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There are 17 total results for your Death Old Age search in the dictionary.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

天使

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tiān shǐ
    tian1 shi3
t`ien shih
    tien shih
 yukari
    ゆかり

More info & calligraphy:

Angel / Messenger of Heaven
angel
(noun - becomes adjective with の) angel; (female given name) Yukari
Divine messengers, especially those of Yama; also his 三天使 three messengers, or lictors— old age, sickness, death; and his 五天使 or 五大使, i. e. the last three together with rebirth and prisons or punishments on earth.

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

More info & calligraphy:

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.

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xiàng
    xiang4
hsiang
 tasuku
    たすく
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.

五官

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wǔ guān
    wu3 guan1
wu kuan
 gokan
    ごかん
five sense organs of TCM (nose, eyes, lips, tongue, ears 鼻目口舌耳); facial features
the five sense organs; (place-name) Gokan
The five controlling powers, v. 五大使, birth, old age, sickness, death, and the (imperial) magistrate.

八苦

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bā kǔ
    ba1 ku3
pa k`u
    pa ku
 hakku
    はっく
the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism)
{Buddh} the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)
The eight distresses―birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas.

四苦

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sì kǔ
    si4 ku3
ssu k`u
    ssu ku
 shiku
    しく
{Buddh} the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death)
The four miseries, or sufferings — birth, age, disease, and death.

滅觀


灭观

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miè guān
    mie4 guan1
mieh kuan
 mekkan
The contemplation of extinction: the destruction of ignorance is followed by the annihilation of karma, of birth, old age, and death.

老死

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lǎo sǐ
    lao3 si3
lao ssu
 roushi / roshi
    ろうし
to die of old age
(n,vs,vi) dying of old age
jarāmaraṇa, decrepitude and death; one of the twelve nidānas, a primary dogma of Buddhism that decrepitude and death are the natural products of the maturity of the five skandhas.

非常

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fēi cháng
    fei1 chang2
fei ch`ang
    fei chang
 hijou / hijo
    ひじょう
very; really; unusual; extraordinary
(1) emergency; (adjectival noun) (2) extreme; great; extraordinary; remarkable; unusual; terrible; severe
anitya, 無常 impermanent, transient, illusory, as evidenced by old age, disease, and death.

尼陀那

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ní tuó nà
    ni2 tuo2 na4
ni t`o na
    ni to na
 nidana
nidāna, a band, bond, link, primary cause. I. The 十二因緣 twelve causes or links in the chain of existence: (1) jarā-maraṇa 老死 old age and death. (2) jāti 生 (re) birth. (3) bhava 有 existence. (4) upādāna 取 laying hold of, grasping. (5) tṛṣṇā 愛 love, thirst, desire. (6) vedana 受 receiving, perceiving, sensation. (7) sparśa 觸 touch, contact, feeling. (8) ṣaḍ-āyatana, 六入 the six senses. (9) nāma-rūpa 名色 name and form, individuality (of things). (10) vijñāna 六識 the six forms of perception, awareness or discernment. (11) saṃskāra 行 action, moral conduct. (12) avidyā 無明 unenlightenment, 'ignorance which mistakes the illusory phenomena of this world for realities. ' Eitel. These twelve links are stated also in Hīnayāna in reverse order, beginning with avidyā and ending with jarā-maraṇa. The Fanyimingyi says the whole series arises from 無明 ignorance, and if this can be got rid of the whole process of 生死 births and deaths (or reincarnations) comes to an end. II. Applied to the purpose and occasion of writing sutras, nidāna means (1) those written because of a request or query; (2) because certain precepts were violated; (3) because of certain events.

七不可避

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qī bù kě bì
    qi1 bu4 ke3 bi4
ch`i pu k`o pi
    chi pu ko pi
 shichi fukahi
The seven unavoidables— rebirth, old age, sickness, death, punishment (for sin), happiness (for goodness), consequences (cause and effect 因緣).

