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刀禰 see styles |
tone とね |
(1) {Shinto} (used at certain shrines, e.g. Ise, Kamo) priest; (2) (archaism) (See 四等官) member of one of the four administrative ranks in the ritsuryō system; (3) (archaism) government official in charge of a town, esp. in Heian Kyoto; (4) (archaism) prominent member of a town; (5) river boatman; captain of a riverboat; (6) (archaism) (medieval) harbor manager; (7) (archaism) bandit leader; head of a gang of brigands; (surname) Tone |
分身 see styles |
fēn shēn fen1 shen1 fen shen bunshin(p); funjin(ok) ぶんしん(P); ふんじん(ok) |
(of one who has supernatural powers) to replicate oneself so as to appear in two or more places at the same time; a derivative version of sb (or something) (e.g. avatar, proxy, clone, sockpuppet); to spare some time for a separate task; to cut a corpse into pieces; to pull a body apart by the four limbs; parturition (1) other self; alter ego; part of oneself (in someone or something else); representation of oneself; (2) {Buddh} incarnations of Buddha Parturition: in Buddhism it means a Buddha's power to reproduce himself ad infinitum and anywhere. |
切診 切诊 see styles |
qiè zhěn qie4 zhen3 ch`ieh chen chieh chen |
(TCM) pulse feeling and palpitation, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診|四诊[si4 zhen3] |
別室 see styles |
besshitsu べっしつ |
(1) separate room; another room; (2) special room; (3) (archaism) (See 側室) concubine (of a noble) |
刺羽 see styles |
sashiba さしば sashiha さしは |
large fan-shaped object held by an attendant and used to conceal the face of a noble, etc. |
剌闍 剌阇 see styles |
là shé la4 she2 la she raja |
囉惹 rajas, atmosphere, vapour, gloom, dust, dirt, etc.; intp. dust, minute; also hatred, suffering. |
功德 see styles |
gōng dé gong1 de2 kung te kudoku |
achievements and virtue Virtue achieved; achievement; power to do meritorious works; merit; meritorious virtue; the reward of virtue; a name for 弗若多羅 Puṇyatara, one of the twenty-four 天尊 deva aryas, worshipped in China. |
劫波 see styles |
jié bō jie2 bo1 chieh po kōhi |
kalpa (loanword) (Hinduism) kalpa; also劫簸; 劫跛; v. 劫. Aeon, age. The period of time between the creation and recreation ofa world or universe; also the kalpas offormation, existence, destruction, and non-existence, which four as acomplete period are called mahākalpa 大劫. Eachgreat kalpa is subdivided into four asaṇkhyeya-kalpas (阿僧企耶 i.e. numberless,incalculable): (1) kalpa of destructionsaṃvarta; (2)kalpaof utter annihilation, or empty kalpa 増滅劫; 空劫 saṃvarta-siddha; (3) kalpa of formation 成劫 vivarta; (4) kalpa ofexistence 住劫 vivartasiddha; or they may betaken in the order 成住壤空. Each of the four kalpas is subdivided into twenty antara-kalpas, 小劫 or small kalpas, so that a mahākalpaconsists of eighty small kalpas. Each smallkalpa is divided into a period of 増 increaseand 減 decrease; the increase period is ruled over by the four cakravartīs in succession, i.e. the four ages of iron,copper, silver, gold, during which the length of human life increases by oneyear every century to 84,000 years, and the length of the human body to8,400 feet. Then comes the kalpa of decreasedivided into periods of the three woes, pestilence, war, famine, duringwhich the length of human life is gradually reduced to ten years and thehuman body to 1 foot in height. There are other distinctions of the kalpas. A small kalpa isrepresented as 16,800,000 years, a kalpa as336,000,000 years, and a mahākalpa as1,334,000,000 years. There are many ways of illustrating the length of akalpa, e.g. pass a soft cloth over a solid rock40 li in size once in a hundred years, whenfinally the rock has been thus worn away a kalpa will not yet have passed; or a city of 40 li, filled with mustard seeds, one being removed everycentury till all have gone, a kalpa will notyet have passed. Cf. 成劫. |
