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我倒 see styles |
wǒ dào wo3 dao4 wo tao gatō |
The illusion of an ego, one of the four inverted or upside-down ideas. |
戒取 see styles |
jiè qǔ jie4 qu3 chieh ch`ü chieh chü kaishu |
Clinging to the commandments of heterodox teachers, e.g. those of ultra-asceticism, one of the four attachments, 四取 catuḥ-parāmarśa. |
手四 see styles |
teshi てし |
{hanaf} (See 手役) four-of-a-kind (in a dealt hand) |
承句 see styles |
shouku / shoku しょうく |
(1) (See 起承転結) development of a text; (2) the second line in a four-line Chinese poem |
招提 see styles |
zhāo tí zhao1 ti2 chao t`i chao ti shodai しょだい |
(place-name) Shodai 拓鬪提舍 caturdiśaḥ, the four directions of space; cāturdiśa, belonging to the four quarters, i. e. the saṃgha or Church; name for a monastery. |
揚巻 see styles |
agemaki あげまき |
(1) old-fashioned boys' hairstyle; (2) Meiji period women's hairstyle; (3) type of dance in kabuki; (4) (sumo) knots in colour of four cardinal points hanging from the roof above the ring (color); (5) (abbreviation) constricted tagelus (Sinonovacula constricta); Chinese razor clam |
教判 see styles |
jiào pàn jiao4 pan4 chiao p`an chiao pan kyōhan |
The various divisions of teaching or doctrine, such as the Tiantai theory of the five periods of Śākyamuni's life, the four classes of doctrine, the four styles of teaching, etc. |
教理 see styles |
jiào lǐ jiao4 li3 chiao li kyouri / kyori きょうり |
doctrine (religion) doctrine The fundamental principles of a religion; its doctrines, or dogmas, e.g. the four truths, the tweIve nidānas, the eightfold noble path. |
方相 see styles |
fāng xiàng fang1 xiang4 fang hsiang hōsō |
Square, four square, one of the five shapes. |
春秋 see styles |
chūn qiū chun1 qiu1 ch`un ch`iu chun chiu shunjuu(p); haruaki / shunju(p); haruaki しゅんじゅう(P); はるあき |
spring and autumn; four seasons; year; a person's age; annals (used in book titles) (1) spring and autumn; spring and fall; (2) years; age; (3) (しゅんじゅう only) (See 五経) The Spring and Autumn Annals; The Chronicles of Lu; Chunqiu; Ch'un Ch'iu; (surname) Haruaki spring and autumn |
時分 时分 see styles |
shí fēn shi2 fen1 shih fen jibun じぶん |
time; period during the day; one of the 12 two-hour periods enumerated by the earthly branches 地支 (n,adv) time; hour; season; time of the year Time-division of the day, variously made in Buddhist works: (1) Three periods each of day and night. (2) Eight periods of day and night, each divided into four parts. (3) Twelve periods, each under its animal, as in China. (4) Thirty hours, sixty hours, of varying definition. |
普氏 see styles |
pǔ shì pu3 shi4 p`u shih pu shih |
Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski 普爾熱瓦爾斯基|普尔热瓦尔斯基 (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to Central Asian from 1870 |
暗槓 see styles |
ankan アンカン |
{mahj} (See 槓) declaring a concealed kong (chi: àngàng); forming a concealed four-of-a-kind |
有爲 有为 see styles |
yǒu wéi you3 wei2 yu wei ui |
Active, creative, productive, functioning, causative, phenomenal, the processes resulting from the laws of karma, v. 有作; opposite of 無爲 passive, inert, inactive, non-causative, laisser-faire. It is defined by 造作 to make, and associated with saṃskṛta. The three active things 三有爲法 are 色 material, or things which have form, 心 mental and 非色非心 neither the one nor the other. The four forms of activity 四有爲相 are 生住異滅 coming into existence, abiding, change, and extinction; they are also spoken of as three, the two middle terms being treated as having like meaning. |
末伽 see styles |
mò qié mo4 qie2 mo ch`ieh mo chieh maga |
mārga; track, path, way, the way; the fourth of the four dogmas 四諦, i. e. 道, known as the 八聖道, 八正道 (or 八正門), the eight holy or correct ways, or gates out of suffering into nirvana. Mārga is described as the 因 cause of liberation, bodhi as its 果 result. |
本州 see styles |
