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Simple Dictionary Definition |
余世 see styles |
yosei / yose よせい |
one's remaining years; the rest of one's life |
余命 see styles |
yomei / yome よめい |
remainder of one's life; one's remaining days; time left (to live) |
余喘 see styles |
yozen よぜん |
lingering life; feeble existence; brink of ruin |
余生 see styles |
yoshou / yosho よしょう |
one's remaining years; the rest of one's life; (surname) Yoshou |
余齢 see styles |
yorei / yore よれい |
life expectancy |
佛壽 佛寿 see styles |
fó shòu fo2 shou4 fo shou butsu ju |
Buddha's life, or age. While he only lived to eighty as a man, in his saṁbhogakāya he is without end, eternal; cf. Lotus Sutra, 壽量品, where Buddha is declared to be eternal. |
佛德 see styles |
fó dé fo2 de2 fo te buttoku |
Buddha-virtue, his perfect life, perfect fruit, and perfect mercy in releasing all beings from misery. |
佛忌 see styles |
fó jì fo2 ji4 fo chi butsuki |
major events of the life of the Buddha |
來生 来生 see styles |
lái shēng lai2 sheng1 lai sheng rai らい |
next life (female given name) Rai Future rebirth; the future life. |
俗世 see styles |
sú shì su2 shi4 su shih zokuse; zokusei / zokuse; zokuse ぞくせ; ぞくせい |
the mundane world; the world of mortals this world; everyday world; earthly existence; mundane life mundane world |
俗界 see styles |
zokkai ぞっかい |
secular life; workaday world |
信根 see styles |
xìn gēn xin4 gen1 hsin ken nobune のぶね |
(surname) Nobune śraddhendriya. Faith, one of the five roots or organs producing a sound moral life. |
修む see styles |
osamu おさむ |
(v2m-s,vt) (1) (archaism) to study; to complete (a course); to cultivate; to master; (v2m-s,vt) (2) (archaism) to order (one's life); (v2m-s,vt) (3) (archaism) to repair (a fault one has committed) |
做活 see styles |
zuò huó zuo4 huo2 tso huo |
to work for a living (esp. of woman needleworker); life of a group of stones in Go 圍棋|围棋[wei2 qi2] |
傷命 伤命 see styles |
shāng mìng shang1 ming4 shang ming shōmyō |
Injury to life. |
償命 偿命 see styles |
cháng mìng chang2 ming4 ch`ang ming chang ming |
to pay with one's life |
元神 see styles |
yuán shén yuan2 shen2 yüan shen motogami もとがみ |
primordial spirit; fundamental essence of life (surname) Motogami |
先世 see styles |
xiān shì xian1 shi4 hsien shih senze |
A previous life, or world. |
先業 先业 see styles |
xiān yè xian1 ye4 hsien yeh sengō |
Karma from a previous life. |
全活 see styles |
quán huó quan2 huo2 ch`üan huo chüan huo |
to save life; to rescue; the whole business with all its processes |
八法 see styles |
bā fǎ ba1 fa3 pa fa happō |
eight methods of treatment (TCM) The eight dharmas, things, or methods. There are three groups: (1) idem 八風 q.v. (2) 四大and 四微 q.v. (3) The eight essential things, i.e. 教 instruction, 理 doctrine, 智 knowledge or wisdom attained, 斷 cutting away of delusion, 行 practice of the religious life, 位 progressive status, 因 producing 果 the fruit of saintliness. Of these 教理行果 are known as the 四法. |
八萬 八万 see styles |
bā wàn ba1 wan4 pa wan hachiman はちまん |
(surname) Hachiman An abbreviation for 八萬四 (八萬四千) The number of atoms in the human body is supposed to be 84,000. Hence the term is used for a number of things, often in the general sense of a great number. It is also the age apex of life in each human world. There are the 84,000 stūpas erected by Aśoka, each to accommodate one of the 84.000 relics of the Buddha's body; also the 84,000 forms of illumination shed by Amitābha; the 84,000 excellent physical signs of a Buddha; the 84,000 mortal distresses, i.e. 84,000 煩惱 or 塵勞; also the cure found in the 84,000 methods, i.e. 法藏, 法蘊, 法門, or教門. |
八難 八难 see styles |
bān án ban1 an2 pan an hachinan |
The eight conditions in which it is difficult to see a Buddha or hear his dharma: in the hells: as hungry ghosts; as animals; in Uttarakuru (the northern continent where all is pleasant); in the long-life heavens (where life is long and easy); as deaf, blind, and dumb; as a worldly philosopher; in the intermediate period between a Buddha and his successor. Also 八無暇. |
