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信 see styles |
xìn xin4 hsin shin しん |
More info & calligraphy: Honesty / Fidelity(1) honesty; sincerity; fidelity; (2) trust; reliance; confidence; (3) (religious) faith; devotion; (counter) (4) counter for received messages; (female given name) Yuki śraddhā. Faith; to believe; belief; faith regarded as the faculty of the mind which sees, appropriates, and trusts the things of religion; it joyfully trusts in the Buddha, in the pure virtue of the triratna and earthly and transcendental goodness; it is the cause of the pure life, and the solvent of doubt. Two forms are mentioned: (1) adhimukti, intuition, tr. by self-assured enlightenment. (2) śraddhā, faith through hearing or being taught. For the Awakening of Faith, Śraddhotpāda, v. 起信論. |
動 动 see styles |
dòng dong4 tung dou / do どう |
More info & calligraphy: Dynamic(ant: 静・1) motion; (female given name) Yurugi Move, stir, motion, mutable; movement arises from the nature of wind which is the cause of motion. |
博 see styles |
bó bo2 po haku(p); baku はく(P); ばく |
More info & calligraphy: Bo(suffix noun) (1) doctor; PhD; (suffix noun) (2) exposition; fair; exhibition; (given name) Hiromu Wide, universal; widely read, versed in; to cause; gamble; barter. |
烈 see styles |
liè lie4 lieh retsu れつ |
More info & calligraphy: Ardent / Fierce(female given name) Retsu Burning, fierce; virtuous, heroic. |
公案 see styles |
gōng àn gong1 an4 kung an kouan / koan こうあん |
More info & calligraphy: Koan{Buddh} koan; kōan; Zen question for meditation (e.g. the sound of one hand clapping) J. kōan; 因緣 A dossier, or case-record; a cause; public laws, regulations; case-law. Problems set by Zen masters, upon which thought is concentrated as a means to attain inner unity and illumination. |
四諦 四谛 see styles |
sì dì si4 di4 ssu ti shitai したい |
More info & calligraphy: Four Noble Truths (Buddhism){Buddh} (See 苦集滅道) The Four Noble Truths catvāri-ārya-satyāni; 四聖諦; 四眞諦. The four dogmas, or noble truths, the primary and fundamental doctrines of Śākyamuni, said to approximate to the form of medical diagnosis. They are pain or 'suffering, its cause, its ending, the way thereto; that existence is suffering, that human passion (taṇhā, 欲 desire) is the cause of continued suffering, that by the destruction of human passion existence may be brought to an end; that by a life of holiness the destruction of human passion may be attained'. Childers. The four are 苦, 聚 (or 集), 滅, and 道諦, i. e. duḥkha 豆佉, samudaya 三牟提耶, nirodha 尼棲陀, and mārga 末加. Eitel interprets them (1) 'that 'misery' is a necessary attribute of sentient existence'; (2) that 'the 'accumulation' of misery is caused by the passions'; (3) that 'the 'extinction' of passion is possible; (4) mārga is 'the doctrine of the 'path' that leads to the extinction of passion'. (1) 苦 suffering is the lot of the 六趣 six states of existence; (2) 集 is the aggregation (or exacerbation) of suffering by reason of the passions; (3) 滅 is nirvana, the extinction of desire and its consequences, and the leaving of the sufferings of mortality as void and extinct; (4) 道 is the way of such extinction, i. e. the 八正道 eightfold correct way. The first two are considered to be related to this life, the last two to 出世間 a life outside or apart from the world. The four are described as the fundamental doctrines first preached to his five former ascetic companions. Those who accepted these truths were in the stage of śrāvaka. There is much dispute as to the meaning of 滅 'extinction' as to whether it means extinction of suffering, of passion, or of existence. The Nirvana Sutra 18 says that whoever accepts the four dogmas will put an end to births and deaths 若能見四諦則得斷生死 which does not of necessity mean the termination of existence but that of continued transmigration. v. 滅. |
