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一心 see styles |
yī xīn yi1 xin1 i hsin hitomi ひとみ |
More info & calligraphy: One Heart / One Mind / Heart and Soul(adv,n) (1) one mind; (adv,n) (2) (See 一心に) wholeheartedness; one's whole heart; (female given name) Hitomi With the whole mind or heart; one mind of heart; also the bhūtatathatā, or the whole of things; the universe as one mind, or a spiritual unity. |
三諦 三谛 see styles |
sān dì san1 di4 san ti santai; sandai さんたい; さんだい |
More info & calligraphy: The Three TruthsThe three dogmas. The "middle" school of Tiantai says 卽空, 卽假. 卽中 i.e. 就是空, 假, 中; (a) by 空śūnya is meant that things causally produced are intheir essential nature unreal (or immaterial) 實空無; (b) 假, though thingsare unreal in their essential nature their derived forms are real; (c) 中;but both are one, being of the one 如 reality. These three dogmas arefounded on a verse of Nāgārjuna's— 因緣所生法, 我說卽是空 亦爲是假名, 亦是中道義 "All causally produced phenomena, I say, areunreal, Are but a passing name, and indicate the 'mean'." There are otherexplanations— the 圓教 interprets the 空 and 假 as 中; the 別教 makes 中 independent. 空 is the all, i.e. the totality of all things, and is spokenof as the 眞 or 實 true, or real; 假 is the differentiation of all thingsand is spoken of as 俗 common, i.e. things as commonly named; 中 is theconnecting idea which makes a unity of both, e.g. "all are but parts of onestupendous whole." The 中 makes all and the all into one whole, unifying thewhole and its parts. 空 may be taken as the immaterial, the undifferentiatedall, the sum of existences, by some as the tathāgatagarbha 如來藏; 假as theunreal, or impermanent, the material or transient form, the temporal thatcan be named, the relative or discrete; 中 as the unifier, which places eachin the other and all in all. The "shallower" 山外 school associated 空 and 中 with the noumenal universe as opposed to the phenomenal and illusoryexistence represented by 假. The "profounder" 山内 school teaches that allthree are aspects of the same. |
世界 see styles |
shì jiè shi4 jie4 shih chieh sekai せかい |
More info & calligraphy: The World(1) the world; society; the universe; (2) sphere; circle; world; (can be adjective with の) (3) world-renowned; world-famous; (4) {Buddh} (original meaning) realm governed by one Buddha; space; (surname, female given name) Sekai Loka 世間; the finite world, the world, a world, which is of two kinds: (1) 衆生世界 that of the living, who are receiving their 正報 correct recompense or karma; (2) 器世界 that of the material, or that on which karma depends for expression. By the living is meant 有情 the sentient. |
地獄 地狱 see styles |
dì yù di4 yu4 ti yü jigoku じごく |
More info & calligraphy: Hell(1) {Buddh} hell realm; Naraka; (2) {Christn} Hell; (3) hell; misery; nightmare; inferno; (4) place where a volcano or hot springs constantly spew smoke or steam; (place-name) Jigoku naraka, 捺落迦 (or 那落迦) ; niraya 泥犂; explained by 不樂 joyless; 可厭 disgusting, hateful; 苦具, 苦器 means of suffering; if 地獄 earth-prison; 冥府 the shades, or departments of darkness. Earth-prison is generally intp. as hell or the hells; it may also be termed purgatory; one of the six gati or ways of transmigration. The hells are divided into three classes: I. Central, or radical, 根本地獄 consisting of (1) The eight hot hells. These were the original hells of primitive Buddhism, and are supposed to be located umder the southern continent Jambudvīpa 瞻部州, 500 yojanas below the surface. (a) 等活 or 更活 Saṃjīva, rebirth, where after many kinds of suffering a cold wind blows over the soul and returns it to this life as it was before, hence the name 等活. (b) 黑繩 Kaslasūtra, where the sufferer is bound with black chains and chopped or sawn asunder. (c) 線合; 衆合; 堆壓 Saṃghāta, where are multitudes of implements of torture, or the falling of mountains upon the sufferer. (d) 號呌; 呼呼; 叫喚 Raurava, hell of wailing. (e) 大呌; 大號呌; 大呼 Mahāraurava, hell of great wailing. (f) 炎熱; 燒炙 Tapana, hell of fames and burning. (g) 大熱; 大燒炙; 大炎熱 Pratāpana, hell of molten lead. (h) 無間; 河鼻旨; 阿惟越致; 阿毗至; 阿鼻; 阿毗 Avīci, unintermitted suffering, where sinners die and are reborn to suffer without interval. (2) The eight cold hells 八寒地獄. (a) 頞浮陀地獄 Arbuda, where the cold causes blisters. (b) 尼刺部陀 Nirarbuda, colder still causing the blisters to burst. (c) 頞哳吒; 阿吒吒 Atata, where this is the only possible sound from frozen lips. (d) 臛臛婆; 阿波波 Hahava or Apapa, where it is so cold that only this sound can be uttered. (e) 虎虎婆 Hāhādhara or Huhuva, where only this sound can be uttered. (f) 嗢鉢羅; 鬱鉢羅 (or 優鉢羅) Utpala, or 尼羅鳥 (or 漚) 鉢羅 Nīlotpala, where the skin is frozen like blue lotus buds. (g) 鉢特摩 Padma, where the skin is frozen and bursts open like red lotus buds. (h) 摩訶鉢特摩 Mahāpadma, ditto like great red lotus buds. Somewhat different names are also given. Cf. 