六度 see styles |
liù dù liu4 du4 liu tu rokudo ろくど |
(surname) Rokudo The six things that ferry one beyond the sea of mortality to nirvana, i. e. the six pāramitās 波羅蜜 (波羅蜜多): (1) 布施 dāna, charity, or giving, including the bestowing of the truth on others; (2) 持戒 śīla, keeping the command rents; (3) 忍辱 kṣānti, patience under insult; (4) 精進 vīrya, zeal and progress; (5) 闡定 dhyāna, meditation or contemplation; (6) 智慧 prajñā; wisdom, the power to discern reality or truth. It is the last that carries across the saṃsāra (sea of incarnate life) to the shores of nirvana. The opposites of these virtues are meanness, wickedness, anger, sloth, a distracted mind, and ignorance. The 唯識論 adds four other pāramitās: (7) 方便 upāya, the use of appropriate means; (8) 願 praṇidhāna, pious vows; (9) 力 bala, power of fulfillment; (10) 智 jñāna knowledge. |
具壽 具寿 see styles |
jù shòu ju4 shou4 chü shou guju |
? āyuṣmant. Having long life, a term by which monk, a pupil or a youth may be addressed. |
内住 see styles |
naijuu / naiju ないじゅう |
indwelling (life); (place-name) Naijuu |
再生 see styles |
zài shēng zai4 sheng1 tsai sheng saisei / saise さいせい |
to be reborn; to regenerate; to be a second so-and-so (famous dead person); recycling; regeneration (n,vs,vt,vi) (1) restoration to life; coming to life again; resuscitation; regeneration; (n,vs,vi) (2) reformation; rehabilitation; (noun, transitive verb) (3) recycling; reclamation; recovery; (noun, transitive verb) (4) playback; regeneration (of video or sound); views (of an online video); (n,vs,vt,vi) (5) {biol} regeneration (of lost or damaged tissue); regrowth; (noun, transitive verb) (6) rebirth; reincarnation; (n,vs,vt,vi) (7) {psych} recall (memory); retrieval |
再造 see styles |
zài zào zai4 zao4 tsai tsao saizou / saizo さいぞう |
to give a new lease of life; to reconstruct; to reform; to rework; to recycle; to reproduce (copies, or offspring); restoration; restructuring (given name) Saizou |
処世 see styles |
shosei / shose しょせい |
making one's way through life; conduct of one's life |
出世 see styles |
chū shì chu1 shi4 ch`u shih chu shih shutsuse しゅつせ |
to be born; to come into being; to withdraw from worldly affairs (n,vs,vi) success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence; (surname) Shutsuse (1) Appearance in the world e. g. the Buddha's appearing. (2) To leave the world; a monk or nun. (3) Beyond, or outside this world, not of this world; of nirvana character. |
出家 see styles |
chū jiā chu1 jia1 ch`u chia chu chia deie / dee でいえ |
to enter monastic life; to become a monk or nun (n,vs,vi) (1) {Buddh} entering the priesthood; (2) {Buddh} (See 在家・1) priest; monk; bonze; (surname) Deie pravraj; to leave home and become a monk or nun. |
分際 分际 see styles |
fēn jì fen1 ji4 fen chi bunzai ぶんざい |
(oft. scornful) one's social standing; one's position; one's place; one's station in life distinction |
初め see styles |
hajime はじめ zome ぞめ |
(n-t,n-adv) (1) beginning; start; outset; opening; (2) first (in line, etc.); (3) origin; (4) (kana only) such as ...; not to mention ...; (suffix) first doing of ... (ever, in one's life, in the new year, etc.) |
初湯 see styles |
hatsuyu はつゆ |
(1) first bath of the year; (2) first bath in one's life (i.e. for a baby) |
別報 别报 see styles |
bié bào bie2 bao4 pieh pao beppou / beppo べっぽう |
another report Differentiated rewards according to previous deeds, i.e. the differing conditions of people in this life resulting from their previous lives. |
利人 see styles |
lì rén li4 ren2 li jen rihito りひと |