勤苦 see styles |
qín kǔ qin2 ku3 ch`in k`u chin ku kinku きんく |
hardworking; assiduous (noun/participle) toil and hardship Devoted and suffering, zealously suffering. |
勸轉 劝转 see styles |
quàn zhuǎn quan4 zhuan3 ch`üan chuan chüan chuan kanten |
The second, or exhortation turn of the Buddha's wheel, v. 三轉法輪, men must know the meaning and cause of suffering, cut off its accumulation, realize that it may be extinguished, and follow the eightfold path to attainment. |
化儀 化仪 see styles |
huà yí hua4 yi2 hua i kegi |
The rules or methods laid down by the Buddha for salvation: Tiantai speaks of 化儀 as transforming method, and 化法 q. v. as transforming truth; its 化儀四教 are four modes of conversion or enlightenment: 頓 direct or sudden, 漸 gradual, 祕密 esoteric, and 不定 variable. |
化法 see styles |
huà fǎ hua4 fa3 hua fa kehō |
Instruction in the Buddhist principles, as 化儀 is in practice, Tiantai in its 化法四教 divides the Buddha's teaching during his lifetime into the four periods of 藏, 通, 別, and 圓 Pitaka, Interrelated, Differentiated, and Complete, or All-embracing. |
北洲 see styles |
běi zhōu bei3 zhou1 pei chou hokushuu / hokushu ほくしゅう |
(given name) Hokushuu 北拘盧洲 (or 北倶盧洲) Uttarakuru, the northern of the four continents surrounding Sumeru. |
北臺 北台 see styles |
běi tái bei3 tai2 pei t`ai pei tai kitadai きただい |
(surname) Kitadai The northern Tai, i. e. Wutai shan in Shansi, the northernmost of the Four famous Buddhist Mountains. |
十二 see styles |
shí èr shi2 er4 shih erh tooji とおじ |
twelve; 12 12; twelve; (given name) Tooji dvātriṃśa. Thirty-two. 三十二應 (or 三十二身) The thirty-two forms of Guanyin, and of Puxian, ranging from that of a Buddha to that of a man, a maid, a rakṣas; similar to the thirty-three forms named in the Lotus Sūtra. 三十二相三十二大人相 dvātriṃśadvaralakṣaṇa. The thirty-two lakṣaṇas, or physical marks of a cakravartī, or 'wheel-king', especially of the Buddha, i. e. level feet, thousand-spoke wheel-sign on feet, long slender fingers, pliant hands and feet, toes and fingers finely webbed, full-sized heels, arched insteps, thighs like a royal stag, hands reaching below the knees well-retracted male organ, height and stretch of arms equal, every hair-root dark coloured, body hair graceful and curly, golden-hued body, a 10 ft. halo around him, soft smooth skin, the 七處, i. e. two soles, two palms, two shoulders, and crown well rounded, below the armpits well-filled, lion-shaped body, erect, full shoulders, forty teeth, teeth white even and close, the four canine teeth pure white, lion-jawed, saliva improving the taste of all food, tongue long and broad, voice deep and resonant, eyes deep blue, eyelashes like a royal bull, a white ūrnā or curl between the eyebrows emitting light, an uṣṇīṣa or fleshy protuberance on the crown. These are from the 三藏法數 48, with which the 智度論 4, 涅盤經 28, 中阿含經, 三十ニ相經 generally agree. The 無量義經 has a different list. 三十二相經 The eleventh chapter of the 阿含經. 三十二相經願 The twenty-first of Amitābha's vows, v. 無量壽經. 三十三 trayastriṃśat. Thirty-three. 