倶舍論 8; 智度論 16; 涅槃經 11. II. The secondary hells are called 近邊地獄 adjacent hells or 十六遊增 each of its four sides, opening from each such door are four adjacent hells, in all sixteen; thus with the original eight there are 136. A list of eighteen hells is given in the 十八泥梨經. III. A third class is called the 孤地獄 (獨地獄) Lokāntarika, or isolated hells in mountains, deserts, below the earth and above it. Eitel says in regard to the eight hot hells that they range 'one beneath the other in tiers which begin at a depth of 11,900 yojanas and reach to a depth of 40,000 yojanas'. The cold hells are under 'the two Tchahavālas and range shaft-like one below the other, but so that this shaft is gradually widening to the fourth hell and then narrowing itself again so that the first and last hell have the shortest, those in the centre the longest diameter'. 'Every universe has the same number of hells, ' but 'the northern continent has no hell whatever, the two continents east and west of Meru have only small Lokāntarika hells... whilst all the other hells are required for the inhabitants of the southern continent '. It may be noted that the purpose of these hells is definitely punitive, as well as purgatorial. Yama is the judge and ruler, assisted by eighteen officers and a host of demons, who order or administer the various degrees of torture. 'His sister performs the same duties with regard to female criminals, ' and it may be mentioned that the Chinese have added the 血盆池 Lake of the bloody bath, or 'placenta tank' for women who die in childbirth. Release from the hells is in the power of the monks by tantric means. |
天地 see styles |
tiān dì tian1 di4 t`ien ti tien ti amachi あまち |
More info & calligraphy: Heaven and Earth(1) heaven and earth; the universe; the world; nature; (2) (てんち only) land; world; realm; sphere; (3) (てんち only) top and bottom; (4) (あめつち only) gods of heaven and earth; (surname) Amachi heaven and earth |
宇宙 see styles |
yǔ zhòu yu3 zhou4 yü chou hiroshi ひろし |
More info & calligraphy: Universe / Cosmosuniverse; cosmos; space; (given name) Hiroshi universe |
日蓮 日莲 see styles |
rì lián ri4 lian2 jih lien nichiren にちれん |
More info & calligraphy: NichirenNichiren, the Japanese founder, in A. D. 1252, of the 日蓮宗 Nichiren sect, which is also known as the 法華宗 or Lotus sect. Its chief tenets are the three great mysteries 三大祕法, representing the trikāya: (1) 本尊 or chief object of worship, being the great maṇḍala of the worlds of the ten directions, or universe, i. e. the body or nirmāṇakāya of Buddha; (2) 題目 the title of the Lotus Sutra 妙法蓮華經 Myo-ho-ren-gwe-kyo, preceded by Namo, or, 'Adoration to the scripture of the lotus of the wonderful law, ' for it is Buddha's spiritual body; (3) 戒壇 the altar of the law, which is also the title of the Lotus as above; the believer, wherever he is, dwells in the Pure-land of calm light 寂光淨土, the saṃbhogakāya. |
混沌 see styles |
hùn dùn hun4 dun4 hun tun konton こんとん |
More info & calligraphy: Chaos(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) confusion; chaos; disorder; (adj-t,adv-to) (2) chaotic; confused; uncertain; disarrayed; (given name) Konton Mixed, confused, in disorder. |
虛空 虚空 see styles |
xū kōng xu1 kong1 hsü k`ung hsü kung kokū |
More info & calligraphy: Nothingness / Empty / Voidśūnya; empty, void, space; ākāśa, in the sense of space, or the ether; gagana, the sky, atmosphere, heaven; kha, space, sky, ether, 虛 is defined as that which is without shape or substantiality, 空 as that which has no resistance. The immaterial universe behind all phenomena. |
乾坤 see styles |
qián kūn qian2 kun1 ch`ien k`un chien kun kenkon けんこん |
yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe heaven and earth; universe |
六合 see styles |
liù hé liu4 he2 liu ho rokugou / rokugo ろくごう |
the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, down); the whole country; the universe; everything under the sun the universe; the cosmos; (place-name) Rokugou six combinations |
宇 see styles |
yǔ yu3 yü hiroshi ひろし |
room; universe (counter) counter for buildings, roofs, tents, etc.; (male given name) Hiroshi |
梵 see styles |
fàn fan4 fan bon ぼん |
abbr. for 梵教[Fan4 jiao4] Brahmanism; abbr. for Sanskrit 梵語|梵语[Fan4 yu3] or 梵文[Fan4 wen2]; abbr. for 梵蒂岡|梵蒂冈[Fan4 di4 gang1], the Vatican (1) Brahman (ultimate reality of the universe in Hinduism); Brahma; (2) Brahma (Hindu creator god); (3) (abbreviation) (See 梵語) Sanskrit; (given name) Bon Brahman (from roots bṛh, vṛh, connected with bṛṃh, "religious devotion," "prayer," "a sacred text," or mantra, "the mystic syllable om"; "sacred learning," "the religious life," "the Supreme Being regarded as impersonal," "the Absolute," "the priestly or sacerdotal class," etc. M.W. Translit. |
遍 see styles |
biàn bian4 pien amane あまね |
everywhere; all over; classifier for actions: one time (counter) (See 一遍,回・1,回・2) number of times; (female given name) Amane sarvatraga. Everywhere, universe, whole; a time. |
一眞 see styles |
yī zhēn yi1 zhen1 i chen kazumasa かずまさ |
