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妙 see styles |
miào miao4 miao myou / myo みょう |
More info & calligraphy: Clever / Superb / Wonderful(noun or adjectival noun) (1) strange; weird; odd; curious; (noun or adjectival noun) (2) wonder; mystery; miracle; excellence; (noun or adjectival noun) (3) cleverness; adroitness; knack; skill; (surname) Myō su, sat, mañju, sūkṣma. Wonderful, beautiful, mystic, supernatural, profound, subtle, mysterious. su means good, excellent, surpassing, beautiful, fine, easy. sat means existing, real, good. mañju means beautiful, lovely, charming. Intp. in Chinese as 不可思議 beyond thought or discussion; 絕待 special, outstanding; 無比 incomparable; 精微深遠 subtle and profound. |
定 see styles |
dìng ding4 ting jou / jo じょう |
More info & calligraphy: Samadhi(1) (See 案の定・あんのじょう) certainty; reality; actuality; (prefix noun) (2) (See 定宿) regular; permanent; (3) {Buddh} (See 三昧・さんまい・1,禅定・ぜんじょう・1) samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation); (given name) Yasushi To fix, settle. samādhi. 'Composing the mind'; 'intent contemplation'; 'perfect absorption of thought into the one object of meditation.' M. W. Abstract meditation, the mind fixed in one direction, or field. (1) 散定 scattered or general meditation (in the world of desire). (2) 禪定 abstract meditation (in the realms of form and beyond form). It is also one of the five attributes of the dharmakāya 法身, i. e. an internal state of imperturbability or tranquility, exempt from all external sensations, 超受陰; cf. 三摩提. |
心 see styles |
xīn xin1 hsin shin しん |
More info & calligraphy: Heart / Mind / Spirit(1) (See 心・こころ・1) heart; mind; spirit; vitality; inner strength; (2) bottom of one's heart; core (of one's character); nature; (3) (usu. written as 芯) (See 芯・2) centre; center; core; heart; (4) (See 心臓・1) heart (organ); (5) {astron} (See 二十八宿) Chinese "Heart" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); (6) (archaism) (child. language) friend; (given name) Haato hṛd, hṛdaya 汗栗太 (or 汗栗馱); 紀哩馱 the heart, mind, soul; citta 質多 the heart as the seat of thought or intelligence. In both senses the heart is likened to a lotus. There are various definitions, of which the following are six instances: (1) 肉團心 hṛd, the physical heart of sentient or nonsentient living beings, e. g. men, trees, etc. (2) 集起心 citta, the ālayavijñāna, or totality of mind, and the source of all mental activity. (3) 思量心 manas, the thinking and calculating mind; (4) 緣慮心; 了別心; 慮知心; citta; the discriminating mind; (5) 堅實心 the bhūtatathatā mind, or the permanent mind; (6) 積聚精要心 the mind essence of the sutras. |
念 see styles |
niàn nian4 nien nen ねん |
More info & calligraphy: Mindfulness(1) (esp. 〜の念) sense; idea; thought; feeling; (2) desire; concern; (3) (esp. 念に〜、念の／が〜) attention; care; (personal name) Nen smṛti. Recollection, memory; to think on, reflect; repeat, intone; a thought; a moment. |
意 see styles |
yì yi4 i i い |
More info & calligraphy: Idea / Thought / Meaning(1) feelings; thoughts; (2) meaning; (personal name) Kokoro Manas, the sixth of the ṣaḍāyatanas or six means of perception, i.e. sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and mind. Manas means "mind (in its widest sense as applied to all the mental powers), intellect, intelligence, understanding, perception, sense, conscience, will". M.W. It is "the intellectual function of consciousness", Keith. In Chinese it connotes thought, idea, intention, meaning, will; but in Buddhist terminology its distinctive meaning is mind, or the faculty of thought. |
業 业 see styles |
yè ye4 yeh waza わざ |
More info & calligraphy: Karmadeed; act; work; performance; (personal name) Hajime karman, karma, "action, work, deed"; "moral duty"; "product, result, effect." M.W. The doctrine of the act; deeds and their effects on the character, especially in their relation to succeeding forms of transmigration. The 三業 are thought, word, and deed, each as good, bad, or indifferent. Karma from former lives is 宿業, from present conduct 現業. Karma is moral action that causes future retribution, and either good or evil transmigration. It is also that moral kernel in which each being survives death for further rebirth or metempsychosis. There are categories of 2, 3, 4, 6, and 10; the 六業 are rebirth in the hells, or as animals, hungry ghosts, men, devas, or asuras: v. 六趣. |
禪 禅 see styles |
shàn shan4 shan yuzuri ゆずり |