(given name) Rihito To benefit or profit men, idem利他 parahita; the bodhisattva-mind is 自利利他 to improve oneself for the purpose of improving or benefiting others; the Buddha-mind is 利他一心 with single mind to help others, pure altruism; 利生 is the extension of this idea to 衆生 all the living, which of course is not limited to men or this earthly life; 利物 is also used with the same meaning, 物 being the living. |
利樂 利乐 see styles |
lì lè li4 le4 li le riraku |
Blessing and joy; the blessing being for the future life, the joy for the present; or aid (for salvation) and the joy of it. |
前世 see styles |
qián shì qian2 shi4 ch`ien shih chien shih zensei / zense ぜんせい |
previous generations; previous incarnation (Buddhism) antiquity; the previous era 前生 Former life or lives. |
前生 see styles |
qián shēng qian2 sheng1 ch`ien sheng chien sheng zenshou / zensho ぜんしょう |
previous life; previous incarnation {Buddh} (See 後生・ごしょう・1,今生・こんじょう) previous existence previous lifetime |
前身 see styles |
qián shēn qian2 shen1 ch`ien shen chien shen zenshin ぜんしん |
forerunner; predecessor; precursor; previous incarnation (Buddhism); jacket front antecedents; ancestor; previous position; previous existence; predecessor organization; predecessor organisation The previous body, or incarnation. |
創練 创练 see styles |
chuàng liàn chuang4 lian4 ch`uang lien chuang lien |
to form and train (a military unit); to create and practice (a martial art); to train oneself (by real-life experience) |
助命 see styles |
zemyo ぜみょ |
(1) sparing a life; clemency; (2) reconsideration of an employee's dismissal; (place-name) Zemyo |
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. |
劫濁 劫浊 see styles |
jié zhuó jie2 zhuo2 chieh cho kō jaku |
The impure or turbid kalpa, when the age of life is decreasing and all kinds of diseases afflict men. |
勢い see styles |
ikioi いきおい |
(adv,n) (1) force; vigor; vigour; energy; spirit; life; (2) influence; authority; power; might; (3) impetus; momentum; course (of events); (adverbial noun) (4) naturally; necessarily; (surname) Ikioi |
勳爵 勋爵 see styles |
xūn jué xun1 jue2 hsün chüeh |
Lord (UK hereditary nobility); UK life peer |
勸化 劝化 see styles |
quàn huà quan4 hua4 ch`üan hua chüan hua kanke |
to exhort (sb) to live a virtuous life (Buddhism); to beg for alms To exhort to conversion, to convert. |
十來 十来 see styles |
shí lái shi2 lai2 shih lai torai とらい |
(female given name) Torai (十來偈) The ten rhymes in "lai", a verse which expresses the Buddhist doctrine of moral determinism, i.e. that the position anyone now occupies is solely the result of his character in past lives; heredity and environment having nothing to do with his present condition, for, whether in prince or beggar, it is the reward of past deeds. The upright from the forbearing come, The poor from the mean and greedy come, Those of high rank from worshippers come, The low and common from the Prideful come, Those who are dumb from slanderers come, The blind and deaf from unbelievers come, The long-lived from the merciful come, The short-lived from life, takers come, The deficient in faculties from command-breakers come, The complete in faculties from command-keepers come. 端正者忍辱中來. 貧窮着樫貧中來. 高位者禮拜中來. 下賤者橋慢中來. 瘖啞者誹謗中來. 盲聾者不信中來. 長壽者慈悲中來. 短命者殺生中來. 諸根不具者破戒中來. 六根具足者持戒中來. |
十境 see styles |
shí jìng shi2 jing4 shih ching jikkyō |
Ten objects of or stages in meditation觀 in the Tiantai school, i.e. 陰境 the five skandhas; 煩惱境 life's distresses and delusion; 病患境 sickness, or duḥkha, its cause and cure; 業相境 age-long karmaic influences; 魔事境 Māra affairs, how to overthrow their rule; 禪定境 the conditions of dhyāna and samādhi; 諸見境 various views and doubts that arise; 慢境 pride in progress and the delusion that one has attained nirvāṇa; 二乘境 temptation to be content with the lower nirvāṇa, instead of going on to the greater reward; 菩薩境 bodhisattvahood; see the 止觀 5. |
十妙 see styles |
shí miào shi2 miao4 shih miao jūmyō |