三十三天忉利天; 憺梨天, 多羅夜登陵舍; 憺利夜登陵奢; 憺利耶憺利奢 Trayastriṃśas. The Indra heaven, the second of the six heavens of form. Its capital is situated on the summit of Mt. Sumeru, where Indra rules over his thirty-two devas, who reside on thirty-two peaks of Sumeru, eight in each of the four directons. Indra's capital is called 殊勝 Sudarśana, 喜見城 Joy-view city. Its people are a yojana in height, each one's clothing weighs 六鐵 (1; 4 oz. ), and they live 1, 000 years, a day and night being equal to 100 earthly years. Eitel says Indra's heaven 'tallies in all its details with the Svarga of Brahminic mythology' and suggests that 'the whole myth may have an astronomical meaning', or be connected, with 'the atmosphere with its phenomena, which strengthens Koeppen's hypothesis explaining the number thirty-three as referring to the eight Vasus, eleven Rudras, twelve Ādityas, and two Aśvins of Vedic mythology'. In his palace called Vaijayanta 'Indra is enthroned with 1, 000 eyes with four arms grasping the vajra. There he revels in numberless sensual pleasures together with his wife Śacī... and with 119, 000 concubines with whom he associates by means of transformation'.; dvādaśa, twelve. |
十住 see styles |
shí zhù shi2 zhu4 shih chu jū jū |
The ten stages, or periods, in bodhisattva-wisdom, prajñā 般若, are the 十住; the merits or character attained are the 十地 q.v. Two interpretations may be given. In the first of these, the first four stages are likened to entry into the holy womb, the next four to the period of gestation, the ninth to birth, and the tenth to the washing or baptism with the water of wisdom, e.g. the baptism of a Kṣatriya prince. The ten stages are (1) 發心住 the purposive stage, the mind set upon Buddhahood; (2) 治地住 clear understanding and mental control; (3) 修行住 unhampered liberty in every direction; (4) 生貴住 acquiring the Tathāgata nature or seed; (5) 方便具足住 perfect adaptability and resemblance in self-development and development of others; (6) 正心住 the whole mind becoming Buddha-like; (7) 不退住 no retrogression, perfect unity and constant progress; (8) 童眞住 as a Buddha-son now complete; (9) 法王子住 as prince of the law; (10) 灌頂住 baptism as such, e.g. the consecration of kings. Another interpretation of the above is: (1) spiritual resolve, stage of śrota-āpanna; (2) submission to rule, preparation for Sakṛdāgāmin stage; (3) cultivation of virtue, attainment of Sakṛdāgāmin stage; (4) noble birth, preparation for the anāgāmin stage; (5) perfect means, attainment of anāgāmin stage; (6) right mind, preparation for arhatship; (7) no-retrogradation, the attainment of arhatship; (8) immortal youth, pratyekabuddhahood; (9) son of the law-king, the conception of bodhisattvahood; (10) baptism as the summit of attainment, the conception of Buddhahood. |
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. |
十智 see styles |
shí zhì shi2 zhi4 shih chih jū chi |
The ten forms of understanding. I. Hīnayāna: (1) 世俗智 common understanding; (2) 法智 enlightened understanding, i.e. on the Four Truths in this life; (3) 類智 ditto, applied to the two upper realms 上二界; (4), (5), (6), (7) understanding re each of the Four Truths separately, both in the upper and lower realms, e.g. 苦智; (8) 他心智 understanding of the minds of others; (9) 盡智 the understanding that puts an end to all previous faith in or for self, i.e. 自信智; (10) 無生智 nirvāṇa wisdom; v. 倶舍論 26. II. Mahāyāna. A Tathāgatas ten powers of understanding or wisdom: (1) 三世智 perfect understanding of past, present, and future; (2) ditto of Buddha Law; (3) 法界無礙智 unimpeded understanding of the whole Buddha-realm; (4) 法界無邊智 unlimited, or infinite understanding of the whole Buddha-realm; (5) 充滿一切智 understanding of ubiquity; (6) 普照一切世間智 understanding of universal enlightenment; (7) 住持一切世界智 understanding of omnipotence, or universal control; (8) 知一切衆生智 understanding of omniscience re all living beings; (9) 知一切法智 understanding of omniscience re the laws of universal salvation; (10) 知無邊諸佛智 understanding of omniscience re all Buddha wisdom. v. 華嚴経 16. There are also his ten forms of understanding of the "Five Seas" 五海 of worlds, living beings, karma, passions, and Buddhas. |
