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四面 see styles |
sì miàn si4 mian4 ssu mien shimen しめん |
all sides four sides; all sides four sides |
四韋 四韦 see styles |
sì wéi si4 wei2 ssu wei shī |
four Vedas |
四願 四愿 see styles |
sì yuàn si4 yuan4 ssu yüan shi gan |
four vows |
四類 四类 see styles |
sì lèi si4 lei4 ssu lei shirui |
four kinds |
四顧 四顾 see styles |
sì gù si4 gu4 ssu ku shiko しこ |
to look around (noun/participle) (1) (form) looking everywhere; looking in all four directions; (2) (form) neighborhood; vicinity |
四食 see styles |
sì shí si4 shi2 ssu shih shijiki |
The four kinds of food, i. e. 段食 or 摶食 for the body and its senses; 觸食 or 樂食 for the emotions; 思食 or 念食 for thought; and 識食 for wisdom, i. e. the 六識 of Hīnayāna and the 八識 of Mahāyāna, of which the eighth, i. e. ālayavijñāna, is the chief. |
四馬 四马 see styles |
sì mǎ si4 ma3 ssu ma shime |
Four kinds of horses, likened to four classes of monks: those that respond to the shadow of the whip, its lightest touch, its mild application, and those who need the spur to bite the bone. |
四駆 see styles |
yonku よんく |
(abbreviation) (See 四輪駆動) four-wheel drive |
四體 四体 see styles |
sì tǐ si4 ti3 ssu t`i ssu ti |
one's four limbs; two arms and two legs See: 四体 |
四魔 see styles |
sì mó si4 mo2 ssu mo shima しま |
{Buddh} (See 煩悩魔,陰魔,死魔,天魔) the four kinds of demons that make trouble for sentient beings four demons |
國罵 国骂 see styles |
guó mà guo2 ma4 kuo ma |
curse word; four-letter word; esp. the "national swear word" of China, namely 他媽的|他妈的[ta1 ma1 de5] |
地大 see styles |
dì dà di4 da4 ti ta chihiro ちひろ |
(personal name) Chihiro Earth as one of the 四大 four elements, 地 earth, 水大 water, 火大 fire, and 風大 air (i. e. air in motion, wind); to these 空大 space (Skt. ākāśa) is added to make the 五大 five elements; 識 vijñāna, perception to make the six elements; and 見 darśana, views, concepts, or reasonings to make the seven elements. The esoteric sect use the five fingers, beginning with the little finger, to symbolize the five elements. |
地天 see styles |
dì tiān di4 tian1 ti t`ien ti tien jiten じてん |
(surname) Jiten The earth-devī, Pṛthivī, one of the four with thunderbolts in the Vajradhātu group; also CF. 地后 the earth-devī in the Garbhadhātu group. Cf. 地神. |
地界 see styles |
dì jiè di4 jie4 ti chieh jizakai じざかい |
boundary; bounds of the earth; (place-name) Jizakai The realm of earth, one of the four elements, v. 地大. |
地車 see styles |
jiguruma じぐるま |
four-wheeled cart for moving heavy objects |
壞劫 坏劫 see styles |
huài jié huai4 jie2 huai chieh e kō |
saṃvarta, v. 劫 7, the periodical gradual destruction of a universe, one of its four kalpas, i.e. 成 vivarta, formation; 住 vivarta-siddha; abiding, or existence; 壞 saṃvarta, decay, or destruction; 滅 saṃvarta-siddha, final annihilation. |
声点 see styles |
shouten / shoten しょうてん |
tone mark; mark placed in one of the four corners of a Chinese character to indicate the tone |
外海 see styles |
wài hǎi wai4 hai3 wai hai tonogai とのがい |
offshore; open sea ocean; open sea; (surname) Tonogai The sea that surrounds the four world-continents. |
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. |
多聞 多闻 see styles |
duō wén duo1 wen2 to wen tamon たもん |
(1) row house built on top of a castle wall; (2) row houses surrounding a main residence; (3) {Buddh} having great knowledge about Buddhism; (4) (abbreviation) {Buddh} (See 多聞天) Vaisravana (one of the Four Heavenly Kings); (surname, given name) Tamon bahu-sruta; learned, one who has heard much. |
夜摩 see styles |
yè mó ye4 mo2 yeh mo yama |
Yama, 'originally the Aryan god of the dead, living in a heaven above the world, the regent of the South; but Brahminism transferred his abode to hell. Both views have been retained by Buddhism.' Eitel. Yama in Indian mythology is ruler over the dead and judge in the hells, is 'grim in aspect, green in colour, clothed in red, riding on a buffalo, and holding a club in one hand and noose in the other': he has two four-eyed watch-dogs. M. W. The usual form is 閻摩 q. v. |
