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xìn
    xin4
hsin
 yuki
    ゆき

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Honesty / Fidelity
letter; mail; CL:封[feng1]; to trust; to believe; to profess faith in; truthful; confidence; trust; at will; at random
(1) honesty; sincerity; fidelity; (2) trust; reliance; confidence; (3) (religious) faith; devotion; (counter) (4) counter for received messages; (female given name) Yuki
śraddhā. Faith; to believe; belief; faith regarded as the faculty of the mind which sees, appropriates, and trusts the things of religion; it joyfully trusts in the Buddha, in the pure virtue of the triratna and earthly and transcendental goodness; it is the cause of the pure life, and the solvent of doubt. Two forms are mentioned: (1) adhimukti, intuition, tr. by self-assured enlightenment. (2) śraddhā, faith through hearing or being taught. For the Awakening of Faith, Śraddhotpāda, v. 起信論.

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    fa3
fa
 minori
    みのり

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Dharma / The Law
law; method; way; to emulate; (Buddhism) dharma; (abbr. for 法家[Fa3 jia1]) the Legalists; (physics) farad (abbr. for 法拉[fa3 la1])
(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.

上帝

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shàng dì
    shang4 di4
shang ti
 joutei; shoutei / jote; shote
    じょうてい; しょうてい

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God of Zion / God of Abraham
God
(1) Shangdi (creator deity in Chinese folk religion); (2) {Christn} God

信仰

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xìn yǎng
    xin4 yang3
hsin yang
 shinkou / shinko
    しんこう
to believe in (a religion); firm belief; conviction
(noun, transitive verb) (religious) faith; belief; creed; (given name) Shinkou
To believe in and look up to.

十戒

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shí jiè
    shi2 jie4
shih chieh
 jukkai
    じゅっかい

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Ten Commandments
the ten commandments (religion)
(1) (Buddhist term) the 10 precepts; (2) Ten Commandments; Decalogue; Decalog; (surname) Jukkai
Śikṣāpada. The ten prohibitions (in Pāli form) consist of five commandments for the layman: (1) not to destroy life 不殺生 pāṇātipātāveramaṇi; (2) not to steal 不倫盜 adinnādānāver; (3) not to commit adultery 不婬慾 abrahmacaryaver.; (4) not to lie 不妄語musāvādāver.; (5) not to take intoxicating liquor 不飮酒 suramereyya-majjapamādaṭṭhānāver. Eight special commandments for laymen consist of the preceding five plus: (6) not to eat food out of regulated hours 不非時食 vikāla-bhojanāver.; (7) not to use garlands or perfumes 不著華鬘好香塗身 mālā- gandha-vilepana-dhāraṇa-maṇḍana-vibhūṣanaṭṭhānā; (8) not to sleep on high or broad beds (chastity) 不坐高廣大牀 uccāsayanā-mahāsayanā. The ten commandments for the monk are the preceding eight plus: (9) not to take part in singing, dancing, musical or theatrical performances, not to see or listen to such 不歌舞倡伎不往觀聽 nacca-gīta-vādita-visūkadassanāver.; (10) to refrain from acquiring uncoined or coined gold, or silver, or jewels 不得捉錢金銀寶物 jātarūpa-rajata-paṭīggahaṇāver. Under the Māhayāna these ten commands for the monk were changed, to accord with the new environment of the monk, to the following: not to kill, not to steal, to avoid all unchastity, not to lie, not to slander, not to insult, not to chatter, not to covet, not to give way to anger, to harbour no scepticism.

四田

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sì tián
    si4 tian2
ssu t`ien
    ssu tien
 yotsuda
    よつだ

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Yotsuda / Shida
(surname) Yotsuda
The four fields for cultivating happiness — animals; the poor; parents, etc.; the religion.

實道


实道

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shí dào
    shi2 dao4
shih tao
 jitsudō

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True Religion / Buddha Truth
The true way, the true religion, absolute Buddha-truth.

師公


师公

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shī gōng
    shi1 gong1
shih kung
 shikō

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Si Gung
Daoist priest (esp. in folk religion); teacher's teacher (in academic or apprenticeship lineage)
thaumaturge

復活


复活

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fù huó
    fu4 huo2
fu huo
 fukkatsu(p); fukkaatsu(sk) / fukkatsu(p); fukkatsu(sk)
    ふっかつ(P); ふっかーつ(sk)

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Resurrection / Re-Birth
to revive; (lit. and fig.) to come back to life; (religion) resurrection
(n,vs,vt,vi) (1) revival (of an old system, custom, fashion, etc.); restoration; return; comeback; (n,vs,vi) (2) resurrection; rebirth
To live again, return to life.