(personal name) Kazumasa The whole of reality, the universe, the all, idem 眞如; cf. 一如, 一實 bhūtatathatā. |
一體 一体 see styles |
yī tǐ yi1 ti3 i t`i i ti ittai |
an integral whole; all concerned; everybody Though externally differing, in nature the same; the fundamental unity of the universe. 天地與我同根, 萬物與我一體 Heaven, earth, and myself have the same root; all things are one corpus with me. |
万象 see styles |
banshou / bansho ばんしょう |
all creation; all nature; all the universe; (given name) Banshou |
三世 see styles |
sān shì san1 shi4 san shih miyo みよ |
the Third (of numbered kings) (1) {Buddh} three temporal states of existence; past, present and future; (2) (さんぜ only) three generations; (female given name) Miyo The three periods, 過去, 現在, 未來or 過, 現, 未, past, present, and future. The universe is described as eternally in motion, like flowing stream. Also 未生, 巳生,後滅, or 未, 現, 過 unborn, born, dead The 華嚴經 Hua-yen sūtra has a division of ten kinds of past, present, and future i.e. the past spoken of as past, present, and future, the present spoken of in like manner, the future also, with the addition of the present as the three periods in one instant. Also 三際. |
三句 see styles |
sān jù san1 ju4 san chü sanku |
Three cryptic questions of 雲門 Yunmen, founder of the Yunmen Chan School. They are: (1) 截斷衆流 What is it that stops all flow (of reincarnation) ? The reply from the 起信論 is 一心, i. e. the realization of the oneness of mind, or that all is mind. (2) 函蓋乾坤 What contains and includes the universe? The 眞如. (3) 隨波逐浪 One wave following another— what is this? Birth and death 生死, or transmigration, phenomenal existence. |
三才 see styles |
sanzai さんざい |
(1) (form) the three powers (heaven, earth and man); (2) (form) everything in the universe; (surname) Sanzai |
三界 see styles |
sān jiè san1 jie4 san chieh mikai みかい |
(1) {Buddh} (See 欲界,色界,無色界) the three realms of existence; (2) (abbreviation) {Buddh} (See 三千大千世界) the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened; (3) {Buddh} (See 三世・さんぜ・1) past, present and future existences; (suffix) (4) far-off ...; distant ...; (surname) Mikai Trailokya or Triloka; the three realms; also 三有. It is the Buddhist metaphysical equivalent for the Brahmanic cosmological bhuvanatraya, or triple world of bhūr, bhuvaḥ, and svar, earth, atmosphere, and heaven. The Buddhist three are 欲, 色, and 無色界, i.e. world of sensuous desire, form, and formless world of pure spirit. (a) 欲界 Kāmadhātu is the realm of sensuous desire, of 婬 and 食 sex and food; it includes the six heavens of desire, the human world, and the hells. (b) 色界 Rūpadhātu is the realm of form, meaning 質礙 that which is substantial and resistant: it is above the lust-world and contains (so to speak) bodies, palaces, things, all mystic and wonderful一a semi-material conception like that in Revelation; it is represented in the 四禪天, or Brahmalokas. (c) 無色界 Arūpadhātu, or ārūpyadhātu, is the formless realm of pure spirit, where there are no bodies, places, things, at any rate none to which human terms would apply, but where the mind dwells in mystic contemplation; its extent is indefinable, but it is, conceived of in four stages, i,e. 四空處 the four "empty" regions, or regions of space in the immaterial world, which are 四無色 the four "formless" realms, or realms beyond form; being above the realm of form, their bounds cannot be defined. v. 倶舍論世間品. |
主宰 see styles |
zhǔ zǎi zhu3 zai3 chu tsai shusai しゅさい |
to dominate; to rule; to dictate; master (noun, transitive verb) (1) chairmanship; presidency; management; (2) (See 主宰者) president; chairman Lord, master; to dominate, control; the lord within, the soul; the lord of the universe, God. |
二如 see styles |
èr rú er4 ru2 erh ju ninyo |
There are various definitions of the two aspects of the 眞如 bhūtatathatā. (1) (a) 不變眞如 The changeless essence or substance, e.g. the sea; (b) 隨緣眞如 its conditioned or ever-changing forms, as in the phenomenal world, e.g. the waves. (2) (a) 離言眞如 The inexpressible absolute, only mentally conceivable; (6) 依言眞如 aspects of it expressible in words, its ideal reflex. (3) (a) 空眞如 The absolute as the void, e.g. as space, the sky, a clear mirror; (b) 不空眞如 the absolute in manifestation, or phenomenal, e. g. images in the mirror: the womb of the universe in which are all potentialities. (4) (a) 在纏眞如The Buddha-nature in bonds, i.e. all beings in suffering; (b) 出纏真如the Buddha-nature set free by the manifestation of the Buddha and bodhisattvas. (5) (a) 有垢眞如The Buddha-nature defiled, as in unenlightened man, etc., e.g. the water-lily with its roots in the mud; (b) 無垢眞如 the pure Buddha-nature, purifed or bright as the full moon. (6) 安立 and 非安立眞如 similar to the first definition given above. |
住劫 see styles |
zhù jié zhu4 jie2 chu chieh juukou / juko じゅうこう |
{Buddh} (See 四劫) the kalpa of existence (the second aeon of the universe) vivartasiddhakalpa; the abiding or existing kalpa; the kalpa of human existence; v. 劫. |
佛刹 see styles |