因果 see styles |
yīn guǒ yin1 guo3 yin kuo inga いんが |
More info & calligraphy: Karma - Cause and Effect(1) cause and effect; causality; (2) {Buddh} karma; fate; (adjectival noun) (3) unfortunate; unlucky; ill-fated Cause and effect; every cause has its effect, as every effect arises from a cause. |
因緣 因缘 see styles |
yīn yuán yin1 yuan2 yin yüan innen |
More info & calligraphy: Fate / Opportunity / Chancehetupratyaya. Cause; causes; 因 hetu, is primary cause, 緣 pratyaya, secondary cause, or causes, e. g. a seed is 因, rain, dew, farmer, etc., are 緣. The 十二因緣 twelve nidānas or links are 'the concatenation of cause and effect in the whole range of existence'. |
如來 如来 see styles |
rú lái ru2 lai2 ju lai nyorai にょらい |
More info & calligraphy: Tathagata(out-dated kanji) Tathagata; perfected one (suffix of high-ranking Buddhist deities) tathāgata, 多陀阿伽陀 q. v.; 怛他揭多 defined as he who comes as do all other Buddhas; or as he who took the 眞如 zhenru or absolute way of cause and effect, and attained to perfect wisdom; or as the absolute come; one of the highest titles of a Buddha. It is the Buddha in his nirmāṇakāya, i. e. his 'transformation' or corporeal manifestation descended on earth. The two kinds of Tathāgata are (1) 在纏 the Tathāgata in bonds, i. e. limited and subject to the delusions and sufferings of life, and (2) 出纏 unlimited and free from them. There are numerous sutras and śāstras bearing this title of 如來 rulai. |
有緣 有缘 see styles |
yǒu yuán you3 yuan2 yu yüan uen |
More info & calligraphy: Karma ConnectionThose who have the cause, link, or connection, i. e. are influenced by and responsive to the Buddha. |
正命 see styles |
zhèng mìng zheng4 ming4 cheng ming shoumyou / shomyo しょうみょう |
More info & calligraphy: 5. Right Living / Right Livelihood / Perfect Livelihoodsamyagājīva, the fifth of the 八正道, right livelihood, right life; 'abstaining from any of the forbidden modes of living. ' 正因 The true or direct cause, as compared with 緣因 a contributory cause. |
自愛 自爱 see styles |
zì ài zi4 ai4 tzu ai jiai じあい |
More info & calligraphy: Self-Love / Love Yourself / Love Oneself(n,vs,vi) (1) (See ご自愛ください) taking care of oneself; (n,vs,vi) (2) self-love Self-love, cause of all pursuit or seeking, which in turn causes all suffering. All Buddhas put away self-love and all pursuit, or seeking, such elimination being nirvāṇa. |
自然 see styles |
zì rán zi4 ran2 tzu jan jinen じねん |
More info & calligraphy: Nature(n,adv) (dated) occurring naturally (without human influence); (female given name) Minori svayaṃbhū, also 自爾; 法爾 self-existing, the self-existent; Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and others; in Chinese it is 'self-so', so of itself, natural, of course, spontaneous. It also means uncaused existence, certain sects of heretics 自然外道 denying Buddhist cause and effect and holding that things happen spontaneously. |
集諦 集谛 see styles |
jí dì ji2 di4 chi ti jittai じったい |
More info & calligraphy: Four Noble Truths: Desire and Attachmentsamudaya, the second of the four dogmas, that the cause of suffering lies in the passions and their resultant karma. The Chinese 集 'accumulation' does not correctly translate samudaya, which means 'origination'. |
一致団結 see styles |
icchidanketsu いっちだんけつ |
More info & calligraphy: Solidarity / Working Together as One |
見義勇為 见义勇为 see styles |
jiàn yì yǒng wéi jian4 yi4 yong3 wei2 chien i yung wei |
More info & calligraphy: Courage to do what is right |
因 see styles |
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. |
故 see styles |
gù gu4 ku yue ゆえ |
happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead (adv,n) (kana only) reason; cause; circumstances Old, of old; from of old; cause; purposely; to die; tr. pūrva. |
