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菩提樹 菩提树 see styles |
pú tí shù pu2 ti2 shu4 p`u t`i shu pu ti shu bodaiju ぼだいじゅ |
More info & calligraphy: The Tree of Enlightenment / The Bodhi Tree(1) Tilia miqueliana (species of linden tree); (2) (See インドボダイジュ) sacred fig (Ficus religiosa); bodhi tree; bo tree; peepal tree; pipal tree; (given name) Bodaiju bodhidruma, bodhitaru, bodhivṛkṣa; the wisdom-tree, i.e. that under which Śākyamuni attained his enlightenment, and became Buddha. The Ficus religiosa is the pippala, or aśvattha, wrongly identified by Faxian as the palm-tree; it is described as an evergreen, to have been 400 feet high, been cut down several times, but in the Tang dynasty still to be 40 or 50 feet high. A branch of it is said to have been sent by Aśoka to Ceylon, from which sprang the celebrated Bo-tree still flourishing there. |
塔 see styles |
tǎ ta3 t`a ta tousaki / tosaki とうさき |
pagoda (abbr. of 塔婆[ta3po2], a loanword from Sanskrit stūpa); tower; pylon (CL:座[zuo4]); (loanword) (pastry) tart (n,n-suf) (1) tower; steeple; spire; (2) (abbreviation) (original meaning) (See 卒塔婆・1,塔婆・1) stupa; pagoda; dagoba; (surname) Tousaki stūpa; tope; a tumulus, or mound, for the bones, or remains of the dead, or for other sacred relics, especially of the Buddha, whether relics of the body or the mind, e.g. bones or scriptures. As the body is supposed to consist of 84,000 atoms, Aśoka is said to have built 84,000 stūpas to preserve relics of Śākyamuni. Pagodas, dagobas, or towers with an odd number of stories are used in China for the purpose of controlling the geomantic influences of a neighbourbood. Also 塔婆; 兜婆; 偸婆; 藪斗波; 窣堵波; 率都婆; 素覩波; 私鍮簸, etc. The stūpas erected over relics of the Buddha vary from the four at his birthplace, the scene of his enlightenment, of his first sermon, and of his death, to the 84,000 accredited to Aśoka. |
五山 see styles |
wǔ shān wu3 shan1 wu shan goyama ごやま |
(rare) five most important temples of a region; (surname) Goyama Five mountains and monasteries: (1) in India, sacred because of their connection with the Buddha: 鞞婆羅跋怒 Vaibhāra-vana; 薩多般那求呵 Saptaparṇaguhā; 因陀羅勢羅求呵 Indraśailaguhā; 薩簸恕魂直迦鉢婆羅 Sarpiṣ kuṇḍikā-prāgbhāra; 耆闍崛 Gṛdhrakūṭa; (2) in China, established during the Five Dynasties and the Southern Sung dynasty, on the analogy of those in India; three at Hangzhou at 徑山 Jingshan, 北山 Beishan, and 南山 Nanshan and two at Ningbo at 阿育王山 King Aśoka Shan and 太白山 Taiboshan. Later the Yuan dynasty established one at 全陵 Chin Ling, the 天界大龍翔隻慶寺 which became chief of these under the Ming dynasty. |
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. |
土麨 see styles |
tǔ chǎo tu3 chao3 t`u ch`ao tu chao dojō |
Aśoka is said to have become king as a reward for offering, when a child in a previous incarnation, a double-handful of sand as wheat or food to the Buddha. |
大天 see styles |
dà tiān da4 tian1 ta t`ien ta tien daiten だいてん |
(surname) Daiten Mahādeva. 摩訶提婆. (1) A former incarnation of Śākyamuni as a Cakravartī. (2) A title of Maheśvara. (3) An able supporter of the Mahāsāṃghikaḥ, whose date is given as about a hundred years after the Buddha's death, but he is also described as a favorite of Aśoka, with whom he is associated as persecutor of the Sthavirāḥ, the head of which escaped into Kashmir. If from the latter school sprang the Mahāyāna, it may account for the detestation in which Mahādeva is held by the Mahāyānists. An account of his wickedness and heresies is given in 西域記 3 and in 婆沙論 99. |