升席 see styles |
masuseki ますせき |
tatami "box seat" for four people at sumo, kabuki, etc. |
卒去 see styles |
shukkyo; sokkyo しゅっきょ; そっきょ |
(n,vs,vi) death (of a noble, etc.) |
単騎 see styles |
tanki たんき |
(1) single horseman; (2) {mahj} (See 単騎待ち・たんきまち) wait for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand; wait for half of one's pair with four melds completed |
卵生 see styles |
luǎn shēng luan3 sheng1 luan sheng ransei / ranse らんせい |
(n,vs,adj-no) oviparity; produced from eggs aṇḍaja. Egg-born, one of the four ways of coming into existence, v. 四生. |
厭苦 厌苦 see styles |
yàn kǔ yan4 ku3 yen k`u yen ku enku |
to tire of suffering |
参入 see styles |
sannyuu / sannyu さんにゅう |
(n,vs,vi) (1) entering (the marketplace); introducing (something) to the market; access; (n,vs,vi) (2) (original meaning) visiting a high-class or noble individual |
反閇 see styles |
henbai へんばい |
(1) ceremony performed by a sorcerer to protect a noble setting out on a trip; (2) dance steps inspired by this ceremony |
反陪 see styles |
henbai へんばい |
(1) ceremony performed by a sorcerer to protect a noble setting out on a trip; (2) dance steps inspired by this ceremony |
受苦 see styles |
shòu kǔ shou4 ku3 shou k`u shou ku juku じゅく |
to suffer hardship suffering pain; experiencing hardship feel [experience, undergo] suffering |
口四 see styles |
kǒu sì kou3 si4 k`ou ssu kou ssu kushi |
The four evils of the mouth, lying, double tongue, ill words, and exaggeration; cf. 十惡. |
名色 see styles |
míng sè ming2 se4 ming se nashiki なしき |
{Buddh} (See 十二因縁) namarupa; name and form; (place-name) Nashiki nāmarūpa, name-form, or name and form, one of the twelve nidānas. In Brahminical tradition it served 'to denote spirit and matter', 'the concrete individual', Keith; in Buddhism it is intp. as the 五蘊 five skandhas or aggregates, i, e. a 'body', 受, 想, 行, and 識 vedana, saṃjñā, karman, and vijñāna being the 'name' and 色 rupa the 'form'; the first-named four are mental and the last material. 色 Rupa is described as the minutest particle of matter, that which has resistance; the embryonic body or foetus is a nāmarūpa, something that can be named. |
名門 名门 see styles |
míng mén ming2 men2 ming men meimon / memon めいもん |
famous family; prestigious house (1) distinguished family; famous family; noble family; (2) prestigious organization (company, school, etc.) |
吠舍 see styles |
fèi shè fei4 she4 fei she beisha |
鞞吠(or 毘吠);吠奢 vaiśya; the third of the four Indian castes, that of agriculture and trade. |
吳儀 吴仪 see styles |
wú yí wu2 yi2 wu i |
Wu Yi (1938-), one of four vice-premiers of the PRC State Council |
命梵 see styles |
mìng fàn ming4 fan4 ming fan myōbon |
Life and honour, i. e. perils to life and perils to noble character. |
和牛 see styles |
hé niú he2 niu2 ho niu wagyuu / wagyu わぎゅう |
wagyu Wagyu (any of four breeds of Japanese cattle); Wagyu beef |
咒藏 see styles |
zhòu zàng zhou4 zang4 chou tsang juzō |
One of the four piṭakas, the thesaurus of dhāraṇīs. |
唐寅 see styles |
táng yín tang2 yin2 t`ang yin tang yin touin / toin とういん |
Tang Bohu 唐伯虎 or Tang Yin (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子 (personal name) Touin |
問診 问诊 see styles |
wèn zhěn wen4 zhen3 wen chen monshin もんしん |