神道

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shén dào
    shen2 dao4
shen tao
 jindou / jindo
    じんどう

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Shinto
Shinto (Japanese religion)
Shinto; Shintoism; (surname) Jindō
The spirit world of devas, asuras, and pretas. Psychology, or the doctrines concerning the soul. The teaching of Buddha. Shinto, the Way of the Gods, a Japanese national religion.

聖人


圣人

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shèng rén
    sheng4 ren2
sheng jen
 masato
    まさと

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Holy Man / Saint
sage; the Sage (i.e. Confucius); (old) (respectful way of addressing a monarch) your sagacious majesty; (religion) saint
(1) {Christn} saint; (2) (orig. meaning) wise and virtuous person (esp. in Confucianism); great religious teacher; sage; (3) (See 清酒) refined sake; (male given name) Masato
is the opposite of the 凡人 common, or unenlightened man.

聖地


圣地

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shèng dì
    sheng4 di4
sheng ti
 seichi / sechi
    せいち

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Holy Land
holy land (of a religion); sacred place; shrine; holy city (such as Jerusalem, Mecca etc); center of historic interest
(1) sacred place; holy ground; the Holy Land; (2) (slang) real-life location used as a setting in a novel, film, anime, etc.; (place-name) Seichi
stage of enlightenment

道場


道场

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dào chǎng
    dao4 chang3
tao ch`ang
    tao chang
 michiba
    みちば

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Dojo / Martial Arts Studio
Taoist or Buddhist rite; abbr. for 菩提道場|菩提道场[Pu2 ti2 dao4 chang3]
(1) dojo; hall used for martial arts training; (2) (abbreviation) {Buddh} (See 菩提道場) manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment); (surname) Michiba
Truth-plot. bodhimaṇḍala, circle, or place of enlightenment. The place where Buddha attained enlightenment. A place, or method, for attaining to Buddha-truth. An object of or place for religious offerings. A place for teaching, learning, or practising religion.

達磨


达磨

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dá mó
    da2 mo2
ta mo
 daruma
    だるま

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Daruma / Damo
(1) (kana only) daruma; tumbling doll; round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted; (2) (kana only) Bodhidharma; (3) (kana only) prostitute; (personal name) Daruma
dharma; also 達摩; 達麼; 達而麻耶; 曇摩; 馱摩 tr. by 法. dharma is from dhara, holding, bearing, possessing, etc.; and means 'that which is to be held fast or kept, ordinance, statute, law, usage, practice'; 'anything right.' M.W. It may be variously intp. as (1) characteristic, attribute, predicate; (2) the bearer, the transcendent substratum of single elements of conscious life; (3) element, i.e. a part of conscious life; (4) nirvāṇa, i.e. the Dharma par excellence, the object of Buddhist teaching; (5) the absolute, the real; (6) the teaching or religion of Buddha; (7) thing, object, appearance. Also, Damo, or Bodhidharma, the twenty-eighth Indian and first Chinese patriarch, who arrived in China A.D. 520, the reputed founder of the Chan or Intuitional School in China. He is described as son of a king in southern India; originally called Bodhitara. He arrived at Guangdong, bringing it is said the sacred begging-bowl, and settled in Luoyang, where he engaged in silent meditation for nine years, whence he received the title of wall-gazing Brahman 壁觀婆羅門, though he was a kṣatriya. His doctrine and practice were those of the 'inner light', independent of the written word, but to 慧可 Huike, his successor, he commended the Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra as nearest to his views. There are many names with Dharma as initial: Dharmapāla, Dharmagupta, Dharmayaśas, Dharmaruci, Dharmarakṣa, Dharmatrāta, Dharmavardhana, etc.

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jiào
    jiao4
chiao
 yuki
    ゆき
(bound form) to teach; to instruct; a religion; to cause (sb to do something); to tell (sb to do something)
(suffix) -ism (religion); (female given name) Yuki
pravacana, to teach, instruct, inculcate; śāśana, teaching, precept, doctrine; āgama, sect, school, church.