fó chà fo2 cha4 fo ch`a fo cha bussetsu |
buddhakṣetra. 佛紇差怛羅 Buddha realm, land or country; see also 佛土, 佛國. The term is absent from Hīnayāna. In Mahāyāna it is the spiritual realm acquired by one who reaches perfect enlightenment, where he instructs all beings born there, preparing them for enlightenment. In the schools where Mahāyāna adopted an Ādi-Buddha, these realms or Buddha-fields interpenetrated each other, since they were coexistent with the universe. There are two classes of Buddhakṣetra: (1) in the Vairocana Schools, regarded as the regions of progress for the righteous after death; (2) in the Amitābha Schools, regarded as the Pure Land; v. McGovern, A Manual of Buddhist Philosophy, pp. 70-2. |
刧火 see styles |
jié huǒ jie2 huo3 chieh huo kōka |
the conflagration of the universe at the end of time |
刹土 see styles |
chà tǔ cha4 tu3 ch`a t`u cha tu setsudo |
乞叉; 乞漉 kṣetra, land, fields, country, place; also a universe consisting of three thousand large chiliocosms; also, a spire, or flagstaff on a pagoda, a monastery but this interprets caitya, cf. 制. Other forms are 刹多羅 (or 制多羅 or 差多羅); 紇差怛羅. |
劫波 see styles |
jié bō jie2 bo1 chieh po kōhi |
kalpa (loanword) (Hinduism) kalpa; also劫簸; 劫跛; v. 劫. Aeon, age. The period of time between the creation and recreation ofa world or universe; also the kalpas offormation, existence, destruction, and non-existence, which four as acomplete period are called mahākalpa 大劫. Eachgreat kalpa is subdivided into four asaṇkhyeya-kalpas (阿僧企耶 i.e. numberless,incalculable): (1) kalpa of destructionsaṃvarta; (2)kalpaof utter annihilation, or empty kalpa 増滅劫; 空劫 saṃvarta-siddha; (3) kalpa of formation 成劫 vivarta; (4) kalpa ofexistence 住劫 vivartasiddha; or they may betaken in the order 成住壤空. Each of the four kalpas is subdivided into twenty antara-kalpas, 小劫 or small kalpas, so that a mahākalpaconsists of eighty small kalpas. Each smallkalpa is divided into a period of 増 increaseand 減 decrease; the increase period is ruled over by the four cakravartīs in succession, i.e. the four ages of iron,copper, silver, gold, during which the length of human life increases by oneyear every century to 84,000 years, and the length of the human body to8,400 feet. Then comes the kalpa of decreasedivided into periods of the three woes, pestilence, war, famine, duringwhich the length of human life is gradually reduced to ten years and thehuman body to 1 foot in height. There are other distinctions of the kalpas. A small kalpa isrepresented as 16,800,000 years, a kalpa as336,000,000 years, and a mahākalpa as1,334,000,000 years. There are many ways of illustrating the length of akalpa, e.g. pass a soft cloth over a solid rock40 li in size once in a hundred years, whenfinally the rock has been thus worn away a kalpa will not yet have passed; or a city of 40 li, filled with mustard seeds, one being removed everycentury till all have gone, a kalpa will notyet have passed. Cf. 成劫. |
十妙 see styles |
shí miào shi2 miao4 shih miao jūmyō |
The ten wonders, or incomprehensibles; there are two groups, the 迹ｖ traceable or manifested and 本門妙 the fundamental. The 迹門十妙 are the wonder of: (1) 境妙 the universe, sphere, or whole, embracing mind, Buddha, and all things as a unity; (2) 智妙 a Buddha's all-embracing knowledge arising from such universe; (3) 行妙 his deeds, expressive of his wisdom; (4) 位妙 his attainment of all the various Buddha stages, i.e. 十住 and十地; (5) 三法妙 his three laws of 理, 慧, and truth, wisdom, and vision; (6) 感應妙 his response to appeal, i.e. his (spiritual) response or relation to humanity, for "all beings are my children"; (7) 神通妙 his supernatural powers; (8) 說法妙 his preaching; (9) 眷屬妙 his supernatural retinue; (10) 利益妙 the blessings derived through universal elevation into Buddhahood. The 本門十妙 are the wonder of (1) 本因妙 the initial impulse or causative stage of Buddhahood; (2) 本果妙 its fruit or result in eternity, joy, and purity; (3) 國土妙 his (Buddha) realm; (4) 感應妙 his response (to human needs); (5) 神通妙 his supernatural powers; (6) 說法妙 his preaching; (7) 眷屬妙 his supernatural retinue; (8) 涅槃妙 his nirvāṇa; (9) 壽命妙 his (eternal) life; (10) his blessings as above. Both groups are further defined as progressive stages in a Buddha's career. These "wonders" are derived from the Lotus sūtra. |
四洲 see styles |
sì zhōu si4 zhou1 ssu chou shishū |
catur-dvīpa; the four inhabited continents of every universe; they are situated S., E., W., and N. of the central mountain Sumeru; S. is Jambudvīpa 暗部洲; E. Pūrva-videha 東毘提訶; W. Apara-godānīya 牛貨; and N. Uttarakuru 瞿盧. |
四禪 四禅 see styles |
sì chán si4 chan2 ssu ch`an ssu chan shizen |