běn zhōu ben3 zhou1 pen chou honshuu / honshu ほんしゅう |
Honshū, the main island of Japan Honshū (largest of the four main islands of Japan); Honshu; (place-name) Honshuu |
朮赤 术赤 see styles |
zhú chì zhu2 chi4 chu ch`ih chu chih |
Jöchi (c. 1182-1227) Mongol army commander, eldest of Genghis Khan’s four sons |
枡席 see styles |
masuseki ますせき |
tatami "box seat" for four people at sumo, kabuki, etc. |
梵天 see styles |
fàn tiān fan4 tian1 fan t`ien fan tien bonten; bonden ぼんてん; ぼんでん |
Nirvana (in Buddhist scripture); Lord Brahma (the Hindu Creator) (1) Brahma (Hindu creator god); (2) (See 御幣) large staff with plaited paper streamers (used at religious festivals or as a sign); (3) buoy (used in longline fishing, gillnetting, etc.); (4) down puff (on the end of an ear pick); (given name) Bonten Brahmadeva. Brahmā, the ruler of this world. India. brahmaloka, the eighteen heavens of the realm of form, divided into four dhyāna regions (sixteen heavens in Southern Buddhism). The first three contain the 梵衆天 assembly of brahmadevas, i.e. the brahmakāyika; the 梵輔天 brahmspurohitas, retinue of Brahmā; and 大梵天 Mahābrahman, Brahman himself. |
梵志 see styles |
fàn zhì fan4 zhi4 fan chih bonji |
brahmacārin. 'studying sacred learning; practising continence or chastity.' M.W. A brahmacārī is a 'young Brahman in the first āśrama or period of his life' (M. W.); there are four such periods. A Buddhist ascetic with his will set on 梵 purity, also intp. as nirvana. |
楊炯 杨炯 see styles |
yáng jiǒng yang2 jiong3 yang chiung |
Yang Jiong (650-693?), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑|初唐四杰[Chu1 Tang2 Si4 jie2] |
業疏 业疏 see styles |
yè shū ye4 shu1 yeh shu Gōsho |
Commentary [on the Monks Behavior According to the Four Part Vinaya] |
槓子 杠子 see styles |
gàng zi gang4 zi5 kang tzu kantsu カンツ |
thick bar; solid carrying pole {mahj} kong (chi:); four-of-a-kind |
樂說 乐说 see styles |
lè shuō le4 shuo1 le shuo gyōsetsu |
Joy in preaching, or telling the way of salvation; joy in that which is preached. It is also called pratibhāna, bold and illuminating discourse, or freedom in expounding the truth with correct meaning and appropriate words, one of the 無礙智 four pratisaṃvids. |
次官 see styles |
cì guān ci4 guan1 tz`u kuan tzu kuan suke すけ |
undersecretary; secondary official (archaism) (hist) (See 四等官) assistant director (second highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryō system) |
死苦 see styles |
sǐ kǔ si3 ku3 ssu k`u ssu ku shiku しく |
(1) {Buddh} (See 四苦) inevitability of death (one of the four kinds of suffering); (2) death pains; agony of death The misery, or pain, of death, one of the Four Sufferings. |
母主 see styles |
mǔ zhǔ mu3 zhu3 mu chu moshu |
The 'mother-lord', or mother, as contrasted with 主 and 母, lord and mother, king and queen, in the maṇḍala of Vajradhātu and Garbhadhātu; Vairocana, being the source of all things, has no 'mnother'as progenitor, and is the 部主 or lord of the maṇḍala; the other four dhyāni-buddhas have 'mothers' called 部母, who are supposed to arise from the paramitas; thus, Akṣobhya has 金剛波羅蜜 for mother; Ratnasaṃbhava has 寳波羅蜜 for mother; Amitābha has 法波羅蜜 for mother; Amoghasiddhi has 羯磨波羅蜜 for mother. |
水大 see styles |
shuǐ dà shui3 da4 shui ta suidai |
The element water, one of the four elements 四大 q. v. |
水烟 see styles |
mizukemuri みずけむり suien すいえん |
mist over a body of water; spray; (1) mist over a body of water; spray; (2) suien (four decorative metal plates joined at right angles forming part of a pagoda finial) |
水煙 水烟 see styles |
shuǐ yān shui3 yan1 shui yen mizukemuri みずけむり suien すいえん |
shredded tobacco for water pipes mist over a body of water; spray; (1) mist over a body of water; spray; (2) suien (four decorative metal plates joined at right angles forming part of a pagoda finial) |
水界 see styles |
shuǐ jiè shui3 jie4 shui chieh suikai すいかい |