大刧 大劫 see styles |
dà jié da4 jie2 ta chieh daikō |
mahākalpa. The great kalpa, from the beginning of a universe till it is destroyed and another begins in its place. It has four kalpas or periods known as vivarta 成刧 the creation period; vivarta‐siddha 住刧 the appearance of sun and moon, i.e. light, and the period of life, human and general; saṃvarta 壤刧 or 滅刧 destruction first by fire, then water, then fire, then deluge, then a great wind, i.e. water during seven small kalpas, fire during 56 and wind one, in all 64; saṃvartatthāhi 増滅刧 total destruction gradually reaching the void. A great kalpa is calculated as eighty small kalpas and to last 1,347,000,000 years. |
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. |
大学 see styles |
daigaku だいがく |
(1) post-secondary education institution, incl. university, college, etc.; (2) (abbreviation) former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); (3) the Great Learning (one of the Four Books); (p,s,g) Daigaku |
大學 大学 see styles |
dà xué da4 xue2 ta hsüeh daigaku だいがく |
university; college; CL:所[suo3] (out-dated kanji) (1) post-secondary education institution, incl. university, college, etc.; (2) (abbreviation) former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); (3) the Great Learning (one of the Four Books); (surname) Daigaku |
大殿 see styles |
dà diàn da4 dian4 ta tien daiden だいでん |
main hall of a Buddhist temple (1) (honorific or respectful language) (See 若殿・わかとの・2) current master; father of one's current master; (2) (honorific or respectful language) minister (of government); noble; (3) (honorific or respectful language) (archaism) nobleman's residence; (surname) Daiden great shrine hall |
大洲 see styles |
dà zhōu da4 zhou1 ta chou oozu おおず |
continent continent; (place-name, surname) Oozu A great continent; one of the four great continents of a world; v. 四洲. |
大王 see styles |
dài wang dai4 wang5 tai wang daiou / daio だいおう |
robber baron (in opera, old stories); magnate (honorific or respectful language) great king; (place-name, surname) Daiou mahārāja 摩賀羅惹. Applied to the four guardians of the universe, 四大天王. |
大種 大种 see styles |
dà zhǒng da4 zhong3 ta chung daishu |
The four great seeds, or elements (四大) which enter into all things, i.e. earth, water, fire, and wind, from which, as from seed, all things spring. |
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. |
天王 see styles |
tiān wáng tian1 wang2 t`ien wang tien wang tennou / tenno てんのう |
emperor; god; Hong Xiuquan's self-proclaimed title; see also 洪秀全[Hong2 Xiu4 quan2] (1) {Buddh} heavenly king; (2) (See 牛頭天王) Gozu Tenno (deity said to be the Indian god Gavagriva); (place-name, surname) Tennou Maharāja-devas; 四天王 Caturmahārāja. The four deva kings in the first or lowest devaloka, on its four sides. E. 持國天王 Dhṛtarāṣṭra. S. 增長天王 Virūḍhaka. W. 廣目天王 Virūpākṣa. N. 多聞天王 Dhanada, or Vaiśravaṇa. The four are said to have appeared to 不空 Amogha in a temple in Xianfu, some time between 742-6, and in consequence he introduced their worship to China as guardians of the monasteries, where their images are seen in the hall at the entrance, which is sometimes called the 天王堂 hall of the deva-kings. 天王 is also a designation of Siva the 大白在, i. e. Maheśvara 摩醯首羅, the great sovereign ruler. |
天華 天华 see styles |
tiān huā tian1 hua1 t`ien hua tien hua yuki ゆき |
(Buddhist term) flowers that bloom in the heavens; paper flowers scattered before the Buddha's image; snow; (female given name) Yuki Deva, or divine, flowers, stated in the Lotus Sutra as of four kinds, mandāras, mahāmandāras, mañjūṣakas, and mahāmañjūṣakas, the first two white, the last two red. |
