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歡喜光佛


欢喜光佛

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huān xǐ guāng fó
    huan1 xi3 guang1 fo2
huan hsi kuang fo
 Kangi Kōbutsu

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Happy Buddha
Buddha of joyful light, Amitābha.

生老病死

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shēng lǎo bìng sǐ
    sheng1 lao3 bing4 si3
sheng lao ping ssu
 shouroubyoushi / shorobyoshi
    しょうろうびょうし

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Birth Old-Age Sickness Death
lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom); fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)
(yoji) {Buddh} the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death)
Birth, age, sickness, death, the 四苦 four afflictions that are the lot of every man. The five are the above four and 苦 misery, or suffering.

菩提達磨


菩提达磨

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pú tí dá mó
    pu2 ti2 da2 mo2
p`u t`i ta mo
    pu ti ta mo
 bodaidaruma
    ぼだいだるま

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Bodhidharma
{Buddh} (See 達磨・2) Bodhidharma
Bodhidharma, commonly known as Damo, v. 達; reputed as the founder of the Chan (Zen) or Intuitional or Mystic School. His original name is given as 菩提多羅 Bodhitara.

見性成佛


见性成佛

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jiàn xìng chéng fó
    jian4 xing4 cheng2 fo2
chien hsing ch`eng fo
    chien hsing cheng fo
 kenshō jōbutsu
to see one's own nature and (directly) accomplish buddhahood

訖里瑟拏


讫里瑟拏

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qì lǐ sèn á
    qi4 li3 sen4 a2
ch`i li sen a
    chi li sen a
 Kirishina

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Krishna
kṛṣna, black, dark. dark blue; Krishna, the hero-god of India, 'with Buddhists he is chief of the black demons, who are enemies of Buddha and the white demons.' M. W.

身土不二

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 shindofuni
    しんどふに

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Body and Earth in Unity
{Buddh} (See 正報,依報) inseparability of body-mind and geographical circumstances

釋迦牟尼


释迦牟尼

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shì jiā móu ní
    shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2
shih chia mou ni
 Shakamuni

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Shakyamuni / The Buddha
Shakyamuni (Sanskrit for "the Sage of the Shakyas", i.e. the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama)
釋迦文 (釋迦文尼); 釋伽文 Śākyamuni, the saint of the Śākya tribe. muni is saint, holy man, sage, ascetic monk; it is: intp. as 仁 benevolent, charitable, kind, also as 寂默 one who dwells in seclusion. After '500 or 550' previous incarnations, Śākyamuni finally attained to the state of Bodhisattva, was born in the Tuṣita heaven, and descended as a white elephant, through her right side, into the womb of the immaculate Māyā, the purest woman on earth; this was on the 8th day of the 4th month; next year on the 8th day of the 2nd month he was born from her right side painlessly as she stood under a tree in the Lumbinī garden. For the subsequent miraculous events v. Eitel. also the 神通遊戲經 (Lalitavistara), the 釋迦如來成道記, etc. Simpler statements say that he was born the son of Śuddhodana, of the kṣatriya caste, ruler of Kapilavastu, and Māyā his wife; that Māyā died seven days later, leaving him to be brought up by her sister Prājapati; that in due course he was married to Yaśodharā who bore him a son, Rāhula; that in search of truth he left home, became an ascetic, severely disciplined himself, and finally at 35 years of age, under a tree, realized that the way of release from the chain of rebirth and death lay not in asceticism but in moral purity; this he explained first in his four dogmas, v. 四諦 and eightfold noble way 八正道, later amplified and developed in many sermons. He founded his community on the basis of poverty, chastity, and insight or meditation, ad it became known as Buddhism, as he became known as Buddha, the enlightened. His death was probably in or near 487 B.C., a few years before that of Confucius in 479. The sacerdotal name of his family is Gautama, said to be the original name of the whole clan, Śākya being that of his branch, v. 瞿, 喬.; his personal name was Siddhārtha, or Sarvārthasiddha, v. 悉.

阿彌陀佛


阿弥陀佛

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ē mí tuó fó
    e1 mi2 tuo2 fo2
o mi t`o fo
    o mi to fo
 Amida butsu

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Amitabha Buddha
Amitabha Buddha; the Buddha of the Western paradise; may the lord Buddha preserve us!; merciful Buddha!
Amitâbha Buddha

面壁九年

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miàn bì jiǔ nián
    mian4 bi4 jiu3 nian2
mien pi chiu nien
 menpekikunen
    めんぺきくねん

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Facing the Wall Nine Years
(yoji) {Buddh} facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple)
nine years facing the wall

地水火風空

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 chisuikafuukuu; jisuikafuukuu / chisuikafuku; jisuikafuku
    ちすいかふうくう; じすいかふうくう

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Five Elements
{Buddh} earth, water, fire, wind and void (the five elements)

南無阿弥陀仏

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 namuamidabutsu
    なむあみだぶつ

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Namu Amida Butsu
(expression) {Buddh} Namu Amida Butsu; Hail Amitabha Buddha; Homage to Amida Buddha; prayer for rebirth in Sukhavati, the Pure Land of Amitabha

南無阿彌陀佛


南无阿弥陀佛

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nán wú ā mí tuó fó
    nan2 wu2 a1 mi2 tuo2 fo2
nan wu a mi t`o fo
    nan wu a mi to fo
 namo amida butsu

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Namo Amitabha Buddha
homage to Amitâbha Buddha

唵嘛呢叭咪吽

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ǎn má ní bā mī hōng
    an3 ma2 ni2 ba1 mi1 hong1
an ma ni pa mi hung

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Om Mani Padme Hum
om mani padme hum (Buddhist mantra)

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shì
    shi4
shih
 sei / se
    せい
life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime; epoch; descendant; noble
(counter) (1) counter for generations; (suffix noun) (2) {geol} epoch; (personal name) Toki
yuga. An age, 1, 000th part of a kalpa.loka, the world. 世 originally meant a human generation, a period of thirty years; it is used in Buddhism both foryuga, a period of time ever flowing, andloka, the world, worldly, earthly. The world is that which is to be destroyed; it is sunk in the round of mortality, or transmigration; and conceals, or is a veil over reality.