由 see styles |
yóu you2 yu yoshitsugu よしつぐ |
to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ... (1) reason; significance; cause; (2) piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...; (personal name) Yoshitsugu From; by: a cause, motive; to allow, let; translit. yo, yu; e. g. 由乾; 由乾陀羅 由乾陁羅, Yugaṃdhara, idem 踰健達羅. |
事由 see styles |
shì yóu shi4 you2 shih yu jiyuu / jiyu じゆう |
main content; matter; work; origin of an incident; cause; purpose; subject (of business letter) reason; cause |
原因 see styles |
yuán yīn yuan2 yin1 yüan yin genin(p); geiin(ik) / genin(p); gen(ik) げんいん(P); げいいん(ik) |
cause; origin; root cause; reason; CL:個|个[ge4] (n,vs,vi) cause; origin; source original cause |
因由 see styles |
yīn yóu yin1 you2 yin yu inyu いんゆ |
reason; cause; predestined relationship (Buddhism) (n,vs,vi) cause to be owing to |
大義 大义 see styles |
dà yì da4 yi4 ta i taigi たいぎ |
righteousness; virtuous cause; a woman's marriage; main points of a piece of writing great cause; moral law; justice; (personal name) Hiroyoshi great import |
成因 see styles |
chéng yīn cheng2 yin1 ch`eng yin cheng yin seiin / sen せいいん |
cause; factor; cause of formation origin; cause |
死因 see styles |
sǐ yīn si3 yin1 ssu yin shiin / shin しいん |
cause of death cause of death |
病原 see styles |
bìng yuán bing4 yuan2 ping yüan byougen / byogen びょうげん |
cause of disease; pathogen (noun - becomes adjective with の) origin of an illness; cause of a disease; pathogenesis; etiology |
病因 see styles |
bìng yīn bing4 yin1 ping yin byouin / byoin びょういん |
cause of disease; pathogen (noun - becomes adjective with の) the cause of a disease |
病根 see styles |
bìng gēn bing4 gen1 ping ken byoukon / byokon びょうこん |
an incompletely cured illness; an old complaint; the root cause of trouble cause of a disease; root of an evil |
病源 see styles |
bìng yuán bing4 yuan2 ping yüan byougen / byogen びょうげん |
cause of disease (noun - becomes adjective with の) origin of an illness; cause of a disease; pathogenesis; etiology |
禍根 祸根 see styles |
huò gēn huo4 gen1 huo ken kakon かこん |
root of the trouble; cause of the ruin root of an evil; source of a problem; source of trouble; cause of misfortune |
誘因 诱因 see styles |
yòu yīn you4 yin1 yu yin yuuin / yuin ゆういん |
cause; triggering factor; incentive; inducement contributing cause; exciting cause; incentive; motive |
起因 see styles |
qǐ yīn qi3 yin1 ch`i yin chi yin kiin / kin きいん |
cause; a factor (leading to an effect) (noun/participle) cause; origin |
近因 see styles |
jìn yīn jin4 yin1 chin yin kinin きんいん |
immediate cause; proximate cause (See 遠因) immediate cause; proximate cause immediate or direct cause |
遠因 远因 see styles |
yuǎn yīn yuan3 yin1 yüan yin enin えんいん |
indirect cause; remote cause (See 近因) remote cause; underlying cause; indirect cause distant or indirect cause |
令 see styles |
lìng ling4 ling rei / re れい |
to order; to command; an order; warrant; writ; to cause; to make something happen; virtuous; honorific title; season; government position (old); type of short song or poem (n,n-suf) (1) command; order; dictation; (prefix) (2) (See 令和) nth year in the Reiwa era (May 1, 2019-); (personal name) Reiji cause |
伻 see styles |
bēng beng1 peng |
to cause |
使 see styles |
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. |
俾 see styles |
bǐ bi3 pi hi |
to cause; to enable; phonetic bi; Taiwan pr. [bi4] To cause, enable. |
倪 see styles |
ní ni2 ni nii / ni にい |
(literary) small child; (literary) limit; bound; extremity; (literary) to differentiate; (literary) origin; cause (surname) Nii |
原 see styles |
yuán yuan2 yüan hara はら |
former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source field; plain; prairie; tundra; moor; wilderness; (surname) Yanagiwara Origin, original. |
