1 chieh p`ou chieh pou kaibou / kaibo かいぼう |
to dissect (an animal); to analyze; anatomy (noun, transitive verb) (1) dissection; autopsy; postmortem examination; (noun, transitive verb) (2) analysis; postmortem |
解折 see styles |
kaiseki かいせき |
(irregular kanji usage) (noun/participle) (1) analysis; analytical study; (2) parsing; parse |
解析 see styles |
jiě xī jie3 xi1 chieh hsi kaiseki かいせき |
to analyze; to resolve; (math.) analysis; analytic (noun/participle) (1) analysis; analytical study; (2) parsing; parse |
分析學 分析学 see styles |
fēn xī xué fen1 xi1 xue2 fen hsi hsüeh |
mathematical analysis; calculus See: 分析学 |
分析表 see styles |
bunsekihyou / bunsekihyo ぶんせきひょう |
analysis table |
和伽羅 和伽罗 see styles |
hé qié luó he2 qie2 luo2 ho ch`ieh lo ho chieh lo wagara |
(和伽羅那); 和伽那; 和羅那 vyākaraṇa, grammar, analysis, change of form; intp. as 授記 prediction, i. e. by the Buddha of the future felicity and realm of a disciple, hence Kauṇḍinya is known as Vyākaraṇa-Kauṇḍinya. |
失敗学 see styles |
shippaigaku しっぱいがく |
(science of) failure analysis |
妙簡擇 妙简择 see styles |
miào jiǎn zé miao4 jian3 ze2 miao chien tse myō kenchaku |
subtle analysis |
實分析 实分析 see styles |
shí fēn xī shi2 fen1 xi1 shih fen hsi |
real analysis; calculus of real variables |
尋伺地 寻伺地 see styles |
xún sì dì xun2 si4 di4 hsün ssu ti jinshichi |
stage of investigation and analysis |
尿検査 see styles |
nyoukensa / nyokensa にょうけんさ |
urine analysis; urinalysis |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Art of War: 5 Points of Analysis | 道天地將法 道天地将法 | dou ten chi shou hou doutenchishouhou do ten chi sho ho | dào tiān dì jiàng fǎ dao4 tian1 di4 jiang4 fa3 dao tian di jiang fa daotiandijiangfa | tao t`ien ti chiang fa taotientichiangfa tao tien ti chiang fa |
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. |
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