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大英 see styles |
dà yīng da4 ying1 ta ying daiei / daie だいえい |
Daying county in Suining 遂寧|遂宁[Sui4 ning2], Sichuan; Great Britain (surname) Daiei |
大著 see styles |
taicho たいちょ |
(1) (See 小著・1) voluminous work; bulky volume; tome; (2) great work; masterpiece; magnum opus |
大藏 see styles |
dà zàng da4 zang4 ta tsang daizou / daizo だいぞう |
(personal name) Daizou great [scriptural] store |
大虚 see styles |
taikyo たいきょ |
(1) the sky; the universe; (2) taixu (the great vacuity, in Chinese philosophy, the primordial substance that gives rise to qi); (given name) Taikyo |
大衆 大众 see styles |
dà zhòng da4 zhong4 ta chung taishuu / taishu たいしゅう |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) general public; the masses mahāsaṅgha. The great assembly, any assembly, all present, everybody. |
大行 see styles |
dà xíng da4 xing2 ta hsing hiroyuki ひろゆき |
great enterprise; great task; (given name) Hiroyuki great practices |
大術 大术 see styles |
dà shù da4 shu4 ta shu daijutsu |
great deception |
大衣 see styles |
dà yī da4 yi1 ta i daie |
overcoat; topcoat; cloak; CL:件[jian4] The monk's patch-robe, made in varying grades from nine to twenty-five patches. |
大覚 see styles |
daigaku だいがく |
(1) {Buddh} great awakening; great enlightening; (2) {Buddh} greatly awakened person; (noun/participle) (3) understanding; comprehension; (given name) Daigaku |
大覺 大觉 see styles |
dà jué da4 jue2 ta chüeh dai gaku |
The supreme bodhi, or enlightenment, and the enlightening power of a Buddha. |
大誓 see styles |
dà shì da4 shi4 ta shih daisei / daise だいせい |
(given name) Daisei great vow |
大論 大论 see styles |
dà lùn da4 lun4 ta lun Dairon |
idem 大智度論. |
大財 大财 see styles |
dà cái da4 cai2 ta ts`ai ta tsai ootakara おおたから |
(place-name, surname) Ootakara great wealth |
大賢 大贤 see styles |
dà xián da4 xian2 ta hsien daiken だいけん |
great sage; (given name) Daiken Daxian (Jap. Daiken), a Korean monk who lived in China during the Tang dynasty, of the 法相 Dharmalakṣaṇa school, noted for his annotations on the sūtras and styled 古迹記 the archaeologist. |
大身 see styles |
dà shēn da4 shen1 ta shen oomi おおみ |
person of high rank or income; (place-name) Oomi The great body, i.e. the nirmāṇakāya, or transformable body 化身 of a Buddha. Also, Mahākāya, a king of garuḍas. |
大車 大车 see styles |
dà chē da4 che1 ta ch`e ta che ooguruma おおぐるま |
(surname) Ooguruma The great bullock-cart in the parable of the burning house, i.e. Mahāyāna, v. Lotus Sutra. |
大通 see styles |
dà tōng da4 tong1 ta t`ung ta tung daitsuu / daitsu だいつう |
Datong, a district of Huainan City 淮南市[Huai2nan2 Shi4], Anhui; Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County in Xining 西寧|西宁[Xi1ning2], Qinghai (surname) Daitsuu 大通智勝 Mahābhijñā Jñānābhibhu. The great Buddha of supreme penetraton and wisdom. "A fabulous Buddha whose realm was Sambhava, his kalpa Mahārūpa. Having spent ten middling kalpas in ecstatic meditation he became a Buddha, and retired again in meditation for 84,000 kalpas, during which his sixteen sons continued (as Buddhas) his preaching. Incarnations of his sons are," Akṣobhya, Merukūṭa, Siṃhaghoṣa, Siṃhadhvaja, Ākāśapratiṣṭhita, Nityapaṛvrtta, Indradhvaja, Brahmadhvaja, Amitābha, Sarvalokadhātū- padravodvegapratyuttīrna, Tamāla-patra-candanagandha, Merukalpa, Meghasvara, Meghasvararāja, Sarvaloka-bhayastambhitatva- vidhvaṃsanakāra, and Śākyamuni; v. Eitel. He is said to have lived in a kalpa earlier than the present by kalpas as numerous as the atoms of a chiliocosm. Amitābha is his ninth son. Śākyamuni his sixteenth, and the present 大衆 or assembly of believers are said to be the reincarnation of those who were his disciples in that former aeon; v. Lotus Sutra, chapter 7. |