More info & calligraphy: Zen / Chan / Meditation(out-dated kanji) (1) (Buddhist term) dhyana (profound meditation); (2) (abbreviation) Zen (Buddhism); (surname) Yuzuri To level a place for an altar, to sacrifice to the hills and fountains; to abdicate. Adopted by Buddhists for dhyāna, 禪 or 禪那, i.e. meditation, abstraction, trance. dhyāna is 'meditation, thought, reflection, especially profound and abstract religious contemplation'. M.W. It was intp. as 'getting rid of evil', etc., later as 靜慮 quiet meditation. It is a form of 定, but that word is more closely allied with samādhi, cf. 禪定. The term also connotes Buddhism and Buddhist things in general, but has special application to the 禪宗 q.v. It is one of the six pāramitās, cf. 波. There are numerous methods and subjects of meditation. The eighteen brahmalokas are divided into four dhyāna regions 'corresponding to certain frames of mind where individuals might be reborn in strict accordance with their spiritual state'. The first three are the first dhyāna, the second three the second dhyāna, the third three the third dhyāna, and the remaining nine the fourth dhyāna. See Eitel. According to Childers' Pali Dictionary, 'The four jhānas are four stages of mystic meditation, whereby the believer's mind is purged from all earthly emotions, and detached as it were from his body, which remains plunged in a profound trance.' Seated cross-legged, the practiser 'concentrates his mind upon a single thought. Gradually his soul becomes filled with a supernatural ecstasy and serenity', his mind still reasoning: this is the first jhāna. Concentrating his mind on the same subject, he frees it from reasoning, the ecstasy and serenity remaining, which is the second jhāna. Then he divests himself of ecstasy, reaching the third stage of serenity. Lastly, in the fourth stage the mind becomes indifferent to all emotions, being exalted above them and purified. There are differences in the Mahāyāna methods, but similarity of aim. |
考 see styles |
kǎo kao3 k`ao kao kou / ko こう |
More info & calligraphy: Caw(1) thought; (suffix noun) (2) report on one's investigation into ...; (suffix noun) (3) deceased father; (surname, given name) Takashi to think |
門 门 see styles |
mén men2 men mon(p); kado もん(P); かど |
More info & calligraphy: Gate(n,n-suf) (1) gate; (n,n-suf) (2) (もん only) branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master; (n,n-suf) (3) (もん only) {biol} division; phylum; (counter) (4) (もん only) counter for cannons; (surname) Yuki A door; gate; a sect, school, teaching, especially one leading to salvation or nirvana. |
一考 see styles |
ikkou / ikko いっこう |
More info & calligraphy: Consideration / Thought / Ikko |
三昧 see styles |
sān mèi san1 mei4 san mei sanmai; zanmai さんまい; ざんまい |
More info & calligraphy: Samadhi(1) (さんまい only) {Buddh} samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation) (san:); (suffix noun) (2) (usu. ざんまい) being immersed in; being absorbed in; indulging in; doing to one's heart's content; (suffix noun) (3) (usu. ざんまい) prone to; apt to; (given name) Sanmai (三昧地) Samādhi, "putting together, composing the mind, intent contemplation, perfect absorption, union of the meditator with the object of meditation." (M. W.) Also 三摩地 (三摩提, 三摩帝, 三摩底). Interpreted by 定 or 正定, the mind fixed and undisturbed; by 正受 correct sensation of the object contemplated; by 調直定 ordering and fixing the mind; by 正心行處 the condition when the motions of the mind are steadied and harmonized with the object; by 息慮凝心 the cessation of distraction and the fixation of the mind; by 等持 the mind held in equilibrium; by 奢摩他, i.e. 止息 to stay the breathing. It is described as concentration of the mind (upon an object). The aim is 解脫, mukti, deliverance from all the trammels of life, the bondage of the passions and reincarnations. It may pass from abstraction to ecstasy, or rapture, or trance. Dhyāna 定 represents a simpler form of contemplation; samāpatti 三摩鉢底 a stage further advanced; and samādhi the highest stage of the Buddhist equivalent for Yoga, though Yoga is considered by some as a Buddhist development differing from samādhi. The 翻譯名義 says: 思專 when the mind has been concentrated, then 志一不分 the will is undivided; when 想寂 active thought has been put to rest, then 氣虛神朗 the material becomes etherealized and the spirit liberated, on which 智 knowledge, or the power to know, has free course, and there is no mystery into which it cannot probe. Cf. 智度論 5, 20, 23, 28; 止觀 2; 大乘義章 2, 9, 1 3, 20, etc. There are numerous kinds and degrees of samādhi. |
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. |
思想 see styles |
sī xiǎng si1 xiang3 ssu hsiang shisou / shiso しそう |
More info & calligraphy: Thought / Thinking / Ideathought; idea; ideology; (female given name) Shisou to think |
想い see styles |
omoi おもい |
More info & calligraphy: Omoi / Desire |
意念 see styles |
yì niàn yi4 nian4 i nien |
More info & calligraphy: Idea / Thought |
無心 无心 see styles |
wú xīn wu2 xin1 wu hsin mushin むしん |
More info & calligraphy: No Mind / Mushin(adj-na,adj-no,n) (1) innocence; (adj-na,n,adj-no) (2) insentient (i.e. plants, inanimate objects, etc.); (adj-na,n,adj-no) (3) {Buddh} (See 有心) free from obstructive thoughts; (vs,vt) (4) to pester someone (for cash, etc.) Mindless, without thought, will, or purpose; the real immaterial mind free from illusion; unconsciousness, or effortless action. |
神風 see styles |
kamikaze(p); shinpuu; kamukaze / kamikaze(p); shinpu; kamukaze かみかぜ(P); しんぷう; かむかぜ |
More info & calligraphy: Kamikaze / Divine Wind |
八正道 see styles |
bā zhèng dào ba1 zheng4 dao4 pa cheng tao hasshōdō はっしょうどう |
