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大仏 see styles |
daibutsu だいぶつ |
large statue of Buddha (trad. at least 4.8m high); (place-name, surname) Daibutsu |
大佛 see styles |
dà fó da4 fo2 ta fo daibutsuku だいぶつく |
(place-name) Daibutsuku large Buddha |
大化 see styles |
dà huà da4 hua4 ta hua taika たいか |
(hist) Taika era (645.6.19-650.2.15); (place-name) Taika The transforming teaching and work of a Buddha in one lifetime. |
大士 see styles |
dà shì da4 shi4 ta shih futoshi ふとし |
(personal name) Futoshi Mahasattva. 開士 A great being, noble, a leader of men, a bodhisattva; also a śrāvaka, a Buddha; especially one who 自利利他 benefits himself to help others. |
大天 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. |
大寶 大宝 see styles |
dà bǎo da4 bao3 ta pao oodakara おおだから |
(archaic) throne (surname) Oodakara Great Jewel, most precious thing, i.e. the Dharma or Buddha-law; the bodhisattva; the fire-altar of the esoteric cult. |
大德 see styles |
dà dé da4 de2 ta te daitoku |
bhadanta. 婆檀陀 Most virtuous, a title of honor of a Buddha; in the Vinaya applied to monks. |
大念 see styles |
dà niàn da4 nian4 ta nien dainen |
(大念佛) Invoking Buddha with a loud voice; meditating on Buddha with continuous concentration. |
大意 see styles |
dà yi da4 yi5 ta i taii / tai たいい |
careless synopsis; precis; summary; gist; outline; (personal name) Masamoto The general meaning or summary of a sutra or śāstra. Also, the name of a youth, a former incarnation of the Buddha : to save his nation from their poverty, he plunged into the sea to obtain a valuable pearl from the sea-god who, alarmed by the aid rendered by Indra, gave up the pearl ; v. 大意經. |
大我 see styles |
dà wǒ da4 wo3 ta wo taiga たいが |
the collective; the whole; (Buddhism) the greater self (female given name) Taiga The greater self, or the true personality 眞我. Hīnayāna is accused of only knowing and denying the common idea of a self, or soul, whereas there is a greater self, which is a nirvana self. It especially refers to the Great Ego, the Buddha, but also to any Buddha ;v.大目經1, etc., and 涅槃經 23. |
大教 see styles |
dà jiào da4 jiao4 ta chiao daikyō |
The great teaching. (1) That of the Buddha. (2) Tantrayāna. The mahātantra, yoga, yogacarya, or tantra school which claims Samantabhadra as its founder. It aims at ecstatic union of the individual soul with the world soul, Iśvara. From this result the eight great powers of Siddhi (aṣṭa-mahāsiddhi), namely, ability to (1) make one's body lighter (laghiman); (2) heavier (gaiman); (3) smaller (aṇiman); (4) larger (mahiman) than anything in the world ; (5) reach any place (prāpti) ; (6) assume any shape (prākāmya) ; (7) control all natural laws (īśitva) ; (8) make everything depend upon oneself; all at will (v.如意身 and 神足). By means of mystic formulas (Tantras or dhāraṇīs), or spells (mantras), accompanied by music and manipulation of the hands (mūdra), a state of mental fixity characterized neither by thought nor the annihilation of thought, can be reached. This consists of six-fold bodily and mental happiness (yoga), and from this results power to work miracles. Asaṅga compiled his mystic doctrines circa A.D. 500. The system was introduced into China A.D. 647 by Xuanzang's translation of the Yogācārya-bhūmi-śāstra 瑜伽師地論 ; v. 瑜. On the basis of this, Amoghavajra established the Chinese branch of the school A.D. 720 ; v. 阿目. This was popularized by the labours of Vajrabodhi A.D. 732 ; v. 金剛智. |
大日 see styles |
dà rì da4 ri4 ta jih dainichi だいにち |