天道 see styles |
tiān dào tian1 dao4 t`ien tao tien tao tendou / tendo てんどう |
natural law; heavenly law; weather (dialect) (1) (てんとう only) the sun; (2) god of heaven and the earth; (3) laws governing the heavens; (4) {astron} celestial path; celestial motion; (5) {Buddh} (See 六道) deva realm (svarga); (surname, given name) Tendō deva-gati, or devasopāna, 天趣. (1) The highest of the six paths 六道, the realm of devas, i. e. the eighteen heavens of form and four of formlessness. A place of enjoyment, where the meritorious enjoy the fruits of good karma, but not a place of progress toward bodhisattva perfection. (2) The Dao of Heaven, natural law, cosmic energy; according to the Daoists, the origin and law of all things. |
天魔 see styles |
tiān mó tian1 mo2 t`ien mo tien mo tenma てんま |
demonic; devil {Buddh} (See 四魔) demon of the sixth heaven in the realm of desire who tries to prevent people from doing good deva-māra, 魔羅 one of the four Māras, who dwells in the sixth heaven. Paranirmita-vaśa-vartin, at the top of the Kāmadhātu, with his innumerable host, whence he constantly obstructs the Buddha-truth and its followers. He is also styled 殺者 the slayer; also 波旬 explained by 惡愛 sinful love or desire, as he sends his daughters to seduce the saints; also 波卑 (波卑夜) Papiyan, the evil one. He is the special Māra of the Śākyamuni period; other Buddhas suffer from other Māras; v. 魔. |
妙聖 妙圣 see styles |
miào shèng miao4 sheng4 miao sheng myō shō |
noble |
始覺 始觉 see styles |
shǐ jué shi3 jue2 shih chüeh shigaku |
The initial functioning of mind or intelligence as a process of 'becoming', arising from 本覺 which is Mind or Intelligence, self-contained, unsullied, and considered as universal, the source of all enlightenment. The 'initial intelligence' or enlightenment arises from the inner influence 薰 of the Mind and from external teaching. In the 'original intelligence' are the four values adopted and made transcendent by the Nirvāṇa-sūtra, viz. 常, 樂, 我, 淨 Perpetuity, joy, personality, and purity; these are acquired through the 始覺 process of enlightenment. Cf. 起信論 Awakening of Faith. |
宋史 see styles |
sòng shǐ song4 shi3 sung shih soushi / soshi そうし |
History of the Song Dynasty, twentieth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed under Toktoghan 脫脫|脱脱[Tuo1 tuo1] in 1345 during the Yuan Dynasty 元[Yuan2], 496 scrolls; (not to be confused with 宋書|宋书[Song4 shu1]) (work) Songshi; History of Song (one of the official Twenty-Four Histories of China); (wk) Songshi; History of Song (one of the official Twenty-Four Histories of China) |
宮人 宫人 see styles |
gōng rén gong1 ren2 kung jen miyahito みやひと |
imperial concubine or palace maid; imperial secretary (old) (noble) courtier; (place-name) Miyahito |
宿直 see styles |
tonoi(gikun) とのい(gikun) |
(1) (hist) night duty (in an imperial court, public office, etc.); night guard; night watch; (2) (hist) attending (a noble) through the night |
尊い see styles |
toutoi / totoi とうとい tattoi たっとい |
(adjective) precious; valuable; priceless; noble; exalted; sacred |
尊像 see styles |
zūn xiàng zun1 xiang4 tsun hsiang sonzou / sonzo そんぞう |
statue of a noble character; your picture image of a saint |
尊卑 see styles |
zūn bēi zun1 bei1 tsun pei sonpi そんぴ |
superior and subordinate; social ranking high and low; aristocrat and plebeian noble and base |
尊貴 尊贵 see styles |
zūn guì zun1 gui4 tsun kuei sonki そんき |
respected; respectable; honorable (noun or adjectival noun) noble (person) 尊重 Honoured, honourable; to honour. |
對家 对家 see styles |
duì jiā dui4 jia1 tui chia |
partner (in four person game); family of proposed marriage partner |
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. |
小姓 see styles |
koshou / kosho こしょう |
