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三昧

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sān mèi
    san1 mei4
san mei
 sanmai; zanmai
    さんまい; ざんまい

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Samadhi
Samadhi (Buddhist term)
(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.

修行

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xiū xíng
    xiu1 xing2
hsiu hsing
 shugyou(p); sugyou(ok) / shugyo(p); sugyo(ok)
    しゅぎょう(P); すぎょう(ok)

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Shugyo
to devote oneself to spiritual development (esp. Buddhism or Daoism); to devote oneself to perfecting one's art or craft
(noun, transitive verb) (1) training; practice; discipline; study; (noun, transitive verb) (2) {Buddh} ascetic practices; (personal name) Nobuyuki
caryā, conduct; to observe and do; to end one's ways; to cultivate oneself in right practice; be religious, or pious.

動態


动态

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dòng tài
    dong4 tai4
tung t`ai
    tung tai
 doutai / dotai
    どうたい

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Dynamic
movement; motion; development; trend; dynamic (science)
(See 静態) movement; dynamic state

武術


武术

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wǔ shù
    wu3 shu4
wu shu
 bujutsu
    ぶじゅつ

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Martial Arts / Wushu
military skill or technique (in former times); all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development); self-defense; tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage); also called kungfu 功夫; CL:種|种[zhong3]
(1) martial arts; military arts; (2) (See 武術太極拳) wushu (Chinese martial art)

淨土


净土

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jìng tǔ
    jing4 tu3
ching t`u
    ching tu
 jōdo

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Pure Land / Jodo
(Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit)
Sukhāvatī. The Pure Land, or Paradise of the West, presided over by Amitābha. Other Buddhas have their Pure Lands; seventeen other kinds of pure land are also described, all of them of moral or spiritual conditions of development, e.g. the pure land of patience, zeal, wisdom, etc.

菩薩


菩萨

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pú sà
    pu2 sa4
p`u sa
    pu sa
 bosatsu(p); bosachi(ok)
    ぼさつ(P); ぼさち(ok)

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Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva (Buddhism)
(n,n-suf) (1) {Buddh} bodhisattva; one who has reached enlightenment but vows to save all beings before becoming a buddha; (n,n-suf) (2) High Monk (title bestowed by the imperial court); (n,n-suf) (3) (See 本地垂迹説) title bestowed to Shinto kami in manifestation theory; (surname) Mizoro
bodhisattva, cf. 菩提薩埵. While the idea is not foreign to Hīnayāna, its extension of meaning is one of the chief marks of Mahāyāna. 'The Bodhisattva is indeed the characteristic feature of the Mahāyāna.' Keith. According to Mahāyāna the Hinayanists, i.e. the śrāvaka and pratyekabuddha, seek their own salvation, while the bodhisattva's aim is the salvation of others and of all. The earlier intp. of bodhisattva was 大道心衆生 all beings with mind for the truth; later it became 大覺有情 conscious beings of or for the great intelligence, or enlightenment. It is also intp. in terms of leadership, heroism, etc. In general it is a Mahayanist seeking Buddhahood, but seeking it altruistically; whether monk or layman, he seeks enlightenment to enlighten others, and he will sacrifice himself to save others; he is devoid of egoism and devoted to helping others. All conscious beings having the Buddha-nature are natural bodhisattvas, but require to undergo development. The mahāsattva is sufficiently advanced to become a Buddha and enter nirvāṇa, but according to his vow he remains in the realm of incarnation to save all conscious beings. A monk should enter on the arduous course of discipline which leads to Bodhisattvahood and Buddhahood.

進化


进化

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jìn huà
    jin4 hua4
chin hua
 shinka
    しんか

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Evolution
evolution; CL:個|个[ge4]
(n,vs,vi) (1) {biol} evolution; (n,vs,vi) (2) (ant: 退化・2) evolution; becoming more advanced; progress; development; improvement; (female given name) Shinka

沿革

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yán gé
    yan2 ge2
yen ko
 enkaku
    えんかく
evolution of something over time; course of development; history
history; development