(四禪天) The four dhyāna heavens, 四靜慮 (四靜慮天), i. e. the division of the eighteen brahmalokas into four dhyānas: the disciple attains to one of these heavens according to the dhyāna he observes: (1) 初禪天 The first region, 'as large as one whole universe' comprises the three heavens, Brahma-pāriṣadya, Brahma-purohita, and Mahābrahma, 梵輔, 梵衆, and 大梵天; the inhabitants are without gustatory or olfactory organs, not needing food, but possess the other four of the six organs. (2) 二禪天 The second region, equal to 'a small chiliocosmos' 小千界, comprises the three heavens, according to Eitel, 'Parīttābha, Apramāṇābha, and Ābhāsvara, ' i. e. 少光 minor light, 無量光 infinite light, and 極光淨 utmost light purity; the inhabitants have ceased to require the five physical organs, possessing only the organ of mind. (3) 三禪天 The third region, equal to 'a middling chiliocosmos '中千界, comprises three heavens; Eitel gives them as Parīttaśubha, Apramāṇaśubha, and Śubhakṛtsna, i. e. 少淨 minor purity, 無量淨 infinite purity, and 徧淨 universal purity; the inhabitants still have the organ of mind and are receptive of great joy. (4) 四禪天 The fourth region, equal to a great chiliocosmos, 大千界, comprises the remaining nine brahmalokas, namely, Puṇyaprasava, Anabhraka, Bṛhatphala, Asañjñisattva, Avṛha, Atapa, Sudṛśa, Sudarśana, and Akaniṣṭha (Eitel). The Chinese titles are 福生 felicitous birth, 無雲 cloudless, 廣果 large fruitage, 無煩 no vexations, atapa is 無熱 no heat, sudṛśa is 善見 beautiful to see, sudarśana is 善現 beautiful appearing, two others are 色究竟 the end of form, and 無想天 the heaven above thought, but it is difficult to trace avṛha and akaniṣṭha; the inhabitants of this fourth region still have mind. The number of the dhyāna heavens differs; the Sarvāstivādins say 16, the 經 or Sutra school 17, and the Sthavirāḥ school 18. Eitel points out that the first dhyāna has one world with one moon, one mem, four continents, and six devalokas; the second dhyāna has 1, 000 times the worlds of the first; the third has 1, 000 times the worlds of the second; the fourth dhyāna has 1, 000 times those of the third. Within a kalpa of destruction 壞劫 the first is destroyed fifty-six times by fire, the second seven by water, the third once by wind, the fourth 'corresponding to a state of absolute indifference' remains 'untouched' by all the other evolutions; when 'fate (天命) comes to an end then the fourth dhyāna may come to an end too, but not sooner'. |
圓信 圆信 see styles |
yuán xìn yuan2 xin4 yüan hsin enshin |
Complete faith; the faith of the 'perfect' school. A Tiantai doctrine that a moment's faith embraces the universe. |
塵劫 尘劫 see styles |
chén jié chen2 jie2 ch`en chieh chen chieh jingō |
(塵點劫) A period of time as impossible of calculation as the atoms of a ground-up world, an attempt to define the infinite, v. Lotus Sūtra 7 and 16. |
壊劫 see styles |
ekou / eko えこう |
{Buddh} (See 四劫) the kalpa of destruction (the third aeon of the universe) |
壞劫 坏劫 see styles |
huài jié huai4 jie2 huai chieh e kō |
saṃvarta, v. 劫 7, the periodical gradual destruction of a universe, one of its four kalpas, i.e. 成 vivarta, formation; 住 vivarta-siddha; abiding, or existence; 壞 saṃvarta, decay, or destruction; 滅 saṃvarta-siddha, final annihilation. |
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. |
大千 see styles |
dà qiān da4 qian1 ta ch`ien ta chien daisen |
(世界) A major chiliocosm, or universe, of 3,000 great chiliocosms, v. 三千大千. |
大王 see styles |
dài wang dai4 wang5 tai wang daiou / daio だいおう |
robber baron (in opera, old stories); magnate (honorific or respectful language) great king; (place-name, surname) Daiou mahārāja 摩賀羅惹. Applied to the four guardians of the universe, 四大天王. |
大虚 see styles |
taikyo たいきょ |
(1) the sky; the universe; (2) taixu (the great vacuity, in Chinese philosophy, the primordial substance that gives rise to qi); (given name) Taikyo |
太虚 see styles |
taikyo たいきょ |
(1) the sky; the universe; (2) taixu (the great vacuity, in Chinese philosophy, the primordial substance that gives rise to qi) |
太虛 太虚 see styles |
tài xū tai4 xu1 t`ai hsü tai hsü taiko |
great emptiness; the void; heaven; the skies; universe; cosmos; original essence of the cosmos great voidness |
娑婆 see styles |
suō pó suo1 po2 so p`o so po shaba; shaba しゃば; シャバ |
(1) this world; this life; (2) (kana only) (colloquialism) the free world (outside of prison, the army, red light district, etc.); (3) {Buddh} this corrupt world; present world sahā; that which bears, the earth, v. 地; intp. as bearing, enduring; the place of good and evil; a universe, or great chiliocosm, Where all are subject to transmigration and which a Buddha transforms; it is divided into three regions 三界 and Mahābrahmā Sahāmpati is its lord. Other forms: 娑婆世界; 娑界; 娑媻; 娑訶; 沙訶; 索訶. |
寰宇 see styles |
huán yǔ huan2 yu3 huan yü |
the whole earth; the universe |
帝相 see styles |
dì xiàng di4 xiang4 ti hsiang Taisō |
Indra-dhvaja, a Buddha 'said to have been a contemporary of Śākyamuni, living south-west of our universe, an incarnation of the seventh son of Mahābhijñajñānabhibhū.' Eitel. |
徧界 遍界 see styles |
biàn jiè bian4 jie4 pien chieh hengai |
The whole universe. |
心根 see styles |
xīn gēn xin1 gen1 hsin ken kokorone; shinkon こころね; しんこん |