(noble's) page; (place-name) Koshou |
尸利 see styles |
shī lì shi1 li4 shih li shiri |
Sri. 師利; 室利; 室離; 室哩; 修利; 昔哩; 悉利 (1) Fortune, prosperity; high rank, success, good fortune, virtues, these four are named as its connotation. (2) The wife of Viṣṇu. (3) An honorifc prefix or affix to names of gods, great men, and books. (4) An exclamation at the head of liturgies. (5) An abbreviation for Mañjuśrī. |
尸羅 尸罗 see styles |
shī luó shi1 luo2 shih lo shira |
sila (Buddhism) Sila, 尸; 尸怛羅 intp. by 淸凉 pure and cool, i.e. chaste; also by 戒 restraint, or keeping the commandments; also by 性善 of good disposition. It is the second pāramitā, moral purity, i. e. of thought, word, and deed. The four conditions of śīla are chaste, calm, quiet, extinguished, i. e. no longer perturbed by the passions. Also, perhaps śīla, a stone, i. e. a precious stone, pearl, or coral. For the ten śīlas or commandments v. 十戒, the first five, or pañca-śīla 五戒, are for all Buddhists. |
屏條 屏条 see styles |
píng tiáo ping2 tiao2 p`ing t`iao ping tiao |
set of (usually four) hanging scrolls |
山柰 see styles |
shān nài shan1 nai4 shan nai |
Kaempferia galanga, one of four plants known as galangal |
崇高 see styles |
chóng gāo chong2 gao1 ch`ung kao chung kao munetaka むねたか |
majestic; sublime (noun or adjectival noun) (1) lofty; sublime; noble; (2) the sublime (aesthetics); (personal name) Munetaka |
巻狩 see styles |
makigari まきがり |
hunt (where the hunting area is surrounded on four sides by hunters) |
廿四 see styles |
niàn sì nian4 si4 nien ssu jūshi |
twenty-four |
彌勒 弥勒 see styles |
mí lè mi2 le4 mi le miroku みろく |
Maitreya, the future Bodhisattva, to come after Shakyamuni Buddha (surname) Miroku Maitreya, friendly, benevolent. The Buddhist Messiah, or next Buddha, now in the Tuṣita heaven, who is to come 5,000 years after the nirvāṇa of Śākyamuni, or according to other reckoning after 4,000 heavenly years, i.e. 5,670,000,000 human years. According to tradition he was born in Southern India of a Brahman family. His two epithets are 慈氏 Benevolent, and Ajita 阿逸多 'Invincible'. He presides over the spread of the church, protects its members and will usher in ultimate victory for Buddhism. His image is usually in the hall of the four guardians facing outward, where he is represented as the fat laughing Buddha, but in some places his image is tall, e.g. in Peking in the Yung Ho Kung. Other forms are彌帝M075962; 迷諦隸; 梅低梨; 梅怛麗 (梅怛藥 or 梅怛邪); 每怛哩; 昧怛 M067070曳; 彌羅. There are numerous Maitreya sūtras. |
御次 see styles |
otsugi おつぎ |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) (polite language) (honorific or respectful language) next; next person; (2) room adjoining a noble's parlor |
御紋 see styles |
gomon ごもん |
crest of a noble family |
御言 see styles |
mikoto みこと |
(honorific or respectful language) the spoken words of the emperor or a noble |
徳器 see styles |
tokuki とくき |
one's talent and virtue; noble character; (given name) Tokuki |
成劫 see styles |
chéng jié cheng2 jie2 ch`eng chieh cheng chieh joukou; jougou / joko; jogo じょうこう; じょうごう |
{Buddh} (See 四劫) the kalpa of formation (the first aeon of the universe) vivarta kalpa, one of the four kalpas, consisting of twenty small kalpas during which worlds and the beings on them are formed. The others are: 住劫 vivarta-siddha kalpa, kalpa of abiding, or existence, sun and moon rise, sexes are differentiated, heroes arise, four castes are formed, social life evolves. 壞劫saṃvarta kalpa, that of destruction, consisting of sixty-four small kalpas when fire, water, and wind destroy everything except the fourth dhyāna. 空劫 saṃvarta-siddha kalpa, i.e. of annihilation. v. 劫波. |
我倒 see styles |
wǒ dào wo3 dao4 wo tao gatō |
The illusion of an ego, one of the four inverted or upside-down ideas. |
戒取 see styles |