Mahavairocana (Tathagata); Great Sun; Supreme Buddha of Sino-Japanese esoteric Buddhism; (place-name, surname) Dainichi Vairocana, or Mahāvairocana 大日如來; 遍照如來; 摩訶毘盧遮那； 毘盧遮那; 大日覺王 The sun, "shining everywhere" The chief object of worship of the Shingon sect in Japan, "represented by the gigantic image in the temple at Nara." (Eliot.) There he is known as Dai-nichi-nyorai. He is counted as the first, and according to some, the origin of the five celestial Buddhas (dhyāni-buddhas, or jinas). He dwells quiescent in Arūpa-dhātu, the Heaven beyond form, and is the essence of wisdom (bodhi) and of absolute purity. Samantabhadra 普賢 is his dhyāni-bodhisattva. The 大日經 "teaches that Vairocana is the whole world, which is divided into Garbhadhātu (material) and Vajradhātu (indestructible), the two together forming Dharmadhātu. The manifestations of Vairocana's body to himself―that is, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas ―are represented symbolically by diagrams of several circles ". Eliot. In the 金剛界 or vajradhātu maṇḍala he is the center of the five groups. In the 胎藏界 or Garbhadhātu he is the center of the eight-leaf (lotus) court. His appearance, symbols, esoteric word, differ according to the two above distinctions. Generally he is considered as an embodiment of the Truth 法, both in the sense of dharmakāya 法身 and dharmaratna 法寳. Some hold Vairocana to be the dharmakāya of Śākyamuni 大日與釋迦同一佛 but the esoteric school denies this identity. Also known as 最高顯廣眼藏如來, the Tathagata who, in the highest, reveals the far-reaching treasure of his eye, i.e. the sun. 大日大聖不動明王 is described as one of his transformations. Also, a śramaņa of Kashmir (contemporary of Padma-saṃbhava); he is credited with introducing Buddhism into Khotan and being an incarnation of Mañjuśrī; the king Vijaya Saṃbhava built a monastery for him. |
大法 see styles |
dà fǎ da4 fa3 ta fa daihou / daiho だいほう |
(1) {Buddh} great teachings (of the Buddha); (2) {Buddh} teachings of the Mahayana; (3) {Buddh} most important ritual (in esoteric Buddhism); (given name) Taihou The great Dharma, or Law (of Mahāyāna salvation). |
大相 see styles |
dà xiàng da4 xiang4 ta hsiang daisuke だいすけ |
(given name) Daisuke mahārūpa; great form. The kalpa of Mahābhijñā-jñānabhibhu, who is to appear as Buddha in a realm called Saṃbhava. |
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. |
大身 see styles |
dà shēn da4 shen1 ta shen taishin たいしん |
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. |
天冠 see styles |
tiān guàn tian1 guan4 t`ien kuan tien kuan tenkan; tengan てんかん; てんがん |
(1) imperial coronation crown; (2) celestial crown; crown worn by Buddha and celestial beings A deva-crown, surpassing human thought. |
天子 see styles |
tiān zǐ tian1 zi3 t`ien tzu tien tzu tenshi てんし |
the (rightful) emperor; "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation) (1) emperor; ruler (with a heavenly mandate); (2) heavenly being; celestial being; (female given name) Yoshiko A son of Heaven. The Emperor-Princes, i. e. those who in previous incarnations have kept the middle and lower grades of the ten good qualities 十善 and, in consequence, are born here as princes. It is the title of one of the four mara, who is 天主 or lord of the sixth heaven of desire; he is also known as 天子魔 (天子業魔) and with his following opposes the Buddha-truth. |
天尊 see styles |
tiān zūn tian1 zun1 t`ien tsun tien tsun tenson てんそん |
(honorific appellation of a deity) (given name) Tenson The most honoured among devas, a title of a Buddha, i. e. the highest of divine beings; also used for certain maharāja protectors of Buddhism and others in the sense of honoured devas. Title applied by the Daoists to their divinities as a counterpart to the Buddhist 世尊. |
天帝 see styles |
tiān dì tian1 di4 t`ien ti tien ti tentei / tente てんてい |