More info & calligraphy: The Noble Eightfold Path(Buddhist term) noble eightfold path (八正道分) Āryamārga. The eight right or correct ways, the "eightfold noble path" for the arhat to nirvāṇa; also styled 八道船, 八正門, 八由行, 八游行, 八聖道支, 八道行, 八直行, 八直道. The eight are: (1) 正見Samyag-dṛṣṭi, correct views in regard to the Four Axioms, and freedom from the common delusion. (2) 正思 Samyak-saṁkalpa, correct thought and purpose. (3) 正語 Samyag-vāc, correct speech, avoidance of false and idle talk. (4) 正業 Samyak-karmānta, correct deed, or conduct, getting rid of all improper action so as to dwell in purity. (5) 正命 Smnyag-ājīva, correct livelihood or occupation, avoiding the five immoral occupations. (6) 正精進 Samyag-vyāyāma, correct zeal, or energy in uninterrupted progress in the way of nirvāṇa. (7) 正念 Samyak-smṛti, correct remembrance, or memory, which retains the true and excludes the false. (8) 正定 Samyak-samadhi, correct meditation, absorption, or abstraction. The 正 means of course Buddhist orthodoxy, anything contrary to this being 邪 or heterodox, and wrong. |
尋求心 寻求心 see styles |
xún qiú xīn xun2 qiu2 xin1 hsün ch`iu hsin hsün chiu hsin jingu shin |
More info & calligraphy: Seeking Mind |
拈華微笑 拈华微笑 see styles |
niān huá wéi xiào nian1 hua2 wei2 xiao4 nien hua wei hsiao nengemishou / nengemisho ねんげみしょう |
More info & calligraphy: Holding Flowers with Subtle Smilethe holding of a flower and the subtle smile |
妄念 see styles |
wàng niàn wang4 nian4 wang nien mounen / monen もうねん |
wild fantasy; unwarranted thought {Buddh} conviction based on flawed ideas; obstructive thought False or misleading thoughts. |
思潮 see styles |
sī cháo si1 chao2 ssu ch`ao ssu chao shichou / shicho しちょう |
tide of thought; way of thinking characteristic of a historical period; Zeitgeist trend of thought |
熟慮 熟虑 see styles |
shú lǜ shu2 lu:4 shu lü jukuryo じゅくりょ |
careful thought (1) deliberation; (thoughtful) consideration; (noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru) (2) to consider a matter carefully |
邪念 see styles |
xié niàn xie2 nian4 hsieh nien janen じゃねん |
wicked idea; evil thought; evil desire wicked thought; wicked mind false thoughts |
政治思想 see styles |
zhèng zhì sī xiǎng zheng4 zhi4 si1 xiang3 cheng chih ssu hsiang seijishisou / sejishiso せいじしそう |
political thought; ideology political thought; political philosophy; political idea; idea about politics |
諸子百家 诸子百家 see styles |
zhū zǐ bǎi jiā zhu1 zi3 bai3 jia1 chu tzu pai chia shoshihyakka しょしひゃっか |
the Hundred Schools of Thought, the various schools of thought and their exponents during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC) (yoji) (hist) Hundred Schools of Thought (during China's Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period) all the philosophers |
伏 see styles |
fú fu2 fu fuse ふせ |
to lean over; to fall (go down); to hide (in ambush); to conceal oneself; to lie low; hottest days of summer; to submit; to concede defeat; to overcome; to subdue; volt (surname) Fuse Prostrate; humble; suffer, bear; ambush; dog-days; hatch; it is used for control, under control, e. g. as delusion; 斷 is contrasted with it as complete extirpation, so that no delusive thought arises. |
口 see styles |
kǒu kou3 k`ou kou kuchi くち |
mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls (1) mouth; (2) opening; hole; gap; orifice; (3) mouth (of a bottle); spout; nozzle; mouthpiece; (4) gate; door; entrance; exit; (5) (See 口を利く・1) speaking; speech; talk (i.e. gossip); (6) (See 口に合う) taste; palate; (7) mouth (to feed); (8) (See 働き口) opening (i.e. vacancy); available position; (9) (See 口がかかる・1) invitation; summons; (10) kind; sort; type; (11) opening (i.e. beginning); (suf,ctr) (12) counter for mouthfuls, shares (of money), stove burners, and swords; (surname) Hamanoguchi mukha, the mouth, especially as the organ of speech. 身, 口, 意 are the three media of corruption, body or deed , mouth or word, and mind or thought. |
塵 尘 see styles |
chén chen2 ch`en chen chiri ちり |
dust; dirt; earth (1) dust; (2) trash; garbage; rubbish; dirt; (3) (usu. as 塵ほども...ない) negligible amount; tiny bit; (4) hustle and bustle (of life); worldly cares; impurities of the world; (5) (abbreviation) {sumo} (See 塵手水) ritual gestures indicating that a fight will be clean guṇa, in Sanskrit inter alia means 'a secondary element', 'a quality', 'an attribute of the five elements', e.g. 'ether has śabda or sound for its guṇa and the ear for its organ'. In Chinese it means 'dust, small particles; molecules, atoms, exhalations'. It may be intp. as an atom, or matter, which is considered as defilement; or as an active, conditioned principle in nature, minute, subtle, and generally speaking defiling to pure mind; worldly, earthly, the world. The six guṇas or sensation-data are those of sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, and thought. |
思 see styles |
sī si1 ssu shiyou / shiyo しよう |
to think; to consider (given name) Shiyou cint- 指底. Think, thought; turn the attention to; intp. by 心所法 mental action or contents, mentality, intellection. |
想 see styles |
xiǎng xiang3 hsiang sou / so そう |
to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of) (1) conception; idea; thought; (2) {Buddh} (See 五蘊) samjna (perception); (given name) Nozomu To think, meditate, reflect, expect; a function of mind. |