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chéng
    cheng2
ch`eng
    cheng
 jou / jo
    じょう
Japanese variant of 乘[cheng2]
(suffix) (1) (nth) power; (counter) (2) counter for vehicles; (3) multiplication; (4) {Buddh} Buddha's teachings; (surname) Yotsunoya

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shèng
    sheng4
sheng
 jō
(archaic) four horse military chariot; (archaic) four; generic term for history books
Yāna 衍; 野那 a vehicle, wain, any means of conveyance; a term applied to Buddhism as carrying men to salvation. The two chief divisions are the 小乘 Hīnayāna and 大乘 Mahāyāna; but there are categories of one, two, three, four, and five sheng q.v., and they have further subdivisions.

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    ru3
ju
 chichi(p); chi
    ちち(P); ち
breast; milk
(1) milk; (2) breast; (3) (ち only) loop; (4) (ち only) (See 梵鐘) decorative bump (on a hanging bell); (female given name) Miruku
Milk, which in its five forms illustrates the Tiantai 五時教 five periods of the Buddha's teaching.

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shì
    shi4
shih
 ji
    じ
matter; thing; item; work; affair; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]
{Buddh} (See 理・2) individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle); (male given name) Tsutomu
artha 日迦他 (迦 being an error for 遏); affair, concern, matter; action, practice; phenomena; to serve. It is 'practice' or the thing, affair, matter, in contrast with 理 theory, or the underlying principle.

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jiǎ
    jia3
chia
 ke
    け
Japanese variant of 假[jia3]
{Buddh} lacking substance and existing in name only; something without substance; (surname) Kari

使

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shǐ
    shi3
shih
 shi
    し
to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do something; envoy; messenger
(1) messenger; (2) (abbreviation) (See 検非違使) police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); (3) {Buddh} (See 煩悩・2) klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering); (female given name) Tsukasa
To send; cause; a messenger; a pursuer, molester, lictor, disturber, troubler, intp. as 煩惱 kleśa, affliction, distress, worldly cares, vexations, and as consequent reincarnation. There are categories of 10, 16, 98, 112, and 128 such troublers, e. g. desire, hate, stupor, pride, doubt, erroneous views, etc., leading to painful results in future rebirths, for they are karma-messengers executing its purpose. Also 金剛童子 q. v.

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    su2
su
 zoku(p); shoku(ok)
    ぞく(P); しょく(ok)
custom; convention; popular; common; coarse; vulgar; secular
(1) layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; man of the world; the world; (2) local manners; modern customs; (adj-na,adj-no) (3) common; popular; (adj-na,adj-no) (4) (ant: 雅・が・1) vulgar; low
common, ordinary, usual, vulgar.

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jià
    jia4
chia
 ke
vacation
To borrow, pretend, assume, suppose; unreal, false, fallacious. In Buddhism it means empirical; nothing is real and permanent, all is temporal and merely phenomenal, fallacious, and unreal; hence the term is used in the sense of empirical, phenomenal, temporal, relative, unreal, seeming, fallacious, etc. The three fundamental propositions or 三諦 are 空假中 the void, or noumenon; the empirical, or phenomenal; and the mean.

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jié
    jie2
chieh
 ge
    げ
forceful; martial
{Buddh} gatha (poetic verse of a scripture)
gāthā, metrical hymn or chant, often occurring in sutras and usually of 4, 5, or 7 words to the line. Also 偈他 cf. 伽陀.


亿

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    yi4
i
 oku
    おく
100 million
(numeric) hundred million; 100,000,000; 10^8; (female given name) Haruka
A number varying from the Chinese 100,000 to a Buddhist 1,000,000, 10,000,000, and 100,000,000.

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chà
    cha4
ch`a
    cha
 setsu
    せつ
(n,suf) (1) temple (Buddhist); (2) central pillar of a pagoda; (3) (Buddhist term) kshetra (realm, country); ksetra; (female given name) Setsu
cha; translit. kṣ.

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jié
    jie2
chieh
 kou; gou; kou / ko; go; ko
    こう; ごう; コウ
to rob; to plunder; to seize by force; to coerce; calamity; abbr. for kalpa 劫波[jie2 bo1]
(1) (こう, ごう only) {Buddh} kalpa (eon, aeon); (2) (kana only) {go} (usu. コウ) ko; position that allows for eternal capture and recapture of the same stones
刧 A kalpa, aeon, age; also translit. ka; 'a fabulous period of time, a day of Brahmā or 1, 000 Yugas, a period of four hundred and thirty-two million years of mortals, measuring the duration of the world; (a month of Brahmā is supposed to contain thirty such kalpas; according to the Mahābhārata twelve months of Brahmā constitute his year, and one hundred such years his lifetime; fifty years of Brahmā are supposed to have elapsed... ).' M. W. An aeon of incalculable time, therefore called a 大時節 great time-node. v. 劫波.; The three asaṃkhyeya kalpas, the three countless aeons, the period of a bodhisattva's development; also the past 莊嚴劫, the present 賢劫, and the future 星宿劫 kalpas. There are other groups. 三劫三千佛 The thousand Buddhas in each of the three kalpas.

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huà
    hua4
hua
 ka
    か
to make into; to change into; -ization; to ... -ize; to transform; abbr. for 化學|化学[hua4 xue2]
(suffix) (after a noun) (See 機械化,映画化) change to ...; becoming ...; making into ...; -ization; -ification; (personal name) Fua
To transform, metamorphose: (1) conversion by instruction, salvation into Buddhism; (2) magic powers 通力 of transformation, of which there are said to be fourteen mental and eight formal kinds. It also has the meaning of immediate appearance out of the void, or creation 無而忽起; and of giving alms, spending, digesting, melting, etc.

