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在欧 see styles |
zaiou / zaio ざいおう |
(n,vs,vi) being in Europe; staying in Europe; residing in Europe |
在独 see styles |
zaidoku ざいどく |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) being in Germany; staying in Germany; residing in Germany |
在社 see styles |
zaisha ざいしゃ |
(n,vs,vi) (1) being in the office; being at work; (n,vs,vi) (2) working for a company; being an employee |
在籍 see styles |
zaiseki ざいせき |
(n,vs,vi) being enrolled (at a school); being registered; being a member (of a team, organization, etc.) |
在米 see styles |
zaibei / zaibe ざいべい |
(n,vs,vi) staying in the United States; residing in the United States; being situated in the United States (of a foreign embassy, company, etc.) |
在職 在职 see styles |
zài zhí zai4 zhi2 tsai chih zaishoku ざいしょく |
to be employed; to be in post; on-the-job (n,vs,vi) being in office; holding a position; employment; service |
在英 see styles |
arihide ありひで |
(n,vs,vi) being in the United Kingdom; staying in the United Kingdom; residing in the United Kingdom; (personal name) Arihide |
在郷 see styles |
arisato ありさと |
(n,adj-no,vs,vi) (1) being in one's hometown; (2) (ざいごう only) countryside; the country; rural districts; (surname) Arisato |
在阪 see styles |
zaihan ざいはん |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) being based in Osaka; being in Osaka |
在館 see styles |
zaikan ざいかん |
(noun/participle) (1) being in an embassy, aquarium, museum, etc.; (noun/participle) (2) (See 在籍) being enrolled |
坐礁 see styles |
zashou / zasho ざしょう |
(noun/participle) running aground; being stranded; grounding; beaching |
垂下 see styles |
chuí xià chui2 xia4 ch`ui hsia chui hsia tareshita たれした |
to hang down (n,vs,vt,vi,adj-no) being pendent; hanging down; (personal name) Tareshita |
埋没 see styles |
maibotsu まいぼつ |
(n,vs,vi) (1) being buried; (n,vs,vi) (2) remaining unknown; being forgotten; (n,vs,vi) (3) being absorbed (e.g. in research); being immersed |
墊付 垫付 see styles |
diàn fù dian4 fu4 tien fu |
to pay sb else's expense with the expectation of being reimbursed by that person later |
士夫 see styles |
shì fū shi4 fu1 shih fu shio しお |
(personal name) Shio v. 補盧沙 puruṣa. |
壽星 寿星 see styles |
shòu xīng shou4 xing1 shou hsing |
god of longevity; elderly person whose birthday is being celebrated See: 寿星 |
外道 see styles |
wài dào wai4 dao4 wai tao gedou / gedo げどう |
(1) {Buddh} (See 内道) tirthika; non-Buddhist teachings; non-Buddhist; (2) heterodoxy; unorthodoxy; heresy; heretic; (3) (oft. used as a pejorative) demon; devil; fiend; brute; wretch; (4) type of fish one did not intend to catch; (person) Gedō Outside doctrines; non-Buddhist; heresy, heretics; the Tīrthyas or Tīrthikas; there are many groups of these: that of the 二天三仙 two devas and three sages, i. e. the Viṣṇuites, the Maheśvarites (or Śivaites), and the followers of Kapila, Ulūka, and Ṛṣabha. Another group of four is given as Kapila, Ulūka, Nirgrantha-putra (Jainas), and Jñātṛ (Jainas). A group of six, known as the外道六師 six heretical masters, is Pūraṇa-Kāśyapa, Maskari-Gośālīputra, Sañjaya-Vairāṭīputra, Ajita-Keśakambala, Kakuda-Kātyāyana, and Nirgrantha-Jñātṛputra; there are also two other groupings of six, one of them indicative of their various forms of asceticism and self-torture. There are also groups of 13, 1, 20, 30, 95, and 96 heretics, or forms of non-Buddhist doctrine, the 95 being divided into 11 classes, beginning with the Saṃkhyā philosophy and ending with that of no-cause, or existence as accidental. |
多忙 see styles |
tabou / tabo たぼう |
(n,adj-na,adj-no) being very busy; busyness |
多選 see styles |
tasen たせん |
(noun/participle) being re-elected (multiple times) |
多齡 多龄 see styles |
duō líng duo1 ling2 to ling Tarei |