the innermost depths of one's heart; (Buddhism) manas (the mind) (1) innermost feelings; heart; motive; (2) (こころね only) nature; disposition; spirit Manas, or the mind-organ, one of the twenty-five tattva 諦 or postulates of a universe. |
忍界 see styles |
rěn jiè ren3 jie4 jen chieh ninkai |
sahā, or sahāloka, or sahālokadhātu. The universe of persons subject to transmigration, the universe of endurance. |
成劫 see styles |
chéng jié cheng2 jie2 ch`eng chieh cheng chieh joukou; jougou / joko; jogo じょうこう; じょうごう |
{Buddh} (See 四劫) the kalpa of formation (the first aeon of the universe) vivarta kalpa, one of the four kalpas, consisting of twenty small kalpas during which worlds and the beings on them are formed. The others are: 住劫 vivarta-siddha kalpa, kalpa of abiding, or existence, sun and moon rise, sexes are differentiated, heroes arise, four castes are formed, social life evolves. 壞劫saṃvarta kalpa, that of destruction, consisting of sixty-four small kalpas when fire, water, and wind destroy everything except the fourth dhyāna. 空劫 saṃvarta-siddha kalpa, i.e. of annihilation. v. 劫波. |
文殊 see styles |
wén shū wen2 shu1 wen shu monju もんじゅ |
Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of keen awareness (Buddhist term) Manjushri; Manjusri; Bodhisattva that represents transcendent wisdom; (p,s,f) Monju (文殊師利) Mañjuśrī 滿殊尸利 -later 曼殊室利. 文殊 is also used for Mañjunātha, Mañjudeva, Mañjughoṣa, Mañjuṣvara, et al. T., hjamdpal; J., Monju. Origin unknown; presumably, like most Buddhas and bodhisattvas, an idealization of a particular quality, in his case of Wisdom. Mañju is beautiful, Śrī; good fortune, virtue, majesty, lord, an epithet of a god. Six definitions are obtained from various scriptures: 妙首 (or 頭 ) wonderful or beautiful) head; 普首 universal head; 濡首 glossy head (probably a transliteration); 敬首 revered head; 妙德 wonderful virtue (or power); 妙吉祥 wonderfully auspicious; the last is a later translation in the 西域記. As guardian of wisdom 智慧 he is often placed on Śākyamuni's left, with 普顯 on the right as guardian of law 理, the latter holding the Law, the former the wisdom or exposition of it; formerly they held the reverse positions. He is often represented with five curls or waves to his hair indicating the 五智 q. v. or the five peaks; his hand holds the sword of wisdom and he sits on a lion emblematic of its stern majesty: but he has other forms. He is represented as a youth, i. e. eternal youth. His present abode is given as east of the universe, known as 淸涼山 clear and cool mountain, or a region 寶住 precious abode, or Abode of Treasures, or 寶氏 from which he derives one of his titles, 寶相如來. One of his dhāraṇīs prophesies China as his post-nirvāṇa realm. In past incarnations he is described as being the parent of many Buddhas and as having assisted the Buddha into existence; his title was 龍種上佛 the supreme Buddha of the nāgas, also 大身佛 or 神仙佛; now his title is 歡喜藏摩尼寶精佛 The spiritual Buddha who joyfully cares for the jewel: and his future title is to be 普現佛 Buddha universally revealed. In the 序品 Introductory Chapter of the Lotus Sutra he is also described as the ninth predecessor or Buddha-ancestor of Śākyamuni. He is looked on as the chief of the Bodhisattvas and represents them, as the chief disciple of the Buddha, or as his son 法王子. Hīnayāna counts Śāriputra as the wisest of the disciples, Mahāyāna gives Mañjuśrī the chief place, hence he is also styled 覺母 mother, or begetter of understanding. He is shown riding on either a lion or a peacock, or sitting on a white lotus; often he holds a book, emblem of wisdom, or a blue lotus; in certain rooms of a monastery he is shown as a monk; and he appears in military array as defender of the faith. His signs, magic words, and so on, are found in various sutras. His most famous centre in China is Wu-tai shan in Shansi. where he is the object of pilgrimages, especially of Mongols. The legends about him are many. He takes the place in Buddhism of Viśvakarman as Vulcan, or architect, of the universe. He is one of the eight Dhyāni-bodhisattvas, and sometimes has the image of Akṣobhya in his crown. He was mentioned in China as early as the fourth century and in the Lotus Sutra he frequently appears, especially as the converter of the daughter of the Dragon-king of the Ocean. He has five messengers 五使者 and eight youths 八童子 attending on him. His hall in the Garbhadhātu maṇḍala is the seventh, in which his group numbers twenty-five. His position is northeast. There are numerous sutras and other works with his name as title, e. g. 文殊師利問菩提經 Gayaśīrṣa sūtra, tr. by Kumārajīva 384-417: and its 論 or .Tīkā of Vasubandhu, tr. by Bodhiruci 535. see list in B. N. |
普門 普门 see styles |
pǔ mén pu3 men2 p`u men pu men fumon ふもん |
(surname) Fumon Universal door, the opening into all things, or universality; the universe in anything; the unlimited doors open to a Buddha, or bodhisattva, and the forms in which he can reveal himself. |
染界 see styles |