God of heaven; Celestial emperor (1) Shangdi (supreme deity in ancient Chinese religion); (2) {Christn} God; (3) {Buddh} (See 帝釈天・たいしゃくてん) Shakra (king of heaven in Hindu mythology); Indra King, or emperor of Heaven, i. e. 因陀羅 Indra, i. e. 釋 (釋迦); 釋迦婆; 帝 (帝釋); Śakra, king of the devaloka 忉利天, one of the ancient gods of India, the god of the sky who fights the demons with his vajra, or thunderbolt. He is inferior to the trimūrti, Brahma, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, having taken the place of Varuṇa, or sky. Buddhism adopted him as its defender, though, like all the gods, he is considered inferior to a Buddha or any who have attained bodhi. His wife is Indrāṇī. |
天童 see styles |
tiān tóng tian1 tong2 t`ien t`ung tien tung tendou / tendo てんどう |
cherub; gods disguised as children; children parading as cherubs; (place-name, surname) Tendou Divine youths, i. e. deva guardians of the Buddha-law who appear as Mercuries, or youthful messengers of the Buddhas and bodhisattvas. |
天花 see styles |
tiān huā tian1 hua1 t`ien hua tien hua tenge てんげ |
smallpox; ceiling; stamen of corn; (old) snow; (dialect) sesame oil (Buddhist term) flowers that bloom in the heavens; paper flowers scattered before the Buddha's image; snow; (place-name) Tenge heavenly flowers |
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. |
天蓋 天盖 see styles |
tiān gài tian1 gai4 t`ien kai tien kai tengai てんがい |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) canopy; dome; (noun - becomes adjective with の) (2) (See 虚無僧) priestly minstrel's reed hood; reed hood worn by Komuso priests A Buddha's canopy, or umbrella; a nimbus of rays of light, a halo. |
天魔 see styles |
tiān mó tian1 mo2 t`ien mo tien mo tenma てんま |
demonic; devil {Buddh} (See 四魔) demon of the sixth heaven in the realm of desire who tries to prevent people from doing good deva-māra, 魔羅 one of the four Māras, who dwells in the sixth heaven. Paranirmita-vaśa-vartin, at the top of the Kāmadhātu, with his innumerable host, whence he constantly obstructs the Buddha-truth and its followers. He is also styled 殺者 the slayer; also 波旬 explained by 惡愛 sinful love or desire, as he sends his daughters to seduce the saints; also 波卑 (波卑夜) Papiyan, the evil one. He is the special Māra of the Śākyamuni period; other Buddhas suffer from other Māras; v. 魔. |
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. |
夾侍 see styles |
kyouji / kyoji きょうじ |
(out-dated kanji) (Buddhist term) flanking image (e.g. in a Buddha triad) |
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. |
奉行 see styles |
fèng xíng feng4 xing2 feng hsing bugyou / bugyo ぶぎょう |
to pursue (a course, a policy) (hist) magistrate; shogunate administrator; (personal name) Tomoyuki To obey and do (the Buddha's teaching). |
契心 see styles |
qì xīn qi4 xin1 ch`i hsin chi hsin kaishin |
to realize [one's inherent Buddha-]mind |
奠茶 see styles |
diàn chá dian4 cha2 tien ch`a tien cha ten cha |
To make an offering of tea to a Buddha, a spirit, etc. |
女人 see styles |
nǚ ren nu:3 ren5 nü jen nyonin; jojin にょにん; じょじん |
wife woman Woman, described in the Nirvāṇa sūtra 浬槃經 9 as the "abode of all evil", 一切女人皆是衆惡之所住處 The 智度論 14 says: 大火燒人是猶可近, 淸風無形是亦可捉, 蚖蛇含毒猶亦可觸, 女人之心不可得實 "Fierce fire that would burn men may yet be approached, clear breezes without form may yet be grasped, cobras that harbour poison may yet be touched, but a woman's heart is never to be relied upon." The Buddha ordered Ānanda: "Do not Look at a woman; if you must, then do not talk with her; if you must, then call on the Buddha with all your mind"— an evidently apocryphal statement of 文句 8. |
如佛 see styles |
rú fó ru2 fo2 ju fo nyo butsu |
buddha-like |
如是 see styles |
rú shì ru2 shi4 ju shih nyoze にょぜ |
thus (1) {Buddh} (See 如是我聞) ("like this"; often the opening word of a sutra); (2) (abbreviation) (See 十如是) ten thusnesses (in Tendai); (given name) Nyoze evam; thus, so; so it is; so let it be; such and such; (as)... so. Most of the sūtras open with the phrase如是我聞 or 聞如是 Thus have I heard, i. e. from the Buddha. |
如法 see styles |
rú fǎ ru2 fa3 ju fa nyohou / nyoho にょほう |