(多齡路迦也吠闍也); 帝隷 etc. Trailokyavijaya, one of the 明王 Ming Wang, the term being tr. literally as 三世降 (明王) the Ming-Wang defeater (of evil) in the three spheres. |
大乘 see styles |
dà shèng da4 sheng4 ta sheng oonori おおのり |
Mahayana, the Great Vehicle; Buddhism based on the Mayahana sutras, as spread to Central Asia, China and beyond; also pr. [Da4 cheng2] (surname) Oonori Mahāyāna; also called 上乘; 妙乘; 勝乘; 無上乘; 無上上乘; 不惡乘; 無等乘, 無等等乘; 摩訶衍 The great yāna, wain, or conveyance, or the greater vehicle in comparison with the 小乘 Hīnayāna. It indicates universalism, or Salvation for all, for all are Buddha and will attain bodhi. It is the form of Buddhism prevalent in Tibet, Mongolia, China, Korea, Japan, and in other places in the Far East. It is also called Northern Buddhism. It is interpreted as 大教 the greater teaching as compared with 小教 the smaller, or inferior. Hīnayāna, which is undoubtedly nearer to the original teaching of the Buddha, is unfairly described as an endeavour to seek nirvana through an ash-covered body, an extinguished intellect, and solitariness; its followers are sravakas and pratyekabuddhas (i.e. those who are striving for their own deliverance through ascetic works). Mahāyāna, on the other hand, is described as seeking to find and extend all knowledge, and, in certain schools, to lead all to Buddhahood. It has a conception of an Eternal Buddha, or Buddhahood as Eternal (Adi-Buddha), but its especial doctrines are, inter alia, (a) the bodhisattvas 菩薩 , i.e. beings who deny themselves final Nirvana until, according to their vows, they have first saved all the living; (b) salvation by faith in, or invocation of the Buddhas or bodhisattvas; (c) Paradise as a nirvana of bliss in the company of Buddhas, bodhisattvas, saints, and believers. Hīnayāna is sometimes described as 自利 self-benefiting, and Mahāyāna as 自利利他 self-benefit for the benefit of others, unlimited altruism and pity being the theory of Mahāyāna. There is a further division into one-yana and three-yanas: the trīyāna may be śrāvaka, pratyeka-buddha, and bodhisattva, represented by a goat, deer, or bullock cart; the one-yāna is that represented by the Lotus School as the one doctrine of the Buddha, which had been variously taught by him according to the capacity of his hearers, v. 方便. Though Mahāyāna tendencies are seen in later forms of the older Buddhism, the foundation of Mahāyāna has been attributed to Nāgārjuna 龍樹. "The characteristics of this system are an excess of transcendental speculation tending to abstract nihilism, and the substitution of fanciful degrees of meditation and contemplation (v. Samādhi and Dhyāna) in place of the practical asceticism of the Hīnayāna school."[Eitel 68-9.] Two of its foundation books are the 起信論and the 妙法蓮華經 but a larnge numberof Mahāyāna sutras are ascribed to the Buddha。. |
大同 see styles |
dà tóng da4 tong2 ta t`ung ta tung taaton / taton タートン |
see 大同市[Da4tong2 Shi4]; see 大同鄉|大同乡[Da4tong2 Xiang1]; see 大同區|大同区[Da4tong2 Qu1]; (Confucianism) Great Harmony (concept of an ideal society) (1) (See 大同小異) general resemblance; being largely the same; (2) (See 大同団結) uniting with a common goal; (3) (hist) Daidō era (806.5.18-810.9.19); (place-name) Datong (China) mostly the same |
大士 see styles |
dà shì da4 shi4 ta shih futoshi ふとし |
(personal name) Futoshi Mahasattva. 開士 A great being, noble, a leader of men, a bodhisattva; also a śrāvaka, a Buddha; especially one who 自利利他 benefits himself to help others. |
大幣 see styles |
oonusa おおぬさ |
(1) (archaism) streamers (made of linen, paper, etc.) attached to a long pole (used as a wand in grand purification ceremonies); (2) being in great demand |
大日 see styles |
dà rì da4 ri4 ta jih dainichi だいにち |