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. |
無憂 无忧 see styles |
wú yōu wu2 you1 wu yu muu |
aśoka, 'without sorrow, not feeling or not causing sorrow.' M. W. |
瞿沙 see styles |
jù shā ju4 sha1 chü sha gusha |
ghoṣa, murmur; sound of voices, etc., noise, roar; tr. sound of speaking, and 妙音; 美音 beautiful voice or speech; name of a famous dialectician and preacher who is accredited with restoration of sight to Dharmavivardhana, i.e. Kuṇāla, son of Aśoka, "by washing his eyes with the tears of people who were moved by his eloquence." Eitel. Also author of the Abhidharmāmṛta śāstra, which is called瞿沙經. |
結集 结集 see styles |
jié jí jie2 ji2 chieh chi kesshuu / kesshu けっしゅう |
(n,vs,vt,vi) concentration (of efforts, forces, etc.); gathering together; regimentation; marshalling; mobilization The collection and fixing of the Buddhist canon; especially the first assembly which gathered to recite the scriptures, Saṅgīti. Six assemblies for creation or revision of the canon are named, the first at the Pippala cave at Rājagṛha under Ajātaśatru, the second at Vaiśālī, the third at Pāṭaliputra under Aśoka, the fourth in Kashmir under Kaniṣka, the fifth at the Vulture Peak for the Mahāyāna, and the sixth for the esoteric canon. The first is sometimes divided into two, that of those within 'the cave', and that of those without, i.e. the intimate disciples, and the greater assembly without; the accounts are conflicting and unreliable. The notable three disciples to whom the first reciting is attributed are Kāśyapa, as presiding elder, Ānanda for the Sūtras and the Abhidharma, and Upāli for the Vinaya; others attribute the Abhidharma to Pūrṇa, or Kāśyapa; but, granted the premises, whatever form their work may have taken, it cannot have been that of the existing Tripiṭaka. The fifth and sixth assemblies are certainly imaginary. |
舍利 see styles |
shè lì she4 li4 she li shari |
(Buddhism) relic found in the cremated ashes of Buddhists (from Sanskrit "śarīra") (1) śārī, śārikā; a bird able to talk, intp. variously, but, M. W. says the mynah. Śārikā was the name of Śāriputra's mother, because her eyes were bright and clever like those of a mynah; there are other interpretation (2) śarīra(m). 設利羅 (or 室利羅); 實利; 攝 M004215 藍 Relics or ashes left after the cremation of a buddha or saint; placed in stupas and worhipped. The white represent bones; the black, hair; and the red, flesh. Also called dhātu-śarīra or dharma-śarīra. The body, a dead body. The body looked upon as dead by reason of obedience to the discipline, meditation, and wisdom. The Lotus Sutra and other sutras are counted as relics, Śākyamuni's relics are said to have amounted to 八斛四斗 84 pecks, for which Aśoka is reputed to have built in one day 84,000 stupas; but other figures are also given. śarīra is also intp. by grains of rice, etc., and by rice as food. |
阿育 see styles |
ā yù a1 yu4 a yü ashoka あしょか |