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wàn
    wan4
wan
 manji
    まんじ
swastika, a sacred and auspicious symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism
swastika (esp. a counterclockwise swastika as a Buddhist symbol); fylfot; gammadion; (given name) Manji
sauvastika, 塞縛悉底迦; also styled 室利靺瑳 śrīvatsa, lucky sign, Viṣṇu's breast-curl or mark, tr. by 海雲 sea-cloud, or cirrhus. Used as a fancy form of 萬 or 萬; and is also written in a form said to resemble a curl. It is the 4th of the auspicious signs in the footprint of Buddha, and is a mystic diagram of great antiquity. To be distinguished from 卐svastika, the crampons of which turn to the right.

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wàn
    wan4
wan
 man
swastika, a sacred and auspicious symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, later adopted by Nazi Germany
(Skt. svastika)

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zhuó
    zhuo2
cho
 taku(p); shoku
    たく(P); しょく
outstanding
(1) table; desk; (counter) (2) (たく only) counter for tables, desks, etc.; (3) (しょく only) {Buddh} offering table before an altar (sometimes used in tea ceremony); (4) (しょく only) (abbreviation) (See 卓香炉) tabletop incense burner; (given name) Masaru
Lofty, tall erect.

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yìn
    yin4
yin
 in
    いん
to print; to mark; to engrave; a seal; a print; a stamp; a mark; a trace; image
(1) stamp; seal; chop; (2) seal impression; seal; sealing; stamp; mark; print; (3) {Buddh} mudra (symbolic hand gesture); (4) ninja hand sign; (5) (abbreviation) (See 印度・インド) India; (surname) In
mudrā; seal, sign, symbol, emblem, proof, assurance, approve; also 印契; 契印; 印相. Manual signs indicative of various ideas, e. g. each finger represents one of the five primary elements, earth, water, fire, air, and space, beginning with the little finger; the left hand represents 定 stillness, or meditation, the right hand 慧 discernment or wisdom; they have also many other indications. Also, the various symbols of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, e. g. the thunderbolt; cf. 因.; (度) The five Indias, or five regions of India, idem 五天竺 q. v.

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    ji2
chi
 soku
    そく
namely; that is; i.e.; prompt; at once; at present; even if; prompted (by the occasion); to approach; to come into contact; to assume (office); to draw near
(adv,pref) (1) instantly; immediately; at once; (conjunction) (2) (usu. in negative sentence) equals; means; is; (3) {Buddh} oneness (of two opposing things); inseparability; (given name) Chikashi

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    qu3
ch`ü
    chü
 shu
    しゅ
to take; to get; to choose; to fetch
{Buddh} (See 十二因縁) appropriation; obtaining; (surname) Takadori
upādāna. To grasp, hold on to, held by, be attached to, love; used as indicating both 愛 love or desire and 煩惱 the vexing passions and illusions. It is one of the twelve nidānas 十二因緣 or 十二支 the grasping at or holding on to self-existence and things.

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shòu
    shou4
shou
 ju
    じゅ
to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker); (LGBT) bottom
{Buddh} (See 五蘊,十二因縁) vedana (sensation); (place-name) Uke
To receive, be, bear; intp. of vedana, 'perception,' 'knowledge obtained by the senses, feeling, sensation.' M. W. It is defined as mental reaction to the object, but in general it means receptivity, or sensation; the two forms of sensation of physical and mental objects are indicated. It is one of the five skandhas; as one of the twelve nidānas it indicates the incipient stage of sensation in the embryo.

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hǒu
    hou3
hou
 un
roar or howl of an animal; bellow of rage
M020011 Translit. for hūṃ, which is interpreted as the bodhi, or omniscience, of all Buddhas.


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zhòu
    zhou4
chou
 ju
    じゅ
variant of 咒[zhou4]
(1) spell; curse; (2) (Buddhist term) dharani; mantra; (archaism) spell; curse
(Skt. mantra)

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zhòu
    zhou4
chou
 ju
    じゅ
incantation; magic spell; curse; malediction; to revile; to put a curse on sb
(1) spell; curse; (2) (Buddhist term) dharani; mantra
dhāraṇī 陀羅尼; mantra; an incantation, spell, oath, curse; also a vow with penalties for failure. Mystical, or magical, formulae employed in Yoga. In Lamaism they consist of sets of Tibetan words connected with Sanskrit syllables. In a wider sense dhāraṇī is a treatise with mystical meaning, or explaining it.

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pǐn
    pin3
p`in
    pin
 hon
    ほん
(bound form) article; commodity; product; goods; (bound form) grade; rank; kind; type; variety; character; disposition; nature; temperament; to taste something; to sample; to criticize; to comment; to judge; to size up; fret (on a guitar or lute)
(1) court rank; (suffix) (2) {Buddh} (sometimes pronounced ぼん, ぽん as a suffix) (See 九品・1) level; grade; (suffix) (3) {Buddh} chapter; section; volume; (surname) Shina
varga, 跋渠 class, series, rank, character; a chapter of a sutra.


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bei
    bei5
pei
 bai
    ばい
modal particle indicating lack of enthusiasm; modal particle indicating that things should only or can only be done a certain way
song; (surname) Bai
pāṭha; pāṭhaka; read, recite, intone, chant, hymns in praise of Buddha; 唄匿 is erroneously said to transliterate the Sanskrit root vi-ne and to be the same as 婆陟 (or 婆師), but these are bhāṣa.

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ǎn
    an3
an
 on
    おん
(interjection) oh!; (dialect) to stuff something in one's mouth; (used in buddhist transliterations) om
(interjection) (See オーム) om (ritual chant in Hinduism, etc.); aum
oṃ; auṃ; 'a word of solemn affirmation and respectful assent (sometimes translated by yes, verily, so be it, and in this sense compared with Amen). 'M. W. It is 'the mystic name for the Hindu triad', and has other significations. It was adopted by Buddhists, especially by the Tantric school, as a mystic spell, and as an object of meditation. It forms the first syllable of certain mystical combinations, e. g. 唵?呢叭 061971 吽 oṃ maṇi padme huṃ, which is a formula of the Lamaistic branch, said to be a prayer to Padmapani; each of the six syllables having its own mystic power of salvation from the lower paths of transmigration, etc.; the formula is used in sorcery, auguries, etc.; other forms of it are 唵?呢鉢頭迷吽; 唵麽抳鉢訥銘吽.