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jié
    jie2
chieh
 kou; gou; kou / ko; go; ko
    こう; ごう; コウ
to rob; to plunder; to seize by force; to coerce; calamity; abbr. for kalpa 劫波[jie2 bo1]
(1) (こう, ごう only) {Buddh} kalpa (eon, aeon); (2) (kana only) {go} (usu. コウ) ko; position that allows for eternal capture and recapture of the same stones
刧 A kalpa, aeon, age; also translit. ka; 'a fabulous period of time, a day of Brahmā or 1, 000 Yugas, a period of four hundred and thirty-two million years of mortals, measuring the duration of the world; (a month of Brahmā is supposed to contain thirty such kalpas; according to the Mahābhārata twelve months of Brahmā constitute his year, and one hundred such years his lifetime; fifty years of Brahmā are supposed to have elapsed... ).' M. W. An aeon of incalculable time, therefore called a 大時節 great time-node. v. 劫波.; The three asaṃkhyeya kalpas, the three countless aeons, the period of a bodhisattva's development; also the past 莊嚴劫, the present 賢劫, and the future 星宿劫 kalpas. There are other groups. 三劫三千佛 The thousand Buddhas in each of the three kalpas.


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    pi4
p`i
    pi
 hyaku
to open (a door); to open up (for development); to dispel; to refute; to repudiate; (bound form) penetrating; incisive
To open; translit. pi, v. 毘.

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    si4
ssu
 shoku(p); jiki(ok); shi(ok)
    しょく(P); じき(ok); し(ok)
to feed (a person or animal)
(1) food; foodstuff; (2) (しょく only) eating; appetite; (n,ctr) (3) (しょく only) meal; portion
āhāra, 阿賀羅 food; to eat, feed. The rules are numerous, and seem to have changed; originally flesh food was not improper and vegetarianism was a later development; the early three rules in regard to 'clean' foods are that 'I shall not have seen the creature killed, nor heard it killed for me, nor have any doubt that it was killed for me'. The five 'unclean' foods are the above three, with creatures that have died a natural death; and creatures that have been killed by other creatures. The nine classes add to the five, creatures not killed for me; raw flesh, or creatures mauled by other creatures; things not seasonable or at the right time; things previously killed. The Laṅkavātāra Sutra and certain other sutras forbid all killed food.

三乘

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sān shèng
    san1 sheng4
san sheng
 minori
    みのり
(surname) Minori
Triyāna, the three vehicles, or conveyances which carry living beings across saṁsāra or mortality (births-and-deaths) to the shores of nirvāṇa. The three are styled 小,中, and 大. Sometimes the three vehicles are defined as 聲聞 Śrāvaka, that of the hearer or obedient disciple; 緣覺Pratyeka-buddha, that of the enlightened for self; these are described as 小乘 because the objective of both is personal salvation; the third is 菩薩Bodhisattva, or 大乘 Mahāyāna, because the objective is the salvation of all the living. The three are also depicted as 三車 three wains, drawn by a goat, a deer, an ox. The Lotus declares that the three are really the One Buddha-vehicle, which has been revealed in three expedient forms suited to his disciples' capacity, the Lotus Sūtra being the unifying, complete, and final exposition. The Three Vehicles are differently explained by different exponents, e.g. (1) Mahāyāna recognizes (a) Śrāvaka, called Hīnayāna, leading in longer or shorter periods to arhatship; (b) Pratyeka-buddha, called Madhyamayāna, leading after still longer or shorter periods to a Buddhahood ascetically attained and for self; (c) Bodhisattva, called Mahayana, leading after countless ages of self-sacrifce in saving others and progressive enlightenment to ultimate Buddhahood. (2) Hīnayāna is also described as possessing three vehicles 聲, 緣, 菩 or 小, 中, 大, the 小 and 中 conveying to personal salvation their devotees in ascetic dust and ashes and mental annihilation, the 大 leading to bodhi, or perfect enlightenment, and the Buddha's way. Further definitions of the Triyāna are: (3) True bodhisattva teaching for the 大; pratyeka-buddha without ignorant asceticism for the 中; and śrāvaka with ignorant asceticism for the 小. (4) (a) 一乘 The One-Vehicle which carries all to Buddhahood: of this the 華嚴 Hua-yen and 法華 Fa-hua are typical exponents; (b) 三乘法 the three-vehicle, containing practitioners of all three systems, as expounded in books of the 深密般若; (c) 小乘 the Hīnayāna pure and simple as seen in the 四阿合經 Four Āgamas. Śrāvakas are also described as hearers of the Four Truths and limited to that degree of development; they hear from the pratyeka-buddhas, who are enlightened in the Twelve Nidānas 因緣; the bodhisattvas make the 六度 or six forms of transmigration their field of sacrificial saving work, and of enlightenment. The Lotus Sūtra really treats the 三乘. Three Vehicles as 方便 or expedient ways, and offers a 佛乘 Buddha Vehicle as the inclusive and final vehicle.