大過 大过 see styles |
dà guò da4 guo4 ta kuo taika たいか |
serious mistake; major demerit serious error; gross mistake great error |
大道 see styles |
dà dào da4 dao4 ta tao masamichi まさみち |
main street; avenue main street; avenue; (surname, given name) Masamichi great way |
大遠 大远 see styles |
dà yuǎn da4 yuan3 ta yüan daien だいえん |
(given name) Daien Great Yuan |
大邦 see styles |
hirokuni ひろくに |
large country; great nation; major power; great power; (personal name) Hirokuni |
大都 see styles |
dà dū da4 du1 ta tu yamato やまと |
for the most part; on the whole; metropolitan great city; large city; metropolis; (female given name) Yamato |
大量 see styles |
dà liàng da4 liang4 ta liang tairyou / tairyo たいりょう |
great amount; large quantity; bulk; numerous; generous; magnanimous (adj-na,adj-no,n) large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction) |
大金 see styles |
daikin だいきん |
large amount of money; great cost; (personal name) Daikin |
大錯 大错 see styles |
dà cuò da4 cuo4 ta ts`o ta tso daisaku |
blunder great error |
大鐘 大钟 see styles |
dà zhōng da4 zhong1 ta chung oogane おおがね |
(surname) Oogane The great bell in the bell tower of a large monastery. |
大鑑 see styles |
dà jiàn da4 jian4 ta chien taikan たいかん |
encyclopedia great mirror |
大雄 see styles |
dà xióng da4 xiong2 ta hsiung hiroo ひろお |
great hero; main Buddhist image (in temple) (given name) Hiroo The great hero— a Buddha's title, indicating his power over demons. |
大集 see styles |
dà jí da4 ji2 ta chi ooshuu / ooshu おおしゅう |
(surname) Ooshuu great collection |
大難 大难 see styles |
dà nàn da4 nan4 ta nan oonada おおなだ |
great catastrophe (See 小難) great disaster; calamity; (surname) Oonada |
大雪 see styles |
dà xuě da4 xue3 ta hsüeh daisetsu だいせつ |
Daxue or Great Snow, 21st of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 7th-21st December (1) heavy snow; heavy snowfall; (2) (たいせつ only) (See 二十四節気) "major snow" solar term (approx. Dec. 7); (place-name, surname) Daisetsu |
大頌 大颂 see styles |
dà sòng da4 song4 ta sung daiju |
the Great Hymn of Praise |
大願 大愿 see styles |
dà yuàn da4 yuan4 ta yüan taigan たいがん |
{Buddh} ambition; the Buddha's great vow (to save all people); (given name) Taigan The great vow, of a Buddha, or bodhisattva, to save all the living and bring them to Buddhahood. |
大驚 大惊 see styles |
dà jīng da4 jing1 ta ching |
with great alarm |
大體 大体 see styles |
dà tǐ da4 ti3 ta t`i ta ti daitai |
in general; more or less; in rough terms; basically; on the whole; overall situation; the big picture; cadaver for dissection in training medical students great essence |
大鴇 大鸨 see styles |
dà bǎo da4 bao3 ta pao |
(bird species of China) great bustard (Otis tarda) |
大鷺 see styles |
oosagi おおさぎ |
(kana only) great egret (Ardea alba); great white egret; (surname) Oosagi |
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. |
天虛 天虚 see styles |
tiān xū tian1 xu1 t`ien hsü tien hsü tenko |
great void |
天親 天亲 see styles |
tiān qīn tian1 qin1 t`ien ch`in tien chin amachika あまちか |