jiè qǔ jie4 qu3 chieh ch`ü chieh chü kaishu |
Clinging to the commandments of heterodox teachers, e.g. those of ultra-asceticism, one of the four attachments, 四取 catuḥ-parāmarśa. |
手四 see styles |
teshi てし |
{hanaf} (See 手役) four-of-a-kind (in a dealt hand) |
承句 see styles |
shouku / shoku しょうく |
(1) (See 起承転結) development of a text; (2) the second line in a four-line Chinese poem |
招提 see styles |
zhāo tí zhao1 ti2 chao t`i chao ti shodai しょだい |
(place-name) Shodai 拓鬪提舍 caturdiśaḥ, the four directions of space; cāturdiśa, belonging to the four quarters, i. e. the saṃgha or Church; name for a monastery. |
指羽 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. |
揚巻 see styles |
agemaki あげまき |
(1) old-fashioned boys' hairstyle; (2) Meiji period women's hairstyle; (3) type of dance in kabuki; (4) (sumo) knots in colour of four cardinal points hanging from the roof above the ring (color); (5) (abbreviation) constricted tagelus (Sinonovacula constricta); Chinese razor clam |
政所 see styles |
mandokoro まんどころ |
(1) official in charge of the administration of domains and general affairs of powerful noble families (from the middle of the Heian period); (2) (honorific or respectful language) (abbreviation) (See 北の政所) titled lady (legal wife of an important official); (3) government office related to finances (Kamakura and Muromachi periods); (4) clerk working for large temples and shrines; (place-name, surname) Mandokoro |
教判 see styles |
jiào pàn jiao4 pan4 chiao p`an chiao pan kyōhan |
The various divisions of teaching or doctrine, such as the Tiantai theory of the five periods of Śākyamuni's life, the four classes of doctrine, the four styles of teaching, etc. |
教理 see styles |
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. |
散る see styles |
chiru ちる |
(v5r,vi) (1) to fall (e.g. blossoms, leaves); (v5r,vi) (2) to scatter; to be dispersed; (v5r,vi) (3) to disappear; to dissolve; to break up; (v5r,vi) (4) to spread; to run; to blur; (v5r,vi) (5) to die a noble death |
方便 see styles |
fāng biàn fang1 bian4 fang pien houben / hoben ほうべん |
convenient; suitable; to facilitate; to make things easy; having money to spare; (euphemism) to relieve oneself (1) means; expedient; instrument; (2) {Buddh} upaya (skillful means, methods of teaching); (surname) Houben upāya. Convenient to the place, or situation, suited to the condition, opportune, appropriate; but 方 is interpreted as 方法 method, mode, plan, and 便 as 便用 convenient for use, i. e. a convenient or expedient method; also 方 as 方正 and 便 as 巧妙, which implies strategically correct. It is also intp. as 權道智 partial, temporary, or relative (teaching of) knowledge of reality, in contrast with 般若智 prajñā, and 眞實 absolute truth, or reality instead of the seeming. The term is a translation of 傴和 upāya, a mode of approach, an expedient, stratagem, device. The meaning is— teaching according to the capacity of the hearer, by any suitable method, including that of device or stratagem, but expedience beneficial to the recipient is understood. Mahāyāna claims that the Buddha used this expedient or partial method in his teaching until near the end of his days, when he enlarged it to the revelation of reality, or the preaching of his final and complete truth; Hīnayāna with reason denies this, and it is evident that the Mahāyāna claim has no foundation, for the whole of its 方等 or 方廣 scriptures are of later invention. Tiantai speaks of the 三乘 q. v. or Three Vehicles as 方便 expedient or partial revelations, and of its 一乘 or One Vehicle as the complete revelation of universal Buddhahood. This is the teaching of the Lotus Sutra, which itself contains 方便 teaching to lead up to the full revelation; hence the terms 體内 (or 同體 ) 方便, i. e. expedient or partial truths within the full revelation, meaning the expedient part of the Lotus, and 體外方便 the expedient or partial truths of the teaching which preceded the Lotus; see the 方便品 of that work, also the second chapter of the 維摩經. 方便 is also the seventh of the ten pāramitās. |