害 see styles |
hài hai4 hai gai がい |
to do harm to; to cause trouble to; harm; evil; calamity injury; harm; evil influence; damage hiṃsā; vihiṃsā; hurt, harm, injure. |
惹 see styles |
rě re3 je ja |
to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems) Incite, provoke, irritate; translit. j, ja, jña; cf. 社; 闍. |
招 see styles |
zhāo zhao1 chao maneki まねき |
to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess (surname) Maneki Call, beckon, notify, cause; confess. |
教 see styles |
jiào jiao4 chiao yuki ゆき |
religion; teaching; to make; to cause; to tell (female given name) Yuki pravacana, to teach, instruct, inculcate; śāśana, teaching, precept, doctrine; āgama, sect, school, church. |
斷 断 see styles |
duàn duan4 tuan dan |
to break; to snap; to cut off; to give up or abstain from something; to judge; (usu. used in the negative) absolutely; definitely; decidedly uccheda; to cut off, end, get rid of, cause to cease; decide, decidedly. |
有 see styles |
yǒu you3 yu yuu / yu ゆう |
to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional) (1) existence; (n,n-pref) (2) possession; having; (3) (abbreviation) (in company names; written as (有)) (See 有限会社) limited company; (personal name) Yumi bhāva: that which exists, the existing, existence; to have, possess, be. It is defined as (1) the opposite of 無 wu and 空 kong the non-existent; (2) one of the twelve nidānas, existence; the condition which, considered as cause, produces effect; (3) effect, the consequence of cause; (4) anything that can be relied upon in the visible or invisible realm. It means any state which lies between birth and death, or beginning and end. There are numerous categories— 3, 4, 7, 9, 18, 25, and 29. The 三有 are the 三界 trailokya, i. e. 欲, 色 and 無色界 the realms of desire, of form, and of non-form, all of them realms of mortality; another three are 本有 the present body and mind, or existence, 當有 the future ditto, 中有 the intermediate ditto. Other definitions give the different forms or modes of existence. |
果 see styles |
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. |
根 see styles |
gēn gen1 ken ne ね |
root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; CL:條|条[tiao2]; radical (chemistry) (1) root (of a plant); (2) root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); (3) root (of all evil, etc.); source; origin; cause; basis; (4) one's true nature; (5) (fishing) reef; (personal name) Nemawari mūla, a root, basis, origin; but when meaning an organ of sense, indriyam, a 'power', 'faculty of sense, sense, organ of sense'. M.W. A root, or source; that which is capable of producing or growing, as the eye is able to produce knowledge, as faith is able to bring forth good works, as human nature is able to produce good or evil karma. v. 五根 and 二十二根. |
止 see styles |
zhǐ zhi3 chih tomeru とめる |
to stop; to prohibit; until; only (given name) Tomeru To stop, halt, cease; one of the seven definitions of 禪定 dhyāna described as 奢摩他 śamatha or 三摩地 samādhi; it is defined as 靜息動心 silencing, or putting to rest the active mind, or auto-hypnosis; also 心定止於一處 the mind centred, lit. the mind steadily fixed on one place, or in one position. It differs from 觀 which observes, examines, sifts evidence; 止 has to do with 拂妄 getting rid of distraction for moral ends; it is abstraction, rather than contemplation; see 止觀 In practice there are three methods of attaining such abstraction: (a) by fixing the mind on the nose, navel, etc.; (b) by stopping every thought as it arises; (c) by dwelling on the thought that nothing exists of itself, but from a preceding cause. |
殉 see styles |
xùn xun4 hsün junji じゅんじ |
