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Simple Dictionary Definition |
鏡 镜 see styles |
jìng jing4 ching kagami かがみ |
More info & calligraphy: Mirror(1) mirror; looking-glass; (2) barrel head; (3) {finc} page added at the beginning of a document mentioning its purpose, date, author, etc.; (4) (abbreviation) (See 鏡餅・かがみもち) mirror-shaped mochi; (female given name) Mira ādarśa. A mirror. |
道元 see styles |
dào yuán dao4 yuan2 tao yüan michimoto みちもと |
More info & calligraphy: DogenThe beginning of right doctrine, i.e. faith. |
事始め see styles |
kotohajime ことはじめ |
More info & calligraphy: New Beginning |
析 see styles |
xī xi1 hsi shaku たく |
to separate; to divide; to analyze (irregular kanji usage) wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance) To divide, separate, differentiate, explain. |
柝 see styles |
tuò tuo4 t`o to taku たく ki き |
watchman's rattle wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance) |
之後 之后 see styles |
zhī hòu zhi1 hou4 chih hou |
after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then |
倒敘 倒叙 see styles |
dào xù dao4 xu4 tao hsü |
to start a narrative at the end (or midway), then proceed chronologically from the beginning; to flash back; flashback (in a novel, movie etc) See: 倒叙 |
像始 see styles |
xiàng shǐ xiang4 shi3 hsiang shih zōshi |
The beginning of the formal period. |
元始 see styles |
yuán shǐ yuan2 shi3 yüan shih genshi げんし |
origin; (given name) Motohatsu Prabhū, 波羅赴; 鉢利部 beginning, in the beginning, primordial. Prabhū is a title of Viṣṇu as a personification of the sun. |
冥初 see styles |
míng chū ming2 chu1 ming ch`u ming chu myōsho |
The primitive darkness (at the beginning of existence). |
前株 see styles |
maekabu まえかぶ |
(See 後株) company name with the "kabushiki kaisha" at the beginning |
前略 see styles |
zenryaku ぜんりゃく |
(expression) (1) (at the beginning of a brief letter) dispensing with the preliminaries ...; (n,vs,vi) (2) (when quoting something) omitting the previous part |
劫初 see styles |
jié chū jie2 chu1 chieh ch`u chieh chu kō sho |
The beginning of the kalpa of formation; the kalpa of creation; also 成劫. |
化源 see styles |
huà yuán hua4 yuan2 hua yüan kegen |
The fount of conversion, or salvation, the beginning of the Buddha's teaching. |
化生 see styles |
huà shēng hua4 sheng1 hua sheng keshou / kesho けしょう |
(noun/participle) (1) {Buddh} (See 四生) spontaneous birth; (2) goblin; monster; (surname, given name) Keshou q. v. means direct 'birth' by metamorphosis. It also means the incarnate avaatara of a deity.; aupapādaka, or aupapāduka. Direct metamorphosis, or birth by transformation, one of the 四生, by which existence in any required form is attained in an instant in full maturity. By this birth bodhisattvas residing in Tuṣita appear on earth. Dhyāni Buddhas and Avalokiteśvara are likewise called 化生. It also means unconditional creation at the beginning of a kalpa. Bhuta 部多 is also used with similar meaning. There are various kinds of 化生, e. g. 佛菩薩化生 the transformation of a Buddha or bodhisattva, in any form at will, without gestation, or intermediary conditions: 極樂化生, birth in the happy land of Amitābha by transformation through the Lotus; 法身化生 the dharmakāya, or spiritual body, born or formed on a disciple's conversion. |
土台 see styles |
dodai どだい |
(1) foundation; base; basis; (adverb) (2) (often in negative contexts) (See 元々・1) from the beginning; from the outset; by nature |
大刧 大劫 see styles |
dà jié da4 jie2 ta chieh daikō |
mahākalpa. The great kalpa, from the beginning of a universe till it is destroyed and another begins in its place. It has four kalpas or periods known as vivarta 成刧 the creation period; vivarta‐siddha 住刧 the appearance of sun and moon, i.e. light, and the period of life, human and general; saṃvarta 壤刧 or 滅刧 destruction first by fire, then water, then fire, then deluge, then a great wind, i.e. water during seven small kalpas, fire during 56 and wind one, in all 64; saṃvartatthāhi 増滅刧 total destruction gradually reaching the void. A great kalpa is calculated as eighty small kalpas and to last 1,347,000,000 years. |