(1) (See 水圏) hydrosphere; (2) boundary of water and land; (place-name) Mizusakai The realm of water, one of the 四大 four elements. |
水葬 see styles |
shuǐ zàng shui3 zang4 shui tsang suisou / suiso すいそう |
(noun, transitive verb) burial at sea Water-burial, casting a corpse into the water, one of the four forms of burial. |
水輪 水轮 see styles |
shuǐ lún shui3 lun2 shui lun miwa みわ |
waterwheel; millwheel (female given name) Miwa The third of the four 'wheel' on which the earth rests— space, wind (or air), water, and metal. |
江青 see styles |
jiāng qīng jiang1 qing1 chiang ch`ing chiang ching kousei / kose こうせい |
Jiang Qing (1914-1991), Mao Zedong's fourth wife and leader of the Gang of Four (person) Jiang Qing (1915-1991) |
法數 法数 see styles |
fǎ shù fa3 shu4 fa shu hōshu |
The categories of Buddhism such as the three realms, five skandhas, five regions, four dogmas, six paths, twelve nidānas, etc. |
法智 see styles |
fǎ zhì fa3 zhi4 fa chih hōchi |
Dharma-wisdom, which enables one to understand the four dogmas 四諦; also, the understanding of the law, or of things. |
法界 see styles |
fǎ jiè fa3 jie4 fa chieh hokkai; houkai / hokkai; hokai ほっかい; ほうかい |
(1) {Buddh} universe; (2) {Buddh} realm of thought; (3) {Buddh} underlying principle of reality; manifestation of true thusness; (4) (ほうかい only) (abbreviation) (See 法界悋気) being jealous of things that have nothing to do with one; being jealous of others who are in love with each other dharmadhātu, 法性; 實相; 達磨馱都 Dharma-element, -factor, or-realm. (1) A name for "things" in general, noumenal or phenomenal; for the physical universe, or any portion or phase of it. (2) The unifying underlying spiritual reality regarded as the ground or cause of all things, the absolute from which all proceeds. It is one of the eighteen dhātus. These are categories of three, four, five, and ten dharmadhātus; the first three are combinations of 事 and 理 or active and passive, dynamic and static; the ten are: Buddha-realm, Bodhisattva-realm, pratyekabuddha-realm, śrāvaka, deva, Human, asura, Demon, Animal, and Hades realms-a Huayan category. Tiantai has ten for meditaton, i.e. the realms of the eighteen media of perception (the six organs, six objects, and six sense-data or sensations), of illusion, sickness, karma, māra, samādhi, (false) views, pride, the two lower Vehicles, and the Bodhisattva Vehicle. |
湘繡 湘绣 see styles |
xiāng xiù xiang1 xiu4 hsiang hsiu |
Hunan embroidery, one of the four major traditional styles of Chinese embroidery (the other three being 蘇繡|苏绣[Su1 xiu4], 粵繡|粤绣[Yue4 xiu4] and 蜀繡|蜀绣[Shu3 xiu4]) |
滅病 灭病 see styles |
miè bìng mie4 bing4 mieh ping metsubyō |
One of the 四病 four sick or faulty ways of seeking perfection, the Hīnayāna method of endeavouring to extinguish all perturbing passions so that nothing of them remains. |
濕生 湿生 see styles |
shī shēng shi1 sheng1 shih sheng shitsushō |
Moisture-born; born in damp or wet places spawn, etc., one of the four forms of birth, v. 四生. |
灌頂 灌顶 see styles |
guàn dǐng guan4 ding3 kuan ting kanjou; kanchou / kanjo; kancho かんじょう; かんちょう |
(1) {Buddh} baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood; (2) {Buddh} baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching, etc. (in esoteric Buddhism); (3) {Buddh} pouring water onto a gravestone; (4) teaching esoteric techniques, compositions, etc. (in Japanese poetry or music) abhiṣecana; mūrdhābhiṣikta; inauguration or consecration by sprinkling, or pouring water on the head; an Indian custom on the investiture of a king, whose head was baptized with water from the four seas and from the rivers in his domain; in China it is administered as a Buddhist rite chiefly to high personages, and for ordination purposes. Amongst the esoterics it is a rite especially administered to their disciples; and they have several categories of baptism, e.g. that of ordinary disciples, of teacher, or preacher, of leader, of office-bearer; also for special causes such as relief from calamity, preparation for the next life, etc. |