to be buried with the dead; to die for a cause (personal name) Junji |
汚 污 see styles |
wū wu1 wu yogore; yogore よごれ; ヨゴレ |
variant of 污[wu1] (kana only) (See 汚鮫・よごれざめ,オーシャニックホワイトティップシャーク) oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus) Filthy, impure. kleśa; contamination of attachment to the pleasures of sense, to heretical views, to moral and ascetic practices regarded as adequate to salvation, to the belief in the self, all which cause misery.; Impure; to defile. |
滅 灭 see styles |
miè mie4 mieh metsu |
to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out; to drown Extinguish, exterminate, destroy; a tr. of nirodha, suppression, annihilation; of nirvāṇa, blown out, extinguished, dead, perfect rest, highest felicity, etc.; and of nivṛtti, cessation, disappearance. nirodha is the third of the four axioms: 苦, 集, 滅, 道 pain, its focussing, its cessation (or cure), the way of such cure. Various ideas are expressed as to the meaning of 滅, i.e. annihilation or extinction of existence; or of rebirth and mortal existence; or of the passions as the cause of pain; and it is the two latter views which generally prevail; cf. M017574 10 strokes. |
滋 see styles |
zī zi1 tzu masa まさ |
to grow; to nourish; to increase; to cause; juice; taste; (dialect) to spout; to spurt (personal name) Masa more and more |
濟 济 see styles |
jì ji4 chi wataru わたる |
to cross a river; to aid or relieve; to be of help (personal name) Wataru To cross a stream; aid; cause, bring about. |
物 see styles |
wù wu4 wu mono(p); mon; mono もの(P); もん; モノ |
(bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself (1) thing; object; article; stuff; substance; (2) (as 〜のもの, 〜のもん) one's things; possessions; property; belongings; (3) things; something; anything; everything; nothing; (4) quality; (5) reason; the way of things; (6) (kana only) (formal noun often used as 〜ものだ) used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc.; used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense); used to indicate a general tendency; used to indicate something that should happen; (suffix noun) (7) (kana only) item classified as ...; item related to ...; work in the genre of ...; (suffix noun) (8) cause of ...; cause for ...; (prefix) (9) (もの only) (See 物寂しい・ものさびしい) somehow; somewhat; for some reason; (prefix) (10) (もの only) (See 物珍しい・ものめずらしい) really; truly; (surname) Mono Thing, things in general, beings, living beings, matters; "substance," cf. 陀羅驃 dravya. |
破 see styles |
pò po4 p`o po ha は |
broken; damaged; worn out; lousy; rotten; to break, split or cleave; to get rid of; to destroy; to break with; to defeat; to capture (a city etc); to expose the truth of (See 序破急) middle section of a song (in gagaku or noh); (surname) Hazaki To break, disrupt, destroy, cause schism; solve, disprove, refute, negate. |
種 种 see styles |
zhòng zhong4 chung tane(p); tane(sk) たね(P); タネ(sk) |
to plant; to grow; to cultivate (1) seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; kernel; stone (e.g. of a peach); (2) progeny; offspring; issue; breed; (3) (See 胤) paternal blood; lineage; (4) sperm; semen; seed; (5) cause; source; seed; origin; (6) material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); subject (of discussion); theme; (news) copy; source (of a story); (7) {food} ingredient; main ingredient (of a piece of sushi); leaven; (8) mechanism (of a magic trick, etc.); secret; trickery; (9) (kana only) {hanaf} (oft. as タネ) 10-point card; tane; animal card; (surname) Tanezaki vīja; bīja. Seed, germ; sort, species; also to sow, plant. |
竪 竖 see styles |
shù shu4 shu tate たて |
variant of 豎|竖[shu4] (1) the vertical; height; (2) front-to-back; length; (3) north-to-south; (noun - becomes adjective with の) (4) vertical (relationship); hierarchy; (5) (weaving) warp; (surname) Tate To stand, erect, upright. |