慝 see styles |
tè te4 t`e te |
evil thought |
様 see styles |
yàng yang4 yang you / yo よう |
Japanese variant of 樣|样 (n-suf,n) (1) (kana only) (usu. after the -masu stem of a verb) (See 様だ・1) appearing ...; looking ...; (n-suf,n) (2) (usu. after the -masu stem of a verb) way to ...; method of ...ing; (n-suf,n) (3) (usu. after a noun) form; style; design; (n-suf,n) (4) (usu. after a noun) (See 様だ・2) like; similar to; (5) thing (thought or spoken); (female given name) Yō |
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. |
行 see styles |
xíng xing2 hsing kou / ko こう |
to walk; to go; to travel; a visit; temporary; makeshift; current; in circulation; to do; to perform; capable; competent; effective; all right; OK!; will do; behavior; conduct; Taiwan pr. [xing4] for the behavior-conduct sense (n,n-suf) (1) going; travelling; traveling; journey; trip; (2) act; action; (suffix noun) (3) bank; (counter) (4) counter for banks; (counter) (5) counter for groups or parties of people; (6) type of classical Chinese verse (usu. an epic from the Tang period onwards); (7) (hist) shopping district (of similar merchants; in the Sui and Tang periods); (8) (hist) merchants' guild (in the Tang period); (female given name) Yukue Go; act; do; perform; action; conduct; functioning; the deed; whatever is done by mind, mouth, or body, i.e. in thought, word, or deed. It is used for ayana, going, road, course; a march, a division of time equal to six months; also for saṁskāra, form, operation, perfecting, as one of the twelve nidānas, similar to karma, action, work, deed, especially moral action, cf. 業. |
議 议 see styles |
yì yi4 i gi ぎ |
to comment on; to discuss; to suggest (1) discussion; deliberation; (2) thought; opinion; (given name) Hakaru to speak |
お数 see styles |
okazu おかず |
(1) (kana only) side dish; okazu; side dish (meat, fish, pickles, etc.) accompanying the rice in a typical Japanese meal; (2) (kana only) food for thought (esp. in the context of conversation, or material for assisting arousal during masturbation); (3) (kana only) fill; fill-in (drumming) |
お菜 see styles |
osai おさい okazu おかず |
(1) (kana only) side dish; okazu; side dish (meat, fish, pickles, etc.) accompanying the rice in a typical Japanese meal; (2) (kana only) fill; fill-in (drumming); (1) (kana only) side dish; okazu; side dish (meat, fish, pickles, etc.) accompanying the rice in a typical Japanese meal; (2) (kana only) food for thought (esp. in the context of conversation, or material for assisting arousal during masturbation); (3) (kana only) fill; fill-in (drumming) |
だろ see styles |
daro だろ |
(expression) (1) seems; I think; I guess; I wonder; I hope; (2) don't you agree?; I thought you'd say that! |
むむ see styles |
mumu むむ |
(interjection) (1) (onomatopoeic or mimetic word) (expressing mild surprise or doubt) hum; hmm; (interjection) (2) (onomatopoeic or mimetic word) (See ふふ) hm hm (light chuckle with mouth closed); (interjection) (3) (onomatopoeic or mimetic word) (indicating agreement) (See うんうん・1) uh-huh; (interjection) (4) (onomatopoeic or mimetic word) (deep in thought) mm; hmm; (interjection) (5) (onomatopoeic or mimetic word) (calling attention) well; (female given name) Mumu |
一念 see styles |
yī niàn yi1 nian4 i nien ichinen いちねん |
(1) determined purpose; (2) {Buddh} an incredibly short span of time (i.e. the time occupied by a single thought); (3) {Buddh} (See 浄土宗) a single repetition of a prayer (esp. in Jodo-shu); (personal name) Kazune A kṣaṇa, or thought; a concentration of mind; a moment; the time of a thought, of which there are varying measurements from 60 kṣaṇa upwards; the Fan-yi-ming-yi makes it one kṣaṇa. A reading. A repetition (especially of Amitābha's name). The Pure-land sect identify the thought of Buddha with Amitābha's vow, hence it is an assurance of salvation. |
一意 see styles |
yī yì yi1 yi4 i i ichii / ichi いちい |
focus; with complete devotion; stubbornly (1) one meaning; one thought; (adverb) (2) (See 一意専心) wholeheartedly; single-mindedly; devotedly; (adj-no,adj-na) (3) {comp} unique; (personal name) Hitoi |
一顧 see styles |
ikko いっこ |
(noun, transitive verb) (usu. with neg. sentence) (See 一顧だにしない) slightest notice; slightest consideration; slightest attention; a little thought; glance |
七情 see styles |
qī qíng qi1 qing2 ch`i ch`ing chi ching shichijou / shichijo しちじょう |
seven emotional states; seven affects of traditional Chinese medical theory and therapy, namely: joy 喜[xi3], anger 怒[nu4], anxiety 憂|忧[you1], thought 思[si1], grief 悲[bei1], fear 恐[kong3], fright 驚|惊[jing1]; seven relations (1) seven emotions (in The Book of Rites: joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hate, desire); seven emotions (in Buddhism: joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, love, hate, desire); (2) seven effects (of a traditional Chinese medicine); (surname) Shichijō The seven emotions : pleasure, anger, sorrow, joy, love, hate, desire. |
三學 三学 see styles |
sān xué san1 xue2 san hsüeh sangaku |