Mahavairocana (Tathagata); Great Sun; Supreme Buddha of Sino-Japanese esoteric Buddhism; (place-name, surname) Dainichi Vairocana, or Mahāvairocana 大日如來; 遍照如來; 摩訶毘盧遮那； 毘盧遮那; 大日覺王 The sun, "shining everywhere" The chief object of worship of the Shingon sect in Japan, "represented by the gigantic image in the temple at Nara." (Eliot.) There he is known as Dai-nichi-nyorai. He is counted as the first, and according to some, the origin of the five celestial Buddhas (dhyāni-buddhas, or jinas). He dwells quiescent in Arūpa-dhātu, the Heaven beyond form, and is the essence of wisdom (bodhi) and of absolute purity. Samantabhadra 普賢 is his dhyāni-bodhisattva. The 大日經 "teaches that Vairocana is the whole world, which is divided into Garbhadhātu (material) and Vajradhātu (indestructible), the two together forming Dharmadhātu. The manifestations of Vairocana's body to himself―that is, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas ―are represented symbolically by diagrams of several circles ". Eliot. In the 金剛界 or vajradhātu maṇḍala he is the center of the five groups. In the 胎藏界 or Garbhadhātu he is the center of the eight-leaf (lotus) court. His appearance, symbols, esoteric word, differ according to the two above distinctions. Generally he is considered as an embodiment of the Truth 法, both in the sense of dharmakāya 法身 and dharmaratna 法寳. Some hold Vairocana to be the dharmakāya of Śākyamuni 大日與釋迦同一佛 but the esoteric school denies this identity. Also known as 最高顯廣眼藏如來, the Tathagata who, in the highest, reveals the far-reaching treasure of his eye, i.e. the sun. 大日大聖不動明王 is described as one of his transformations. Also, a śramaņa of Kashmir (contemporary of Padma-saṃbhava); he is credited with introducing Buddhism into Khotan and being an incarnation of Mañjuśrī; the king Vijaya Saṃbhava built a monastery for him. |
大概 see styles |
dà gài da4 gai4 ta kai taigai たいがい |
roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about; general idea (adverb) (1) generally; mainly; usually; normally; mostly; for the most part; (adj-no,adv,n) (2) nearly all; almost all; most; (3) gist; summary; outline; main idea; (n,adj-no,adv) (4) (See 大概にする) staying within bounds; not overdoing (something); not getting carried away; not going too far; being moderate; (adverb) (5) probably; perhaps; in all likelihood; (adverb) (6) considerably; greatly; really |
大破 see styles |
taiha たいは |
(n,vs,vt,vi) (1) serious damage; heavy damage; being wrecked; (noun, transitive verb) (2) thrashing (an opponent); crushing; giving a drubbing |
大空 see styles |
dà kōng da4 kong1 ta k`ung ta kung masataka まさたか |
wide open sky; the blue; heavens; firmament; (male given name) Masataka The great void, or the Mahāyāna parinirvāṇa, as being more complete and final than the nirvāṇa of Hīnayāna. It is used in the Shingon sect for the great immaterial or spiritual wisdom, with its esoteric symbols; its weapons, such as the vajra; its samādhis; its sacred circles, or maṇḍalas, etc. It is used also for space, in which there is neither east, west, north, nor south. |
大經 大经 see styles |
dà jīng da4 jing1 ta ching Daikyō |
The great sūtra, i.e. the 2 juan 佛說無量壽經, so-called by the Pure-land sect and by Tiantai, the Amida sūtra being the小本 smaller sūtra; cf. 大本 and大日經 . |
天人 see styles |
tiān rén tian1 ren2 t`ien jen tien jen tenjin てんじん |
Man and Heaven; celestial being heavenly being; celestial being; celestial nymph; celestial maiden; (personal name) Tenjin devas and men; also a name for devas. |
天像 see styles |
tiān xiàng tian1 xiang4 t`ien hsiang tien hsiang tenzō |
image of heavenly being |
天子 see styles |
tiān zǐ tian1 zi3 t`ien tzu tien tzu yoshiko よしこ |