observance of the Buddha's teachings; (personal name) Yukinori According to the Law, according to rule. |
妙因 see styles |
miào yīn miao4 yin1 miao yin myōin |
The profound cause, the discipline of the bodhisattva, i.e. chastity, and the six pāramitās, etc., as producing the Buddha-fruit. |
妙土 see styles |
miào tǔ miao4 tu3 miao t`u miao tu myōdo |
The wonderful land; a Buddha's reward-land; especially the Western Paradise of Amitābha. |
妙心 see styles |
miào xīn miao4 xin1 miao hsin myōshin |
The mind or heart wonderful and profound beyond human thought. According to Tiantai the 別教 limited this to the mind 眞心 of the Buddha, while the 圓教 universalized it to include the unenlightened heart 妄心 of all men. |
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). |
妙色 see styles |
miào sè miao4 se4 miao se myōshiki |
surūpa, 蘇樓波. The wonderful form or body, i.e. of a Buddha's saṃbhogakāya and his Buddha-land. |
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. |
始教 see styles |
shǐ jiào shi3 jiao4 shih chiao shikyō |
According to Tiantai, the preliminary teaching of the Mahāyāna, made by the Avataṃsaka (Kegon) School; also called 相始教; it discussed the nature of all phenomena as in the 唯識論, 空始教; and held to the immateriality of all things, but did not teach that all beings have the Buddha-nature. |
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. |
婆藪 婆薮 see styles |
pó sǒu po2 sou3 p`o sou po sou basō |
vasu 婆萸; good; rich; sweet; dry; according to Monier-Williams, eight personifications of natural phenomena; eight; the sun, etc.; father of Kṛṣṇa; intp. as the first to offer slain sacrifices to Heaven, to have been cast into hell, but after countless kalpas to have become a disciple of Buddha. Also called Vasudeva. Also name of certain devas, e.g. Viṣṇu; and other beings whom men serve, e.g. a father. |
嫓摩 see styles |
pì mó pi4 mo2 p`i mo pi mo |
Bhīmā, terrible, fearful; name of Śiva' s wife. 'A city west of Khoten noted for a Buddha-statue, which had transported itself thither from Udjyana.' Eitel. Xuanzang's Pimo. v. 毗. |
子安 see styles |
koyasu こやす |
(1) (abbreviation) safe, easy childbirth; (2) (See 子安観音,子安地蔵) guardian bodhisattva, buddha or deity of children or childbirth (esp. Ksitigarbha or Avalokitesvara); (surname) Shian |
孤園 孤园 see styles |
gū yuán gu1 yuan2 ku yüan Koen |
(孤獨園); 給園; 祗洹; 逝多林 Jetavana, the seven-story abode and park presented to Śākyamuni by Anāthapiṇḍaka, who bought it from the prince Jeta. It was a favourite resort of the Buddha, and 'most of the sūtras (authentic and suppositious) date from this spot'. Eitel. |
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. |
定水 see styles |
dìng shuǐ ding4 shui3 ting shui sadamizu さだみず |
(surname) Sadamizu Calm waters; quieting the waters of the heart (and so beholding the Buddha, as the moon is reflected in still water). |
定身 see styles |
dìng shēn ding4 shen1 ting shen jōshin |
The dharmakāya of meditation, one of the 五分法身 five forms of the Buddha-dharmakāya. |
宝号 see styles |
hougou / hogo ほうごう |
name (of a buddha or bodhisattva) |
宝生 see styles |
houshou / hosho ほうしょう |
{Buddh} Ratnasambhava; The Jewel-born (a dhyani-Buddha); (place-name) Housei |
実化 see styles |
jikke じっけ |
{Buddh} (See 権化・1) noumenal Buddha (in comparison to phenomenal Buddha) |
宮胎 宫胎 see styles |
gōng tāi gong1 tai1 kung t`ai kung tai kutai |
The palace-womb, where those who call on Amitābha but are in doubt of him are confined for 500 years, devoid of the riches of Buddha-truth, till born into the Pure Land; idem 疑城胎宮. |
家因 see styles |
jiā yīn jia1 yin1 chia yin kein |
the causes of being in the Buddha's family |
宿住 see styles |
sù zhù su4 zhu4 su chu shukujū |
pūrva-nivāsa, former abidings, or habitations, hence宿住通 (宿住隨念智證通), i.e. Buddha-knowledge of the former incarnations of himself and others. |