火大 see styles |
huǒ dà huo3 da4 huo ta kadai |
to get mad; to be very angry The element fire, one of the 四大 four elements. |
火界 see styles |
huǒ jiè huo3 jie4 huo chieh kakai |
The realm of fire, one of the realms of the four elements 四大, i. e. earth, water, fire, and wind. Cf. 火院. |
火神 see styles |
huǒ shén huo3 shen2 huo shen honoka ほのか |
God of fire; Vulcan (female given name) Honoka The gods of fire, stated as numbering forty-four in the Vedic pantheon, with Mahābrahmā as the first; of these the Vairocana sutra takes twelve, i. e. 大因陀羅; 行滿; 摩嚕多; 盧醯多; 沒口栗拏; 忿怒; 闍吒羅; 吃灑耶; 意生; 羯攞微; (11th unknown); 謨賀那. Cf. 火尊; 火天. |
煗法 see styles |
nuǎn fǎ nuan3 fa3 nuan fa nan hō |
The first of the 四加行位; the stage in which dialectic processes are left behind and the mind dwells only on the four dogmas and the sixteen disciplines. |
燕國 燕国 see styles |
yān guó yan1 guo2 yen kuo |
Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning; north Hebei; the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409-436) |
王勃 see styles |
wáng bó wang2 bo2 wang po |
Wang Bo (650-676), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑|初唐四杰[Chu1 Tang2 Si4 jie2] |
甘露 see styles |
gān lòu gan1 lou4 kan lou kanro かんろ |
(noun or adjectival noun) nectar; sweetness; (surname, female given name) Kanro 阿密哩多 (or 啞密哩多) (or 啞密哩達) amṛta, sweet dew, ambrosia, the nectar of immortality; tr. by 天酒 deva-wine, the nectar of the gods. Four kinds of ambrosia are mentioned— green, yellow, red, and white, all coming from 'edible trees' and known as 蘇陀 sudhā, or 蘇摩 soma. |
生化 see styles |
shēng huà sheng1 hua4 sheng hua shōke |
biochemistry 化生 aupapāduka; one of the four forms of birth, i. e. by transformation, without parentage, and in full maturity; thus do bodhisattvas come from the Tuṣita heaven; the dhyāni-buddhas and bodhisattvas are also of such miraculous origin. |
生有 see styles |
shēng yǒu sheng1 you3 sheng yu shouu / shou しょうう |
{Buddh} (See 四有) the instant of birth (rebirth) One of the four forms of existence, cf. 有. |
生死 see styles |
shēng sǐ sheng1 si3 sheng ssu seishi(p); shouji; shoushi / seshi(p); shoji; shoshi せいし(P); しょうじ; しょうし |
life or death (1) life and death; life or death; (2) (しょうじ, しょうし only) {Buddh} samsara (cycle of death and rebirth); (3) (しょうじ, しょうし only) death saṃsāra: birth and death: rebirth and redeath; life and death; 生死, 死生; 生生死死 ever-recurring saṃsāra or transmigrations; the round of mortality. There are two, three, four, seven, and twelve kinds of 生死; the two are 分斷生死 the various karmaic transmigrations, and 不思義變易生死 (or simply 變易生死) the inconceivable transformation life in the Pure Land. Among the twelve are final separation from mortality of the arhat, with 無餘 no remains of it causing return; one final death and no rebirth of the anāgāmin; the seven advancing rebirths of the srota-āpanna; down to the births-cum-deaths of hungry ghosts. |
生趣 see styles |
shēng qù sheng1 qu4 sheng ch`ü sheng chü shōshu |
The 四生 four forms of birth and the 六趣 six forms of transmigration. |
白樸 白朴 see styles |
bái pǔ bai2 pu3 pai p`u pai pu |
Bai Pu (1226-1306), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家 |
百法 see styles |
bǎi fǎ bai3 fa3 pai fa hyappō |
The hundred divisions of all mental qualities and their agents, of the 唯識 School; also known as the 五位百法five groups of the 100 modes or 'things': (1) 心法 the eight 識 perceptions, or forms of consciousness; (2) 心所有法 the fifty-one mental ideas; (3) 色法 the five physical organs and their six modes of sense, e. g. ear and sound; (4) 不相應行 twenty-four indefinites, or unconditioned elements; (5) 無爲 six inactive or metaphysical concepts. |
石鉢 see styles |
shí bō shi2 bo1 shih po ishibachi いしばち |
(surname) Ishibachi The four heavy stone begging bowls handed by the four devas to the Buddha on his enlightenment, which he miraculously received one piled on the other. |