the (rightful) emperor; "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation) (1) emperor; ruler (with a heavenly mandate); (2) heavenly being; celestial being; (female given name) Yoshiko A son of Heaven. The Emperor-Princes, i. e. those who in previous incarnations have kept the middle and lower grades of the ten good qualities 十善 and, in consequence, are born here as princes. It is the title of one of the four mara, who is 天主 or lord of the sixth heaven of desire; he is also known as 天子魔 (天子業魔) and with his following opposes the Buddha-truth. |
天根 see styles |
tiān gēn tian1 gen1 t`ien ken tien ken tenne てんね |
(personal name) Tenne The phallic emblem of Śiva, which Xuanzang found in the temples of India; he says the Hindus 'worship it without being ashamed'. |
天機 天机 see styles |
tiān jī tian1 ji1 t`ien chi tien chi tenki てんき |
mystery known only to heaven (archaic); inscrutable twist of fate; fig. top secret (1) secret of nature; profound secret; (2) disposition; character; nature; (3) emperor's health; emperor's well-being Natural capacity; the nature bestowed by Heaven. |
天衆 天众 see styles |
tiān zhòng tian1 zhong4 t`ien chung tien chung tenshu; tenju; tenshuu / tenshu; tenju; tenshu てんしゅ; てんじゅ; てんしゅう |
{Buddh} deva; celestial being The host of heaven, Brahma, Indra, and all their host. |
失格 see styles |
shī gé shi1 ge2 shih ko shikkaku しっかく |
to overstep the rules; to go out of bounds; disqualification; to lose face; disqualified (noun/participle) (1) disqualification; elimination; incapacity; (noun/participle) (2) being unfit for one's role; being a failure |
失笑 see styles |
shī xiào shi1 xiao4 shih hsiao shisshou / shissho しっしょう |
to laugh in spite of oneself; to be unable to help laughing; to break into laughter (n,vs,vi) (1) laughing at an inappropriate time; not being able to hold back one's laughter; (n,vs,vi) (2) (colloquialism) scornful laughter; snicker; snigger |
失脚 see styles |
shikkyaku しっきゃく |
(n,vs,vi) losing one's position; losing one's standing; downfall; fall (from power); being overthrown |
奉職 奉职 see styles |
fèng zhí feng4 zhi2 feng chih houshoku / hoshoku ほうしょく |
devotion to duty (n,vs,vi) being in the service of; serving at; holding office |
奔走 see styles |
bēn zǒu ben1 zou3 pen tsou honsou / honso ほんそう |
to run; to rush about; to be on the go (n,vs,vi) running about; making every effort (to do); busying oneself (with); being busily engaged (in); good offices; efforts |
奮迅 奋迅 see styles |
fèn xùn fen4 xun4 fen hsün funjin ふんじん |
(form) (See 獅子奮迅) rousing oneself fiercely; being intensely stirred up Speedy, immediate (samādhi), cf. 師. |
好き see styles |
zuki ずき |
(suffix) (1) love of; affection for; enthusiast for; lover of; fan; -phile; (suffix) (2) being attractive to; being liked by |
好こ see styles |
suko すこ |
(noun or adjectival noun) (net-sl) (kana only) (See 好き・1) liking; being fond of; to one's liking; to one's taste; preferred; favourite |
好発 see styles |
kouhatsu / kohatsu こうはつ |
(noun/participle) {med} occurring frequently (of a disease, condition, etc.); high incidence; being susceptible |
始末 see styles |
shǐ mò shi3 mo4 shih mo shimatsu しまつ |
whole story; the ins and outs (noun/participle) (1) management; dealing; settlement; (2) cleaning up; getting rid of; (3) economizing; economising; being thrifty; (4) end result (usu. bad) |
始發 始发 see styles |
shǐ fā shi3 fa1 shih fa shihatsu |
(of trains etc) to set off (on a journey); to start (being issued or circulated); to start (happening); originating to initiate |
姑且 see styles |
gū qiě gu1 qie3 ku ch`ieh ku chieh |
for the time being; tentatively |
婿入 see styles |
mukoiri むこいり |
(noun/participle) being adopted into the family of one's bride |
嫁ぎ see styles |
totsugi とつぎ |
(1) marrying into (a family); being married off; (2) (archaism) sexual intercourse |
存命 see styles |
zonmei / zonme ぞんめい |
(n,vs,vi) being alive |
存在 see styles |
cún zài cun2 zai4 ts`un tsai tsun tsai sonzai そんざい |