(given name) Ashoka Aśoka, 阿恕伽; 阿輸迦(or 阿舒迦, or 阿叔迦) Grandson of Candragupta (Sandrokottos), who united India and reached the summit of his career about 315 B.C. Aśoka reigned from about 274 to 237 B.C. His name Aśoka, 'free from care,' may have been adopted on his conversion. He is accused of the assassination of his brother and relatives to gain the throne, and of a fierce temperament in his earlier days. Converted, he became the first famous patron of Buddhism, encouraging its development and propaganda at home and abroad, to which existing pillars, etc., bear witness; his propaganda is said to have spread from the borders of China to Macedonia, Epirus, Egypt, and Cyrene. His title is Dharmāśoka; he should be distinguished from Kālāśoka, grandson of Ajātaśatru. Cf. 阿育伽經、 阿育伽傳, etc. |
雞園 鸡园 see styles |
jī yuán ji1 yuan2 chi yüan Keien |
Kukkuṭārāma, a monastery on the 雞足山 built by Aśoka; also called 雞頭摩寺 or 雞頭末寺; 雞雀寺. |
上座部 see styles |
shàng zuò bù shang4 zuo4 bu4 shang tso pu jouzabu / jozabu じょうざぶ |
Theravada school of Buddhism Sthaviravada (early Buddhist movement) 他毘梨典部; 他鞞羅部 Sthavirāḥ; Sthaviranikāya; or Āryasthāvirāḥ. The school of the presiding elder, or elders. The two earliest sections of Buddhism were this (which developed into the Mahāsthavirāḥ) and the Mahāsānghikāḥ or 大衆部. At first they were not considered to be different schools, the 上座部 merely representing the intimate and older disciples of Śākyamuni and the 大衆 being the rest. It is said that a century later under Mahādeva 大天 a difference of opinion arose on certain doctrines. Three divisions are named as resulting, viz. Mahāvihāravāsinaḥ, Jetavanīyāḥ, and Abhayagiri-vāsinaḥ. These were in Ceylon. In course of time the eighteen Hīnayāna sects were developed. From the time of Aśoka four principal schools are counted as prevailing: Mahāsāṅghika, Sthavira, Mūlasarvāstivda, and Saṁmitīya. The following is a list of the eleven sects reckoned as of the 上座部: 說一切有部; 雪山; 犢子; 法上; 賢冑; 正量; 密林山; 化地; 法藏; 飮光; and 經量部. The Sthaviravādin is reputed as nearest to early Buddhism in its tenets, though it is said to have changed the basis of Buddhism from an agnostic system to a realistic philosophy. |
乾陀羅 干陀罗 see styles |
gān tuó luó gan1 tuo2 luo2 kan t`o lo kan to lo Kendara |
(or 乾陀越 or 乾陀衞 or 乾陀婆那) Gandhāra, an ancient kingdom in the north of the Punjab, 'Lat. 35° 5N., Long. 71°16E. ' ( Eitel); famous as a centre of Buddhism. Śākyamuni, in a former life, is said to have lived there and torn out his eyes to benefit others, 'probably a distortion of the story of Dharmavivardhana, who as governor of Gandhāra was blinded by order of a concubine of his father, Aśoka. ' Eitel. M. W. associates Gandhāra with Kandahar. Also, name of a fragrant tree, and of a yellow colour. |
亜楚華 see styles |
asoka あそか |
(female given name) Asoka |
利波波 see styles |
lì bō bō li4 bo1 bo1 li po po Ribaba |
離波多; 黎婆多; 頡隸伐多 Revata; Raivata. (1) A Brahman hermit; one of the disciples of Śākyamuni, to be reborn as Samanta-prabhāsa. (2) President of the second synod, a native of Sāṅkāśya. (3) A contemporary of Aśoka, mentioned in connection with the third synod. Cf. Eitel. |
拘那羅 拘那罗 see styles |
jun à luó jun1 a4 luo2 chün a lo Kunara |
Kuṇāla; also 拘拏羅, 拘浪拏; 鳩那羅 a bird with beautiful eyes; name of Dharmavivardhana (son of Aśoka), whose son Sampadi 'became the successor of Aśoka'. Eitel. Kuṇāla is also tr. as an evil man, possibly of the evil eye. |
摩哂陀 see styles |