祕教 秘教 see styles |
mì jiào mi4 jiao4 mi chiao hikyō |
(祕密教) Its teaching; the sect itself; one of the four modes of teaching defined by the Tiantai; a name for the 圓教. |
禪天 禅天 see styles |
chán tiān chan2 tian1 ch`an t`ien chan tien zenten |
dhyāna heavens, four in number, where those who practise meditation may be reborn, v. 禪. |
禪那 禅那 see styles |
chán nà chan2 na4 ch`an na chan na zenna |
dhyāna, abstract contemplation. There are four degrees through which the mind frees itself from all subjective and objective hindrances and reaches a state of absolute indifference and annihilation of thought, perception, and will; v. 禪. The River Jumna. |
私多 see styles |
sī duō si1 duo1 ssu to shita |
私陀; 悉陀; 徒多; 枲多 Sītā. Described as the 'cold' river; one of the four great rivers flowing from the Anavatpta or Anavadata Lake 阿耨達池 in Tibet. One account makes it 'an eastern outflux' which subsequently becomes the Yellow River. It is also said to issue from the west. Again, 'the Ganges flows eastward, the Indus south, Vatsch (Oxus) west, Sītā north.' Vatsch = Vākṣu. 'According to Xuanzang, however, it is the northern outflux of the Sirikol [Sarikkol] Lake (Lat. 38°20′N., Long. 74°E.) now called Yarkand daria, which flows into Lake Lop, thence underneath the desert of Gobi, and reappears as the source of the Huanghe.' Eitel. According to Richard, the Huanghe 'rises a little above two neighbouring lakes of Khchara (Charingnor) and Khnora (Oring-nor). Both are connected by a channel and are situated at an elevation of 14,000 feet. It may perhaps be at first confounded with Djaghing-gol, a river 110 miles long, which flows from the south and empties into the channel joining the two lakes'. |
空定 see styles |
kōng dìng kong1 ding4 k`ung ting kung ting kūjō |
The meditation which dwells on the Void or the Immaterial; it is divided into 内道, i.e. the 三三昧, and 外道, the latter limited to the four dhyānas 四空定 q.v., except the illusion that things have a reality in themselves, as individuals 法我 q.v. |
空處 空处 see styles |
kōng chù kong1 chu4 k`ung ch`u kung chu sorajo そらじょ |
(surname) Sorajo 空無邊處 Ākāśānantyāyatana; the abode of infinite space, the formless, or immaterial world 無色界 the first of the arūpaloka heavens, one of the four brahmalokas. |
空門 空门 see styles |
kōng mén kong1 men2 k`ung men kung men sorakado そらかど |
(surname) Sorakado (1) The teaching which regards everything as unreal, or immaterial. (2) The school of unreality, one of the four divisions made by Tiantai (3) The teaching of immateriality, the door to nirvana, a general name for Buddhism; hence空門子 are Buddhist monks. |
米印 see styles |
komejirushi こめじるし |
rice symbol; note (supplementary information) symbol; symbol with an "x" and four dots |
粵繡 粤绣 see styles |
yuè xiù yue4 xiu4 yüeh hsiu |
Guangdong embroidery, one of the four major traditional styles of Chinese embroidery (the other three being 蘇繡|苏绣[Su1 xiu4], 湘繡|湘绣[Xiang1 xiu4] and 蜀繡|蜀绣[Shu3 xiu4]) |
紅学 see styles |
kougaku / kogaku こうがく |
redology; study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, one of China's four great classical novels |
緣起 缘起 see styles |
yuán qǐ yuan2 qi3 yüan ch`i yüan chi engi |
to originate; origin; genesis; account of the origins of an endeavor Arising from conditional causation; everything arises from conditions, and not being spontaneous and self-contained has no separate and independent nature; cf. 緣生. It is a fundamental doctrine of the Huayan school, which defines four principal uses of the term: (1) 業感緣起 that of the Hīnayāna, i.e. under the influence of karma the conditions of reincarnation arise; (2) 賴耶緣起 that of the primitive Mahāyāna school, i.e. that all things arise from the ālaya, or 藏 fundamental store; (3) 如來藏緣起 that of the advancing Mahāyāna, that all things arise from the tathāgatagarbha, or bhūtatathatā; (4) 法界緣起 that of complete Mahāyāna, in which one is all and all are one, each being a universal cause. |