外教

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wài jiào
    wai4 jiao4
wai chiao
 gaikyou; gekyou / gaikyo; gekyo
    がいきょう; げきょう
foreign teacher (abbr. for 外國教師|外国教师); greenhorn; novice; amateurish; religion other than Buddhism (term used by Buddhists)
(1) (がいきょう only) foreign religion (esp. Christianity); (2) {Buddh} (esp. げきょう) (ant: 内教) religion other than Buddhism
non-Buddhist teachings

宗教

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zōng jiào
    zong1 jiao4
tsung chiao
 munenori
    むねのり
religion
(1) religion; religious affiliation; belief; faith; creed; (2) religious activity; (personal name) Munenori
essential teaching

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fèng
    feng4
feng
 matsuri
    まつり
to offer (tribute); to present respectfully (to superior, ancestor, deity etc); to esteem; to revere; to believe in (a religion); to wait upon; to accept orders (from superior)
(female given name) Matsuri
To receive respectfully; honoured by, have the honour to, be favoured by, serve, offer.


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pín
    pin2
p`in
    pin
 hanawa
    はなわ
poor; inadequate; deficient; garrulous
(1) poverty; penury; want; need; (2) (archaism) insufficiency; shortage; deficiency; (personal name) Hanawa
Poor, in poverty.; The two kinds of poverty: of goods, and of the religion.


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zhāi
    zhai1
chai
 hitoshi
    ひとし
to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc; vegetarian diet; study room; building; to give alms (to a monk)
(surname) Hitoshi
To reverence: abstinence; to purify as by fasting, or abstaining, e.g. from flesh food; religious or abstinential duties, or times; upavasatha (uposatha), a fast; the ritual period for food, i.e. before noon; a room for meditation, a study, a building, etc., devoted to abstinence, chastity, or the Buddhist religion; mourning (for parents).

二根

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èr gēn
    er4 gen1
erh ken
 nikon
The two "roots" or natural powers. (1) (a) 利根 keen, able (in the religion); (b) 鈍根 dull. (2) (a) 正根; 勝義根The power or ability which uses the sense organs to discern the truth; (b) 扶根; 扶 (or浮) 塵根the sense organs 五根 as aids. (3) The male and female sexual organs.

修道

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xiū dào
    xiu1 dao4
hsiu tao
 nagamichi
    ながみち
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.

像化

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xiàng huà
    xiang4 hua4
hsiang hua
 zō ke
The religion of the image or symbol Buddhism. Also the second or formal period of the teaching of Buddhism by symbol, v. 像法.

先知

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xiān zhī
    xian1 zhi1
hsien chih
 senchi
    せんち
a person of foresight; (religion) a prophet
(noun/participle) foresight; speedy comprehension
to first know

入信

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rù xìn
    ru4 xin4
ju hsin
 nyuushin / nyushin
    にゅうしん
(n,vs,vi) entering a faith; joining a religion
To believe, or enter into belief.

入教

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rù jiào
    ru4 jiao4
ju chiao
to join a religion

八慢

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bā màn
    ba1 man4
pa man
 hachiman
The eight kinds of pride, māna, arrogance, or self-conceit, 如慢 though inferior, to think oneself equal to others (in religion); 慢慢 to think oneself superior among manifest superiors; 不如慢 to think oneself not so much inferior among manifest superiors; 增上慢 to think one has attained more than is the fact, or when it is not the fact; 我慢 self-superiority, or self-sufficiency; 邪慢 pride in false views, or doings; 憍慢 arrogance; 大慢 extreme arrogance.

同行

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tóng xíng
    tong2 xing2
t`ung hsing
    tung hsing
 doukou / doko
    どうこう
to journey together
(n,vs,vi) (1) accompanying (someone); going with; travelling together; (2) the same bank; the said bank
Those who are practising religion together.

因地

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yīn dì
    yin1 di4
yin ti
 inchi
The causal ground, fundamental cause; the state of practising the Buddha-religion which leads to the 果地 or resulting Buddhahood.

国教

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 kokkyou / kokkyo
    こっきょう
state religion; official religion; established religion

國教


国教

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guó jiào
    guo2 jiao4
kuo chiao
 koku kyō
state religion

在教

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zài jiào
    zai4 jiao4
tsai chiao
to be a believer (in a religion, esp. Islam)

塵世


尘世

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chén shì
    chen2 shi4
ch`en shih
    chen shih
 jinse
(religion) this mortal life; the mundane world
defiled realm

壞道


坏道

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huài dào
    huai4 dao4
huai tao
 edō
To destroy the truth, or the religion, e.g. by evil conduct.