The ten wonders, or incomprehensibles; there are two groups, the 迹ｖ traceable or manifested and 本門妙 the fundamental. The 迹門十妙 are the wonder of: (1) 境妙 the universe, sphere, or whole, embracing mind, Buddha, and all things as a unity; (2) 智妙 a Buddha's all-embracing knowledge arising from such universe; (3) 行妙 his deeds, expressive of his wisdom; (4) 位妙 his attainment of all the various Buddha stages, i.e. 十住 and十地; (5) 三法妙 his three laws of 理, 慧, and truth, wisdom, and vision; (6) 感應妙 his response to appeal, i.e. his (spiritual) response or relation to humanity, for "all beings are my children"; (7) 神通妙 his supernatural powers; (8) 說法妙 his preaching; (9) 眷屬妙 his supernatural retinue; (10) 利益妙 the blessings derived through universal elevation into Buddhahood. The 本門十妙 are the wonder of (1) 本因妙 the initial impulse or causative stage of Buddhahood; (2) 本果妙 its fruit or result in eternity, joy, and purity; (3) 國土妙 his (Buddha) realm; (4) 感應妙 his response (to human needs); (5) 神通妙 his supernatural powers; (6) 說法妙 his preaching; (7) 眷屬妙 his supernatural retinue; (8) 涅槃妙 his nirvāṇa; (9) 壽命妙 his (eternal) life; (10) his blessings as above. Both groups are further defined as progressive stages in a Buddha's career. These "wonders" are derived from the Lotus sūtra. |
十時 十时 see styles |
shí shí shi2 shi2 shih shih todoroki とどろき |
(personal name) Todoroki ten periods [in a human life] |
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. |
十王 see styles |
shí wáng shi2 wang2 shih wang juuou / juo じゅうおう |
{Buddh} ten rulers of the afterlife (who judge the dead and determine their placement in their next life); (place-name, surname) Jūou The ten kings presiding over the ten departments of purgatory. |
半死 see styles |
bàn sǐ ban4 si3 pan ssu hanshi はんし |
half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc); (tired) to death; (terrified) out of one's wits; (beaten) to within an inch of one's life; (knock) the daylights out of sb half-dead |
危及 see styles |
wēi jí wei1 ji2 wei chi |
to endanger; to jeopardize; a danger (to life, national security etc) |
厭世 厌世 see styles |
yàn shì yan4 shi4 yen shih ensei / ense えんせい |
world-weary; pessimistic weariness with life; world-weariness; pessimism Weary of the world; to renounce the world. |
取相 see styles |
qǔ xiàng qu3 xiang4 ch`ü hsiang chü hsiang shu sō |
The state of holding to the illusions of life as realities. |
受者 see styles |
shòu zhě shou4 zhe3 shou che jusha |
A recipient (e. g. of the rules). The illusory view that the ego will receive reward or punishment in a future life, one of the sixteen false views. |
各界 see styles |
gè jiè ge4 jie4 ko chieh kakkai; kakukai かっかい; かくかい |
all walks of life; all social circles each field; various circles |
含生 see styles |
hán shēng han2 sheng1 han sheng gan shō |
含靈 Living beings, all beings possessing life, especially sentient life. |
命乞 see styles |
inochigoi いのちごい |
(irregular okurigana usage) (noun/participle) begging for one's life; pleading for one's life |
命光 see styles |
mìng guāng ming4 guang1 ming kuang myōkō |
The light of a life, i. e. soon gone. |
命寳 see styles |
mìng bǎo ming4 bao3 ming pao |
The precious possession of life. |
命寶 命宝 see styles |
mìng bǎo ming4 bao3 ming pao myōhō |
treasure of life |
命数 see styles |
meisuu / mesu めいすう |
(1) span of life; one's term of existence; one's time (alive); one's days; (2) destiny; fate; (3) (See 命数法) assigning a name to a number |
命梵 see styles |
mìng fàn ming4 fan4 ming fan myōbon |
Life and honour, i. e. perils to life and perils to noble character. |
命求 see styles |
mìng qiú ming4 qiu2 ming ch`iu ming chiu myōgu |
seeking long life |
命濁 命浊 see styles |
mìng zhuó ming4 zhuo2 ming cho myōjoku |
One of the 五濁, turbidity or decay of the vital principle, reducing the length of life. |
命終 命终 see styles |
mìng zhōng ming4 zhong1 ming chung myōjū |
Life's end; nearing the end. |
命緣 命缘 see styles |