The "three studies" or vehicles of learning— discipline, meditation, wisdom: (a) 戒學 learning by the commandments, or prohibitions, so as to guard against the evil consequences of error by mouth, body, or mind, i.e. word, deed, or thought; (b) 定學 learning by dhyāna, or quietist meditation; (c) 慧學 learning by philosophy, i.e. study of principles and solving of doubts. Also the Tripiṭaka; the 戒 being referred to the 律 vinaya, the 定 to the 經 sūtras, and the to the 論 śāstras. |
三密 see styles |
sān mì san1 mi4 san mi sanmitsu さんみつ |
{Buddh} three mysteries (Buddha's body, speech and mind) The three mystic things: the body, mouth (i.e. voice), and mind of the Tathāgata, which are universal, all things being this mystic body, all sound this mystic voice, and all thought this mystic mind. All creatures in body, voice, and mind are only individualized parts of the Tathāgata, but illusion hides their Tathāgata nature from them. The esoterics seek to realize their Tathāgata nature by physical signs and postures, by voicing of 眞言 dhāraṇī and by meditations, so that 入我我入 He may enter me and I Him, which is the perfection of siddhi 悉地; v. 大日經疏 1. 菩提心論. |
三思 see styles |
sān sī san1 si1 san ssu sanshi さんし |
(n,vs,vi) deep reflection; (personal name) Mitsuji All action and speech have three mental conditions— reflection, judgment, decision. |
三惑 see styles |
sān huò san1 huo4 san huo sanwaku; sannaku さんわく; さんなく |
{Buddh} three mental disturbances A Tiantai classification of the three delusions, also styled 三煩惱; 三漏; 三垢; 三結; trials or temptations, leakages, uncleannesses, and bonds. The first of the following three is common to all disciples, the two last to bodhisattvas. They arise from (a) 見, 思, 惑 things seen and thought, i.e. illusions from imperfect perception, with temptation to love, hate, etc.; to be rid of these false views and temptations is the discipline and nirvāṇa of ascetic or Hīnayāna Buddhists. Mahāyāna proceeds further in and by its bodhisattva aims, which produce their own difficulties, i.e. (b) 塵沙惑 illusion and temptation through the immense variety of duties in saving men; and (c) 無明惑 illusions and temptations that arise from failure philosophically to understand things in their reality. |
三業 三业 see styles |
sān yè san1 ye4 san yeh sangou / sango さんごう |
{Buddh} (See 身口意) three activities (action, speech and thought) trividha-dvāra. The three conditions, inheritances, or karma, of which there are several groups. (1) Deed, word, thought, 身, 口, 意. (2) (a) Present-1ife happy karma; (6) present-life unhappy karma; (c) 不動 karma of an imperturbable nature. (3) (a) Good; (b) evil; (c) neutral karma. (4) (a) 漏業 Karma of ordinary rebirth; (6) 無漏業 karma of Hīnayāna nirvana; (c) 非漏非無漏 karma of neither, independent of both, Mahāyāna nirvana. (5) (a) Present deeds and their consequences in this life; (b) present deeds and their next life consequences; (c) present deeds and consequences after the next life, There are other groups of three. |
三門 三门 see styles |
sān mén san1 men2 san men sanmon さんもん |
Sanmen county in Taizhou 台州[Tai1 zhou1], Zhejiang {Buddh} large triple gate to temple; (surname) Mimon trividha-dvāra, the three gates; a monastery; purity of body, speech, and thought; idem 三解脫門 also 三業. |
下品 see styles |
xià pǐn xia4 pin3 hsia p`in hsia pin gehin げひん |
(noun or adjectival noun) vulgar; indecent; coarse; crude; (place-name) Shimoshina The three lowest of the nine classes born in the Amitābha Pure Land, v. 無量壽經. These three lowest grades are (1) 下品上生 The highest of the three lowest classes who enter the Pure Land of Amitābha, i.e. those who have committed all sins except dishonouring the sūtras. If at the end of life the sinner clasps hands and says "Namo Amitābha", such a one will be born in His precious lake. (2) 下品中生 The middle class consists of those who have broken all the commandments, even stolen from monks and abused the law. If at death such a one hears of the great power of Amitābha, and assents with but a thought, he will be received into paradise. (3) 下品下生 The lowest class, because of their sins, should have fallen into the lowest gati, but by invoking the name of Amitābha, they can escape countless ages of reincarnation and suffering and on dying will behold a lotus flower like the sun, and, by the response of a single thought, will enter the Pure Land of Amitābha. |
九地 see styles |
jiǔ dì jiu3 di4 chiu ti kyuuchi / kyuchi きゅうち |
very low land; (surname) Kuji The nine lands, i.e. the 欲界 realm of desire or sensuous realm the four 色界 realms of form or material forms; and the four 無色界 formless realms, or realms beyond form; v. 九有, 九有情居, 禪 and 定. The nine realms are:—(1) 欲界五趣地; the desire realm with its five gati, i.e. hells, hungry ghosts, animals, men, and devas. In the four form-realms are:— (2) 離生喜樂地 Paradise after earthly life, this is also the first dhyāna, or subject of meditation, 初禪. (3) 定生喜樂地 Paradise of cessation of rebirth, 二禪. (4) 離喜妙樂地 Land of wondrous joy after the previous joys, 三禪. (5) 捨念淸淨地 The Pure Land of abandonment of thought, or recollection (of past delights), 四禪. The four formless, or infinite realms, catur arūpa dhātu, are:—(6) 空無邊處地 ākāśānantyā-yatanam, the land of infinite space; also the first samādhi, 第一定. (7) 識無邊處地 vijñānānamtyāyatanam, the land of omniscience, or infinite perception, 二定. (8) 無所有處地 ākiñcanyāyatana, the land of nothingness, 三定. (9) 非想非非想處地 naivasaṁjñānā-saṁjñāyatana, the land (of knowledge) without thinking or not thinking, or where there is neither consciousness nor unconsciousness, i.e. above either; this is the 四定. Eitel says that in the last four, "Life lasts 20,000 great kalpas in the 1st, 40,000 in the 2nd, 60,000 in the 3rd, and 80,000 great kalpas in the 4th of these heavens." |