大壽 大寿 see styles |
dà shòu da4 shou4 ta shou |
(polite) birthday making the beginning of new decade of life for an older person, especially over 50 years old (e.g. 60th or 70th birthday) |
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. |
布石 see styles |
fuseki ふせき |
(1) {go} strategic arrangement of go stones at the beginning of a game; opening moves; (noun, transitive verb) (2) preparations; preparatory steps; arrangements; (laying the) groundwork (for) |
年神 see styles |
toshigami としがみ |
(1) kami celebrated at the beginning of New Year (usu. to pray for a good harvest); (2) goddess of (lucky) directions; (surname) Toshigami |
当初 see styles |
tousho / tosho とうしょ |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) beginning; start; outset; (n,adv) (2) at first; at the beginning; initially; originally |
拍掌 see styles |
pāi zhǎng pai1 zhang3 p`ai chang pai chang hakushō |
拍手 Clapping of hands at the beginning and end of worship, a Shingon custom. |
敦煌 see styles |
dūn huáng dun1 huang2 tun huang tonkou / tonko とんこう |
Dunhuang, county-level city in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu (irregular kanji usage) (noun or adjectival noun) sincerity and kindheartedness; honesty and simplicity; (place-name) Dunhuang (China) (or 燉煌) The city in Kansu near which are the 千佛洞 Cave-temples of the thousand Buddhas; where a monk in A. D. 1900, sweeping away the collected sand, broke through a partition and found a room full of MSS. ranging in date from the beginning of the 5th to the end of the 10th century, together with block prints and paintings, first brought to light by Sir Aurel Stein. |
新春 see styles |
xīn chūn xin1 chun1 hsin ch`un hsin chun shinshun しんしゅん |
the beginning of Spring; the 10 or 20 days following the lunar New Year's Day New Year; (surname) Niiharu |
月支 see styles |
yuè zhī yue4 zhi1 yüeh chih Gasshi げっし |
the Yuezhi, an ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty (also written 月氏[Yue4 zhi1]) Yuezhi; Rouzhi; an ancient Central Asian people (月支國) The Yuezhi, or 'Indo-Scythians', 月氏 (國) and a country they at one time occupied, i. e. 都貨羅 Tukhara, Tokharestan, or Badakshan. Driven out from the northern curve of the Yellow River by the Huns, circa 165 B. C., they conquered Bactria 大夏, the Punjab, Kashmir, 'and the greater part of India. ' Their expulsion from the north of Shansi was the cause of the famous journey of Zhangqian of the Han dynasty and the beginning of Chinese expansion to the north-west. Kanishka, king of the Yuezhi towards the end of the first century A. D., became the great protector and propagator of Buddhism. |
本初 see styles |
běn chū ben3 chu1 pen ch`u pen chu honsho ほんしょ |
(n,adv) beginning; origin; start In the beginning; originally. |
林藤 see styles |
lín téng lin2 teng2 lin t`eng lin teng rindou / rindo りんどう |
(surname) Rindō Vegetable food, used by men at the beginning of a kalpa. |
歳神 see styles |
toshigami としがみ |
(1) kami celebrated at the beginning of New Year (usu. to pray for a good harvest); (2) goddess of (lucky) directions |
残寒 see styles |
zankan ざんかん |
lingering cold (even after the beginning of spring); lingering winter |
溯源 see styles |
sù yuán su4 yuan2 su yüan sogen そげん sakugen さくげん |
to investigate the origin of something; to trace a river upstream back to its source (noun/participle) returning to the origin; going back to the beginning; retracing |
片頭 片头 see styles |
piàn tóu pian4 tou2 p`ien t`ou pien tou katagashira かたがしら |
opening titles (of movie); leader (blank film at the beginning and end of a reel) (place-name) Katagashira |
生起 see styles |