方相 see styles |
fāng xiàng fang1 xiang4 fang hsiang hōsō |
Square, four square, one of the five shapes. |
於諦 于谛 see styles |
yú dì yu2 di4 yü ti otai |
All Buddha's teaching is 'based upon the dogmas' that all things are unreal, and that the world is illusion; a 三論 phrase. |
春秋 see styles |
chūn qiū chun1 qiu1 ch`un ch`iu chun chiu haruaki はるあき |
spring and autumn; four seasons; year; a person's age; annals (used in book titles) (1) spring and autumn; spring and fall; (2) years; age; (3) (しゅんじゅう only) (See 五経) The Spring and Autumn Annals; The Chronicles of Lu; Chunqiu; Ch'un Ch'iu; (surname) Haruaki spring and autumn |
春蘭 see styles |
chunran ちゅんらん |
(kana only) noble orchid (Cymbidium goeringii); (female given name) Chunran |
時分 时分 see styles |
shí fēn shi2 fen1 shih fen jibun じぶん |
time; period during the day; one of the 12 two-hour periods enumerated by the earthly branches 地支 (1) time; hour; season; (2) suitable time; opportunity; chance Time-division of the day, variously made in Buddhist works: (1) Three periods each of day and night. (2) Eight periods of day and night, each divided into four parts. (3) Twelve periods, each under its animal, as in China. (4) Thirty hours, sixty hours, of varying definition. |
普氏 see styles |
pǔ shì pu3 shi4 p`u shih pu shih |
Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski 普爾熱瓦爾斯基|普尔热瓦尔斯基 (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to Central Asian from 1870 |
暗槓 see styles |
ankan アンカン |
{mahj} (See 槓) declaring a concealed kong (chi: àngàng); forming a concealed four-of-a-kind |
月卿 see styles |
gekkei / gekke げっけい |
(archaism) (See 公卿・1) high-ranking court noble; senior court official; kugyō |
有爲 有为 see styles |
yǒu wéi you3 wei2 yu wei ui |
Active, creative, productive, functioning, causative, phenomenal, the processes resulting from the laws of karma, v. 有作; opposite of 無爲 passive, inert, inactive, non-causative, laisser-faire. It is defined by 造作 to make, and associated with saṃskṛta. The three active things 三有爲法 are 色 material, or things which have form, 心 mental and 非色非心 neither the one nor the other. The four forms of activity 四有爲相 are 生住異滅 coming into existence, abiding, change, and extinction; they are also spoken of as three, the two middle terms being treated as having like meaning. |
望診 望诊 see styles |
wàng zhěn wang4 zhen3 wang chen boushin / boshin ぼうしん |
(TCM) observation, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診|四诊[si4 zhen3] (See 四診) the four examinations (in Chinese medicine: seeing, hearing, asking, touching) |
末伽 see styles |
mò qié mo4 qie2 mo ch`ieh mo chieh maga |
mārga; track, path, way, the way; the fourth of the four dogmas 四諦, i. e. 道, known as the 八聖道, 八正道 (or 八正門), the eight holy or correct ways, or gates out of suffering into nirvana. Mārga is described as the 因 cause of liberation, bodhi as its 果 result. |
本州 see styles |
běn zhōu ben3 zhou1 pen chou honshuu / honshu ほんしゅう |
Honshū, the main island of Japan Honshū (largest of the four main islands of Japan); Honshu; (place-name) Honshuu |
朮赤 术赤 see styles |
zhú chì zhu2 chi4 chu ch`ih chu chih |
Jöchi (c. 1182-1227) Mongol army commander, eldest of Genghis Khan’s four sons |
枡席 see styles |
masuseki ますせき |
tatami "box seat" for four people at sumo, kabuki, etc. |
梵天 see styles |
fàn tiān fan4 tian1 fan t`ien fan tien bonten ぼんてん |