mìng yuán ming4 yuan2 ming yüan myōen |
conditions of life |
命者 see styles |
mìng zhě ming4 zhe3 ming che myōsha |
The living being; the one possessing life; life. |
命藤 see styles |
mìng téng ming4 teng2 ming t`eng ming teng myōtō |
The rope of life (gnawed by the two rats, i. e. night and day). |
命途 see styles |
mìng tú ming4 tu2 ming t`u ming tu |
the course of one's life; one's fate |
命難 命难 see styles |
mìng nán ming4 nan2 ming nan myō nan |
Life's hardships; the distress of living. |
品質 品质 see styles |
pǐn zhì pin3 zhi4 p`in chih pin chih hinshitsu ひんしつ |
character; intrinsic quality (of a person); quality (of a product or service, or as in "quality of life", "air quality" etc) quality (of a product or a service) |
善人 see styles |
shàn rén shan4 ren2 shan jen yoshihito よしひと |
philanthropist; charitable person; well-doer (1) good person; virtuous person; (2) good-natured person; gullible person; (given name) Yoshihito A good man, especially one who believes in Buddhist ideas of causality and lives a good life. |
善友 see styles |
shàn yǒu shan4 you3 shan yu yoshitomo よしとも |
(rare) good friend; (personal name) Yoshitomo kalyāṇamitra, 'a friend of virtue, a religious counsellor,' M. W.; a friend in the good life, or one who stimulates to goodness. |
善果 see styles |
shàn guǒ shan4 guo3 shan kuo zenka ぜんか |
good results Good fruit from 善因 q.v.; good fortune in life resulting from previous goodness. |
喪命 丧命 see styles |
sàng mìng sang4 ming4 sang ming |
to lose one's life |
喪生 丧生 see styles |
sàng shēng sang4 sheng1 sang sheng |
to die; to lose one's life |
喪身 丧身 see styles |
sàng shēn sang4 shen1 sang shen |
to lose one's life |
営む see styles |
itonamu いとなむ |
(transitive verb) (1) to run (a business); to operate; to conduct; to practice (law, medicine, etc.); (transitive verb) (2) to carry out; to perform; to lead (a life); (transitive verb) (3) to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony) |
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. |
四有 see styles |
sì yǒu si4 you3 ssu yu shiu しう |
{Buddh} the four stages of existence: birth, life, death, and limbo four states of life |
四法 see styles |
sì fǎ si4 fa3 ssu fa shihō |
There are several groups of four dharma: (1) 教法 the teaching of the Buddha); 理法 its principles, or meaning; 行法 its practice; 果法 its fruits or rewards. (2) Another group relates to bodhisattvas, their never losing the bodhi-mind, or the wisdom attained, or perseverance in progress, or the monastic forest life (āraṇyaka). (3) Also 信解行證 faith, discernment, performance, and assurance. (4) The Pure-land 'True' sect of Japan has a division: 教法, i. e. the 大無量壽經; 行法 the practice of the seventeenth of Amitābha's vows; 信法 faith in the eighteenth; and 證法 proof of the eleventh. The most important work of Shinran, the founder of the sect, is these four, i. e. 教行信證. (5) A 'Lotus ' division of 四法 is the answer to a question of Puxian (Samantabhadra) how the Lotus is to be possessed after the Buddha's demise, i. e. by thought (or protection) of the Buddhas; the cultivation of virtue; entry into correct dhyāna; and having a mind to save all creatures. |
四流 see styles |
sì liú si4 liu2 ssu liu shiru |
The four currents (that carry the unthinking along): i. e. the illusions of 見 seeing things as they seem, not as they really are; 欲 desires; 有 existence, life; 無明 ignorance, or an unenlightened condition. |
四相 see styles |
sì xiàng si4 xiang4 ssu hsiang shisou / shiso しそう |
(1) {Buddh} four essential elements of existence (birth, ageing, illness and death); (can act as adjective) (2) {math} four-phase; quadri-phase The four avasthā, or states of all phenomena, i. e. 生住異滅 birth, being, change (i. e. decay), and death; also 四有爲相. There are several groups, e. g. 果報四相 birth, age, disease, death. Also 藏識四相 of the Awakening of Faith referring to the initiation, continuation, change, and cessation of the ālaya-vijñāna. Also 我人四相 The ideas: (1) that there is an ego; (2) that man is different from other organisms; (3) that all the living are produced by the skandhas; (4) that life is limited to the organism. Also 智境四相 dealing differently with the four last headings 我; 人; 衆生; and 壽相. |