天帝

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tiān dì
    tian1 di4
t`ien ti
    tien ti
 tentei / tente
    てんてい
God of heaven; Celestial emperor
(1) Shangdi (supreme deity in ancient Chinese religion); (2) {Christn} God; (3) {Buddh} (See 帝釈天・たいしゃくてん) Shakra (king of heaven in Hindu mythology); Indra
King, or emperor of Heaven, i. e. 因陀羅 Indra, i. e. 釋 (釋迦); 釋迦婆; 帝 (帝釋); Śakra, king of the devaloka 忉利天, one of the ancient gods of India, the god of the sky who fights the demons with his vajra, or thunderbolt. He is inferior to the trimūrti, Brahma, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, having taken the place of Varuṇa, or sky. Buddhism adopted him as its defender, though, like all the gods, he is considered inferior to a Buddha or any who have attained bodhi. His wife is Indrāṇī.

女賊


女贼

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nǚ zéi
    nv3 zei2
nü tsei
 jozoku; nyozoku
    じょぞく; にょぞく
(1) (hist) female bandit; female robber; (2) (にょぞく only) (derogatory term) {Buddh} woman (who distracts men's search for truth)
Woman the robber, as the cause of sexual passion, stealing away the riches of religion, v. 智度論 14.

孟婆

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mèng pó
    meng4 po2
meng p`o
    meng po
(Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess who gives a potion to souls before they are reincarnated, which makes them forget their previous life; (Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess of the wind

宗旨

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zōng zhǐ
    zong1 zhi3
tsung chih
 shuushi / shushi
    しゅうし
objective; aim; goal
(1) tenets (of a religious sect); doctrines; (2) (religious) sect; denomination; religion; faith; (3) one's principles; one's tastes; one's preferences
The main thesis, or ideas, e. g. of a text.

宣教

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xuān jiào
    xuan1 jiao4
hsüan chiao
 senkyou / senkyo
    せんきょう
to preach a religion
(n,vs,vi) religious mission; religious proclamation
preaching and teaching

寶聚


宝聚

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bǎo jù
    bao3 ju4
pao chü
 hōju
Jewel-collection; a collection of precious things, e.g. the Buddhist religion.

寶藏


宝藏

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bǎo zàng
    bao3 zang4
pao tsang
 hōzō
precious mineral deposits; hidden treasure; (fig.) treasure; (Buddhism) the treasure of Buddha's law
The treasury of precious things, the wonderful religion of Buddha.

布教

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bù jiào
    bu4 jiao4
pu chiao
 fukyou / fukyo
    ふきょう
(noun, transitive verb) propagation (e.g. a religion); proselytizing; missionary work
To publish, or spread abroad the doctrine.

得道

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dé dào
    de2 dao4
te tao
 noriyori
    のりより
to achieve the Dao; to become an immortal
(noun/participle) attaining salvation; (given name) Noriyori
To obtain the way, or the religion; by obedience to the commandments, practice of meditation, and knowledge, to attain enlightenment.

懺悔


忏悔

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chàn huǐ
    chan4 hui3
ch`an hui
    chan hui
 zange; sange
    ざんげ; さんげ
to repent; (religion) to confess
(noun, transitive verb) {Christn;Buddh} (さんげ is usu. used in Buddhism and ざんげ elsewhere) repentance; confession; penitence
chan is the translit. of kṣamā, 悔 its translation, i.e. repentance; but also the first is intp. as confession, cf. 提 deśanā, the second as repentance and reform.

摩門


摩门

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mó mén
    mo2 men2
mo men
Mormon (religion)

擲筊


掷筊

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zhì jiǎo
    zhi4 jiao3
chih chiao
(folk religion) to divine by casting moon blocks 筊杯[jiao3 bei1], with the positions of the blocks determining the divine answer

改信

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gǎi xìn
    gai3 xin4
kai hsin
to convert (to another religion)

改宗

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gǎi zōng
    gai3 zong1
kai tsung
 kaishuu / kaishu
    かいしゅう
(n,vs,vi) religious conversion
To change one's cult, school of thought, or religion.

政教

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zhèng jiào
    zheng4 jiao4
cheng chiao
 masanori
    まさのり
church and state; government and education; political education
religion and politics; church and state; (given name) Masanori
Political teaching, governmental education; politics and the church or religion).

教主

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jiào zhǔ
    jiao4 zhu3
chiao chu
 kyoushu / kyoshu
    きょうしゅ
founder or leader of a religion or sect; (fig.) revered figure
(noun - becomes adjective with の) founder of a religious sect
The founder of a religion, e.g. the Buddha.