縛芻 缚刍 see styles |
fú chú fu2 chu2 fu ch`u fu chu Bakusu |
Vakṣu; Vaṅkṣu; 婆芻 (or 婆槎 or婆輸); 薄叉; 博叉; the Oxus 靑河 or Blue River, one of the 'four great rivers of Jambudvīpa', rising in the west of the Anavatapta lake (Tibet) and flowing into the north-west sea, the Caspian; cf. 西城記 1. |
縞蛇 see styles |
shimahebi; shimahebi しまへび; シマヘビ |
(kana only) Japanese four-lined ratsnake (Elaphe quadrivirgata); Japanese striped snake |
縦横 see styles |
juuou / juo じゅうおう |
(noun or adjectival noun) (1) length and width; length and breadth; lengthwise and crosswise; vertical and horizontal; the four cardinal points; (noun or adjectival noun) (2) every direction; all directions; (noun or adjectival noun) (3) as one wishes; as one pleases; at will |
義淨 义淨 see styles |
yì jìng yi4 jing4 i ching Gijō |
Yijing, A.D. 635-713, the famous monk who in 671 set out by the sea-route for India, where he remained for over twenty years, spending half this period in the Nālandā monastery. He returned to China in 695, was received with much honour, brought back some four hundred works, tr. with Śikṣānanda the Avataṃsaka-sūtra, later tr. many other works and left a valuable account of his travels and life in India, died aged 79. |
羯磨 see styles |
jié mó jie2 mo2 chieh mo katsuma かつま |
karma (loanword) {Buddh} (read as かつま in the Tendai sect, etc.; as こんま in Shingon, Ritsu, etc.) (See 業・ごう・1) karma; (surname) Katsuma karma; action, work, deed, performance, service, 'duty'; religious action, moral duty; especially a meeting of the monks for the purpose of ordination, or for the confession of sins and absolution, or for expulsion of the unrepentant. There are numerous kinds of karma, or assemblies for such business, ordinarily requiring the presence of four monks, but others five, ten, or twenty. Cf. 業 for definition of karma, deeds or character as the cause of future conditions; also 五蘊 for karma as the fourth skandha. |
老苦 see styles |
lǎo kǔ lao3 ku3 lao k`u lao ku rōku |
One of the four sufferings, that of old age. |
聖諦 圣谛 see styles |
shèng dì sheng4 di4 sheng ti shōtai |
The sacred principles or dogmas, or those of the saints, or sages; especially the four noble truths, cf. 四聖諦. |
聚諦 聚谛 see styles |
jù dì ju4 di4 chü ti shutai |
samudaya, the second of the four dogmas, that of 'accumulation', i.e. that suffering is caused by the passions. |
聞診 闻诊 see styles |
wén zhěn wen2 zhen3 wen chen |
(TCM) auscultation and smelling, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診|四诊[si4 zhen3] |
聲聞 声闻 see styles |
shēng wén sheng1 wen2 sheng wen shōmon |
(Buddhism) disciple śrāvaka, a hearer, a term applied to the personal disciples of the Buddha, distinguished as mahā-śrāvaka; it is also applied to hearers, or disciples in general; but its general connotation relates it to Hīnayāna disciples who understand the four dogmas, rid themselves of the unreality of the phenomenal, and enter nirvana; it is the initial stage; cf. 舍. |
育樂 育乐 see styles |
yù lè yu4 le4 yü le |
(Tw) (abbr. for 教育與娛樂|教育与娱乐[jiao4 yu4 yu3 yu2 le4]) education and entertainment, the 5th and 6th aspects of life beyond the four basic necessities of food, clothing, shelter and transportation 食衣住行[shi2 yi1 zhu4 xing2]; (sometimes used to signify edutainment or just recreation) |
色界 see styles |
sè jiè se4 jie4 se chieh shikikai しきかい |