密印 see styles |
mì yìn mi4 yin4 mi yin mitsuin |
The esoteric digital sign of a buddha or bodhisattva indicative of his vow. |
密字 see styles |
mì zì mi4 zi4 mi tzu mitsuji |
The esoteric letter of Vairocana, or of a buddha or bodhisattva. |
寝仏 see styles |
nebotoke ねぼとけ |
(See 涅槃像) image of the Buddha entering nirvana |
實化 实化 see styles |
shí huà shi2 hua4 shih hua jikke |
The real or noumenal Buddha as contrasted with 權化 the temporal or phenomenal Buddha; the 實化二身 are his 報身 saṃbhogakāya and his 化身 nirmāṇakāya. |
實眼 实眼 see styles |
shí yǎn shi2 yan3 shih yen jitsugen |
An eye able to discern reality, i.e. the Buddha-eye. |
寶刹 宝刹 see styles |
bǎo chà bao3 cha4 pao ch`a pao cha hōsetsu |
The precious kṣetra, or Buddha-realm; a monastery. |
寶城 宝城 see styles |
bǎo chéng bao3 cheng2 pao ch`eng pao cheng hō jō |
The city full of precious things, in the Nirvana Sutra, i.e. the teaching of the Buddha. |
寶洲 宝洲 see styles |
bǎo zhōu bao3 zhou1 pao chou hōshū |
The precious continent, or wonderful land of a Buddha. |
寶王 宝王 see styles |
bǎo wáng bao3 wang2 pao wang hōō |
The Precious King, or King of Treasures, a title of Buddha; the ruler of the continent west of Sumeru, also called 寶主 Jewel-lord, or Lord of jewels. |
寶生 宝生 see styles |
bǎo shēng bao3 sheng1 pao sheng hōshō |
Ratnasaṃbhava, one of the five dhyāni-buddhas, the central figure in the southern 'diamond' maṇḍala, The realm of Subhūti on his becoming Buddha. |
寶界 宝界 see styles |
bǎo jiè bao3 jie4 pao chieh hōkai |
The saptaratna realm of every buddha, his Pure Land. |
寶相 宝相 see styles |
bǎo xiàng bao3 xiang4 pao hsiang hōsō |
The precious likeness, or image (of Buddha). ratnaketu, one of the seven tathāgatas; a name of Ānanda as a future buddha; the name under which 2,000 of Śākyamuni's disciples are to be reborn as buddhas. |
寶筏 宝筏 see styles |
bǎo fá bao3 fa2 pao fa hōbatsu |
The precious raft of buddha-truth, which ferries over the sea of mortality to nirvana. |
寶藏 宝藏 see styles |
bǎo zàng bao3 zang4 pao tsang hōzō |
precious mineral deposits; hidden treasure; (fig.) treasure; (Buddhism) the treasure of Buddha's law The treasury of precious things, the wonderful religion of Buddha. |
対治 see styles |
taiji たいじ |
(noun/participle) (1) extermination (e.g. of pests, demons, bandits); elimination; eradication; suppression; (2) (Buddhist term) making someone renounce worldly desires in order to concentrate on Buddha's teachings; (3) curing illness |
封體 封体 see styles |
fēng tǐ feng1 ti3 feng t`i feng ti fūtai |
To seal up a god or Buddha in a body by secret methods. |
專念 专念 see styles |
zhuān niàn zhuan1 nian4 chuan nien sennen |
To fix the mind, or attention, upon; solely to invoke (a certain buddha). |
尊体 see styles |
sontai そんたい |
(1) (honorific or respectful language) your (his, her) health; (2) (honorific or respectful language) image (e.g. of Buddha) |
尊敕 see styles |
zūn chì zun1 chi4 tsun ch`ih tsun chih sonchoku |
The honourable commands, Buddha's teaching. |
尊道 see styles |
zūn dào zun1 dao4 tsun tao takamichi たかみち |
(given name) Takamichi the pre-eminent (Buddha-)Path |
對揚 对扬 see styles |
duì yáng dui4 yang2 tui yang taiyō |
One who drew out remarks or sermons from the Buddha. |
對法 对法 see styles |
duì fǎ dui4 fa3 tui fa taihō |
The corresponding law, the philosophy in the Buddha's teaching, the Abhidharma; comparison of cause and effect. |
導師 导师 see styles |
dǎo shī dao3 shi1 tao shih doushi / doshi どうし |
tutor; teacher; academic advisor (1) {Buddh} officiating priest; presiding priest at a ceremony; (2) (esp. Buddhist) religious teacher; highly-ranked priest; (3) guru; instructor (yoga, etc.) nāyaka; a leader, guide, one who guides men to Buddha's teaching; applied also to Buddhas and bodhisattvas, and to the leaders of the ritual in Buddhist services; v. 天人道師. |