one's flesh and blood (surname) Amachika Vasubandhu, 伐蘇畔度; 婆藪槃豆 (or 婆修槃豆) (or 婆修槃陀) 'akin to the gods ', or 世親 'akin to the world'. Vasubandhu is described as a native of Puruṣapura, or Peshawar, by Eitel as of Rājagriha, born '900 years after the nirvana', or about A. D. 400; Takakusu suggests 420-500, Peri puts his death not later than 350. In Eitel's day the date of his death was put definitely at A. D. 117. Vasubandhu's great work, the Abhidharmakośa, is only one of his thirty-six works. He is said to be the younger brother of Asaṅga of the Yogācāra school, by whom he was converted from the Sarvāstivāda school of thought to that of Mahāyāna and of Nāgārjuna. On his conversion he would have 'cut out his tongue' for its past heresy, but was dissuaded by his brother, who bade him use the same tongue to correct his errors, whereupon he wrote the 唯識論 and other Mahayanist works. He is called the twenty-first patriarch and died in Ayodhya. |
天識 天识 see styles |
tiān shì tian1 shi4 t`ien shih tien shih tenshiki |
Natural perception, or wisdom; the primal endowment in man: the 眞如 or bhūtatathatā. |
天鼓 see styles |
tiān gǔ tian1 gu3 t`ien ku tien ku tenko てんこ |
(given name) Tenko The deva drum— in the 善法 Good Law Hall of the Trayas-triṃśas heavens, which sounds of itself, warning the inhabitants of the thirty-three heavens that even their life is impermanent and subject to karma: at the sound of the drum Indra preaches against excess. Hence it is a title of Buddha as the great law-drum, who warns, exhorts, and encourages the good and frightens the evil and the demons. |
太公 see styles |
tài gōng tai4 gong1 t`ai kung tai kung |
great-grandfather; (old) grandfather; father |
太婆 see styles |
tài pó tai4 po2 t`ai p`o tai po |
great-grandmother |
太祖 see styles |
tài zǔ tai4 zu3 t`ai tsu tai tsu taiso たいそ |
Great Ancestor (posomethingumous title, e.g. for the founder of a dynasty) founder; progenitor; emperor great ancestor |
太虚 see styles |
taikyo たいきょ |
(1) the sky; the universe; (2) taixu (the great vacuity, in Chinese philosophy, the primordial substance that gives rise to qi) |
太虛 太虚 see styles |
tài xū tai4 xu1 t`ai hsü tai hsü taiko |
great emptiness; the void; heaven; the skies; universe; cosmos; original essence of the cosmos great voidness |
奇智 see styles |
kichi きち |
extraordinary wisdom |
奇特 see styles |
qí tè qi2 te4 ch`i t`e chi te kitoku; kidoku きとく; きどく |
peculiar; unusual; queer (noun or adjectival noun) (1) praiseworthy; commendable; laudable; (adjectival noun) (2) (colloquialism) (non-standard usage) strange (person); weird; odd Wonderful, rare, special, the three incomparable kinds of 神通奇特 power to convert all beings, 慧心奇特 Buddha-wisdom, and 攝受奇特Buddha-power to attract and save all beings. |
奇知 see styles |
kichi きち |
extraordinary wisdom |
奎星 see styles |
kuí xīng kui2 xing1 k`uei hsing kuei hsing |
Kuixing, the Great Bear, one of the 28 constellations |
奔流 see styles |
bēn liú ben1 liu2 pen liu honryuu / honryu ほんりゅう |
to flow at great speed; to pour; racing current torrent; rapid stream; violently rushing stream |
奔茶 see styles |
bēn chá ben1 cha2 pen ch`a pen cha honcha |
great lotus |
奔荼 see styles |
bēn tú ben1 tu2 pen t`u pen tu honda |
(奔荼利迦) puṇḍarīka, the white lotus, v. 分 or 芬; also the last of the eight great cold hells, v. 地獄. |
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. |
如如 see styles |
rú rú ru2 ru2 ju ju nyonyo |
The 眞如 zhenru or absolute; also the absolute in differentiation, or in the relative. The 如如境 and 如如智 are the realm, or 'substance', and the wisdom or law of the absolute. |
如智 see styles |
rú zhì ru2 zhi4 ju chih nyochi |
wisdom of suchness |
如蓮 如莲 see styles |
rú lián ru2 lian2 ju lien nyoren |
like a lotus |
妙宗 see styles |
miào zōng miao4 zong1 miao tsung myōshū |