三種身苦


三种身苦

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sān zhǒng shēn kǔ
    san1 zhong3 shen1 ku3
san chung shen k`u
    san chung shen ku
 sanshu shinku
The three duḥkha or afflictions of the body — old age, sickness, death.

五大使者

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wǔ dà shǐ zhě
    wu3 da4 shi3 zhe3
wu ta shih che
 go dai shisha
五天使者 The five dūta, i. e. great lictors, or deva-messengers— birth, old age, disease, death, earthly laws and punishments— said to be sent by Māra as warnings.

十二因緣


十二因缘

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shí èr yīn yuán
    shi2 er4 yin1 yuan2
shih erh yin yüan
 jūni innen
Dvādaśaṅga pratītyasamutpāda; the twelve nidānas; v. 尼 and 因; also 十二緣起; 因緣有支; 因緣率連; 因緣棘園; 因緣輪; 因緣重城; 因緣觀; 支佛觀. They are the twelve links in the chain of existence: (1) 無明avidyā, ignorance, or unenlightenment; (2) 行 saṃskāra, action, activity, conception, "dispositions," Keith; (3) 識 vijñāna, consciousness; (4) 名色 nāmarūpa, name and form; (5) 六入 ṣaḍāyatana, the six sense organs, i.e. eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind; (6) 觸 sparśa, contact, touch; (7) 受 vedanā, sensation, feeling; (8) 愛 tṛṣṇā, thirst, desire, craving; (9) 取 upādāna, laying hold of, grasping; (10) 有 bhava, being, existing; (11) 生 jāti, birth; (12) 老死 jarāmaraṇa, old age, death. The "classical formula" reads "By reason of ignorance dispositions; by reason of dispositions consciousness", etc. A further application of the twelve nidānas is made in regard to their causaton of rebirth: (1) ignorance, as inherited passion from the beginningless past ; (2) karma, good and evil, of past lives; (3) conception as a form of perception; (4) nāmarūpa, or body and mind evolving (in the womb); (5) the six organs on the verge of birth; (6) childhood whose intelligence is limited to sparśa, contact or touch; (7) receptivity or budding intelligence and discrimination from 6 or 7 years; (8) thirst, desire, or love, age of puberty; (9) the urge of sensuous existence; (10) forming the substance, bhava, of future karma; (11) the completed karma ready for rebirth; (12) old age and death. The two first are associated with the previous life, the other ten with the present. The theory is equally applicable to all realms of reincarnation. The twelve links are also represented in a chart, at the centre of which are the serpent (anger), boar (ignorance, or stupidity), and dove (lust) representing the fundamental sins. Each catches the other by the tail, typifying the train of sins producing the wheel of life. In another circle the twelve links are represented as follows: (1) ignorance, a blind woman; (2) action, a potter at work, or man gathering fruit; (3) consciousness, a restless monkey; (4) name and form, a boat; (5) sense organs, a house; (6) contact, a man and woman sitting together; (7) sensation, a man pierced by an arrow; (8) desire, a man drinking wine; (9) craving, a couple in union; (10) existence through childbirth; (11) birth, a man carrying a corpse; (12) disease, old age, death, an old woman leaning on a stick. v. 十二因緣論 Pratītya-samutpāda śāstra.

四苦八苦

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sì kǔ bā kǔ
    si4 ku3 ba1 ku3
ssu k`u pa k`u
    ssu ku pa ku
 shikuhakku
    しくはっく
(n,vs,vi) (1) (yoji) being in dire distress; being hard put to it; being hard pressed (for money); (2) (yoji) {Buddh} (See 四苦,八苦) the four and eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)
four and eight kinds of suffering

生病老死

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 seibyouroushi / sebyoroshi
    せいびょうろうし
{Buddh} birth, illness, old age and death

緣生有老死


缘生有老死

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yuán shēng yǒu lǎo sǐ
    yuan2 sheng1 you3 lao3 si3
yüan sheng yu lao ssu
 enshō urōshi
conditioned by birth there arise old age and death

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