mó shěn tuó mo2 shen3 tuo2 mo shen t`o mo shen to Mashinda |
Mahendra, younger brother of Aśoka, reputed as founder of Buddhism in Ceylon. |
毘多輸 毘多输 see styles |
pí duō shū pi2 duo1 shu1 p`i to shu pi to shu Bitayu |
Vītaśoka, younger brother of Aśoka, v. 阿. |
法阿育 see styles |
fǎ ā yù fa3 a1 yu4 fa a yü Hōaiku |
Dharmāśoka; name given to Aśoka on his conversion; cf. 阿育. |
波吒羅 波咤罗 see styles |
bō zhà luó bo1 zha4 luo2 po cha lo hatara |
Pāṭalī, 鉢怛羅 a tree with scented lossoms, the trumpet-flower, Bignonia Suaveolens. A kingdom i. e. 波吒釐 (波吒釐子); 波吒利弗; 波吒梨耶; 波羅利弗多羅; 巴蓮弗 Pāṭaliputra, originally Kusumapura, the modern Patna; capital of Aśoka, where the third synod was held. |
烏仗那 乌仗那 see styles |
wū zhàng nà wu1 zhang4 na4 wu chang na ujōna |
udyāna, a park or garden; the park (of Aśoka); an 'ancient kingdom in the north-west of India, the country along the Śubhavastu; the Suastene of the Greeks, noted for its forests, flowers, and fruits'. Eitel. Also 烏杖那; 烏場; 烏萇; 烏孫; 烏儞也曩; 烏耆延那said to be the present Yūsufzai. |
無憂樹 无忧树 see styles |
wú yōu shù wu2 you1 shu4 wu yu shu muuju; muyuuju; muyuuju; muuju / muju; muyuju; muyuju; muju むうじゅ; むゆうじゅ; ムユウジュ; ムウジュ |
ashoka tree (Saraca asoca); asoka jonesia aśoka Roxb., the tree under which Śākyamuni is said to have been born. |
無憂王 无忧王 see styles |
wú yōu wáng wu2 you1 wang2 wu yu wang Muu ō |
v. 阿 King Aśoka. |
王舍城 see styles |
wáng shè chéng wang2 she4 cheng2 wang she ch`eng wang she cheng Ōsha jō |
Rājagṛha. King Bimbisāra is said to have removed his capital here from Kuśāgrapura, v. 矩 and 吉, a little further eastward, because of fire and other calamities. Rājagṛha was surrounded by five hills, of which Gṛdhrakūṭa (Vulture Peak) became the most famous. It was the royal city from the time of Bimbisara 'until the time of Aśoka'. Its ruins are still extant at the village of Rājgir, some sixteen miles S. S. W. of Bihār; they 'form an object of pilgrimages for the Jains'. Eitel. The first synod is said to have assembled here. |
畢利叉 毕利叉 see styles |
bì lì chā bi4 li4 cha1 pi li ch`a pi li cha hirisha |
畢洛叉; 畢剌叉 vṛkṣa is a tree; here it is described as the tree i.e. the Jonesia aśoka, a tree under which the Buddha is said to have been born. |
育王寺 see styles |
yù wáng sì yu4 wang2 si4 yü wang ssu Ikuōji |
Aśoka Monastery |
華氏城 华氏城 see styles |
huā shì chéng hua1 shi4 cheng2 hua shih ch`eng hua shih cheng Keshi jō |
Kusumapura, Puṣpapura; the city of flowers, or of the palace of flowers, also known as Pāṭaliputra, the modern Patna. It was the residence of Aśoka, to whom the title of 華氏 is applied. He there convoked the third synod. |
象堅山 象坚山 see styles |
xiàng jiān shān xiang4 jian1 shan1 hsiang chien shan Zōken san |
Pīlusāragiri, a mountain southwest of Kapiśā, on the top of which Aśoka erected a stūpa, the Pīlusāra-stūpa. |
金地國 金地国 see styles |
jīn dì guó jin1 di4 guo2 chin ti kuo Konchi koku |
Suvarṇabhūmi, said to be a country south of Śrāvastī, to which Aśoka sent missionaries. Also 金出; 金田. |
阿儵王 see styles |
ā shù wáng a1 shu4 wang2 a shu wang Ashuku ō |
Aśoka |
阿叔迦 see styles |
ā shú jiā a1 shu2 jia1 a shu chia Ashukuka |
Aśoka |
阿恕伽 see styles |
ā shù qié a1 shu4 qie2 a shu ch`ieh a shu chieh Ajoka |
Aśoka |
阿育王 see styles |
ā yù wáng a1 yu4 wang2 a yü wang Aiku ō |