to exist; to be; existence (n,vs,vi) existence; being; presence to exist |
存生 see styles |
cún shēng cun2 sheng1 ts`un sheng tsun sheng zonjou / zonjo ぞんじょう |
(n,vs,vi) being alive (存生命); 存命 To preserve one's life, to preserve alive. |
孤弱 see styles |
kojaku こじゃく |
(noun or adjectival noun) (1) (archaism) young orphan; (noun or adjectival noun) (2) (archaism) being alone and weak with no place to go to |
孤立 see styles |
gū lì gu1 li4 ku li koritsu こりつ |
to isolate; isolated; unrelated; irrelevant (n,vs,vi) isolation; being alone; being friendless |
孤絶 see styles |
kozetsu こぜつ |
(n,vs,vi) being isolated; being separated; being cut off |
孩奴 see styles |
hái nú hai2 nu2 hai nu |
"a slave to one's children", hard-working parents who would do everything to ensure their children's well-being, in disregard of their own needs |
守勢 守势 see styles |
shǒu shì shou3 shi4 shou shih shusei / shuse しゅせい |
defensive position; guard (noun - becomes adjective with の) (being on the) defensive |
安住 see styles |
ān zhù an1 zhu4 an chu yazumi やずみ |
(n,vs,vi) (1) living in peace; living a quiet life; (n,vs,vi) (2) being content with one's present position; being satisfied with one's lot; (surname) Yazumi existence |
安否 see styles |
anpi(p); anpu; anbu(ok); anbi(ok) あんぴ(P); あんぷ; あんぶ(ok); あんび(ok) |
safety; welfare; well-being |
完売 see styles |
kanbai かんばい |
(noun, transitive verb) selling out; being sold out |
宗派 see styles |
zōng pài zong1 pai4 tsung p`ai tsung pai shuuha / shuha しゅうは |
sect (1) sect; denomination; (2) school (e.g. of poetry) Sects (of Buddhism). In India, according to Chinese accounts, the two schools of Hīnayāna became divided into twentysects. Mahāyāna had two main schools, the Mādhyamika, ascribed to Nāgārjunaand Āryadeva about the second century A. D., and the Yogācārya, ascribed toAsaṅga and Vasubandhu in the fourth century A. D. In China thirteen sectswere founded: (1) 倶舍宗 Abhidharma or Kośa sect, representing Hīnayāna,based upon the Abhidharma-kosa-śāstra or 倶舍論. (2) 成實宗 Satyasiddhi sect, based on the 成實論 Satyasiddhi-śāstra,tr. by Kumārajīva; no sect corresponds to it in India; in China and Japan itbecame incorporated in the 三論宗. (3) 律宗 Vinaya or Discipline sect, basedon 十誦律, 四分律, 僧祗律, etc. (4) 三論宗 The three śāstra sect, based on theMādhyamika-śāstra 中觀論 of Nāgārjuna, theSata-śāstra 百論 of Āryadeva, and theDvādasa-nikāya-śāstra 十二門論 of Nāgārjuna; this schooldates back to the translation of the three śāstras by Kumārajīva in A. D. 409. (5) 涅槃宗 Nirvāṇasect, based upon the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra 涅槃經 tr. byDharmaraksa in 423; later incorporated in Tiantai, with which it had much incommon. (6) 地論宗 Daśabhūmikā sect, based on Vasubandhu's work on the tenstages of the bodhisattva's path to Buddhahood, tr. by Bodhiruci 508,absorbed by the Avataṃsaka school, infra. (7) 淨土宗 Pure-land or Sukhāvatīsect, founded in China by Bodhiruci; its doctrine was salvation throughfaith in Amitābha into the Western Paradise. (8) 禪宗 dhyāna, meditative or intuitional sect, attributed toBodhidharma about A. D. 527, but it existed before he came to China. (9) 攝論宗, based upon the 攝大乘論 Mahāyāna-saṃparigraha-śāstra byAsaṅga, tr. by Paramārtha in 563, subsequently absorbed by the Avataṃsakasect. (10) 天台宗 Tiantai, based on the 法華經 SaddharmapuṇḍarīkaSūtra, or the Lotus of the Good Law; it is aconsummation of the Mādhyamika tradition. (11) 華嚴宗 Avataṃsaka sect, basedon the Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra, or Gandha-vyūha 華嚴經 tr. in 418. (12) 法相宗 Dharmalakṣaṇa sect, established after thereturn of Xuanzang from India and his trans. of the important Yogācāryaworks. (13) 眞言宗 Mantra sect, A. D. 716. In Japan twelve sects are named:Sanron, Hossō, Kegon, Kusha, Jōjitsu, Ritsu, Tendai, Shingon; these areknown as the ancient sects, the two last being styled mediaeval; therefollow the Zen and Jōdo; the remaining two are Shin and Nichiren; at presentthere are the Hossō, Kegon, Tendai, Shingon, Zen, Jōdo, Shin, and Nichirensects. |