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chēn
    chen1
ch`en
    chen
 shin
    しん
to be angry at; to be displeased and annoyed
(Buddhist term) dosa (ill will, antipathy)
anger

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    ga2
ka
phonetic ga (used in rendering Tibetan and Mongolian sounds); Tibetan Ge: language of Buddha; (dialect) final particle similar to 了[le5] (esp. in Yunnan)

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yīn
    yin1
yin
 in
    いん
cause; reason; because
(1) cause; factor; (2) {Buddh} (See 縁・えん・5) hetu (direct cause, esp. as opposed to indirect conditions); (3) (See 因明) the basis of one's argument (in hetuvidya); (personal name) Yukari
hetu: a cause: because: a reason: to follow, it follows, that which produces a 果 result or effect. 因 is a primary cause in comparison with 緣 pratyaya which is an environmental or secondary cause. In the 十因十果 ten causes and ten effects, adultery results in the iron bed, the copper pillar, and the eight hot hells; covetousness in the cold hells; and so on, as shown in the 楞嚴經. Translit. in, yin. Cf. 印.

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gòu
    gou4
kou
 ku
    く
dirt; disgrace
{Buddh} (See 煩悩・2) klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering); (personal name) Yoshimi
mala. Dust, impurity, dregs; moral impurity; mental impurity. Whatever misleads or deludes the mind; illusion; defilement; the six forms are vexation, malevolence, hatred, flattery, wild talk, pride; the seven are desire, false views, doubt, presumption, arrogance, inertia, and meanness.

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    ta3
t`a
    ta
 tou / to
    とう
pagoda; tower; minaret; stupa (abbr. loanword from Sanskrit tapo); CL:座[zuo4]
(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.

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jìng
    jing4
ching
 sakae
    さかえ
border; place; condition; boundary; circumstances; territory
(1) border; boundary; (2) turning point; watershed; (3) area; region; spot; space; environment; (4) psychological state; mental state; (1) border; boundary; (2) area; region; spot; space; environment; (3) psychological state; mental state; (4) (Buddhist term) cognitive object; something perceptible by the sense organs or mind; (surname) Sakae
viṣaya; artha; gocara. A region, territory, environment, surroundings, area, field, sphere, e.g. the sphere of mind, the sphere of form for the eye, of sound for the ear, etc.; any objective mental projection regarded as reality.

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 shou / sho
    しょう
(1) {Buddh} (See 六境) voice; sound; (2) {ling} (also read せい) (See 四声,声点) tone (of Chinese character); tone mark; (3) stress (in pronunciation); intonation; accent; (female given name) Chika

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    ru2
ju
 nyo
    にょ
as; as if; such as
{Buddh} (See 真如) tathata (the ultimate nature of all things); (female given name) Yuki
tathā 多陀; 但他 (or 怛他), so, thus, in such manner, like, as. It is used in the sense of the absolute, the 空 śūnya, which is 諸佛之實相 the reality of all Buddhas; hence 如 ru is 賃相 the undifferentiated whole of things, the ultimate reality; it is 諸法之性 the nature of all things, hence it connotes 法性 faxing which is 眞實之際極 the ultimate of reality, or the absolute, and therefore connotes 實際 ultimate reality. The ultimate nature of all things being 如 ru, the one undivided same, it also connotes 理 li, the principle or theory behind all things, and this 理 li universal law, being the 眞實 truth or ultimate reality; 如 ru is termed 眞如 bhūtatathatā, the real so, or suchness, or reality, the ultimate or the all, i. e. the 一如 yiru. In regard to 如 ju as 理 li the Prajñā-pāramitā puṇḍarīka makes it the 中 zhong, neither matter nor nothingness. It is also used in the ordinary sense of so, like, as (cf yathā).

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zōng
    zong1
tsung
 sou / so
    そう
school; sect; purpose; model; ancestor; clan; to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work); classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs
(1) (rare) origin; source; (2) (rare) virtuous ancestor; (given name) Motoi
Ancestors, ancestral; clan; class, category. kind; school, sect; siddhānta, summary, main doctrine, syllogism, proposition, conclusion, realization. Sects are of two kinds: (1) those founded on principles having historic continuity, as the twenty sects of the Hīnayāna, the thirteen sects of China, and the fourteen sects of Japan: (2) those arising from an individual interpretation of the general teaching of Buddhism, as the sub-sects founded by Yongming 永明 (d. 975), 法相宗, 法性宗, 破相宗, or those based on a peculiar interpretation of one of the recognized sects, as the Jōdo-shinshū 淨土眞宗 found by Shinran-shōnin. There are also divisions of five, six, and ten, which have reference to specific doctrinal differences. Cf. 宗派.

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    si4
ssu
 tera
    てら
Buddhist temple; mosque; government office (old)
temple (Buddhist); (personal name) Teraji
vihāra, 毘訶羅 or 鼻訶羅; saṅghārāma 僧伽藍; an official hall, a temple, adopted by Buddhists for a monastery, many other names are given to it, e. g. 淨住; 法同舍; 出世舍; 精舍; 淸淨園; 金剛刹; 寂滅道場; 遠離處; 親近處 'A model vihāra ought to be built of red sandalwood, with 32 chambers, 8 tāla trees in height, with a garden, park and bathing tank attached; it ought to have promenades for peripatetic meditation and to be richly furnished with stores of clothes, food, bedsteads, mattresses, medicines and all creature comforts.' Eitel.