九流 see styles |
jiǔ liú jiu3 liu2 chiu liu kuru |
the nine schools of thought, philosophical schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC), viz Confucians 儒家[Ru2 jia1], Daoists 道家[Dao4 jia1], Yin and Yang 陰陽家|阴阳家[Yin1 yang2 jia1], Legalists 法家[Fa3 jia1], Logicians 名家[Ming2 jia1], Mohists 墨家[Mo4 jia1], Diplomats 縱橫家|纵横家[Zong4 heng2 jia1], Miscellaneous 雜家|杂家[Za2 jia1], and Agriculturalists 農家|农家[Nong2 jia1] 九漏 idem | 孔. |
亂想 乱想 see styles |
luàn xiǎng luan4 xiang3 luan hsiang ransō |
To think confusedly, or improperly. |
了簡 see styles |
ryouken / ryoken りょうけん |
(noun/participle) (1) idea; thought; intention; design; inclination; decision; motive; (2) discretion; (3) forgiveness; toleration |
了見 see styles |
ryouken / ryoken りょうけん |
(noun/participle) (1) idea; thought; intention; design; inclination; decision; motive; (2) discretion; (3) forgiveness; toleration |
二力 see styles |
èr lì er4 li4 erh li nika にか |
(female given name) Nika Dual powers; there are three definitions: (1) 自力 one's own strength, or endeavours, i.e. salvation by cultivating 戒, 定, and 慧; 他カ another's strength, e.g. the saving power of Amitābha. (2) 思擇力 Power of thought in choosing (right principles); 修習力 power of practice and performance. (3) 有力 and 無力 positive and negative forces: dominant and subordinate; active and inert energy. |
二善 see styles |
èr shàn er4 shan4 erh shan futayoshi ふたよし |
(surname) Futayoshi The two good things, 定善 the good character that arises from meditation or contemplation mdash especially of the Pure Land; 散善 the good character attainable when, though not in meditation, one controls oneself in thought, word, and deed;. Also 未生善 the good character not yet evolved; and 已生善 the good character already evolved;. Also 事理善 goodness in theory and practice. |
二學 二学 see styles |
èr xué er4 xue2 erh hsüeh nigaku |
The two kinds of study or learning: (a) reading and reciting, (b) meditation and thought. |
二定 see styles |
èr dìng er4 ding4 erh ting nijō |
two kinds of [no-thought] absorption |
二業 二业 see styles |
èr yè er4 ye4 erh yeh nigyou / nigyo にぎょう |
(archaism) restaurants and geisha establishments Two classes of karma. (1) (a) 引業 leads to the 總報, i.e. the award as to the species into which one is to be born, e.g. men, gods, etc.; (6) 滿業 is the 別報 or fulfillment in detail, i.e. the kind or quality of being e.g. clever or stupid, happy or unhappy, etc. (2) (a) 善業 and (b) 惡業 Good and evil karma, resulting in happiness or misery. (3) (a) 助業 Aids to the karma of being reborn in Amitābha's Pure—land e. g. offerings, chantings, etc.; (b) 正業 thought and invocation of Amitābha with undivided mind, as the direct method. |
五力 see styles |
wǔ lì wu3 li4 wu li goriki |
pañcabalāni, the five powers or faculties — one of the categories of the thirty-seven bodhipakṣika dharma 三十七助道品; they destroy the 五障 five obstacles, each by each, and are: 信力 śraddhābala, faith (destroying doubt); 精進力 vīryabala, zeal (destroying remissness); 念 or 勤念 smṛtibala, memory or thought (destroying falsity); 正定力 samādhibala, concentration of mind, or meditation (destroying confused or wandering thoughts); and 慧力 prajñābala, wisdom (destroying all illusion and delusion). Also the five transcendent powers, i. e. 定力 the power of meditation; 通力 the resulting supernatural powers; 借識力 adaptability, or powers of 'borrowing' or evolving any required organ of sense, or knowledge, i. e. by beings above the second dhyāna heavens; 大願力 the power of accomplishing a vow by a Buddha or bodhisattva; and 法威德力 the august power of Dharma. Also, the five kinds of Mara powers exerted on sight, 五大明王. |
五教 see styles |
wǔ jiào wu3 jiao4 wu chiao gokyō |
The five division of Buddhism according to the Huayan School, of which there are two That of 杜順 Dushun down to 賢首 Xianshou is (1) 小乘教 Hīnayāna which interprets nirvana as annihilation; (2) 大乘始教 the primary stage of Mahāyāna, with two sections the 相始教 and 空 始教 or realistic and idealistic, (3) 大乘終教 Mahāyāna in its final stage, teaching the 眞如 and universal Buddhahood; (4) 頓教 the immediate, direct, or intuitive school, e. g. by right concentration of thought, or faith, apart from 'works'; (5) 圓教 the complete or perfect teaching of the Huayan, combining all the rest into one all-embracing vehicle. The five are now differentiated into 十宗 ten schools. The other division, by 圭峯 Guifeng of the same school, is (1) 人天教 rebirth as human beings for those who keep the five commandments and as devas those who keep the 十善 as 相始教 above; (4) 大乘破相教 as 空始教 above; and (5) 一乘顯性教 the one vehicle which reveals the universal Buddha-nature; it includes (3), (4), and (5) of the first group. See also 五時教. |