shēng qǐ sheng1 qi3 sheng ch`i sheng chi seiki / seki せいき |
(n,vs,vi) occurrence; taking place; happening; (given name) Seiki Birth and what arises from it; cause of an act; the beginning and rise. |
略啓 see styles |
ryakukei / ryakuke りゃくけい |
(expression) (at the beginning of a brief letter) dispensing with the preliminaries ... |
粛白 see styles |
shukuhaku しゅくはく |
(interjection) (honorific or respectful language) (archaism) (See 敬白,粛啓) humble greeting at the beginning of a letter |
自來 自来 see styles |
zì lái zi4 lai2 tzu lai |
from the beginning; always; to come of one's own accord |
薄暑 see styles |
hakusho はくしょ |
light heat at the beginning of the summer |
虛歲 虚岁 see styles |
xū suì xu1 sui4 hsü sui |
one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) – In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday.; contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4] |
謹啟 谨启 see styles |
jǐn qǐ jin3 qi3 chin ch`i chin chi |
to respectfully inform (used at the beginning or end of letters) |
起來 起来 see styles |
qi lai qi5 lai5 ch`i lai chi lai |
(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state; indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站[zhan4]); indicating completion; (after a perception verb, e.g. 看[kan4]) expressing preliminary judgment; also pr. [qi3lai5] |
起先 see styles |
qǐ xiān qi3 xian1 ch`i hsien chi hsien |
at first; in the beginning |
足目 see styles |
zú mù zu2 mu4 tsu mu Sokumoku |
Eyes in his feet,' name of Akṣapāda Gotama, to whom is ascribed the beginning of logic; his work is seen 'in five books of aphorisms on the Nyāya.' Keith. |
蹲踞 see styles |
dūn jù dun1 ju4 tun chü sonkyo そんきょ |
squat; crouch (noun/participle) {sumo;MA} crouching; formal crouch performed at the beginning of a sumo or kendo match to squat on the heels |
轉經 转经 see styles |
zhuǎn jīng zhuan3 jing1 chuan ching tengyō |
To recite a scripture; to scan a scripture by reading the beginning, middle, and end of each chapter; cf. 轉大. To roll or unroll a scripture roll. To copy a scripture. 轉藏; 轉讀 are similar in meaning. |
遡源 see styles |
sogen そげん sakugen さくげん |
(noun/participle) returning to the origin; going back to the beginning; retracing |
開本 开本 see styles |
kāi běn kai1 ben3 k`ai pen kai pen hirakimoto ひらきもと |
book format, similar to in-4°, in-8° etc (a 16-kai format 16開|16开[shi2liu4-kai1] is roughly A4) (abbr. to 開|开[kai1]) (surname) Hirakimoto To commence; the very beginning; at the beginning; to explain the beginning. |
開首 开首 see styles |
kāi shǒu kai1 shou3 k`ai shou kai shou |
beginning; start; opening; in the beginning; to start; to open |
阿歐 阿欧 see styles |
ā ōu a1 ou1 a ou aō |
au! An exclamation, e.g. Ho! Oh! Ah! Also 阿傴; 阿嘔; 阿漚 or 阿優. The two letters a and u fell from the comers of Brahmā's mouth when he gave the seventy-two letters of Kharoṣṭhī, and they are said to be placed at the beginning of the Brahminical sacred books as divine letters, the Buddhists adopting 如是 'Thus' (evam) instead. |
ＳＨＲ see styles |
shootohoomuruumu; shooto hoomuruumu(sk) / shootohoomurumu; shooto hoomurumu(sk) ショートホームルーム; ショート・ホームルーム(sk) |
(abbreviation) (See ホームルーム,ＬＨＲ・ロングホームルーム) short homeroom (at the beginning and end of the school day) |
一から see styles |
ichikara いちから |
(expression) from the beginning; from scratch |
三不知 see styles |
sān bù zhī san1 bu4 zhi1 san pu chih |
to know nothing about the beginning, the middle or the end; to know nothing at all |
三末多 see styles |
sān mò duō san1 mo4 duo1 san mo to sanmata |
sammata, intp. as 共許 'unanimously accorded'; i. e. name of the first king (elected) at the beginning of each world-kalpa. |
五月蠅 see styles |
sabae さばえ |
(archaism) flies swarming at the beginning of summer |
元から see styles |
motokara もとから |
(adverb) originally; from the start; from the beginning |
元より see styles |
motoyori もとより |