定性 see styles |
dìng xìng ding4 xing4 ting hsing teisei / tese ていせい |
to determine the nature (of something); to determine the chemical composition (of a substance); qualitative (can be adjective with の) qualitative Fixed nature; settled mind. A classification of 'five kinds of nature' 五種性 is made by the 法相宗, the first two being the 定性二乘, i. e. śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas, whose mind is fixed on arhatship, and not on Buddhahood. The 定性喜樂地 is the second dhyāna heaven of form, in which the occupants abide in surpassing meditation or trance, which produces mental joy. |
定根 see styles |
dìng gēn ding4 gen1 ting ken jōkon |
samādhīndriya. Meditation as the root of all virtue, being the fourth of the five indriya 五根. |
家因 see styles |
jiā yīn jia1 yin1 chia yin kein |
the causes of being in the Buddha's family |
寄り see styles |
yori より |
(1) {sumo} pushing back one's opponent while locked in close quarters; (suffix) (2) having a tendency towards; being close to |
密着 see styles |
micchaku みっちゃく |
(n,vs,vi) (1) close adhesion; sticking firmly (to); being glued (to); (n,vs,vi) (2) relating closely (to); having relevance (to); (n,vs,vi) (3) {photo} contact printing |
密行 see styles |
mì xíng mi4 xing2 mi hsing mikkou / mikko みっこう |
(n,vs,vi) (1) prowling (without being noticed); patrolling in plain clothes; (n,vs,vi) (2) traveling in secret Esoteric practice, or discipline, the origin of which is attributed to Rāhula. |
寡聞 see styles |
kabun かぶん |
(humble language) having little knowledge (of); being ill-informed |
寤寐 see styles |
wù mèi wu4 mei4 wu mei gobi; gomi ごび; ごみ |
(literary) awake or asleep; (fig.) all the time; constantly (obsolete) being asleep and awake |
實空 实空 see styles |
shí kōng shi2 kong1 shih k`ung shih kung jikkū |
Absolute śūnya, or vacuity; all things being produced by cause and environment are unreal. |
寸胴 see styles |
zundou; zundo / zundo; zundo ずんどう; ずんど |
(adj-na,adj-no,n) (1) cylindrical container (pot, vase, etc.); (adj-na,n,adj-no) (2) having no waist (straight body figure, not curvy); being stumpy; (adj-na,n,adj-no) (3) sleeveless (coat etc.) |
対応 see styles |
taiou / taio たいおう |
(n,vs,vi) (1) correspondence (to); equivalence; (n,vs,vi) (2) suitability; coordination; matching; being appropriate (for); (n,vs,vi) (3) dealing with; coping with; handling; response; reception; reaction; (n,vs,vi) (4) compatibility (with technology, software, etc.); capability; support (for) |
対自 see styles |
taiji たいじ |
being-for-others (philosophical term used by Hegel and Sartre); être-en-soi |
専務 see styles |
senmu せんむ |
(1) special duty; being in sole charge of a duty; (2) (abbreviation) (See 専務取締役) senior managing director; executive director |
將生 将生 see styles |
jiāng shēng jiang1 sheng1 chiang sheng sōshō |
a sentient being in the intermediate state between death and rebirth |
小乘 see styles |
xiǎo shèng xiao3 sheng4 hsiao sheng shōjō |
Hinayana, the Lesser Vehicle; Buddhism in India before the Mayahana sutras; also pr. [Xiao3 cheng2] Hīnayāna 希那衍. The small, or inferior wain, or vehicle; the form of Buddhism which developed after Śākyamuni's death to about the beginning of the Christian era, when Mahāyāna doctrines were introduced. It is the orthodox school and more in direct line with the Buddhist succession than Mahāyānism which developed on lines fundamentally different. The Buddha was a spiritual doctor, less interested in philosophy than in the remedy for human misery and perpetual transmigration. He "turned aside from idle metaphysical