rǎn jiè ran3 jie4 jan chieh zenkai |
The sphere of pollution, i. e. the inhabited part of every universe, as subject to reincarnation. |
梵相 see styles |
fàn xiàng fan4 xiang4 fan hsiang Bonsō |
Brahmadhvaja, one of the sons of Mahābhijña; his Buddha domain is south-west of our universe. |
法体 see styles |
hottai; houtai / hottai; hotai ほったい; ほうたい |
(1) {Buddh} clerical appearance; appearance of a priest; (2) teachings of Buddha; condition of the universe at creation; in the pure land teachings, the name of Amitabha, or prayers to Amitabha; investiture of a Buddhist priest |
法明 see styles |
fǎ míng fa3 ming2 fa ming noriaki のりあき |
(given name) Noriaki Dharmaprabhāsa, brightness of the law, a Buddha who will appear in our universe in the Ratnāvabhāsa-kalpa in a realm called Suviśuddha 善淨, when there will be no sexual difference, birth taking place by transformation. |
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. |
法藏 see styles |
fǎ zàng fa3 zang4 fa tsang houzou / hozo ほうぞう |
(personal name) Houzou Dharma-store; also 佛法藏; 如來藏 (1) The absolute, unitary storehouse of the universe, the primal source of all things. (2) The Treasury of Buddha's teaching the sutras, etc. (3) Any Buddhist library. (4) Dharmākara, mine of the Law; one of the incarnations of Amitābha. (5) Title of the founder of the Huayan School 賢首法藏Xianshou Fazang. |
法身 see styles |
fǎ shēn fa3 shen1 fa shen hotsushin ほつしん |
{Buddh} (See 三身) dharmakaya (dharma body, Buddhism's highest form of existence); (surname) Hotsushin dharmakāya, embodiment of Truth and Law, the "spiritual" or true body; essential Buddhahood; the essence of being; the absolute, the norm of the universe; the first of the trikāya, v.三身. The dharmakāya is divided into 總 unity and 別 diversity; as in the noumenal absolute and phenomenal activities, or potential and dynamic; but there are differences of interpretation, e.g. as between the 法相 and 法性 schools. Cf. 法身體性. There are many categories of the dharmakāya. In the 2 group 二法身 are five kinds: (1) 理 "substance" and 智 wisdom or expression; (2) 法性法身 essential nature and 應化法身 manifestation; the other three couples are similar. In the 3 group 三法身 are (1) the manifested Buddha, i.e. Śākyamuni; (2) the power of his teaching, etc.; (3) the absolute or ultimate reality. There are other categories. |
法體 法体 see styles |
fǎ tǐ fa3 ti3 fa t`i fa ti hōtai |
Embodiment of the Law, or of things. (1) Elements into which the Buddhists divided the universe; the Abhidharmakośa has 75, the 成實論 Satyasiddhi Sāstra 84, the Yogācārya 100. (2) A monk. |
浩浩 see styles |
hào hào hao4 hao4 hao hao |
vast; expansive (universe); torrential (floods) |
混元 see styles |
hùn yuán hun4 yuan2 hun yüan Kongen |
time immemorial; origin of the universe; the world primordial chaos |
熱寂 热寂 see styles |
rè jì re4 ji4 je chi |
(physics) heat death of the universe |
玄奧 玄奥 see styles |
xuán ào xuan2 ao4 hsüan ao |
abstruse; profound mystery; the mysteries of the universe See: 玄奥 |
理神 see styles |
rishin りしん |
deism; belief in God as creator of universe |
盤古 盘古 see styles |
pán gǔ pan2 gu3 p`an ku pan ku banko ばんこ |
Pangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology) Pangu; creator of heaven and earth in Chinese mythology |
空劫 see styles |
kōng jié kong1 jie2 k`ung chieh kung chieh kuukou; kuugou / kuko; kugo くうこう; くうごう |
{Buddh} (See 四劫) the kalpa of nothingness (the final aeon of the universe) The empty kalpa, v. 劫. |
見大 见大 see styles |
jiàn dà jian4 da4 chien ta kendai |
Visibility (or perceptibility) as one of the seven elements of the universe. |
路迦 see styles |
lù jiā lu4 jia1 lu chia roka |
loka, intp. by 世間, the world, a region or realm, a division of the universe. |
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. |
造化 see styles |
zào hua zao4 hua5 tsao hua zouka / zoka ぞうか |
good luck creation; nature; the Universe To create; to make and transform. |
造物 see styles |
zào wù zao4 wu4 tsao wu zoubutsu / zobutsu ぞうぶつ |
luck; to create the universe; god (as the creator of all things); the Creator all things in nature; Creation |
鴻蒙 鸿蒙 see styles |
hóng méng hong2 meng2 hung meng honmon ホンモン |
(literary) primordial chaos (mythological void state preceding the creation of the universe) (product) HarmonyOS (Huawei); (product name) HarmonyOS (Huawei) |
一元論 一元论 see styles |
yī yuán lùn yi1 yuan2 lun4 i yüan lun ichigenron いちげんろん |
monism, belief that the universe is made of a single substance monism |
一小劫 see styles |
yī xiǎo jié yi1 xiao3 jie2 i hsiao chieh isshō kō |
A small kalpa; a period of the growth and decay of a universe. See 一增一滅 and 劫. |
一微塵 一微尘 see styles |
yī wēi chén yi1 wei1 chen2 i wei ch`en i wei chen ichi mijin |
A particle of dust; an atom, the smallest particle, a microcosm of the universe. |
一法界 see styles |
yī fǎ jiè yi1 fa3 jie4 i fa chieh ippokkai |
The bhūtatathatā considered in terms of mind and as a whole; a law-realm; a spiritual realm; a universe. |