(TCM) interrogation, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診|四诊[si4 zhen3] (noun, transitive verb) {med} interview (with a doctor); history taking |
四つ see styles |
yotsuyanagi よつやなぎ |
(numeric) four; (surname) Yotsuyanagi |
四一 see styles |
sì yī si4 yi1 ssu i yoichi よいち |
{cards} (See おいちょかぶ) scoring combination of a 4 and a 1 in oicho-kabu; (given name) Yoichi The four 'ones', or the unity contained (according to Tiantai) in the 方便品 of the Lotus Sutra; i. e. 教一 its teaching of one Vehicle; 行一 its sole bodhisattva procedure; 人一 its men all and only as bodhisattvas; 理一 its one ultimate truth of the reality of all existence. |
四七 see styles |
sì qī si4 qi1 ssu ch`i ssu chi shina しな |
(surname) Shina four sevens |
四三 see styles |
yomi よみ |
(1) {hanaf} (See 手役) one four-of-a-kind and one three-of-a-kind in a dealt hand; (2) three and a four (in dice games); (personal name) Yomi |
四上 see styles |
sì shàng si4 shang4 ssu shang shijō |
The four times a day of going up to worship— daybreak, noon, evening, and midnight. |
四世 see styles |
sì shì si4 shi4 ssu shih yonsei / yonse よんせい |
(1) four generations; (2) fourth generation immigrant; yonsei; (3) the fourth (e.g. George IV) The period of the Buddha's earthly life, styled 聖世 the sacred period (or period of the sage), is added to the three periods of 正法 correct Law; 像法 semblance of the Law; and 末法 decadence of the Law. |
四主 see styles |
sì zhǔ si4 zhu3 ssu chu shishu |
The four Lords of the world, whose domains were supposed to stretch E., S., W., and N. of the Himālayas; E. 人主 the lord of men; S. 象主 of elephants; W. 寳主 of jewels (or precious things); N. 馬主of horses. 西域記. |
四乘 see styles |
sì shèng si4 sheng4 ssu sheng shijō |
The goat, deer, and ox carts and the great white-bullock cart of the Lotus Sutra, see 四車. |
四事 see styles |
sì shì si4 shi4 ssu shih shiji |
The four necessaries of a monk clothing, victuals, bedding, medicine (or herbs). Another set is a dwelling, clothing, victuals, medicine. |
四人 see styles |
sì rén si4 ren2 ssu jen shinin よにん |
four people four people |
四仙 see styles |
sì xiān si4 xian1 ssu hsien shisen |
The three genī, or founders of systems, together with 若提子 Nirgranthajñāti; v. 二天三仙. |
四位 see styles |
sì wèi si4 wei4 ssu wei yoni よんい |
fourth court rank; (surname) Yon'i four stages |
四住 see styles |
sì zhù si4 zhu4 ssu chu shizumi しずみ |
(surname) Shizumi The four abodes or states in the 智度論 3, i. e. (1) 天住 the devalokas, equivalents of charity, morality, and goodness of heart; (2) 梵住 the brahmalokas, equivalents of benevolence, pity, joy, and indifference; (3) 聖住 the abode of śrāvakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas, equivalent of the samādhi of the immaterial realm, formless and still; (4) 佛住 the Buddha-abode, the equivalent of the samādhis of the infinite. v. 四住地. |
四佛 see styles |
sì fó si4 fo2 ssu fo shi butsu |
Four of the Five Dhyāni-Buddhas. i.e. the four regional Buddhas; they are variously stated. The 金光明經 gives E. 阿閦; S. 寳相; W. 無量壽; N. 微妙聲. The 大日經 gives E. 寳幢; S. 大勤勇遍覺華開敷; W. 仁勝 (i. e. 無量壽); N. 不動, i. e. 鼓音如來. The 金剛頂經 gives 不動; 寳生; 觀自在, and 不 空 成就如來. v. 五智如來. |
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. |
四信 see styles |
sì xìn si4 xin4 ssu hsin shinobu しのぶ |
(given name) Shinobu v.四種信心. |
四倒 see styles |
sì dào si4 dao4 ssu tao shitō |
The four viparyaya i. e. inverted or false beliefs in regard to 常, 樂, 我, 淨. There are two groups: (1) the common belief in the four above, denied by the early Buddhist doctrine that all is impermanent, suffering, impersonal, and impure; (2) the false belief of the Hīnayāna school that nirvana is not a state of permanence, joy, personality, and purity. Hīnayāna refutes the common view in regard to the phenomenal life; bodhisattvism refutes both views. |