(adverb) (1) (kana only) from the beginning; from the first; all along; originally; (2) (kana only) of course |
初めに see styles |
hajimeni はじめに |
(expression) (1) first; firstly; first of all; to begin with; in the beginning; at the beginning; (2) (kana only) Introduction; Preface |
初めは see styles |
hajimeha はじめは |
(expression) at first; in the beginning; originally |
名残雪 see styles |
nagoriyuki なごりゆき |
(1) lingering snow; (2) snowfall at the end of the winter or the beginning of spring |
四月病 see styles |
shigatsubyou / shigatsubyo しがつびょう |
(See 五月病,六月病) euphoria experienced by college students or workplace recruits at the beginning of school or work |
固より see styles |
motoyori もとより |
(adverb) (1) (kana only) from the beginning; from the first; all along; originally; (2) (kana only) of course |
在理教 see styles |
zài lǐ jiào zai4 li3 jiao4 tsai li chiao Zairi kyō |
The Tsai-li secret society, an offshoot of the White Lily Society, was founded in Shantung at the beginning of the Ch'ing dynasty; the title 'in the li, ' indicating that the society associated itself with all three religions, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism; its followers set up no images, burnt no incense, neither smoked nor drank, and were vegetarian. |
始めに see styles |
hajimeni はじめに |
(expression) (1) first; firstly; first of all; to begin with; in the beginning; at the beginning; (2) (kana only) Introduction; Preface |
始めは see styles |
hajimeha はじめは |
(expression) at first; in the beginning; originally |
寒明け see styles |
kanake かんあけ |
the beginning of spring |
序の口 see styles |
jonokuchi じょのくち |
(1) the beginning (as in "this is only the beginning"); (2) (sumo) lowest division in sumo |
新年会 see styles |
shinnenkai しんねんかい |
New Year's party (held in the beginning of the year, i.e. usually in January) |
根から see styles |
nekara ねから |
(adv,adj-no) (1) (See 根っから) since the beginning; natural-born (salesman, etc.); (adv,adj-no) (2) (followed by a verb in negative form) absolutely (not); (not) at all |
桐一葉 see styles |
kirihitoha きりひとは |
falling paulownia leaf signaling the beginning of autumn (fall) |
發語辭 发语辞 see styles |
fā yǔ cí fa1 yu3 ci2 fa yü tz`u fa yü tzu |
literary auxiliary particle, comes at the beginning of a sentence |
盧溝橋 卢沟桥 see styles |
lú gōu qiáo lu2 gou1 qiao2 lu kou ch`iao lu kou chiao rokoukyou / rokokyo ろこうきょう |
Lugou Bridge or Marco Polo Bridge in southwest of Beijing, the scene of a conflict that marked the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争[Kang4 Ri4 Zhan4 zheng1] Marco Polo Bridge (China); (place-name) Marco Polo Bridge (China) |
端から see styles |
hanakara; hanakara はなから; ハナから |
(expression) (kana only) from the start; from the beginning; from the outset |
素より see styles |
motoyori もとより |
(adverb) (1) (kana only) from the beginning; from the first; all along; originally; (2) (kana only) of course |
蘆溝橋 芦沟桥 see styles |
lú gōu qiáo lu2 gou1 qiao2 lu kou ch`iao lu kou chiao rokoukyou / rokokyo ろこうきょう |
Lugou Bridge or Marco Polo Bridge in southwest of Beijing, the scene of a conflict that marked the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争[Kang4 Ri4 Zhan4 zheng1] (irregular kanji usage) Marco Polo Bridge (China); (place-name) Marco Polo Bridge (China) |
追羽子 see styles |
oibane おいばね |
battledore and shuttlecock game (played at the beginning of the year) |
追羽根 see styles |
oibane おいばね |
battledore and shuttlecock game (played at the beginning of the year) |
韋紐天 韦纽天 see styles |
wéi niǔ tiān wei2 niu3 tian1 wei niu t`ien wei niu tien |
韋糅; 違紐; 毘紐; 毘瑟紐; 韋搜紐; 韋廋紐; 毘瑟怒 (or 毘瑟笯) Viṣṇu, all-pervading, encompassing; 'the preserver' in the trimūrti, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, creator, preserver, destroyer; the Vaiṣṇavas (Vishnuites) are devoted to him as the Śaivas are to Śiva. His wife is Lakṣmī, or Śrī. The Chinese describe him as born out of water at the beginning of a world-kalpa with 1,000 heads and 2,000 hands; from his navel springs a lotus, from which is evolved Brahmā. |