speculations; if he held views on such topics, he deemed them valueless for the purposes of salvation, which was his goal" (Keith). Metaphysical speculations arose after his death, and naturally developed into a variety of Hīnayāna schools before and after the separation of a distinct school of Mahāyāna. Hīnayāna remains the form in Ceylon, Burma, and Siam, hence is known as Southern Buddhism in contrast with Northern Buddhism or Mahāyāna, the form chiefly prevalent from Nepal to Japan. Another rough division is that of Pali and Sanskrit, Pali being the general literary language of the surviving form of Hīnayāna, Sanskrit of Mahāyāna. The term Hīnayāna is of Mahāyānist origination to emphasize the universalism and altruism of Mahāyāna over the narrower personal salvation of its rival. According to Mahāyāna teaching its own aim is universal Buddhahood, which means the utmost development of wisdom and the perfect transformation of all the living in the future state; it declares that Hīnayāna, aiming at arhatship and pratyekabuddhahood, seeks the destruction of body and mind and extinction in nirvāṇa. For arhatship the 四諦Four Noble Truths are the foundation teaching, for pratyekabuddhahood the 十二因緣 twelve-nidānas, and these two are therefore sometimes styled the two vehicles 二乘. Tiantai sometimes calls them the (Hīnayāna) Tripiṭaka school. Three of the eighteen Hīnayāna schools were transported to China: 倶舍 (Abhidharma) Kośa; 成實 Satya-siddhi; and the school of Harivarman, the律 Vinaya school. These are described by Mahāyānists as the Buddha's adaptable way of meeting the questions and capacity of his hearers, though his own mind is spoken of as always being in the absolute Mahāyāna all-embracing realm. Such is the Mahāyāna view of Hīnayāna, and if the Vaipulya sūtras and special scriptures of their school, which are repudiated by Hīnayāna, are apocryphal, of which there seems no doubt, then Mahāyāna in condemning Hīnayāna must find other support for its claim to orthodoxy. The sūtras on which it chiefly relies, as regards the Buddha, have no authenticity; while those of Hīnayāna cannot be accepted as his veritable teaching in the absence of fundamental research. Hīnayāna is said to have first been divided into minority and majority sections immediately after the death of Śākyamuni, when the sthāvira, or older disciples, remained in what is spoken of as "the cave", some place at Rājagṛha, to settle the future of the order, and the general body of disciples remained outside; these two are the first 上坐部 and 大衆部 q. v. The first doctrinal division is reported to have taken place under the leadership of the monk 大天 Mahādeva (q.v.) a hundred years after the Buddha's nirvāṇa and during the reign of Aśoka; his reign, however, has been placed later than this by historians. Mahādeva's sect became the Mahāsāṅghikā, the other the Sthāvira. In time the two are said to have divided into eighteen, which with the two originals are the so-called "twenty sects" of Hīnayāna. Another division of four sects, referred to by Yijing, is that of the 大衆部 (Arya) Mahāsaṅghanikāya, 上座部 Āryasthavirāḥ, 根本說一切有部 Mūlasarvāstivādaḥ, and 正量部 Saṃmatīyāḥ. There is still another division of five sects, 五部律. For the eighteen Hīnayāna sects see 小乘十八部. |
小慾 see styles |
shouyoku / shoyoku しょうよく |
(being) slightly covetous; a little covetousness |
小本 see styles |
xiǎo běn xiao3 ben3 hsiao pen komoto こもと |
small capital; on a shoestring (place-name, surname) Komoto A small volume; Tiantai's term for the (小) 阿彌陀經; the large sūtra being the 無量壽經. |
小欲 see styles |
shouyoku / shoyoku しょうよく |
(being) slightly covetous; a little covetousness |
少慾 see styles |
shouyoku / shoyoku しょうよく |
(being) slightly covetous; a little covetousness |
少欲 see styles |