緣 缘 see styles |
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. |
罣 see styles |
guà gua4 kua kai |
variant of 掛|挂[gua4] A snare; impediment; cause of anxiety, anxious.; See under Eleven Strokes. |
致 see styles |
zhì zhi4 chih chigai ちがい |
(literary) to send; to transmit; to convey; (bound form) to cause; to lead to; consequently (given name) Chigai to cause |
著 着 see styles |
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. |
訳 see styles |
yì yi4 i wake わけ |
Japanese variant of 譯|译[yi4] (kana only) conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation |
諦 谛 see styles |
dì 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. |
起 see styles |
qǐ qi3 ch`i chi hajime はじめ |
to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group (irregular okurigana usage) source; origin; cause; beginning; genesis; (female given name) Hajime To rise, raise, start, begin; uprising; tr. utpada. |
邪 see styles |
xié xie2 hsieh ja じゃ |
demonic; iniquitous; nefarious; evil; unhealthy influences that cause disease (Chinese medicine); (coll.) strange; abnormal wickedness; evil; wicked person Deflected, erroneous, heterodox, depraved; the opposite of 正; also erroneously used for 耶. |
にて see styles |
nite にて |
(particle) (1) indicates location of action; at; in; (2) indicates time of action; (3) indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; (conjunction) (4) and then; so |
一因 see styles |
yī yīn yi1 yin1 i yin ichiin / ichin いちいん |
one cause; one reason; one factor A cause; the cause from which the Buddha-law arises. |
一業 一业 see styles |
yī yè yi1 ye4 i yeh ichi gō |
A karma; a 業困 karma-cause, causative of the next form of existence. |
三因 see styles |
sān yīn san1 yin1 san yin sanin さんいん |
{Buddh} (See 三因仏性) three causes of Buddha nature; (place-name) Miyori The six "causes" of the Abhidharma Kośa 倶舍論 as reduced to three in the Satyasiddhi śāstra 成實論, i.e. 生因 producing cause, as good or evil deeds cause good or evil karma; 習因 habit cause, e.g. lust breeding lust; 依因 dependent or hypostatic cause, e.g. the six organs 六根 and their objects 六境 causing the cognitions 六識. |
三心 see styles |
sān xīn san1 xin1 san hsin sanshin さんしん |
(given name) Sanshin The three minds, or hearts; various groups are given: (1) Three assured ways of reaching the Pure Land, by (a) 至誠心 perfect sincerity; (b) 深 profound resolve for it; (c) 廻向接發願心 resolve on demitting one's merits to others. (2) (a) 根本心 The 8th or ālaya-vijñāna mind, the storehouse, or source of all seeds of good or evil; (b) 依本 the 7th or mano-vijñāna mind, the mediating cause of all taint; (c) 起事心 the ṣaḍāyatana-vijñāna mind, the immediate influence of the six senses. (3) (a) 入心 (b) 住心 (c) 出心 The mind entering into a condition, staying there, departing. (4) A pure, a single, and an undistracted mind. There are other groups. |
三行 see styles |
sān xíng san1 xing2 san hsing miyuki みゆき |
(g,p) Miyuki Three lines of action that affect karma, i.e. the ten good deeds that cause happy karma; the ten evil deeds that cause unhappy karma; 不動業 or 無動行 karma arising without activity, e.g. meditation on error and its remedy. |
中因 see styles |
zhōng yīn zhong1 yin1 chung yin chūin |
An arrangement by the esoteric sect of the Five Dhyāni-Buddhas, Vairocana being the first in position, Akṣobhya east, and so on. |
主因 see styles |
zhǔ yīn zhu3 yin1 chu yin shuin しゅいん |
main reason primary cause; main factor |
九業 九业 see styles |
jiǔ yè jiu3 ye4 chiu yeh kugō |
The nine kinds of karma, i.e. the desire realm and the form realm each has conduct that causes karma, does not cause karma, or is neutral, making 6; in the formless realm there are non-causative deeds, neutrality, and immortality, making 9; 成實論 8. |