亜流 see styles |
aryuu / aryu ありゅう |
(1) (inferior) imitator; epigone; poor imitation; copycat; (2) follower; adherent; person belonging to the same school (e.g. of thought); (female given name) Aru |
介爾 介尔 see styles |
jiè ěr jie4 er3 chieh erh keni |
A transient thought, see kṣaṇa 刹. |
他流 see styles |
taryuu / taryu たりゅう |
another style; another school (of thought, karate, etc.) |
低回 see styles |
teikai / tekai ていかい |
(noun/participle) going about immersed or absorbed; pacing back and forth meditatively; being deep in thought |
低徊 see styles |
teikai / tekai ていかい |
(noun/participle) going about immersed or absorbed; pacing back and forth meditatively; being deep in thought |
作意 see styles |
zuò yì zuo4 yi4 tso i sakui さくい |
idea; design; motif; conception; intention cittotpāda; to have the thought arise, be aroused, beget the resolve, etc. |
作業 作业 see styles |
zuò yè zuo4 ye4 tso yeh sagyou / sagyo さぎょう |
school assignment; homework; work; task; operation; CL:個|个[ge4]; to operate (n,vs,vi) work; operation; task Karma produced, i.e. by the action of body, words, and thought, which educe the kernel of the next rebirth. |
倒心 see styles |
dào xīn dao4 xin1 tao hsin tōshin |
distorted thought |
倡導 倡导 see styles |
chàng dǎo chang4 dao3 ch`ang tao chang tao |
to advocate; to initiate; to propose; to be a proponent of (an idea or school of thought) |
倭琴 see styles |
yamatogoto やまとごと |
ancient Japanese koto (thought to be native to Japan) |
偽学 see styles |
gigaku ぎがく |
false science; science out of line with the world of thought |
僧若 see styles |
sēng ruò seng1 ruo4 seng jo sōnya |
sañjñā; saṃjñā, the third of the five skandhas, i.e. 想 thought, ideation, consciousness. |
入觀 入观 see styles |
rù guān ru4 guan1 ju kuan nyūkan |
To enter into meditation; it differs from 入定 as 定 means 自心之寂靜 complete stillness of the mind, while 觀 means 自觀照理 thought and study for enlightenment in regard to truth. |
六入 see styles |
liù rù liu4 ru4 liu ju rokunyuu / rokunyu ろくにゅう |
{Buddh} six sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind) ṣaḍāyatana; 六阿耶怛那 (or 六阿也怛那) the six entrances, or locations, both the organ and the sensation — eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind; sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and perception. The six form one of the twelve nidanas, see 十二因緣. The 六根 are the six organs, the 六境 the six objects, and the 六塵 or guṇas, the six inherent qualities. The later term is 六處 q. v.; The "six entries" ṣaḍāyatana, which form one of the links in the chain of causaton, v. 十二因緣 the preceding link being觸contact, and the succeeding link 識 perception. The six are the qualities and effects of the six organs of sense producing sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and thought (or mental presentations). v. also 二入. |
六境 see styles |
liù jìng liu4 jing4 liu ching rokkyou / rokkyo ろっきょう |
{Buddh} six objective fields of the senses (shape and colour, sound, scent, flavour, physical feeling, and mental presentation) The six fields of the senses, i. e. the objective fields of sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, and idea (or thought); rūpa, form and color, is the field of vision; sound, of hearing; scent, of smelling; the five flavors, of tasting; physical feeling, of touch; and mental presentation, of discernment; cf. 六入; 六處 and next. |
六慧 see styles |
liù huì liu4 hui4 liu hui rokue |
The six kinds of wisdom. Each is allotted seriatim to one of the six positions 六位 q. v. (1) 聞慧 the wisdom of hearing and apprehending the truth of the middle way is associated with the 十住; (2) 思慧 of thought with the 十行; (3) 修慧 of observance with the 十廻向; (4) 無相慧 of either extreme, or the mean, with the 十地; (5) 照寂慧 of understanding of nirvana with 等覺慧; (6) 寂照慧 of making nirvana illuminate all beings associated with 佛果 Buddha-fruition. They are a 別教 Differentiated School series and all are associated with 中道 the school of the 中 or middle way. |
冥思 see styles |
míng sī ming2 si1 ming ssu myōshi |
冥慮 The unfathomable thought or care of the buddhas and bodhisattvas, beyond the realization of men. |
冥慮 冥虑 see styles |
míng lǜ ming2 lv4 ming lü myōryo |
profound thought |
凝念 see styles |
gyounen / gyonen ぎょうねん |
concentration of thought |
凡慮 凡虑 see styles |
fán lǜ fan2 lv4 fan lü bonryo ぼんりょ |
ordinary minds; ordinary men The anxieties of common or unconverted men. |
出神 see styles |
chū shén chu1 shen2 ch`u shen chu shen |
spellbound; entranced; lost in thought |
刑名 see styles |
xíng míng xing2 ming2 hsing ming keimei / keme けいめい |
xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害[Shen1 Bu4hai4]; the designation for a punishment penalty designations |
初念 see styles |
chū niàn chu1 nian4 ch`u nien chu nien shonen |
first thought |
初祖 see styles |
chū zǔ chu1 zu3 ch`u tsu chu tsu shoso しょそ |
(rare) the first generation of a family; school (of thought) or religious sect; (surname) Hatsuso founder |
別意 see styles |
betsui べつい |