shǎo yù shao3 yu4 shao yü shōyoku しょうよく |
(being) slightly covetous; a little covetousness few desires |
就働 see styles |
shuudou / shudo しゅうどう |
(noun/participle) (rare) being employed; working |
就労 see styles |
shuurou / shuro しゅうろう |
(n,vs,vi) working; being employed; being hired |
就役 see styles |
shuueki / shueki しゅうえき |
(n,vs,vi) (1) being placed on duty; (n,vs,vi) (2) going into commission (of a warship, freighter, etc.); being placed in commission |
就縛 see styles |
shuubaku / shubaku しゅうばく |
(n,vs,vi) being put in bonds; coming under arrest |
就航 see styles |
shuukou / shuko しゅうこう |
(n,vs,vi) entering service (on a route; of a plane or ship); going into commission; being in service |
就褥 see styles |
shuujoku / shujoku しゅうじょく |
(n,vs,vi) (1) (form) going to bed; retiring; (n,vs,vi) (2) (form) being bedridden |
尻馬 see styles |
shiriuma しりうま |
(1) (See 尻馬に乗る) buttocks of a horse being ridden or followed; (2) blind imitation |
尼犍 see styles |
ní jiān ni2 jian1 ni chien nikon |
nirgrantha, 尼健; 尼乾 (尼乾陀); 尼虔, freed from all ties, a naked mendicant, tr. by 離繋, 不繋, 無結 devotees who are free from all ties, wander naked, and cover themselves with ashes. Mahāvīra, one of this sect, called 若提 Jñāti after his family, and also 尼乾陀若提子 Nirgrantha-jñātiputra, was an opponent of Śākyamuni. His doctrines were determinist, everything being fated, and no religious practices could change one's lot. |
居中 see styles |
jū zhōng ju1 zhong1 chü chung kyochuu / kyochu きょちゅう |
to be between two parties (as in mediation); to be in the middle; to be in between; (page layout) to be centered (n,vs,adj-no) being in the middle; being impartial; standing between two things; (personal name) Kyochuu |
屏息 see styles |
bǐng xī bing3 xi1 ping hsi heisoku / hesoku へいそく |
hold one's breath (noun/participle) bated breath; being cowed into silence |
崇奉 see styles |
chóng fèng chong2 feng4 ch`ung feng chung feng |
to believe in (a deity or other supernatural being); to worship |
左前 see styles |
hidarimae ひだりまえ |
(1) wearing a kimono with the right side over the left (normally used only for the dead); (2) downturn; recession; economic adversity; being in a bad financial situation; (3) front left; front and left; before and left |
差配 see styles |
sahai さはい |
(noun, transitive verb) (1) conduct of business; management; (noun, transitive verb) (2) acting as agent (of a land owner, house owner, etc.); being in charge (of a house, etc.) |
已生 see styles |
yǐ shēng yi3 sheng1 i sheng ishō |
部多 bhūta. Become, the moment just come into existence, the present moment; being, existing; a being, ghost, demon; a fact; an element, of which the Hindus have five— earth, water, fire, air, ether; the past. |
帯剣 see styles |
taiken たいけん |
(n,vs,vi) wearing a sword; being armed with a sword; sword |
帶病 带病 see styles |
dài bìng dai4 bing4 tai ping |
to be suffering from an illness (often implying "in spite of being sick"); to carry the causative agent of an infectious disease |
常備 see styles |
joubi / jobi じょうび |
(noun, transitive verb) (1) (always) having ready; having on hand; being provided with; (can be adjective with の) (2) standing; permanent; regular; reserve |
常居 see styles |
tokoi とこい |
(rare) habitually being (in a place); place one usually is; (surname) Tokoi |
干与 see styles |
kanyo かんよ |
(noun/participle) participation; taking part in; participating in; being concerned in |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
This page contains 100 results for "Well-Being" in Chinese and/or Japanese.Information about this dictionary:
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A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.
Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House
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