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zūn
    zun1
tsun
 son
    そん
senior; of a senior generation; to honor; to respect; honorific; classifier for cannons and statues; ancient wine vessel
(1) zun (ancient Chinese wine vessel, usu. made of bronze); (prefix) (2) (archaism) (honorific or respectful language) honorific prefix referring to the listener; (suf,ctr) (3) counter for buddhas; (female given name) Mikoto
To honour. ārya; honoured, honourable.

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    ni2
ni
 ni
    に
Buddhist nun; (often used in phonetic spellings)
(n,n-suf) (1) (abbreviation) {Buddh} (See 比丘尼・1) bhikkhuni (fully ordained nun); (2) (abbreviation) (See 印度尼西亜・インドネシア) Indonesia; (given name) Ni
To stop; a nun; near; translit. ni. When used for a nun it is an abbrev. for 比丘尼 bhikṣuṇī.


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shī
    shi1
shih
 shi
    し
teacher; master; expert; model; army division; (old) troops; to dispatch troops
(1) teacher; master; mentor; (n,suf) (2) religious leader; (suffix) (3) specialist; (4) (hist) five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou dynasty Chinese army); (surname) Morosaki
A host, army; a leader, preceptor, teacher, model; tr. of upādhyāya, an 'under-teacher', generally intp. as a Buddhist monk.

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fān
    fan1
fan
 ban
    ばん
banner
{Buddh} pataka (banner); (surname) Hata
patākā, a flag, banner.

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zhuàng
    zhuang4
chuang
 hataboko
    はたぼこ
classifier for buildings; carriage curtain (old)
(Buddhist term) long-handled Chinese spear bearing a small flag; (1) (Buddhist term) long-handled Chinese spear bearing a small flag; (2) banner; hanging
dhvaja; ketu. A pennant, streamer, flag, sign.

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zuò
    zuo4
tso
 za
    ざ
seat; base; stand; (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address, e.g. 师座|师座[shi1 zuo4]; CL:個|个[ge4]; classifier for buildings, mountains and similar immovable objects
(1) seat; place; (2) position; status; (3) gathering; party; company; atmosphere (of a gathering); (4) stand; pedestal; platform; (5) (hist) trade guild; (suffix) (6) attaches to the names of constellations; (suffix) (7) attaches to the names of theatres, cinemas and theatrical troupes; (suf,ctr) (8) (See 里神楽) counter for theatres, deities, Buddhist images, tall mountains, and satokagura songs; (surname) Za
āsana. A seat; throne; classifier of buildings, etc.

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hóng
    hong2
hung
 hiromu
    ひろむ
great; liberal
(male given name) Hiromu
Vast, great; to enlarge, spread abroad; e. g. 弘宣; 弘教; 弘法; 弘通 widely to proclaim the Buddhist truth.

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dei
    dei3
tei
 toku
    とく
to have to; must; ought to; to need to
(noun or adjectival noun) (1) (also written as 徳) profit; advantage; benefit; gain; (noun or adjectival noun) (2) {Buddh} rebirth in paradise, entering nirvana; (surname) Toku
prāp; prāpta. To get, obtain, attain to; got, obtained, etc.

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xìng
    xing4
hsing
 narikuse
    なりくせ
nature; character; property; quality; attribute; sexuality; sex; gender; suffix forming adjective from verb; suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity; essence; CL:個|个[ge4]
(archaism) disposition; nature; character; (surname) Shou
svabhāva, prakṛti, pradhāna. The nature intp. as embodied, causative, unchanging; also as independent or self-dependent; fundamental nature behind the manifestation or expression. Also, the Buddha-nature immanent in all beings, the Buddha heart or mind.

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huì
    hui4
hui
 meguru
    めぐる
Japanese variant of 惠[hui4]
(1) wisdom; enlightenment; (2) (Buddhist term) prajna (one of the three divisions of the noble eightfold path); wisdom; (female given name) Meguru

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bēi
    bei1
pei
 hi
    ひ
sad; sadness; sorrow; grief
{Buddh} karuna (compassion)
karuṇā; kṛpā. Sympathy, pity for another in distress and the desire to help him, sad.

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huò
    huo4
huo
 waku
    わく
to confuse; to be puzzled
{Buddh} (See 煩悩・ぼんのう・2) klesha; (given name) Waku
moha. Illusion, delusion, doubt, unbelief; it is also used for kleśa, passion, temptation, distress, care, trouble.

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xiǎng
    xiang3
hsiang
 sou / so
    そう
to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)
(1) conception; idea; thought; (2) {Buddh} (See 五蘊) samjna (perception); (given name) Nozomu
To think, meditate, reflect, expect; a function of mind.

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    wo3
wo
 ga
    が
I; me; my
(1) {Buddh} obstinacy; (2) atman; the self; the ego
I, my, mine; the ego, the master of the body, compared to the ruler of a country. Composed of the five skandhas and hence not a permanent entity. It is used for ātman, the self, personality. Buddhism takes as a fundamental dogma 無我, i.e. no 常我, no permanent ego, only recognizing a temporal or functional ego. The erroneous idea of a permanent self continued in reincarnation is the source of all illusion. But the Nirvana Sutra definitely asserts a permanent ego in the transcendental world, above the range of reincarnation; and the trend of Mahāyāna supports such permanence; v. 常我樂淨.

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jiè
    jie4
chieh
 kai; ingoto(ok)
    かい; いんごと(ok)
to guard against; to exhort; to admonish or warn; to give up or stop doing something; Buddhist monastic discipline; ring (for a finger)
(1) (かい only) {Buddh} admonition; commandment; (2) sila (precept)
śīla, 尸羅. Precept, command, prohibition, discipline, rule; morality. It is applied to the five, eight, ten, 250, and other commandments. The five are: (1) not to kill; (2 ) not to steal; (3) not to commit adultery; (4) not to speak falsely; (5) not to drink wine. These are the commands for lay disciples; those who observe them will be reborn in the human realm. The Sarvāstivādins did not sanction the observance of a limited selection from them as did the 成實宗 Satyasiddhi school. Each of the five precepts has five guardian spirits, in all twenty-five, 五戒二十五神. The eight for lay disciples are the above five together with Nos. 7, 8, and 9 of the following; the ten commands for the ordained, monks and nuns, are the above five with the following: (6) not to use adornments of flowers, nor perfumes; (7) not to perform as an actor, juggler, acrobat, or go to watch and hear them; (8) not to sit on elevated, broad, and large divans (or beds); (9) not to eat except in regulation hours; (10) not to possess money, gold or silver, or precious things. The 具足戒full commands for a monk number 250, those for a nun are 348, commonly called 500. Śīla is also the first of the 五分法身, i.e. a condition above all moral error. The Sutra of Brahma's Net has the following after the first five: (6) not to speak of the sins of those in orders; (7) not to vaunt self and depreciate others; (8) not to be avaricious; (9) not to be angry; (10) not to slander the triratna.