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. |
小念 see styles |
xiǎo niàn xiao3 nian4 hsiao nien |
To repeat Buddha's name in a quiet voice, opposite of 大 |. |
小聖 小圣 see styles |
xiǎo shèng xiao3 sheng4 hsiao sheng kosato こさと |
(female given name) Kosato The Hīnayāna saint, or arhat. The inferior saint, or bodhisattva, as compared with the Buddha. |
尸棄 尸弃 see styles |
shī qì shi1 qi4 shih ch`i shih chi Shiki |
Śikhin, 式棄; 式詰; 尸棄那 (or 尸棄佛); 罽那尸棄; crested, or a fame; explained by 火 fire; 刺那尸棄 Ratnaśikhin occurs in the Abhidharma. In the 本行經 it is 螺髻 a shell like tuft of hair. (1) The 999th Buddha of the last kalpa, whom Śākyamuni is said to have met. (2) The second of the seven Buddhas of antiquity, born in Prabhadvaja 光相城 as a Kṣatriya. (3) A Maha-brahma, whose name Śikhin is defined as 頂髻 or 火災頂 having a flaming tuft on his head; connected with the world-destruction by fire. The Fanyimingyi 翻譯名義 describes Śikhin as 火 or 火首 fame, or a flaming head and as the god of fire, styled also 樹提 Suddha, pure; he observed the 火定 Fire Dhyāna, broke the lures of the realm of desire, and followed virtue. |
山斤 see styles |
shān jīn shan1 jin1 shan chin sankin |
The weight of a mountain, or of Sumeru— may be more readily ascertained than the eternity of the Buddha. |
崇佛 see styles |
chóng fó chong2 fo2 ch`ung fo chung fo sū butsu |
worship the Buddha |
己界 see styles |
jǐ jiè ji3 jie4 chi chieh |
The buddha-kāya, or realm of Buddha in contrast with the realm of ordinary beings. |
己證 己证 see styles |
jǐ zhèng ji3 zheng4 chi cheng koshō |
自證 Self-attained assurance of the truth, such as that of the Buddha. |
布薩 布萨 see styles |
bù sà bu4 sa4 pu sa fusatsu |
poṣadha, upavasatha, upoṣana; 布沙他 (or 布灑他); 褒沙陀 Pali: uposatha; fasting, a fast, the nurturing or renewal of vows, intp. by 淨住 or 善宿 or 長養, meaning abiding in retreat for spiritual refreshment. There are other similar terms, e. g. 布薩陀婆; 優補陀婆; also 布薩犍度 which the Vinaya uses for the meeting place; 鉢囉帝提舍耶寐 pratideśanīya, is self-examination and public confession during the fast. It is also an old Indian fast. Buddha's monks should meet at the new and fall moons and read the Prātimokṣa sutra for their moral edification, also disciples at home should observe the six fast days and the eight commands. The 布薩日 fast days are the 15th and 29th or 30th of the moon. |
帝沙 see styles |
dì shā di4 sha1 ti sha teisa / tesa ていさ |
(female given name) Teisa Tiṣya; an ancient Buddha; also the father of Śāriputra. |
帝相 see styles |
dì xiàng di4 xiang4 ti hsiang Taisō |
Indra-dhvaja, a Buddha 'said to have been a contemporary of Śākyamuni, living south-west of our universe, an incarnation of the seventh son of Mahābhijñajñānabhibhū.' Eitel. |
師子 师子 see styles |
shī zǐ shi1 zi3 shih tzu noriko のりこ |
(1) lion; (2) left-hand guardian dog at a Shinto shrine; (female given name) Noriko siṃha, a lion; also 枲伽; idem獅子 Buddha, likened to the lion, the king of animals, in respect of his fearlessness. |
帰命 see styles |
kimyou / kimyo きみょう |
{Buddh} (transl. of the Sanskrit "namas") (See 南無) devoting one's life to the Buddha; obeying the Buddha's teachings |
常光 see styles |
cháng guāng chang2 guang1 ch`ang kuang chang kuang tokimitsu ときみつ |
(given name) Tokimitsu The unceasing radiance of the Buddha's body, represented as a halo. |
常身 see styles |
cháng shēn chang2 shen1 ch`ang shen chang shen jōshin |
The eternal Buddha-body, the dharmakāya. |
底沙 see styles |
dǐ shā di3 sha1 ti sha Teisha |
Tiṣya. (1) The twenty-third of the twenty-eight constellations 鬼宿 γδηθ in Cancer; it has connection with Śiva. (2) Name of a Buddha who taught Śākyamuni and Maitreya in a former incarnation. |
座像 see styles |
zazou / zazo ざぞう |
seated figure (e.g. of Buddha); sedentary statue; sedentary image |
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