頭から see styles |
atamakara あたまから |
(adverb) (1) from the beginning; without hesitation; flatly (e.g. refusing); (adverb) (2) entirely; completely |
頭切れ see styles |
toukire / tokire とうきれ |
{comp} clipping off the beginning of a speech transmission |
こと始め see styles |
kotohajime ことはじめ |
(1) taking up a new line of work; the beginning of things; (2) starting the preparations for New Year's festivities (December 8 in Tokyo, December 13 in Kyoto); (3) resuming work after the New Year's vacation |
ていうか see styles |
teiuka / teuka ていうか |
(expression) (used at the beginning of a sentence) I mean |
なごり雪 see styles |
nagoriyuki なごりゆき |
(1) lingering snow; (2) snowfall at the end of the winter or the beginning of spring |
七七事變 七七事变 see styles |
qī qī shì biàn qi1 qi1 shi4 bian4 ch`i ch`i shih pien chi chi shih pien |
Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7th July 1937, regarded as the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争[Kang4 Ri4 Zhan4 zheng1] |
何夷摩柯 see styles |
hé yí mó kē he2 yi2 mo2 ke1 ho i mo k`o ho i mo ko Kaimaka |
Haimaka, a king at the beginning of a kalpa, 金 by name. |
八十八夜 see styles |
hachijuuhachiya / hachijuhachiya はちじゅうはちや |
eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring |
初めから see styles |
hajimekara はじめから |
(expression) from the beginning |
前方一致 see styles |
zenpouicchi / zenpoicchi ぜんぽういっち |
{comp} (See 部分一致,後方一致) left-hand match; begins-with match; matching a sub-string with the beginning of a field |
十二因緣 十二因缘 see styles |
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. |
南昌起義 南昌起义 see styles |
nán chāng qǐ yì nan2 chang1 qi3 yi4 nan ch`ang ch`i i nan chang chi i |
Nanchang Uprising, 1st August 1927, the beginning of military revolt by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War |
名残の雪 see styles |
nagorinoyuki なごりのゆき |
(1) lingering snow; (2) snowfall at the end of the winter or the beginning of spring |
名残り雪 see styles |
nagoriyuki なごりゆき |
(1) lingering snow; (2) snowfall at the end of the winter or the beginning of spring |
如是我聞 如是我闻 see styles |
rú shì wǒ wén ru2 shi4 wo3 wen2 ju shih wo wen nyozegamon にょぜがもん |
so I have heard (idiom); the beginning clause of Buddha's quotations as recorded by his disciple, Ananda (Buddhism) (yoji) thus I hear (quote from the sutras); these ears have heard thus have I heard |
始めから see styles |
hajimekara はじめから |
(expression) from the beginning |
宇宙開闢 see styles |
uchuukaibyaku / uchukaibyaku うちゅうかいびゃく |
(since) the beginning of the universe; (since) the dawn of time |
廃仏毀釈 see styles |
haibutsukishaku はいぶつきしゃく |
(yoji) anti-Buddhist movement at the beginning of the Meiji era |
拈花微笑 see styles |
niǎn huā wēi xiào nian3 hua1 wei1 xiao4 nien hua wei hsiao nenge mishō |
Buddha held up a flower and Kāśyapa smiled'. This incident does not appear till about A. D. 800, but is regarded as the beginning of the tradition on which the Chan (Zen) or Intuitional sect based its existence. |
新年早々 see styles |
shinnensousou / shinnensoso しんねんそうそう |
(at) the beginning of the New Year; early in the New Year |
有史以來 有史以来 see styles |
yǒu shǐ yǐ lái you3 shi3 yi3 lai2 yu shih i lai |
since the beginning of history See: 有史以来 |
服水論師 服水论师 see styles |
fú shuǐ lùn shī fu2 shui3 lun4 shi1 fu shui lun shih bukusui ronji |
The sect of non-Buddhist philosophers who considered water the beginning and end of all things. |
本來法爾 本来法尔 see styles |
běn lái fǎ ěr ben3 lai2 fa3 er3 pen lai fa erh honrai hōni |
So from the beginning, interpreted as 自始自然. |
柝が入る see styles |
kigahairu きがはいる |
(exp,v5r) (rare) clapping with wooden clappers (to signal the beginning or end of a performance) |
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