七金山 see styles |
qī jīn shān qi1 jin1 shan1 ch`i chin shan chi chin shan shichi konsen |
The seven concentric mountain ranges around Sumeru, the central mountain of a universe, each range separated from the others by a sea; see 九山八海. Their names are 持隻, 持軸, 雙木 (雙木樹), 擔見, 馬耳 , 障礙 (or 象鼻), 持地 (or 遠) 山. |
三世界 see styles |
sān shì jiè san1 shi4 jie4 san shih chieh san sekai |
the triple universe |
世界線 see styles |
sekaisen せかいせん |
(1) {physics} world line; (2) (colloquialism) parallel universe (in fiction); parallel world; alternative reality |
世界観 see styles |
sekaikan せかいかん |
(1) worldview; outlook on the world; Weltanschauung; (2) setting (for a fictional work); world; universe |
二元論 二元论 see styles |
èr yuán lùn er4 yuan2 lun4 erh yüan lun nigenron にげんろん |
dualism, belief that the universe is made of two different substance (e.g. mind and matter or good and evil) dualism |
光音天 see styles |
guāng yīn tiān guang1 yin1 tian1 kuang yin t`ien kuang yin tien kōon ten |
Ābhāsvara, light and sound, or light-sound heavens, also styled 極光淨天, the heavens of utmost light and purity, i. e. the third of the second dhyāna heavens, in which the inhabitants converse by light instead of words; they recreate the universe from the hells up to and including the first dhyāna heavens after it has been destroyed by fire during he final series of cataclysms; but they gradually diminish in power and are reborn in lower states. The three heavens of the second dhyāna are 少光, 無量光, and 光音. |
全宇宙 see styles |
zenuchuu / zenuchu ぜんうちゅう |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) whole universe; total universe; all of creation |
劫盡火 劫尽火 see styles |
jié jìn huǒ jie2 jin4 huo3 chieh chin huo kōjinka |
the conflagration at the end of the age that destroys the physical universe |
可知論 可知论 see styles |
kě zhī lùn ke3 zhi1 lun4 k`o chih lun ko chih lun |
gnosticism, the philosophical doctrine that everything about the universe is knowable |
塵點劫 尘点劫 see styles |
chén diǎn jié chen2 dian3 jie2 ch`en tien chieh chen tien chieh jinden gō |
eons as great in number of all the particles in the universe |
多元論 多元论 see styles |
duō yuán lùn duo1 yuan2 lun4 to yüan lun tagenron たげんろん |
pluralism, philosophical doctrine that the universe consists of different substances pluralism |
大宇宙 see styles |
daiuchuu / daiuchu だいうちゅう |
(See 小宇宙) macrocosmos; macrocosm; the universe; the cosmos |
大水火 see styles |
dà shuǐ huǒ da4 shui3 huo3 ta shui huo dai suika |
(大水災) mahāpralaya; the final and utter destruction of a universe by (wind), flood, and fire. |
宇宙観 see styles |
uchuukan / uchukan うちゅうかん |
one's outlook on the universe |
宇宙觀 宇宙观 see styles |
yǔ zhòu guān yu3 zhou4 guan1 yü chou kuan |
world view; conception of the universe |
富樓沙 富楼沙 see styles |
fù lóu shā fu4 lou2 sha1 fu lou sha furōsha |
puruṣa, v. 布; a man, mankind. Man personified as Nārāyaṇa; the soul and source of the universe; soul. Explained by 神我 the spiritual self; the ātman whose characteristic is thought, and which produces, through successive modifications, all forms of existence. |
島宇宙 see styles |
shimauchuu / shimauchu しまうちゅう |
{astron} galaxy; island universe |
布路沙 see styles |
bù lù shā bu4 lu4 sha1 pu lu sha furosha |
puruṣa, 布嚕沙; 補盧沙 man, mankind, a man, Man as Nārayāṇa the soul and origin of the universe, the soul, the Soul, Supreme Being, God, see M. W.; intp. as 人 and 丈夫 man, and an adult man, also by 士夫 master or educated man, 'explained by 神我, literally the spiritual self. A metaphysical term; the spirit which together with nature (自性 svabhāva), through the successive modifications (轉變) of guṇa (求那 attributes or qualities), or the active principles (作者), produces all forms of existence (作一切物). ' Eitel. |
師子相 师子相 see styles |
shī zǐ xiàng shi1 zi3 xiang4 shih tzu hsiang Shishisō |
Siṃdhadhvaja; 'lion-flag,' a Buddha south-east of our universe, fourth son of Mahābhijña. |
師子音 师子音 see styles |
shī zǐ yīn shi1 zi3 yin1 shih tzu yin Shishion |
Siṃhaghoṣa; 'lion's voice,' a Buddha south-east of our universe, third son of Mahābhijña. |
日心說 日心说 see styles |
rì xīn shuō ri4 xin1 shuo1 jih hsin shuo |
heliocentric theory; the theory that the sun is at the center of the universe |
極上界 极上界 see styles |
jí shàng jiè ji2 shang4 jie4 chi shang chieh gokujō kai |
the highest realm (of the universe) |
歡喜國 欢喜国 see styles |
huān xǐ guó huan1 xi3 guo2 huan hsi kuo Kanki koku |
妙喜國 Abhirati, the happy land, or paradise of Akṣobhya, east of our universe. |
母集団 see styles |
boshuudan / boshudan ぼしゅうだん |
{math} population; universe; parent set |
毘嵐風 毘岚风 see styles |
pí lán fēng pi2 lan2 feng1 p`i lan feng pi lan feng biran pū |
vairambha. The great wind which finally scatters the universe; the circle of wind under the circle of water on which the world rests. Also 毘藍 (毘藍婆) (鞞藍 or 鞞藍婆) (吠藍 or 吠藍婆); 鞞嵐; 吠嵐婆 (or 吠嵐儈伽); 毘樓那; and 毘藍婆 which is also Pralambā, one of the rākṣasīs. |
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