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shě
    she3
she
 sha
    しゃ
to give up; to abandon; to give alms
{Buddh} equanimity; upeksa; upekkha
upekṣā, neglect, indifference, abandoning, M.W. To relinquish, renounce, abandon, reject, give. One of the chief Buddhist virtues, that of renunciation, leading to a state of "indifference without pleasure or pain" (Keith), or independence of both. v. 舍. It is defined as the mind 平等 in equilibrium, i.e. above the distinction of things or persons, of self or others; indifferent, having abandoned the world and all things and having no affections or desires. One of the seven bodhyaṅgas. Translit. sa, śa, s(r).

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chǔ
    chu3
ch`u
    chu
 sho
    しょ
pestle; to poke
(See 金剛杵・こんごうしょ) vajra (mystical weapon in Hinduism and Buddhism)
pounder

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guǒ
    guo3
kuo
 ka
    か
fruit; result; resolute; indeed; if really
(1) {Buddh} (See 因・2) phala (attained state, result); (2) {Buddh} (See 悟り・2) enlightenment (as the fruits of one's Buddhist practice); (3) (See 果物) fruit; (counter) (4) counter for pieces of fruit; (male given name) Minoru
phala, 頗羅 fruit; offspring; result, consequence, effect; reward, retribution; it contrasts with cause, i. e. 因果 cause and effect. The effect by causing a further effect becomes also a cause.

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zhù
    zhu4
chu
 hashira
    はしら
pillar; CL:根[gen1]
(1) pillar; post; (2) support; prop; mainstay; (suf,ctr) (3) counter for buddhas, gods, nobles, etc.; (personal name) Mihashira
Pillar, post, support.

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yuè
    yue4
yüeh
 raku
    らく
Japanese variant of 樂|乐[yue4]
(noun or adjectival noun) (1) comfort; ease; relief; (at) peace; relaxation; (noun or adjectival noun) (2) easy; simple; without trouble; without hardships; (noun or adjectival noun) (3) (economically) comfortable; (4) (abbreviation) (See 楽焼き) raku pottery; (5) {Buddh} (ant: 苦・2) sukha (happiness); (surname, female given name) Raku


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quán
    quan2
ch`üan
    chüan
 gon
    ごん
authority; power; right; (literary) to weigh; expedient; temporary
(surname) Gon
The weight (on a steelyard), weight, authority, power; to balance, adjudge; bias, expediency, partial, provisional, temporary, positional; in Buddhist scriptures it is used like 方便 expediency, or temporary; it is the adversative of 實 q.v.

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yǎn
    yan3
yen
 hiroshi
    ひろし
to perform (a play etc); to stage (a show); (bound form) to develop; to play out; to carry out (a task)
(given name) Hiroshi
To extend, expound, practise, perform.

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xuán
    xuan2
hsüan
 fukashi
    ふかし
black; mysterious
(given name) Fukashi
Dark, sombre, black; abstruse, obscure, deep, profound; hence it is used to indicate Daoism, and was afterwards adopted by the Buddhists.

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zhū
    zhu1
chu
 megumi
    めぐみ
bead; pearl; CL:粒[li4],顆|颗[ke1]
(1) ball; sphere; globe; orb; (2) bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; droplet; (3) ball (in sports); (4) pile (of noodles, etc.); (5) bullet; (6) bulb (i.e. a light bulb); (7) lens (of glasses, etc.); (8) bead (of an abacus); (9) (slang) (abbreviation) ball (i.e. a testicle); (10) gem; jewel (esp. spherical; sometimes used figuratively); pearl; (11) female entertainer (e.g. a geisha); (12) (derogatory term) person (when commenting on their nature); character; (13) item, funds or person used as part of a plot; (n,n-suf) (14) egg; (suffix noun) (15) coin; (16) precious; beautiful; excellent; (female given name) Megumi
mani. A pearl; a bead; synonym for buddha-truth.

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chī
    chi1
ch`ih
    chih
 chi
    ち
    oko
    おこ
imbecile; sentimental; stupid; foolish; silly
(1) foolishness; fool; (2) (Buddhist term) moha (ignorance, folly); (noun or adjectival noun) foolish thing; stupid thing; absurdity
moha, 'unconsciousness,' 'delusion,' 'perplexity,' 'ignorance, folly,' 'infatuation,' etc. M.W. Also, mūḍha. In Chinese it is silly, foolish, daft, stupid. It is intp. by 無明 unenlightened, i.e. misled by appearances, taking the seeming for real; from this unenlightened condition arises every kind of kleśa, i.e. affliction or defilement by the passions, etc. It is one of the three poisons, desire, dislike, delusion.


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chī
    chi1
ch`ih
    chih
 chi
    ち
variant of 痴[chi1]
(out-dated kanji) (1) foolishness; fool; (2) (Buddhist term) moha (ignorance, folly)
v. 痴 13.