{Buddh} (See 三界・1) form realm rūpadhātu, or rūpāvacara, or rūpaloka, any material world, or world of form; it especially refers to the second of the Trailokya 三界, the brahmalokas above the devalokas, comprising sixteen or seventeen or eighteen 'Heavens of Form', divided into four dhyānas, in which life lasts from one-fourth of a mahākalpa to 16,000 mahākalpas, and the average stature is from one-half a yojana to 16,000 yojanas. The inhabitants are above the desire for sex or food. The rūpadhātu, with variants, are given as— 初禪天 The first dhyāna heavens: 梵衆天 Brahmapāriṣadya, 梵輔天 Brahmapurohita or Brahmakāyika, 大梵天 Mahābrahmā. 二禪天 The second dhyāna heavens: 少光天 Parīttābha, 無量光天 Apramāṇābha, 光音天 Ābhāsvara. 三禪天 The third dhyāna heavens: 少淨天 Parīttaśubha, 無量淨天 Apramāṇaśubha, 徧淨天 Śubhakṛtsna. 四禪天 The fourth dhyāna heavens: 無雲天 Anabhraka, 福生天 Puṇyaprasava, 廣果天 Bṛhatphala, 無想天 Asañjñisattva, 無煩天 Avṛha, 無熱天 Atapa, 善現天 Sudṛśa, 善見天 Sudarśana, 色究竟天 Akaniṣṭha, 和音天 ? Aghaniṣṭha, 大自在天 Mahāmaheśvara. |
苦集 see styles |
kǔ jí ku3 ji2 k`u chi ku chi ku shu |
samudaya, arising, coming together, collection, multitude. The second of the four axioms, that of 'accumulation', that misery is intensified by craving or desire and the passions, which are the cause of reincarnation. |
荒家 see styles |
araya あらや |
(irregular okurigana usage) (1) dilapidated house; tumbledown house; hovel; miserable shack; (2) (humble language) my house; my home; (3) small resting place comprising four pillars and a roof (with no walls); (surname) Araya |
荒屋 see styles |
araya あらや |
(irregular okurigana usage) (obscure) dilapidated house; tumbledown house; hovel; miserable shack; (irregular okurigana usage) (1) dilapidated house; tumbledown house; hovel; miserable shack; (2) (humble language) my house; my home; (3) small resting place comprising four pillars and a roof (with no walls); (place-name, surname) Araya |
薛稷 see styles |
xuē jì xue1 ji4 hsüeh chi |
Xue Ji (649-713), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家[Tang2 chu1 Si4 Da4 jia1] |
藏教 see styles |
zàng jiào zang4 jiao4 tsang chiao zōkyō |
The Piṭaka, i.e. Tripiṭaka school, one of the four divisions 藏通別圓 as classified by Tiantai; it is the Hīnayāna school of the śrāvaka and pratyeka-buddha type, based on the tripiṭaka and its four dogmas, with the bodhisattva doctrine as an unimportant side issue. It is also subdivided into four others, 有 the reality of things, 空 their unreality, both and neither. The bodhisattva of the Piṭaka school is defined as undergoing seven stages, beginning with the four dogmas and ending with complete enlightenment under the bodhi-tree. |
蘇繡 苏绣 see styles |
sū xiù su1 xiu4 su hsiu |
Suzhou embroidery, one of the four major traditional styles of Chinese embroidery (the other three being 湘繡|湘绣[Xiang1 xiu4], 粵繡|粤绣[Yue4 xiu4] and 蜀繡|蜀绣[Shu3 xiu4]) |
蜀繡 蜀绣 see styles |
shǔ xiù shu3 xiu4 shu hsiu |
Sichuan embroidery, one of the four major traditional styles of Chinese embroidery (the other three being 蘇繡|苏绣[Su1 xiu4], 湘繡|湘绣[Xiang1 xiu4] and 粵繡|粤绣[Yue4 xiu4]) |
見取 见取 see styles |
jiàn qǔ jian4 qu3 chien ch`ü chien chü midori みどり |
(place-name, surname) Midori Clinging to heterodox views, one of the four 取; or as 見取見, one of the 五見 q. v. |
論語 论语 see styles |
lún yǔ lun2 yu3 lun yü rongo ろんご |
The Analects of Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3] (See 四書) the Analects of Confucius (one of the Four Books) Analects |
證德 证德 see styles |
zhèng dé zheng4 de2 cheng te shōtoku |
Attainment of virtue, or spiritual power, through the four dogmas, twelve nidānas and six pāramitās, in the Hīnayāna and Madhyamayāna. |
識住 识住 see styles |
shì zhù shi4 zhu4 shih chu shikijū |
That on which perception, or mind, is dependent; the four 識住are phenomenon, receptivity, cognition, and reaction; a further category of seven 識住 is divided into phenomenal and supra-phenomenal. |
護國 护国 see styles |
hù guó hu4 guo2 hu kuo morikuni もりくに |
(surname) Morikuni The four lokapālas, or rāṣṭrapālas, who protect a country. |
護摩 护摩 see styles |
hù mó hu4 mo2 hu mo goma ごま |