四儀 四仪 see styles |
sì yí si4 yi2 ssu i shigi |
four postures |
四光 see styles |
shikou / shiko しこう |
{hanaf} (See 出来役) four 20-point cards (scoring combination); (surname) Shikou |
四六 see styles |
shiroku しろく |
(1) four and six (minutes, etc.); (2) twenty-four (product of four and six); (3) (abbreviation) (See 四六判) shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm); (4) (abbreviation) (See 四六文) elegant classical Chinese prose employing antitheses using four and six-character compound words; (given name) Shiroku |
四兵 see styles |
sì bīng si4 bing1 ssu ping shihei |
catur-an.gabalakāya; the four divisions of a cakravarti's troops— elephant, hastikāya; horse, aśvakāya; chariot, rathakāya; and foot, pattikāya. |
四凶 see styles |
shikyou / shikyo しきょう |
{chmyth} (See 四霊) Four Perils (malevolent beings) |
四分 see styles |
sì fēn si4 fen1 ssu fen shibu しぶ |
(n,vs,vt,vi) dividing into four; quartering; (place-name) Shibu The 法相 Dharmalakṣana school divides the function of 識 cognition into four, i. e. 相分 mental phenomena, 見分 discriminating such phenomena, 自證分 the power that discriminates, and 證自證 the proof or assurance of that power. Another group is: 信 faith, 解 liberty, 行 action, and 證 assurance or realization. |
四則 see styles |
shisoku しそく |
four (fundamental) rules of arithmetic |
四力 see styles |
sì lì si4 li4 ssu li shiriki |
The four powers for attaining enlightenment: independent personal power; power derived from others; power of past good karma; and power arising from environment. |
四劫 see styles |
sì jié si4 jie2 ssu chieh shikou / shiko しこう |
{Buddh} (See 劫・1) the four kalpa (formation, existence, destruction, nothingness) The four kalpas, or epochs, of a world, 成劫 that of formation and completion; 住劫 existing or abiding; 懷劫 destruction; and 空劫 annihilation, or the succeeding void. 倶舍論 12. |
四化 see styles |
sì huà si4 hua4 ssu hua |
abbr. for 四個現代化|四个现代化[si4 ge4 xian4 dai4 hua4], Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations |
四千 see styles |
yonsen よんせん |
four thousand |
四取 see styles |
sì qǔ si4 qu3 ssu ch`ü ssu chü shishu |
catuḥ-parāmarśa, the four attachments, i. e. desire, (unenlightened) views, (fakir) morals, and ideas arising from the conception of the self. Also, the possible delusions of the 四住地. Also, seeking fame in the four quarters. |
四句 see styles |
sì jù si4 ju4 ssu chü shiku |
The four terms, phrases, or four-line verses, e. g. 四句分別 The four terms of differentiation, e. g. of all things into 有 the existing; 空 nonexisting; both; neither; or phenomenal, noumenal, both, neither. Also, double, single, both, neither; and other similar applications. |
四向 see styles |
sì xiàng si4 xiang4 ssu hsiang shikō |
The four stages in Hīnayāna sanctity: srota-āpanna, sakṛdāgāmin, anāgāmin and arhan. |
四含 see styles |
sì hán si4 han2 ssu han shigon |
idem 四阿含經. |
四味 see styles |
sì wèi si4 wei4 ssu wei shimi |
The four 'tastes': the Tiantai definition of the four periods of the Buddha's teaching preliminary to the fifth, i. e. that of the Lotus Sutra; cf. 五味. |
四唱 see styles |
sì chàng si4 chang4 ssu ch`ang ssu chang shishō |
The four commanders or leaders; see Lotus Sutra 15. |
四喩 see styles |
sì yú si4 yu2 ssu yü shiyu |
The four metaphors (of infinity, etc. ): 山斤 the weight of all the mountains in pounds; 海 the drops in the ocean; 地塵 the atoms of dust in the earth; 空 界 the extent of space. |
四因 see styles |
sì yīn si4 yin1 ssu yin shiin |