Profound principles; the Lotus school. |
妙慧 see styles |
miào huì miao4 hui4 miao hui myōe |
marvelous wisdom |
妙教 see styles |
miào jiào miao4 jiao4 miao chiao myōkyō |
Admirable, profound teaching; i.e. that of the Lotus Sutra. |
妙明 see styles |
miào míng miao4 ming2 miao ming taeaki たえあき |
(surname, given name) Taeaki Profoundly enlightened heart or mind, i.e. the knowledge of the finality of the stream of reincarnation. |
妙智 see styles |
miào zhì miao4 zhi4 miao chih myouchi / myochi みょうち |
(surname) Myōchi The wonderful Buddha-wisdom. |
妙法 see styles |
miào fǎ miao4 fa3 miao fa myouhou / myoho みょうほう |
brilliant plan; ingenious method; perfect solution (1) mysteries; excellent methods; (2) {Buddh} marvelous law of Buddha; Saddharma; (3) {Buddh} (See 妙法蓮華経) Lotus Sutra; teachings of the Lotus Sutra; (g,p) Myōhou saddharma, 薩達摩 (薩達刺摩) The wonderful law or truth (of the Lotus Sutra). |
妙玄 see styles |
miào xuán miao4 xuan2 miao hsüan myougen / myogen みょうげん |
(surname) Myōgen Wonderful and profound; an abbreviation for妙法蓮華經玄義 the Tiantai commentary on the Lotus Sutra. |
妙王 see styles |
mio みお |
(irregular kanji usage) (Buddhist term) Wisdom King; Vidyaraja; (female given name) Mio |
妙車 妙车 see styles |
miào chē miao4 che1 miao ch`e miao che myōsha |
The wonderful vehicles (mentioned in the Lotus Sutra). |
妙音 see styles |
miào yīn miao4 yin1 miao yin myouon / myoon みょうおん |
exquisite voice; exquisite music; (place-name) Myōon Wonderful sound. (1) Gadgadasvara, 妙音菩薩 (or 妙音大士) a Bodhisattva, master of seventeen degrees of samādhi, residing in Vairocanaraśmi-pratimaṇḍita, whose name heads chap. 24 of the Lotus Sutra. (2) Sughoṣa, a sister of Guanyin; also a Buddha like Varuṇa controlling the waters 水天德佛, the 743rd Buddha of the present kalpa. (3) Ghoṣa, 瞿沙 an arhat, famous for exegesis, who "restored the eyesight of Dharmavivardhana by washing his eyes with the tears of people who were moved by his eloquence." Eitel. |
委悉 see styles |
wěi xī wei3 xi1 wei hsi ishitsu |
in great detail |
娑婆 see styles |
suō pó suo1 po2 so p`o so po shaba; shaba しゃば; シャバ |
(1) this world; this life; (2) (kana only) (colloquialism) the free world (outside of prison, the army, red light district, etc.); (3) {Buddh} this corrupt world; present world sahā; that which bears, the earth, v. 地; intp. as bearing, enduring; the place of good and evil; a universe, or great chiliocosm, Where all are subject to transmigration and which a Buddha transforms; it is divided into three regions 三界 and Mahābrahmā Sahāmpati is its lord. Other forms: 娑婆世界; 娑界; 娑媻; 娑訶; 沙訶; 索訶. |
安慧 see styles |
ān huì an1 hui4 an hui anne あんね |
(female given name) Anne Settled or firm resolve on wisdom; established wisdom; tr. of 悉耻羅末底 Sthiramati, or Sthitamati, one of the ten great exponents of the 唯識論 Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi śāstra, a native of southern India. |
宏大 see styles |
hóng dà hong2 da4 hung ta hiroo ひろお |
great; grand (adjectival noun) huge; very large; vast; extensive; magnificent; grand; (given name) Hiroo |
宏願 宏愿 see styles |
hóng yuàn hong2 yuan4 hung yüan |
great aspiration; great ambition |
宗師 宗师 see styles |
zōng shī zong1 shi1 tsung shih shūshi |
great scholar respected for learning and integrity an eminent monk |
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. |
定光 see styles |
dìng guāng ding4 guang1 ting kuang joukou / joko じょうこう |