九道 see styles |
jiǔ dào jiu3 dao4 chiu tao kudō |
idem 九有情居.; The nine truths, or postulates: impermanence; suffering; voidness (or unreality of things); no permanent ego, or soul; love of existence or possessions, resulting in suffering; the opposite (or fear of being without them), also resulting in suffering; the cutting off of suffering and its cause; nirvāṇa with remainder still to be worked out; complete nirvāṇa. |
了因 see styles |
liǎo yīn liao3 yin1 liao yin ryōin |
A revealing cause, v. 二因 , i.e. 生因 a producing or direct cause, e.g. a seed; and 了因 a revealing "cause", e.g. a light, as indicating the effect; knowledge or wisdom. |
事業 事业 see styles |
shì yè shi4 ye4 shih yeh jigyou / jigyo じぎょう |
undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation; CL:個|个[ge4] (1) business; enterprise; venture; (commercial) activity; (business) operation; industry; (2) (social) project; undertaking; enterprise; work; activity; program; service action |
二因 see styles |
èr yīn er4 yin1 erh yin niin / nin にいん |
{Buddh} two causes Two causes, of which there are various definitions: (1) 生因 The producing cause (of all good things); and 了因 the revealing or illuminating cause i.e. knowledge, or wisdom. (2) 能生因 The 8th 識 q. v.: the cause that is able to produce all sense and perceptions, also all good and evil; and 方便因 the environmental or adaptive cause, which aids the 8th 識, as water or earth does the seed, etc. (3) 習因 or 同類因 Practice or habit as cause e. g. desire causing desire; and 報因 or 果熟因 the rewarding cause, or fruit-ripening cause, e. g. pleasure or pain caused by good or evil deeds. (4) 正因 Correct or direct cause i.e. the Buddha-nature of all beings; and 緣因 the contributory cause, or enlightenment (see 了因 above) which evolves the 正因 or Buddha-nature by good works. (5) 近因 Immediate or direct cause and 遠因 distant or indirect cause or causes. |
五因 see styles |
wǔ yīn wu3 yin1 wu yin goin |
The five causes, v. 倶舍論 7. i. e. (1) 生因 producing cause; (2) 依因supporting cause; (3) 立因 upholding or establishing cause; (4) 持因 maintaining cause; (5) 養因 nourishing or strengthening cause. These all refer to the four elements, earth, water, fire, wind, for they are the causers or producers and maintainers of the infinite forms of nature. Another list from the Nirvana-Sutra 21 is (1) 生因 cause of rebirth, i. e. previous delusion; (2) 和合因 intermingling cause, i. e. good with good, bad with bad, neutral with neutral; (3) 住因 cause of abiding in the present condition, i. e. the self in its attachments; (4) 增長因 causes of development, e. g. food, clothing, etc.; (5) 遠因 remoter cause, the parental seed. |
五果 see styles |
wǔ guǒ wu3 guo3 wu kuo goka ごか |
(1) five fruits (peach, Japanese plum, apricot, jujube, Japanese chestnut); (2) (Buddhist term) five types of effect in cause-and-effect relationships; (3) (Buddhist term) five effects of ignorance and formations on one's current life The five fruits, or effects; there are various groups, e. g. I. (1) 異熟果 fruit ripening divergently, e. g. pleasure and goodness are in different categories; present organs accord in pain or pleasure with their past good or evil deeds; (2) 等流果 fruit of the same order, e. g. goodness reborn from previous goodness; (3) 土用果 present position and function fruit, the rewards of moral merit in previous lives; (4) 增上果 superior fruit, or position arising from previous earnest endeavor and superior capacity: (5) 離繋果 fruit of freedom from all bonds, nirvana fruit. II. Fruit, or rebirth: (1) 識 conception (viewed psychologically); (2) 名色 formation mental and physical; (3) 六處 the six organs of perception complete; (4) 觸 their birth and contact with the world; (5) 受 consciousness. III. Five orders of fruit, with stones, pips, shells (as nuts), chaff-like (as pine seeds), and with pods. |