four causes |
四国 see styles |
shikoku しこく |
Shikoku (smallest of the four main islands of Japan); (place-name, surname) Shikoku |
四國 四国 see styles |
sì guó si4 guo2 ssu kuo shikoku しこく |
Shikoku (one of the four main islands of Japan) (surname) Shikoku |
四園 四园 see styles |
sì yuán si4 yuan2 ssu yüan shien |
idem 四苑. |
四土 see styles |
sì tǔ si4 tu3 ssu t`u ssu tu shido しど |
{Buddh} four realms (in Tendai Buddhism or Yogacara) The four Buddha-kṣetra, or realms, of Tiantai: (1) 凡聖居同土 Realms where all classes dwell— men, devas, Buddhas, disciples, non-disciples; it has two divisions, the impure, e. g. this world, and the pure, e. g. the 'Western' pure-land. (2) 方便有餘土 Temporary realms, where the occupants have got rid of the evils of 見思 unenlightened views and thoughts, but still have to be reborn. (3) 實報無障礙土 Realms of permanent reward and freedom, for those who have attained bodhisattva rank. (4) 常寂光土 Realm of eternal rest and light (i. e. wisdom) and of eternal spirit (dharmakāya), the abode of Buddhas; but in reality all the others are included in this, and are only separated for convenience, sake. |
四執 四执 see styles |
sì zhí si4 zhi2 ssu chih shishū |
The four erroneous tenets; also 四邪; 四迷; 四術; there are two groups: I. The four of the 外道 outsiders, or non-Buddhists, i. e. of Brahminism, concerning the law of cause and effect: (1) 邪因邪果 heretical theory of causation, e. g. creation by Mahesvara; (2) 無因有果 or 自然, effect independent of cause, e. g. creation without a cause, or spontaneous generation; (3) 有因無果 cause without effect, e. g. no future life as the result of this. (4) 無因無果 neither cause nor effect, e. g. that rewards and punishments are independent of morals. II. The four erroneous tenets of 內外道 insiders and outsiders, Buddhist and Brahman, also styled 四宗 the four schools, as negated in the 中論 Mādhyamika śāstra: (1) outsiders, who do not accept either the 人 ren or 法 fa ideas of 空 kong; (2) insiders who hold the Abhidharma or Sarvāstivādāḥ tenet, which recognizes 人空 human impersonality, but not 法空 the unreality of things; (3) also those who hold the 成實 Satyasiddhi tenet which discriminates the two meanings of 空 kong but not clearly; and also (4) those in Mahāyāna who hold the tenet of the realists. |
四塔 see styles |
sì tǎ si4 ta3 ssu t`a ssu ta shitō |
The four stūpas at the places of Buddha's birth, Kapilavastu; enlightenment, Magadha: preaching, Benares; and parinirvāṇa, Kuśinagara. Four more are located in the heavens of the Travastriṃśas gods, one each tor his hair, nails, begging bowl, and teeth, E., S., W., N., respectively. |
四塵 四尘 see styles |
sì chén si4 chen2 ssu ch`en ssu chen shijin |
four data-fields |
四墮 四堕 see styles |
sì duò si4 duo4 ssu to shida |
(四墮落法) The four causes of falling from grace and final excommunication of a monk or nun; adultery, stealing, killing, falsity; v. 四波羅夷. |
四声 see styles |
shisei / shise しせい |
four tones (of Chinese) |
四天 see styles |
sì tiān si4 tian1 ssu t`ien ssu tien shiten |
the heavens of the four directions |
四夷 see styles |
sì yí si4 yi2 ssu i shii / shi しい |
(hist) (derogatory term) (See 東夷・2,西戎) Four Barbarians (non-Chinese peoples bordering ancient China); (surname) Shii (四夷戒 or 四夷罪) v. 四波羅夷. |
四姓 see styles |
sì xìng si4 xing4 ssu hsing shisei; shishou / shise; shisho しせい; ししょう |
(1) the four Hindu castes; (2) (hist) the four great families of the Heian period (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan) The four Indian 'clans' or castes— brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, and śūdra, i. e. (1) priestly, (2) military and ruling, (3) farmers and traders, and (4) serfs; born respectively from the mouth, shoulders, flanks, and feet of Brahma. |