{Buddh} homa; Buddhist rite of burning wooden sticks to ask a deity for blessings homa, also 護磨; 呼麽 described as originally a burnt offering to Heaven; the esoterics adopted the idea of worshipping with fire, symbolizing wisdom as fire burning up the faggots of passion and illusion; and therewith preparing nirvāṇa as food, etc.; cf. 大日經; four kinds of braziers are used, round, semi-circular, square, and octagonal; four, five, or six purposes are recorded i.e. śāntika, to end calamities; pauṣṭika (or puṣṭikarman) for prosperity; vaśīkaraṇa, 'dominating,' intp. as calling down the good by means of enchantments; abhicaraka, exorcising the evil; a fifth is to obtain the loving protection of the Buddhas and bodhisattvas; a sixth divides puṣṭikarman into two parts, the second part being length of life; each of these six has its controlling Buddha and bodhisattvas, and different forms and accessories of worship. |
豆佉 see styles |
dòu qū dou4 qu1 tou ch`ü tou chü zukya |
(Buddhism) suffering (from Sanskrit "dukkha") duḥkha, trouble, suffering, pain, defined by 逼惱 harassed, distressed. The first of the four dogmas, or 'Noble Truths' 四諦 is that all life is involved, through impermanence, in distress. There are many kinds of 苦 q. v. |
貂蟬 貂蝉 see styles |
diāo chán diao1 chan2 tiao ch`an tiao chan |
Diaochan (-192), one of the four legendary beauties 四大美女[si4 da4 mei3 nu:3], in fiction a famous beauty at the break-up of Han dynasty, given as concubine to usurping warlord Dong Zhuo 董卓[Dong3 Zhuo2] to ensure his overthrow by fighting hero Lü Bu 呂布|吕布[Lu:3 Bu4] |
走獸 走兽 see styles |
zǒu shòu zou3 shou4 tsou shou |
(four-footed) animal; beast |
車裂 车裂 see styles |
chē liè che1 lie4 ch`e lieh che lieh |
to tear off a person's four limbs and head using five horse drawn carts (as capital punishment); to tear limb from limb |
軫方 轸方 see styles |
zhěn fāng zhen3 fang1 chen fang |
square; four-square |
軽四 see styles |
keiyon / keyon けいよん |
(abbreviation) (See 軽四輪) four-wheeled light vehicle |
輪王 轮王 see styles |
lún wáng lun2 wang2 lun wang rinō |
A cakravartin, 'a ruler the wheels of whose chariot roll everywhere without obstruction; an emperor, a sovereign of the world, a supreme ruler.' M.W. A Buddha, whose truth and realm are universal. There are four kinds of cakravartin, symbolized by wheels of gold, silver, copper, and iron; each possesses the seven precious things, 七寶 q.v. |
轉輪 转轮 see styles |
zhuàn lún zhuan4 lun2 chuan lun tenrin |
rotating disk; wheel; rotor; cycle of reincarnation in Buddhism cakravartī, "a ruler the wheels of whose chariot roll everywhere without hindrance." M.W. Revolving wheels; to turn a wheel: also 轉輪王 (轉輪聖王); 輪王; 轉輪聖帝, cf. 斫. The symbol is the cakra or disc, which is of four kinds indicating the rank, i.e. gold, silver, copper, or iron, the iron cakravartī ruling over one continent, the south; the copper, over two, east and south: the silver, over three, east, west, and south; the golden being supreme over all the four continents. The term is also applied to the gods over a universe, and to a buddha as universal spiritual king, and as preacher of the supreme doctrine. Only a cakravartī possesses the 七寳 saptaratna and 1, 000 sons. The cakra, or discus, is also a missile used by a cakravartī for overthrowing his enemies. Its origin is probably the sun with its myriad rays. |
通教 see styles |
tōng jiào tong1 jiao4 t`ung chiao tung chiao michinori みちのり |
(given name) Michinori Tiantai classified Buddhist schools into four periods 藏, 通, 別, and 圓. The 藏 Piṭaka school was that of Hīnayāna. The 通Tong, interrelated or intermediate school, was the first stage of Mahāyāna, having in it elements of all the three vehicles, śrāvaka, pratyekabuddha, and bodhisattva. Its developing doctrine linked it with Hīnayāna on the one hand and on the other with the two further developments of the 別 'separate', or 'differentiated' Mahāyāna teaching, and the 圓 full-orbed, complete, or perfect Mahāyāna. The 通教 held the doctrine of the Void, but had not arrived at the doctrine of the Mean. |
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