五見 五见 see styles |
wǔ jiàn wu3 jian4 wu chien gomi ごみ |
(surname) Gomi The five wrong views: (1) 身見 satkāya-dṛṣṭi, i. e. 我見 and 我所見 the view that there is a real self, an ego, and a mine and thine: (2) 邊見 antar-grāha, extreme views. e. g. extinction or permanence; (3) 邪見 mithyā, perverse views, which, denying cause and effect, destroy the foundations of morality; (4) 見取見 dṛṣṭi-parāmarśa, stubborn perverted views, viewing inferior things as superior, or counting the worse as the better; (5) 戒禁取見 śīla-vrata-parāmarśa, rigid views in favour of rigorous ascetic prohibitions, e. g. covering oneself with ashes. Cf. 五利使. |
五諦 五谛 see styles |
wǔ dì wu3 di4 wu ti gotai |
The five axioms: (1) 因諦 the cause, which is described as 集諦 of the Four Noble Truths; (2) 果諦 the effect as 苦諦; (3) 智諦 or 能知諦 diagnosis as 道諦; (4) 境諦 or 所知諦 the end or cure as 滅諦; to these add (5) 勝諦 or 至諦, the supreme axiom, i. e. the 眞如; v. 四諦. |
五辛 see styles |
wǔ xīn wu3 xin1 wu hsin goshin ごしん |
see 五葷|五荤[wu3 hun1] (See 五葷) five pungent roots (in Buddhism or Taoism) The five forbidden pungent roots, 五葷 garlic, three kinds of onions, and leeks; if eaten raw they are said to cause irritability of temper, and if eaten cooked, to act as an aphrodisiac; moreover, the breath of the eater, if reading the sutras, will drive away the good spirits. |
交蘆 交芦 see styles |
jiāo lú jiao1 lu2 chiao lu kyōro |
束蘆 A tripod of three rushes or canes— an illustration of the mutuality of cause and effect, each cane depending on the other at the point of intersection. |
人執 人执 see styles |
rén zhí ren2 zhi2 jen chih ninshū |
The (false) tenet of a soul, or ego, or permanent individual, i.e. that the individual is real, the ego an independent unit and not a mere combination of the five skandhas produced by cause and in effect disintegrating; v. 我執. |
人為 人为 see styles |
rén wéi ren2 wei2 jen wei jini じんい |
artificial; man-made; having human cause or origin; human attempt or effort (noun - becomes adjective with の) human work; human agency; art; artificiality |
令人 see styles |
lìng rén ling4 ren2 ling jen |
to cause one (to do something); to make one (angry, delighted etc) |
令他 see styles |
lìng tā ling4 ta1 ling t`a ling ta ryōta |
to cause others... (to know) |
令得 see styles |
lìng dé ling4 de2 ling te ryōtoku |
to cause to attain |
令聞 令闻 see styles |
lìng wén ling4 wen2 ling wen reibun / rebun れいぶん |
good reputation; fame; (given name) Reimon cause to hear |
令趣 see styles |
lìng qù ling4 qu4 ling ch`ü ling chü ryōshu |
cause to proceed |
住因 see styles |
zhù yīn zhu4 yin1 chu yin jūin |
cause of abiding in the present condition |
佛因 see styles |
fó yīn fo2 yin1 fo yin butsuin |
Buddha-cause, that which leads to Buddhahood, i.e. the merit of planting roots of goodness. |
作因 see styles |
zuò yīn zuo4 yin1 tso yin sa in |
activity as cause |
作祟 see styles |
zuò suì zuo4 sui4 tso sui |
haunted; to haunt; to cause mischief |
作者 see styles |
zuò zhě zuo4 zhe3 tso che sakusha さくしゃ |
author; writer creator (of a work); author; writer; artist; composer; playwright; dramatist kartṛ; a doer, he who does things, hence the ātman, ego, or person within; the active element, or principle; one of the sixteen non-Buddhist definitions of the soul. Also kāraṇa, a cause, maker, creator, deity. |
使得 see styles |
shǐ de shi3 de5 shih te |
usable; serviceable; feasible; workable; doable; to make; to cause; to bring about |
使成 see styles |
shǐ chéng shi3 cheng2 shih ch`eng shih cheng |
to cause; to render |
來由 来由 see styles |
lái yóu lai2 you2 lai yu |
reason; cause See: 来由 |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
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