四字 see styles |
sì zì si4 zi4 ssu tzu shiji |
four logographs |
四宗 see styles |
sì zōng si4 zong1 ssu tsung shishū |
The four kinds of inference in logic— common, prejudged or opposing, insufficiently founded, arbitrary. Also, the four schools of thought I. According to 淨影 Jingying they are (1) 立性宗 that everything exists, or has its own nature; e. g. Sarvāstivāda, in the 'lower' schools of Hīnayāna; (2) 破性宗 that everything has not a nature of its own; e. g. the 成實宗 a 'higher' Hīnayāna school, the Satyasiddhi; (3) 破相宗 that form has no reality, because of the doctrine of the void, 'lower' Mahāyāna; (4) 願實宗 revelation of reality, that all comes from the bhūtatathatā, 'higher ' Mahāyāna. II. According to 曇隱 Tanyin of the 大衍 monastery they are (1) 因緣宗, i. e. 立性宗 all things are causally produced; (2) 假名宗, i. e. 破性宗 things are but names; (3) 不眞宗, i. e. 破相宗, denying the reality of form, this school fails to define reality; (4) 眞宗, i. e. 顯實宗 the school of the real, in contrast with the seeming. |
四定 see styles |
sì dìng si4 ding4 ssu ting shijō |
The four dhyāna heavens of form, and the four degrees of dhyāna corresponding to them. |
四害 see styles |
sì hài si4 hai4 ssu hai |
"the four pests", i.e. rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows; see also 打麻雀運動|打麻雀运动[Da3 Ma2 que4 Yun4 dong4] |
四家 see styles |
sì jiā si4 jia1 ssu chia yonke よんけ |
(surname) Yonke The schools of 般若, 諦, 捨煩惱, and 苦淸 likened by 章安 Zhangan of the Tiantai to the 四教, i. e. seriatim: 別, 圓, 通, and 三藏. |
四實 四实 see styles |
sì shí si4 shi2 ssu shih shijitsu |
four realities |
四寸 see styles |
sì cùn si4 cun4 ssu ts`un ssu tsun shi sun |
four inches |
四山 see styles |
sì shān si4 shan1 ssu shan yotsuyama よつやま |
(place-name) Yotsuyama Like four closing-in mountains are birth, age, sickness, and death; another group is age, sickness, death, and decay (衰, i. e. of wealth, honours, etc., or 無常 impermanence). |
四州 see styles |
sì zhōu si4 zhou1 ssu chou shishuu / shishu ししゅう |
(given name) Shishuu four great continents |
四庫 四库 see styles |
sì kù si4 ku4 ssu k`u ssu ku |
the four book depositories, namely: classics 經|经, history 史, philosophy 子[zi3], belles-lettres 集 |
四強 四强 see styles |
sì qiáng si4 qiang2 ssu ch`iang ssu chiang yonkyou / yonkyo よんきょう |
the top four final four (in a tournament) |
四微 see styles |
sì wēi si4 wei1 ssu wei shimi |
The four minutest forms or atoms perceptible to the four senses of sight, smell, taste, or touch; from these arise the 四大 four elements, from which arise the 五智 five wisdoms, q. v. |
四德 see styles |
sì dé si4 de2 ssu te shitoku |
four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety 孝 to one's parents, respect 悌 to one's older brother, loyalty 忠 to one's monarch, faith 信 to one's male friends; the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德[de2], physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 The four nirvana virtues, or values, according to the Mahāyāna Nirvana Sutra: (1) 常德 permanence or eternity; (2) 樂德 joy; (3) 我德 personality or the soul; (4) 淨德 purity. These four important terms, while denied in the lower realms, are affirmed by the sutra in the transcendental, or nirvana-realm. |
四心 see styles |
sì xīn si4 xin1 ssu hsin shishin |
The hearts of kindness, pity, joy, and indifference, idem 四無量心. |
四忍 see styles |
sì rěn si4 ren3 ssu jen shi nin |
four kinds of forbearance |
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