(place-name) Jōkou (1) Dīpaṃkara 提洹羯; 然燈佛, to whom Śākyamuni offered five lotuses when the latter was 儒童 Rutong Bodhisattva, and was thereupon designated as a coming Buddha. He is called the twenty-fourth predecessor of Śākyamuni. He appears whenever a Buddha preaches the Lotus Sutra. (2) Crystal, or some other bright stone. |
定妃 see styles |
dìng fēi ding4 fei1 ting fei jōhi |
The female figures representing meditation in the maṇḍalas; male is wisdom, female is meditation. |
定慧 see styles |
dìng huì ding4 hui4 ting hui jōe |
Meditation and wisdom, two of the six pāramitās; likened to the two hands, the left meditation, the right wisdom. |
定智 see styles |
dìng zhì ding4 zhi4 ting chih sadatoshi さだとし |
(personal name) Sadatoshi Meditation and wisdom. |
定鼎 see styles |
dìng dǐng ding4 ding3 ting ting |
lit. to set up the sacred tripods (following Yu the Great); to fix the capital; to found a dynasty; used in advertising |
宿智 see styles |
sù zhì su4 zhi4 su chih shuku chi |
wisdom attained by the efficacy of one's religious practice in prior lifetimes |
寂光 see styles |
jí guāng ji2 guang1 chi kuang jakukou / jakuko じゃくこう |
(1) {Buddh} light of wisdom (when nearing nirvana); silent illumination; (2) {Buddh} (See 寂光浄土,常寂光土) paradise; nirvana; (personal name) Jakukou Calm and illuminating as are Truth and Knowledge; the hidden truth illuminating. |
富含 see styles |
fù hán fu4 han2 fu han |
to contain in great quantities; rich in |
實智 实智 see styles |
shí zhì shi2 zhi4 shih chih jitchi |
The knowledge or wisdom of Reality, in contrast with knowledge of the 權 relative. |
實本 实本 see styles |
shí běn shi2 ben3 shih pen jitsumoto じつもと |
(personal name) Jitsumoto Fundamental reality, applied to the teaching of the Lotus Sūtra, as opposed to the previous Buddhist teaching. |
實經 实经 see styles |
shí jīng shi2 jing1 shih ching jitsu kyō |
The true sūtras as contrasted to the relative or temporary sūtras, a term of the Lotus school. |
寶乘 宝乘 see styles |
bǎo shèng bao3 sheng4 pao sheng hōjō |
The precious vehicle of the Lotus Sutra; the Mahāyāna. |
寶典 宝典 see styles |
bǎo diǎn bao3 dian3 pao tien hōten |
canonical text; treasury (i.e. book of treasured wisdom) The precious records, or scriptures. |
寶塔 宝塔 see styles |
bǎo tǎ bao3 ta3 pao t`a pao ta hōtō |
pagoda A stupa, or fane for precious things, or relics; a pagoda adorned with gems; the shrine of 多寶 Prabhūtaratna in the Lotus Sutra. |
寶庫 宝库 see styles |
bǎo kù bao3 ku4 pao k`u pao ku |
treasure-house; treasury; treasure-trove (often fig., book of treasured wisdom) |
寶車 宝车 see styles |
bǎo chē bao3 che1 pao ch`e pao che hōsha |
The precious cart (in the Lotus Sutra), i.e. the one vehicle, the Mahāyāna. |
尊豪 see styles |
zūn háo zun1 hao2 tsun hao songō |
a great lord |
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. |
小智 see styles |
xiǎo zhì xiao3 zhi4 hsiao chih kosato こさと |
superficial knowledge; shallow wisdom; (female given name) Kosato ignorant |
小橋 小桥 see styles |
xiǎo qiáo xiao3 qiao2 hsiao ch`iao hsiao chiao kobayashi こばやし |
Xiao Qiao, one of the Two Qiaos, according to Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4], the two great beauties of ancient China (surname) Kobayashi |
小知 see styles |
sachi さち |
(1) superficial knowledge; shallow wisdom; (2) (archaism) small fief; (female given name) Sachi |
少智 see styles |
shǎo zhì shao3 zhi4 shao chih shō chi |
limited wisdom |
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. |
属望 see styles |
shokubou / shokubo しょくぼう |
(noun/participle) (having great) expectation; pinning one's hopes on |
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