Nirvana (in Buddhist scripture); Lord Brahma (the Hindu Creator) (1) Brahma (Hindu creator god); (2) (See 御幣) large staff with plaited paper streamers (used at religious festivals or as a sign); (3) buoy (used in longline fishing, gillnetting, etc.); (4) down puff (on the end of an ear pick); (given name) Bonten Brahmadeva. Brahmā, the ruler of this world. India. brahmaloka, the eighteen heavens of the realm of form, divided into four dhyāna regions (sixteen heavens in Southern Buddhism). The first three contain the 梵衆天 assembly of brahmadevas, i.e. the brahmakāyika; the 梵輔天 brahmspurohitas, retinue of Brahmā; and 大梵天 Mahābrahman, Brahman himself. |
梵女 see styles |
fàn nǚ fan4 nv3 fan nü bonnyo |
A noble woman, a woman of high character. |
梵心 see styles |
fàn xīn fan4 xin1 fan hsin bonshin |
The noble or pure mind (which practises the discipline that ensures rebirth in the realm without form). |
梵志 see styles |
fàn zhì fan4 zhi4 fan chih bonji |
brahmacārin. 'studying sacred learning; practising continence or chastity.' M.W. A brahmacārī is a 'young Brahman in the first āśrama or period of his life' (M. W.); there are four such periods. A Buddhist ascetic with his will set on 梵 purity, also intp. as nirvana. |
梵摩 see styles |
fàn mó fan4 mo2 fan mo bonma |
Brahmā; brahman, etc., v. 梵; 梵天, etc.; 梵覽摩 or 梵覽磨; 勃?摩; 婆羅賀摩; 沒羅憾摩; intp. as Brahmā, see 梵天; and brahman, or priest; it is used both in a noble and ignoble sense, ignoble when disparaging brahman opposition; it is intp. by 淨 pure, also by 離欲淸淨 celibate and pure. |
梵行 see styles |
fàn xíng fan4 xing2 fan hsing bongyou / bongyo ぼんぎょう |
{Buddh} ascetic practices (esp. celibacy) Pure living; noble action; the discipline of celibacy which ensures rebirth in the brahmaloka, or in the realms beyond form. |
楊炯 杨炯 see styles |
yáng jiǒng yang2 jiong3 yang chiung |
Yang Jiong (650-693?), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑|初唐四杰[Chu1 Tang2 Si4 jie2] |
業疏 业疏 see styles |
yè shū ye4 shu1 yeh shu Gōsho |
Commentary [on the Monks Behavior According to the Four Part Vinaya] |
槓子 杠子 see styles |
gàng zi gang4 zi5 kang tzu kantsu カンツ |
thick bar; solid carrying pole {mahj} kong (chi:); four-of-a-kind |
樂說 乐说 see styles |
lè shuō le4 shuo1 le shuo gyōsetsu |
Joy in preaching, or telling the way of salvation; joy in that which is preached. It is also called pratibhāna, bold and illuminating discourse, or freedom in expounding the truth with correct meaning and appropriate words, one of the 無礙智 four pratisaṃvids. |
次官 see styles |
cì guān ci4 guan1 tz`u kuan tzu kuan suke すけ |
undersecretary; secondary official (archaism) (hist) (See 四等官) assistant director (second highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryō system) |
正室 see styles |
zhèng shì zheng4 shi4 cheng shih masamuro まさむろ |
primary wife (in contrast to concubine); legal wife (1) (See 側室,本妻) legal wife (of a noble) (as opposed to a concubine); (2) (See 表座敷・おもてざしき) room for receiving guests; (3) (rare) heir; successor; (personal name) Masamuro |
死節 死节 see styles |
sǐ jié si3 jie2 ssu chieh shisetsu |
to die or be martyred for a noble cause; to be faithful unto death mortal spot |
死苦 see styles |
sǐ kǔ si3 ku3 ssu k`u ssu ku shiku しく |
(1) {Buddh} (See 四苦) inevitability of death (one of the four kinds of suffering); (2) death pains; agony of death The misery, or pain, of death, one of the Four Sufferings. |
母主 see styles |
mǔ zhǔ mu3 zhu3 mu chu moshu |
The 'mother-lord', or mother, as contrasted with 主 and 母, lord and mother, king and queen, in the maṇḍala of Vajradhātu and Garbhadhātu; Vairocana, being the source of all things, has no 'mnother'as progenitor, and is the 部主 or lord of the maṇḍala; the other four dhyāni-buddhas have 'mothers' called 部母, who are supposed to arise from the paramitas; thus, Akṣobhya has 金剛波羅蜜 for mother; Ratnasaṃbhava has 寳波羅蜜 for mother; Amitābha has 法波羅蜜 for mother; Amoghasiddhi has 羯磨波羅蜜 for mother. |
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