教典

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jiào diǎn
    jiao4 dian3
chiao tien
 michinori
    みちのり
scriptures; canon; teaching guide; (personal name) Michinori
The sacred books of a religion, or sect.

教徒

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jiào tú
    jiao4 tu2
chiao t`u
    chiao tu
 kyouto / kyoto
    きょうと
disciple; follower of a religion
believer; adherent
a follower

教民

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jiào mín
    jiao4 min2
chiao min
adherent to a religion; convert

教理

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jiào lǐ
    jiao4 li3
chiao li
 kyouri / kyori
    きょうり
doctrine (religion)
doctrine
The fundamental principles of a religion; its doctrines, or dogmas, e.g. the four truths, the tweIve nidānas, the eightfold noble path.

教眾


教众

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jiào zhòng
    jiao4 zhong4
chiao chung
(religion) believers; followers; adherents; the faithful

教迹

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jiào jī
    jiao4 ji1
chiao chi
 kyōshaku
The vestiges, or evidences of a religion; e.g, the doctrines, institutions, and example of the teachings of Buddha and the saints.

教道

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jiào dào
    jiao4 dao4
chiao tao
 norimichi
    のりみち
(given name) Norimichi
To teach a way, or religion; a taught way contrasted with an intuitional way; the way of teaching.

教門


教门

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jiào mén
    jiao4 men2
chiao men
 kyoumon / kyomon
    きょうもん
study of Buddhist theory
A religion, a sect, different religious teachings.

景教

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jǐng jiào
    jing3 jiao4
ching chiao
 keikyou / kekyo
    けいきょう
Nestorian Christianity
(in China) (See ネストリウス派) Nestorianism
The Luminous Religion, i.e. Nestorian Christianity.

棄教

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 kikyou / kikyo
    ききょう
(n,vs,vt,vi) (See 背教) apostasy; renunciation (e.g. of a religion); defection

樂法


乐法

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lè fǎ
    le4 fa3
le fa
 gyō hō
Delight in Buddha-truth, or the religion.

正教

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zhèng jiào
    zheng4 jiao4
cheng chiao
 masanori
    まさのり
lit. true religion; orthodox religion; orthodox Christianity; Islam (in the writing of Chinese or Hui theologians)
orthodoxy; (Greek) orthodox church; (given name) Masanori
correct teaching

歸依


归依

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guī yī
    gui1 yi1
kuei i
 kie
to convert to (a religion); to rely upon; refuge; mainstay
To turn to and rely on.

歸入


归入

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guī rù
    gui1 ru4
kuei ju
 kinyū
to assign (to a class); to classify as; to include
To turn to and enter, e.g. a religion, church, society, etc.

歸心


归心

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guī xīn
    gui1 xin1
kuei hsin
 kishin
converted to (religion)
return to the mind

歸附


归附

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guī fù
    gui1 fu4
kuei fu
to realign one's allegiance (to another religion, ruler etc); to submit

殉教

see styles
xùn jiào
    xun4 jiao4
hsün chiao
 junkyou / junkyo
    じゅんきょう
to die for one's religion
(n,vs,vi) martyrdom

求籤


求签

see styles
qiú qiān
    qiu2 qian1
ch`iu ch`ien
    chiu chien
 gusen
(folk religion) to divine by drawing fortune sticks or divination lots
divination with bamboo sticks

法名

see styles
fǎ míng
    fa3 ming2
fa ming
 houmyou / homyo
    ほうみょう
name in religion (of Buddhist or Daoist within monastery); same as 法號|法号[fa3 hao4]
(1) {Buddh} Buddhist name; priest's name (on entering the priesthood); (2) {Buddh} posthumous Buddhist name; (surname) Houmyou
A monk's name, given to him on ordination, a term chiefly used by the 眞 Shin sect, 戒名 being the usual term.

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.

法號


法号

see styles
fǎ hào
    fa3 hao4
fa hao
 hōgō
name in religion (of Buddhist or Daoist within monastery)
The name received by a monk on ordination, i. e. his 戒名; also his posthumous title.

洋教

see styles
yáng jiào
    yang2 jiao4
yang chiao
 hironori
    ひろのり
foreign religion (esp. Western Christianity in Qing China)
(given name) Hironori

津梁

see styles
jīn liáng
    jin1 liang2
chin liang
 tsuhari
    つはり
lit. ferry bridge; fig. interim measure over some difficulty; a guide
(surname) Tsuhari
A bridge or ferry across a stream; i. e. religion.