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xiàng
    xiang4
hsiang
 sou / so
    そう
appearance; portrait; picture; government minister; (physics) phase; (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features); to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)
(1) aspect; appearance; look; (2) physiognomy (as an indication of one's fortune); (3) {gramm} aspect; (4) {physics;chem} phase (e.g. solid, liquid and gaseous); (given name) Tasuku
lakṣana 攞乞尖拏. Also, nimitta. A 'distinctive mark, sign', 'indication, characteristic', 'designation'. M. W. External appearance; the appearance of things; form; a phenomenon 有爲法 in the sense of appearance; mutual; to regard. The four forms taken by every phenomenon are 生住異滅 rise, stay, change, cease, i. e. birth, life, old age, death. The Huayan school has a sixfold division of form, namely, whole and parts, together and separate, integrate and disintegrate. A Buddha or Cakravartī is recognized by his thirty-two lakṣana , i. e. his thirty-two characteristic physiological marks.

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chēn
    chen1
ch`en
    chen
 shin
    しん
(literary) to stare angrily; to glare
(Buddhist term) dosa (ill will, antipathy)
krodha; pratigha; dveṣa; one of the six fundamental kleśas, anger, ire, wrath, resentment, one of the three poisons; also called 瞋恚.

穿

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chuān
    chuan1
ch`uan
    chuan
 haku
    はく
to wear; to put on; to dress; to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to penetrate; to pass through; to thread
(female given name) Haku
To bore, pierce; to thread; to don, put on. To bore a well and gradually discover water, likened to the gradual discovery of the Buddha-nature.

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děng
    deng3
teng
 ra
    ら
to wait for; to await; by the time; when; till; and so on; etc.; et al.; (bound form) class; rank; grade; (bound form) equal to; same as; (used to end an enumeration); (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
(suffix) (1) (kana only) pluralizing suffix; (suffix) (2) (kana only) (See あちら,いくら・1) or so; rough indicator of direction, location, amount, etc.; (suffix) (3) (kana only) (after the stem of an adjective) (See 清ら) nominalizing suffix; (s,m,f) Hitoshi
To pair; parallel, equal, of like order; a class, grade, rank; common; to wait; sign of plural. In Buddhist writings it is also used for 'equal everywhere', 'equally everywhere', 'universal'.


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jīng
    jing1
ching
 tsune
    つね
classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 經濟|经济[jing1 ji4]
(female given name) Tsune
A warp, that which runs lengthwise; to pass through or by, past; to manage, regulate; laws, canons, classics. Skt. sūtras; threads, threaded together, classical works. Also called 契經 and 經本. The sūtras in the Tripiṭaka are the sermons attributed to the Buddha; the other two divisions are 律 the Vinaya, and 論 the śāstras, or Abhidharma; cf. 三藏. Every sūtra begins with the words 如是我聞 'Thus did I hear', indicating that it contains the words of Śākyamuni.


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    zi1
tzu
Buddhists; black silk; dark


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yuán
    yuan2
yüan
 en
cause; reason; karma; fate; predestined affinity; margin; hem; edge; along
pratyaya means conviction, reliance, but with Buddhists especially it means 'a co-operating cause, the concurrent occasion of an event as distinguished from its proximate cause'. M.W. It is the circumstantial, conditioning, or secondary cause, in contrast with 因 hetu, the direct or fundamental cause. hetu is as the seed, pratyaya the soil, rain, sunshine, etc. To reason, conclude. To climb, lay hold of. The mind 能緣can reason, the objective is 所緣, the two in contact constitute the reasoning process. The four kinds of causes are 因緣; 次第緣; 緣緣, and 增上緣 q.v.


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    la4
la
 rou / ro
    ろう
old variant of 臘|腊[la4]
(1) {Buddh} year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat); (2) becoming more experienced with age; social status based on this experience
The end of a Buddhist year; a Buddhist year; v. 臘.


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    la4
la
 rou / ro
    ろう
ancient practice of offering sacrifices to the gods in the 12th lunar month; the 12th lunar month; (bound form) (of meat, fish etc) cured in winter, esp. in the 12th lunar month
(1) {Buddh} offering ceremony held on the third day of the dog after the winter solstice; (2) twelfth month of the lunisolar calendar; (3) (See 臈) year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat)
Dried flesh; to sacrifice to the gods three days after the winter solstice; the end of the year; a year; a monastic year, i.e. the end of the annual summer retreat, also called 戒臘; 夏臘; 法臘.

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    zi4
tzu
 ji
    じ
(bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
(prefix) (1) self-; (prefix) (2) (See 至) from (a time or place); (female given name) Mizu
sva, svayam; the self, one' s own, personal; of itself, naturally, of course; also, from (i. e. from the self as central). 自 is used as the opposite of 他 another, other's, etc., e. g. 自力 (in) one's own strength as contrasted with 他力 the strength of another, especially in the power to save of a Buddha or Bodhisattva. It is also used in the sense of ātman 阿怛摩 the self, or the soul.

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    ku3
k`u
    ku
 ku
    く
bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly
(1) pain; anguish; suffering; distress; anxiety; worry; trouble; difficulty; hardship; (2) {Buddh} (See 八苦) duhkha (suffering)
duḥkha, 豆佉 bitterness; unhappiness, suffering, pain, distress, misery; difficulty. There are lists of two, three, four, five, eight, and ten categories; the two are internal, i. e. physical and mental, and external, i. e. attacks from without. The four are birth, growing old, illness, and death. The eight are these four along with the pain of parting from the loved, of meeting with the hated, of failure in one's aims, and that caused by the five skandhas; cf. 四諦.

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ān
    an1
an
small Buddhist temple


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zhù
    zhu4
chu
 cho
    ちょ
to make known; to show; to prove; to write; book; outstanding
(1) work; book; (suffix) (2) (a book) by; (noun or adjectival noun) (3) obvious; striking; (personal name) Akira
To manifest, display, publish, fix; interchanged with 着. In a Buddhist sense it is used for attachment to anything, e.g. the attachment of love, desire, greed, etc.; To cover, put on; cause; place; complete; ought, must.