四蛇 see styles |
sì shé si4 she2 ssu she shida |
idem 四毒蛇. The Fanyimingyi under this heading gives the parable of a man who fled from the two bewildering forms of life and death, and climbed down a rope (of life) 命根, into the well of impermanence 無常, where two mice, night and day, gnawed the rattan rope; on the four sides four snakes 四蛇 sought to poison him, i. e. the 四大 or four elements of his physical nature); below were three dragons 三毒龍 breathing fire and trying to seize him. On looking up he saw that two 象 elephants (darkness and light) had come to the mouth of the well; he was in despair, when a bee flew by and dropped some honey (the five desires 五欲) into his mouth, which he ate and entirely forgot his peril. |
四衆 四众 see styles |
sì zhòng si4 zhong4 ssu chung shishu; shishuu / shishu; shishu ししゅ; ししゅう |
(1) four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees); (2) four monastic communities (ordained monks, ordained nuns, male novices and female novices); (3) (in Tendai) the four assemblies The four varga (groups, or orders), i. e. bhikṣu, bhikṣuṇī, upāsaka and upāsikā, monks, nuns, male and female devotees. Another group, according to Tiantai's commentary on the Lotus, is 發起衆 the assembly which, through Śāriputra, stirred the Buddha to begin his Lotus Sutra sermons; 當機衆 the pivotal assembly, those who were responsive to him; 影向衆 the reflection assembly, those like Mañjuśrī, etc., who reflected on, or drew out the Buddha's teaching; and 結緣衆 those who only profited in having seen and heard a Buddha, and therefore whose enlightenment is delayed to a future life. |
四計 四计 see styles |
sì jì si4 ji4 ssu chi shikei / shike しけい |
plans for one's day, plans for one's year, plans for one's life, and plans for one's family four imputations |
回生 see styles |
kaisei / kaise かいせい |
(n,vs,vi) (1) resurrection; resuscitation; coming back to life; (n,vs,vi) (2) {electr} (See 回生ブレーキ) regeneration; (suffix) (3) (ksb:) (See 年生) nth-year university student |
因業 因业 see styles |
yīn yè yin1 ye4 yin yeh ingou / ingo いんごう |
(noun or adjectival noun) heartless; cruel; causes and actions; results of actions in previous life The work, or operation, of cause, or causes, i. e. the co-operation of direct and indirect causes, of primary and environmental causes. |
団信 see styles |
danshin だんしん |
(abbreviation) (See 団体信用生命保険) group credit life insurance; creditor's group life insurance; creditor's insurance policy |
圓融 圆融 see styles |
yuán róng yuan2 rong2 yüan jung enyū |
accommodating; (Buddhism) completely integrated Complete combination; the absolute in the relative and vice versa; the identity of apparent contraries; perfect harmony among all differences, as in water and waves, passion and enlightenment, transmigration and nirvāṇa, or life and death, etc.; all are of the same fundamental nature, all are bhūtatathatā, and bhūtatathatā is all; waves are one with waves, and water is one with water, and water and wave are one. |
坎坷 see styles |
kǎn kě kan3 ke3 k`an k`o kan ko |
(of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes |
垂危 see styles |
chuí wēi chui2 wei1 ch`ui wei chui wei |
close to death; life-threatening (illness) |
堅法 坚法 see styles |
jiān fǎ jian1 fa3 chien fa kenpō |
The three things assured to the faithful (in reincarnation)—a good body, long life, and boundless wealth. |
報命 报命 see styles |
bào mìng bao4 ming4 pao ming hōmyō |
The life of reward or punishment for former deeds. |
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