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There are 25 total results for your Tenet search in the dictionary.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

淨土宗


净土宗

see styles
jìng tǔ zōng
    jing4 tu3 zong1
ching t`u tsung
    ching tu tsung
 Jōdo Shū
Pure Land Buddhism
The Pure-land sect, whose chief tenet is salvation by faith in Amitābha; it is the popular cult in China, also in Japan, where it is the Jōdo sect; it is also called 蓮宗(蓮花宗) the Lotus sect. Established by Hui-yuan 慧遠 of the Chin dynasty (317— 419), it claims P'u-hsien 普賢 Samantabhadra as founder. Its seven chief textbooks are 無量淸淨平等覺經; 大阿彌陀經; 無量壽經; 觀無量壽經; 阿彌陀經; 稱讚淨土佛攝受經; and 鼓音聲三陀羅尼經. The淨土眞宗 is the Jōdo-Shin, or Shin sect of Japan.

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

主張


主张

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zhǔ zhāng
    zhu3 zhang1
chu chang
 shuchou / shucho
    しゅちょう
to advocate; to stand for; view; position; stand; proposition; viewpoint; assertion; CL:個|个[ge4]
(noun, transitive verb) claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention; opinion; tenet
assertion, claim

人執


人执

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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.

四執


四执

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sì zhí
    si4 zhi2
ssu chih
 shishū
The four erroneous tenets; also 四邪; 四迷; 四術; there are two groups: I. The four of the 外道 outsiders, or non-Buddhists, i. e. of Brahminism, concerning the law of cause and effect: (1) 邪因邪果 heretical theory of causation, e. g. creation by Mahesvara; (2) 無因有果 or 自然, effect independent of cause, e. g. creation without a cause, or spontaneous generation; (3) 有因無果 cause without effect, e. g. no future life as the result of this. (4) 無因無果 neither cause nor effect, e. g. that rewards and punishments are independent of morals. II. The four erroneous tenets of 內外道 insiders and outsiders, Buddhist and Brahman, also styled 四宗 the four schools, as negated in the 中論 Mādhyamika śāstra: (1) outsiders, who do not accept either the 人 ren or 法 fa ideas of 空 kong; (2) insiders who hold the Abhidharma or Sarvāstivādāḥ tenet, which recognizes 人空 human impersonality, but not 法空 the unreality of things; (3) also those who hold the 成實 Satyasiddhi tenet which discriminates the two meanings of 空 kong but not clearly; and also (4) those in Mahāyāna who hold the tenet of the realists.

妙宗

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miào zōng
    miao4 zong1
miao tsung
 myōshū
Profound principles; the Lotus school.

宗意

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zōng yì
    zong1 yi4
tsung i
 motoi
    もとい
(surname) Motoi
tenet(s) of a certain school

教旨

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 kyoushi / kyoshi
    きょうし
doctrine; teaching; tenet

教条

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 kyoujou / kyojo
    きょうじょう
tenet; dogma

本論


本论

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běn lùn
    ben3 lun4
pen lun
 honron
    ほんろん
(1) main subject; main issue; main discourse; (2) this subject
main tenet

正名

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zhèng míng
    zheng4 ming2
cheng ming
 masana
    まさな
to replace the current name or title of something with a new one that reflects its true nature; rectification of names (a tenet of Confucian philosophy)
(g,p) Masana

法執


法执

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fǎ zhí
    fa3 zhi2
fa chih
 hōshū
Holding to things as realities, i. e the false tenet that things are real.

法見


法见

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fǎ jiàn
    fa3 jian4
fa chien
 hokken
Maintaining one tenet and considering others wrong; narrow-minded, bigoted.

異執


异执

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yì zhí
    yi4 zhi2
i chih
 ishū
A different tenet; to hold to heterodoxy.

空宗

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kōng zōng
    kong1 zong1
k`ung tsung
    kung tsung
 soramune
    そらむね
(surname) Soramune
The śūnya sects, i.e. those which make the unreality of the ego and things their fundamental tenet.

立宗

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lì zōng
    li4 zong1
li tsung
 risshuu / risshu
    りっしゅう
(noun/participle) founding of a religion (or sect)
a tenet

一向宗

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yī xiàng zōng
    yi1 xiang4 zong1
i hsiang tsung
 ikkoushuu / ikkoshu
    いっこうしゅう
(See 浄土真宗) Ikkō sect (of Buddhism); Jōdo Shinshū; True Pure Land School
The 眞宗 Shin or Pure-land Shin Sect founded by Shinran, in Japan, whose chief tenet is unwavering reflection on Amida (by repeating his name).

二法執


二法执

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èr fǎ zhí
    er4 fa3 zhi2
erh fa chih
 ni hosshū
The two tenets in regard to things; of. 二我執, i.e. 倶生法執 the common or natural tendency to consider things as real; 分別法執 the tenet of the reality of things as the result of false reasoning and teaching.

法無我


法无我

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fǎ wú wǒ
    fa3 wu2 wo3
fa wu wo
 hō muga
dharmanairātmya. Things are without independent individuality, i.e. the tenet that things have no independent reality, no reality in themselves. 法無我智 The knowledge or wisdom of the above.

非情成佛

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fēi qíng chéng fó
    fei1 qing2 cheng2 fo2
fei ch`ing ch`eng fo
    fei ching cheng fo
The insentient become (or are) Buddha, a tenet of the 圓教, i.e. the doctrine of pan-Buddha.

徧計所執性


徧计所执性

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biàn jì suǒ zhí xìng
    bian4 ji4 suo3 zhi2 xing4
pien chi so chih hsing
 henge shoshū shō
The nature of the unenlightened, holding to the tenet that everything is calculable or reliable, i.e. is what it appears to be.

諸法但名宗


诸法但名宗

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zhū fǎ dàn míng zōng
    zhu1 fa3 dan4 ming2 zong1
chu fa tan ming tsung
 shohō danmyō shū
the tenet that all dharmas are only names

貪欲卽是道


贪欲卽是道

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tān yù jí shì dào
    tan1 yu4 ji2 shi4 dao4
t`an yü chi shih tao
    tan yü chi shih tao
 tonyoku soku ze dō
Desire is part of the universal law, and may be used for leading into the truth, a tenet of Tiantai.

ジョージテネット

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 joojitenetto
    ジョージテネット
(person) George Tenet

一卽一切一切卽一

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yī jí yī qiè yī qiè jí yī
    yi1 ji2 yi1 qie4 yi1 qie4 ji2 yi1
i chi i ch`ieh i ch`ieh chi i
    i chi i chieh i chieh chi i
 issoku issai issai soku ichi
One is all and all is one.' Expressing the essential unity of all things; a tenet of the Huayan and Tiantai schools.

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 25 results for "Tenet" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



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A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

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