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hūn
    hun1
hun
 kun
    くん
strong-smelling vegetable (garlic etc); non-vegetarian food (meat, fish etc); vulgar; obscene
(1) strong-smelling vegetable (esp. garlic, onion, Chinese chives, Chinese scallion, Japanese garlic); (2) pungent vegetable (esp. ginger and water pepper)
Strongly smelling vegetables, e.g. onions, garlic, leeks, etc., forbidden to Buddhist vegetarians; any non-vegetarian food.


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    sa4
sa
 satsusa
    さつさ
Bodhisattva; surname Sa
(surname) Satsusa
A character introduced by the Buddhists, used as a translit. of sa sounds.

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zàng
    zang4
tsang
 kura
    くら
storehouse; depository; Buddhist or Taoist scripture
(surname) Kura
Treasury, thesaurus, store, to hide; the Canon. An intp. of piṭaka, a basket, box, granary, collection of writings. The 二藏 twofold canon may be the sutras and the vinaya; or the Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna scriptures. The 三藏 or tripiṭaka consists of the sutras, vinaya, and śāstras (abhidharma). The 四藏 fourfold canon adds a miscellaneous collection. The 五藏 fivefold collection is sutras, vinaya, abhidharma, miscellaneous, and spells, or, instead of the spells, a bodhisattva collection. There is also an esoteric fivefold canon, the first three being the above, the last two being the prājñāpāramitā and the dhāraṇīs.


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    qi2
ch`i
    chi
robe of a Buddhist monk or nun
See:


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    fu4
fu
 fuku
    ふく
to cover; to overflow; to overturn; to capsize
(1) {Buddh} concealment (of one's vices); veil; cover; (2) (rare) overturning; toppling; (personal name) Buchi
To throw over, overthrow; prostrate; to and fro; repeated; to report; to cover.

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guān
    guan1
kuan
 kan
    かん
Japanese variant of 觀|观[guan1]
(n,n-suf) (1) look; appearance; (n,n-suf) (2) spectacle; sight; (n,n-suf) (3) {Buddh} observation meditation; (suffix noun) (4) outlook on ...; view of ...; (female given name) Miru

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 soku
    そく
(1) {Buddh} contact; touch; (2) {Buddh} tactile object; (3) {Buddh} uncleanliness; (surname) Fure


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zhèng
    zheng4
cheng
 shou / sho
    しょう
to admonish; variant of 證|证[zheng4]
(1) proof; evidence; (suffix noun) (2) certificate; license; permit; membership card; ID card; (3) {Buddh} enlightenment; (4) symptoms (in Chinese medicine); patient's condition; (given name) Shou


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    di4
ti
 tai
    たい
to examine; truth (Buddhism)
{Buddh} satya; truth; (given name) Tai
To judge, examine into, investigate, used in Buddhism for satya, a truth, a dogma, an axiom; applied to the āryasatyāni, the four dogmas, or noble truths, of 苦, 集, 滅, and 道 suffering, (the cause of its) assembly, the ( possibility of its cure, or) extinction, and the way (to extinction), i.e. the eightfold noble path, v. 四諦 and 八聖道. There are other categories of 諦, e.g. (2) 眞 and 俗 Reality in contrast with ordinary ideas of things; (3) 空, 假 and 中 q.v. (6) by the 勝論宗; and(8) by the 法相宗.; Two forms of statement: (a) 俗諦 saṃvṛti-satya, also called 世諦, 世俗諦, 覆俗諦, 覆諦, meaning common or ordinary statement, as if phenomena were real; (b) 眞諦 paramartha-satya, also called 第一諦, 勝義諦, meaning the correct dogma or averment of the enlightened. Another definition is 王法 and 佛法, royal law and Buddha law.


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jiǎng
    jiang3
chiang
 kou / ko
    こう
to speak; to explain; to negotiate; to emphasize; to be particular about; as far as something is concerned; speech; lecture
(n,n-suf) (1) (Buddhist) lecture meeting; (n,n-suf) (2) religious association; (n,n-suf) (3) mutual assistance association (i.e. for financial assistance); (surname) Kōsaki
To talk, explain, preach, discourse.


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zhì
    zhi4
chih
 shiki
    しき
to record; to write a footnote
(1) acquaintanceship; (2) {Buddh} vijnana; consciousness; (3) (after a signature) written by...; (personal name) Tsuguhide
vijñāna, "the art of distinguishing, or perceiving, or recognizing, discerning, understanding, comprehending, distinction, intelligence, knowledge, science, learning . . . wisdom." M.W. parijñāna, "perception, thorough knowledge," etc. M.W. It is intp. by 心 the mind, mental discernment, perception, in contrast with the object discerned; also by 了別 understanding and discrimination. There are classifications of 一識 that all things are the one mind, or are metaphysical; 二識 q. v. discriminating the ālaya-vijñāna or primal undivided condition from the mano-vijñāna or that of discrimination; 三識 in the Laṅkāvatāra Sutra, fundamental, manifested and discriminate; 五識 q.v. in the 起信論, i.e. 業, 轉, 現, 知, and 相續識; 六識 the perceptions and discernings of the six organs of sense; also of 8, 9, 10, and 11 識. The most important is the eight of the 起信論, i.e. the perceptions of the six organs of sense, eye, ear, nose, tongue, body (or touch), and mind, together with manas, intp. as 意識 the consciousness of the previous moment, on which the other six depend; the eighth is the ālaya-vijñāna, v. 阿賴耶, in which is contained the seed or stock of all phenomena and which 無沒 loses none, or nothing, is indestructible; a substitute for the seventh is ādāna 'receiving' of the 唯識, which is intp. as 無解 undiscriminated, or indefinite perception; there is a difference of view between the 相 and the 性 schools in regard to the seventh and eight 識; and the latter school add a ninth called the amala, or pure vijñāna, i.e. the non-phenomenal 眞如識. The esoterics add that all phenomena are mental and all things are the one mind, hence the one mind is 無量識 unlimited mind or knowledge, every kind of knowledge, or omniscience. vijñāna is one of the twelve nidānas.; Ālaya-vijñāna and mano-vijñāna; i. e. 阿梨耶 | and 分別事 |; v. 識.

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