Ashoka (304-232 BC), Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty 孔雀王朝[Kong3 que4 Wang2 chao2], ruled 273-232 BC Aśoka |
阿舒迦 see styles |
ā shū jiā a1 shu1 jia1 a shu chia Ajoka |
Aśoka |
阿輸伽 阿输伽 see styles |
ā shū qié a1 shu1 qie2 a shu ch`ieh a shu chieh Ashuka |
*Aśoka |
阿輸柯 阿输柯 see styles |
ā shū kē a1 shu1 ke1 a shu k`o a shu ko Ayuka |
Younger brother of Aśoka; he is said to have reigned for seven days and then resigned to Aśoka, but cf. Mahendra under 摩. |
阿輸迦 阿输迦 see styles |
ā shū jiā a1 shu1 jia1 a shu chia Ashuka |
Aśoka |
韋陀輸 韦陀输 see styles |
wéi tuó shū wei2 tuo2 shu1 wei t`o shu wei to shu |
(or 韋馱輸) Vītāśoka, Vigatāśoka, younger brother of king Āśoka. |
五年大會 五年大会 see styles |
wǔ nián dà huì wu3 nian2 da4 hui4 wu nien ta hui gonen daie |
pañca-vārṣika-pariṣad, or mokṣa-mahā-parisad, v. 般. The ancient quinquennial assembly for confession and exhortation, ascribed by some to Aśoka. |
以砂施佛 see styles |
yǐ shā shī fó yi3 sha1 shi1 fo2 i sha shih fo isa sebutsu |
The legend of Aśoka when a child giving a handful of gravel as alms to the Buddha in a previous incarnation, hence his rebirth as a king. |
優婆毱多 优婆毱多 see styles |
yōu pó jú duō you1 po2 ju2 duo1 yu p`o chü to yu po chü to Ubagikuta |
Upagupta, 優婆鞠多 (or 優婆掘多); 優波笈多 (or 優波毱多); 鄔波毱多 (or 鄔波級多 or 鄔波屈多); 烏波毱多. A 'śūdra by birth, who entered upon monastic life when 17 years old'. Eitel. He was renowned as almost a Buddha, lived under King Aśoka, and is reputed as the fifth patriarch, 200 years after the Nirvāṇa. |
優流漫陀 优流漫陀 see styles |
yōu liú màn tuó you1 liu2 man4 tuo2 yu liu man t`o yu liu man to Urumanda |
Urumuṇḍa, name of a mountain in the Aśoka sūtra. |
帝失羅叉 帝失罗叉 see styles |
dì shī luó chā di4 shi1 luo2 cha1 ti shih lo ch`a ti shih lo cha Taishitrasha |
Tiṣya-rakṣitā; 'a concubine of Aśoka, the rejected lover and enemy of Kuṇāla' ( Eitel). M. W. says Aśoka's second wife. |
弗沙蜜多 see styles |
fú shā mì duō fu2 sha1 mi4 duo1 fu sha mi to Hoshamitta |
Puṣyamitra, descendant of Asoka and enemy of Buddhism; possibly a mistake for 弗沙蜜羅. |
弗沙蜜羅 弗沙蜜罗 see styles |
fú shā mì luó fu2 sha1 mi4 luo2 fu sha mi lo Hosshamitta |
Puṣyamitra, the fourth successor of King Aśoka; asking what he should do to perpetuate his name, he was told that Aśoka had erected 84, 000 shrines and he might become famous by destroying them, which he is said to have done, v. 雜阿含經 25. Also see 弗沙蜜多. |
比羅娑落 比罗娑落 see styles |
bǐ luó suō luò bi3 luo2 suo1 luo4 pi lo so lo Hirasaraku |
(比羅娑落山) Pīlusāragiri, 象堅山 Hill firm as an elephant, a mountain southwest of the capital of Kapiśā, 'the tutelary deity of which was converted by Sakvamuni.' Eitel. Aśoka built a stūpa on its summit. 婆 is found in error for 娑 and 洛 for 落. |
般遮于瑟 see styles |
bān zhē yú sè ban1 zhe1 yu2 se4 pan che yü se hansha ushi |
pañca-vārṣika; pañca-pariṣad; mokṣa-mahāpariṣad, the great quinquennial assembly instituted by Aśoka for the confession of sins, the inculcation of morality and discipline, and the distribution of charty; also 般遮婆瑟; 般遮跋瑟迦; 般遮越師; 般遮婆栗迦史; 般遮跋利沙; 般闍于瑟. |
迦膩色伽 迦腻色伽 see styles |
jiā nì sè qié jia1 ni4 se4 qie2 chia ni se ch`ieh chia ni se chieh Kanishikya |