牲禮


牲礼

see styles
shēng lǐ
    sheng1 li3
sheng li
(religion) to sacrifice; sacrifice; animal offered as sacrifice

獨尊


独尊

see styles
dú zūn
    du2 zun1
tu tsun
 dokuson
to revere as sole orthodoxy; to hold supremacy (of a religion, ideology, cultural norm, social group etc); to be dominant
The alone honoured one, Buddha.

異宗

see styles
 ishuu / ishu
    いしゅう
different religion or sect

異象


异象

see styles
yì xiàng
    yi4 xiang4
i hsiang
 ishou / isho
    いしょう
(religion) a vision; strange phenomenon
vision; strange phenomenon

皈依

see styles
guī yī
    gui1 yi1
kuei i
 kie
to convert to (a religion)
To turn to and rely on the triratna.

真柱

see styles
 shinbashira
    しんばしら
(1) central pillar of a pagoda; shinbashira; (2) leader of the Tenri religion

磨牛

see styles
mó niú
    mo2 niu2
mo niu
 mago
The ox turning the millstone, a formalist, i.e. a disciple who performs the bodily motions, but without heart in his religion.

祆教

see styles
xiān jiào
    xian1 jiao4
hsien chiao
 kenkyou / kenkyo
    けんきょう
Zoroastrianism
(hist) Zoroastrianism (esp. in China)
(or 末尼教) The Manichean religion.

神教

see styles
 shinkyou / shinkyo
    しんきょう
(1) theism; god's teachings; (2) Shenism; Chinese folk religion

禁教

see styles
 kinkyou / kinkyo
    きんきょう
prohibition of a religion; prohibited religion

禪習


禅习

see styles
chán xí
    chan2 xi2
ch`an hsi
    chan hsi
 zenshū
The practice of religion through the mystic trance.

秘教

see styles
 hikyou / hikyo
    ひきょう
esoteric religion

立宗

see styles
lì zōng
    li4 zong1
li tsung
 risshuu / risshu
    りっしゅう
(noun/participle) founding of a religion (or sect)
a tenet

立筊

see styles
lì jiǎo
    li4 jiao3
li chiao
(folk religion) inconclusive divination result from casting moon blocks 筊杯[jiao3 bei1] (at least one block lands on its edge); result interpreted as unclear or exceptional

笑筊

see styles
xiào jiǎo
    xiao4 jiao3
hsiao chiao
(folk religion) inconclusive divination result from casting moon blocks 筊杯[jiao3 bei1] (both blocks flat side up); ambiguous or noncommittal response from a deity

筊杯

see styles
jiǎo bēi
    jiao3 bei1
chiao pei
(folk religion) moon blocks – a pair of crescent-shaped divination blocks thrown on the ground to seek a deity's response

耆那

see styles
qín à
    qin2 a4
ch`in a
    chin a
 gina
Jina, victor, he who overcomes, a title of every Buddha; also the name of various persons; the Jaina religion, the Jains.

聖筊

see styles
shèng jiǎo
    sheng4 jiao3
sheng chiao
(folk religion) favorable divination result from casting moon blocks 筊杯[jiao3 bei1] (one flat side and one rounded side up); affirmative response from a deity

背教

see styles
 haikyou / haikyo
    はいきょう
apostasy; renunciation (e.g. of a religion); defection

虔信

see styles
qián xìn
    qian2 xin4
ch`ien hsin
    chien hsin
piety; devotion (to a religion); pious (believer); devout

西教

see styles
 saikiyou / saikiyo
    さいきよう
Western religion; Christianity; (surname) Saikiyou

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.

贖價


赎价

see styles
shú jià
    shu2 jia4
shu chia
price paid to redeem an object; (religion) price paid to redeem sb; ransom

跋桮

see styles
bá bēi
    ba2 bei1
pa pei
(Tw) (folk religion) to divine by casting moon blocks 筊杯[jiao3 bei1] (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [pua̍h-pue]) (equivalent to Mandarin 擲筊|掷筊[zhi4 jiao3])

道交

see styles
dào jiāo
    dao4 jiao1
tao chiao
 michitsugai
    みちつがい
(place-name) Michitsugai
Mutual interaction between the individual seeking the truth and the Buddha who responds to his aspirations; mutual intercourse through religion.

道器

see styles
dào qì
    dao4 qi4
tao ch`i
    tao chi
 dōki
A vessel of religion, the capacity for Buddhism.

道業


道业

see styles
dào yè
    dao4 ye4
tao yeh
 dōgyō
The karma of religion which leads to Buddhahood.

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