(1) different opinion; different thought; another intention; (2) regret at parting; sadness of parting |
刹那 see styles |
chàn à chan4 a4 ch`an a chan a setsuna せつな |
(n-adv,n-t) moment (san: ksana); instant; juncture; (female given name) Setsuna kṣaṇa. An indefinite space of time, a moment, an instant; the shortest measure of time, as kalpa is the longest; it is defined as 一念 a thought; but according to another definition 60 kṣaṇa equal one finger-snap, 90 a thought 念, 4,500 a minute; there are other definitions. In each kṣaṇa 900 persons are born and die. |
前念 see styles |
qián niàn qian2 nian4 ch`ien nien chien nien zennen |
preceding instant of thought |
助業 助业 see styles |
zhù yè zhu4 ye4 chu yeh jogou / jogo じょごう |
{Buddh} (See 浄土宗) auxiliary actions (in Jodo: recitation, observation, worship, praise and offering) Auxiliary karma, i.e. deeds or works, e.g. reciting the sutras about the Pure Land, worship, praise, and offering, as additional to direct karma 正業, i.e. faith in Amitābha, expressed by constant thought of him and calling on his name. |
動念 动念 see styles |
dòng niàn dong4 nian4 tung nien dōnen |
movement of thought |
勝意 胜意 see styles |
shèng yì sheng4 yi4 sheng i katsuyoshi かつよし |
(male given name) Katsuyoshi overpowering thought |
十宗 see styles |
shí zōng shi2 zong1 shih tsung jūshū |
The ten schools of Chinese Buddhism: I. The (1) 律宗 Vinaya-discipline, or 南山|； (2) 倶舍 Kośa, Abhidharma, or Reality (Sarvāstivādin) 有宗； (3) 成實宗 Satyasiddhi sect founded on this śāstra by Harivarman; (4) 三論宗 Mādhyamika or 性空宗； (5) 法華宗 Lotus, "Law-flower" or Tiantai 天台宗； (6) 華嚴Huayan or法性 or賢首宗； ( 7) 法相宗 Dharmalakṣana or 慈恩宗 founded on the唯識論 (8) 心宗 Ch'an or Zen, mind-only or intuitive, v. 禪宗 ; (9) 眞言宗 (Jap. Shingon) or esoteric 密宗 ; (10) 蓮宗 Amitābha-lotus or Pure Land (Jap. Jōdo) 淨士宗. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 9th are found in Japan rather than in China, where they have ceased to be of importance. II. The Hua-yen has also ten divisions into ten schools of thought: (1) 我法倶有 the reality of self (or soul) and things, e.g. mind and matter; (2) 法有我無 the reality of things but not of soul; (3) 法無去來 things have neither creation nor destruction; (4) 現通假實 present things are both apparent and real; (5) 俗妄眞實 common or phenomenal ideas are wrong, fundamental reality is the only truth; (6) things are merely names; (7) all things are unreal 空; (8) the bhūtatathatā is not unreal; (9) phenomena and their perception are to be got rid of; (10) the perfect, all-inclusive, and complete teaching of the One Vehicle. III. There are two old Japanese divisions: 大乘律宗, 倶舎宗 , 成實 宗 , 法和宗 , 三論宗 , 天台宗 , 華嚴宗 , 眞言宗 , 小乘律宗 , and 淨土宗 ; the second list adds 禪宗 and omits 大乘律宗. They are the Ritsu, Kusha, Jōjitsu, Hossō, Sanron, Tendai, Kegon, Shingon, (Hīnayāna) Ritsu, and Jōdo; the addition being Zen. |
十心 see styles |
shí xīn shi2 xin1 shih hsin jisshin |
The ten kinds of heart or mind; there are three groups. One is from the 止觀 4, minds ignorant and dark; affected by evil companions; not following the good; doing evil in thought, word, deed; spreading evil abroad; unceasingly wicked; secret sin; open crime; utterly shameless; denying cause and effect (retribution)―all such must remain in the flow 流 of reincarnation. The second group (from the same book) is the 逆流 the mind striving against the stream of perpetual reincarnation; it shows itself in devout faith, shame (for sin), fear (of wrong-doing), repentance and confession, reform, bodhi (i.e. the bodhisattva mind), doing good, maintaining the right law, thinking on all the Buddhas, meditation on the void (or, the unreality of sin). The third is the 眞言 group from the 大日經疏 3; the "seed" heart (i.e. the original good desire), the sprout (under Buddhist religious influence), the bud, leaf, flower, fruit, its serviceableness; the child-heart, the discriminating heart, the heart of settled judgment (or resolve). |
十恩 see styles |
shí ēn shi2 en1 shih en jūon |
Ten kinds of the Buddha's grace: his (1) initial resolve to universalize (his salvation); (2) self-sacrifice (in previous lives); (3) complete altruism; (4) his descent into all the six states of existence for their salvation; (5) relief of the living from distress and mortality; (6) profound pity; (7) revelation of himself in human and glorified form; (8) teaching in accordance with the capacity of his hearers, first hīnayāna, then māhayāna doctrine; (9) revealing his nirvāṇa to stimulate his disciples; (10) pitying thought for all creatures, in that dying at 80 instead of at 100 he left twenty years of his own happiness to his disciples; and also the tripiṭaka for universal salvation. |
千慮 see styles |
senryo せんりょ |
much thought |
卑懐 see styles |
hikai ひかい |
(humble language) one's own thought; one's own idea |
厚志 see styles |
koushi / koshi こうし |
kind intention; kind thought; (male given name) Kōji |
參詳 参详 see styles |
cān xiáng can1 xiang2 ts`an hsiang tsan hsiang sanshō |
to collate and examine critically (texts etc) to examine thoroughly [with non-discursive thought] |
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