(迦膩伽) Kaniṣka, king of 月支 theYuezhi, i.e. of Tukhāra and the Indo-Scythians, ruler of Gandhāra innorthern Punjab, who conquered northern India and as far as Bactria. Hebecame a patron of Buddhism, the greatest after Aśoka. His date is vaiouslygiven; Keith says 'probably at the close of the first century A.D. ' It isalso put at A.D. 125-165. He convoked 'the third (or fourth) synod' inKashmir, of 500 leading monks, under the presidency of 世友Vasumitra, whenthe canon was revised and settled; this he is said to have had engraved onbrass and placed in a stūpa . |
阿育伽樹 阿育伽树 see styles |
ā yù qié shù a1 yu4 qie2 shu4 a yü ch`ieh shu a yü chieh shu aikuka ju |
The name of a tree under which the mother of the Buddha was painlessly delivered of her son, for which Chinese texts give eight different dates; the jonesia aśoka; it is also called 畢利叉 vṛkṣa. |
阿育王山 see styles |
ā yù wáng shān a1 yu4 wang2 shan1 a yü wang shan aikuouzan / aikuozan あいくおうざん |
(place-name) Asoka Mountain (Zhejiang, China) King Aśoka Mountain |
阿輸伽王 阿输伽王 see styles |
ā shū qié wáng a1 shu1 qie2 wang2 a shu ch`ieh wang a shu chieh wang Ashuga Ō |
King Aśoka |
鳩摩邏多 鸠摩逻多 see styles |
jiū mó luó duō jiu1 mo2 luo2 duo1 chiu mo lo to |
(or 鳩摩邏陀) Kumāralabdha, also 矩 and 拘; two noted monks, one during the period of Aśoka, of the Sautrantika sect; the other Kumāralabdha, or 'Kumārata' (Eitel), the nineteenth patriarch. |
屈屈吒播陀 屈屈咤播陀 see styles |
qū qū zhà bò tuó qu1 qu1 zha4 bo4 tuo2 ch`ü ch`ü cha po t`o chü chü cha po to Kukutahada |
(or屈屈吒波陀) Kukkuṭapādagiri; Cock's foot, a mountain said to be 100 li east of the bodhi tree, and, by Eitel, 7 miles south-east of Gayā, where Kāśyapa entered into nirvāṇa; also known as 窶盧播陀山 tr. by 尊足 'honoured foot'. The legend is that these three sharply rising peaks, on Kāśyapa entering, closed together over him. Later, when Mañjuśrī ascended, he snapped his fingers, the peaks opened, Kāśyapa gave him his robe and entered nirvāṇa by fire. 屈叱阿濫摩 Kukkuṭa-ārāma, a monastery built on the above mountain by Aśoka, cf. 西域記 8. |
微沙落起多 see styles |
wēi shā luò qǐ duō wei1 sha1 luo4 qi3 duo1 wei sha lo ch`i to wei sha lo chi to Misharakita |
Vibhārakṣita ? , a form of Tiṣyarakṣita, Aśoka's queen. |
摩醯因陀羅 摩醯因陀罗 see styles |
mó xì yīn tuó luó mo2 xi4 yin1 tuo2 luo2 mo hsi yin t`o lo mo hsi yin to lo Makeiindara |
(or 摩訶因陀羅) Mahendra, younger brother of Aśoka, who, on repenting of his dissolute life, became an arhat and is said to have founded Buddhism in Ceylon. |
旃陀阿輸柯 旃陀阿输柯 see styles |
zhān tuó ā shū kē zhan1 tuo2 a1 shu1 ke1 chan t`o a shu k`o chan to a shu ko Senda Ashuka |
Cāṇḍāśoka, Cruel Aśoka, a name given to Aśoka before his conversion. |
波羅頗婆底 波罗颇婆底 see styles |
bō luó pǒ pó dǐ bo1 luo2 po3 po2 di3 po lo p`o p`o ti po lo po po ti Harahabatei |
Prabhāvatī, younger sister of Aśoka. |
魔醯因陀羅 魔醯因陀罗 see styles |
mó xì yīn tuó luó mo2 xi4 yin1 tuo2 luo2 mo hsi yin t`o lo mo hsi yin to lo |
Mahendra, a younger brother of Aśoka. |
アショーカ王 see styles |
ashookaou / ashookao アショーカおう |
(person) Asoka the Great; Ashoka the Great (304-232 BCE) |
大權修利菩薩 大权修利菩萨 see styles |
dà quán xiū lì pú sà da4 quan2 xiu1 li4 pu2 sa4 ta ch`üan hsiu li p`u sa ta chüan hsiu li pu sa Daigon Shuri Bosatsu |
A bodhisattva―protector of monasteries, depicted as shading his eyes with his hand and looking afar, said to have been a Warden of the Coast under the emperor Aśoka. |
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