三生

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sān shēng
    san1 sheng1
san sheng
 mitsuo
    みつお
(surname, given name) Mitsuo
The three births, or reincarnations, past, present, future. Tiantai has (a) 種 planting the seed; (b) 熟 ripening; (c) 脫 liberating, stripping, or harvesting, i.e. beginning, development, and reward of bodhi, a process either gradual or instantaneous. Huayan has (a) 見聞生 a past life of seeing and hearing Buddha-truth; (b) 解行生 liberation in the present life; (c) 證入生 realization of life in Buddhahood. This is also called 三生成佛, Buddhahood in the course of three lives. There is also a definition of three rebirths as the shortest term for arhatship, sixty kalpas being the longest. There are other definitions.

三益

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sān yì
    san1 yi4
san i
 mimasu
    みます
(surname) Mimasu
three stages of development

三自

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sān zì
    san1 zi4
san tzu
 sanji
abbr. for 三自愛國教會|三自爱国教会[San1 zi4 Ai4 guo2 Jiao4 hui4], Three-Self Patriotic Movement
Three divisions of the eight-fold noble path, the first to the third 自調 self-control, the fourth and fifth 自淨 self-purification, the last three 自度 self-development in the religious life and in wisdom. Also 自體, 自相, 自用 substance, form, and function.

下地

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xià dì
    xia4 di4
hsia ti
 shitaji
    したじ
to go down to the fields; to get up from bed; to leave one's sickbed; to be born
(1) groundwork; foundation; (2) inclination; aptitude; elementary knowledge (of); grounding (in); (3) undercoat; first coat; (4) (See お下地) soy sauce; (surname) Shimoji
The lower regions of the 九地 q. v.; also the lower half of the 十地 in the fifty-two grades of bodhisattva development.

二教

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èr jiào
    er4 jiao4
erh chiao
 nikyō
Dual division of the Buddha's teaching. There are various definitions: (1) Tiantai has (a) 顯教 exoteric or public teaching to the visible audience, and (b) 密教 at the same time esoteric teaching to an audience invisible to the other assembly. (2) The 眞言 Shingon School by "exoteric" means all the Buddha's preaching, save that of the 大日經 which it counts esoteric. (3) (a) 漸教 and (b) 頓教 graduated and immediate teaching, terms with various uses, e.g. salvation by works Hīnayāna, and by faith, Mahāyāna, etc.; they are applied to the Buddha's method, to the receptivity of hearers and to the teaching itself. (4) Tiantai has (a) 界内教 and (b) 界外教 teachings relating to the 三界 or realms of mortality and teachings relating to immortal realms. (5) (a) 半字教 and (b) 滿字教 Terms used in the Nirvāṇa sūtra, meaning incomplete word, or letter, teaching and complete word teaching, i.e. partial and complete, likened to Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna. (6) (a) 捃收教 and (b) 扶律談常教 of the Nirvāṇa sūtra, (a) completing those who failed to hear the Lotus; (b) "supporting the law, while discoursing on immortality," i.e. that the keeping of the law is also necessary to salvation. (7) Tiantai's division of (a) 偏教 and (b) 圓教 the partial teaching of the 藏, 通, and schools as contrasted with the perfect teaching of the 圓 school. (8) Tiantai's division of (a) 構教 and (6) 實教 temporary and permanent, similar to the last two. (9) (a) 世間教 The ordinary teaching of a moral life here; (b) 出世間教 the teaching of Buddha-truth of other-worldly happiness in escape from mortality. (10) (a) 了義教 the Mahāyāna perfect or complete teaching, and (b) 不了義教 Hīnayāna incompleteness. (11) The Huayan division of (a) 屈曲教 indirect or uneven teaching as in the Lotus and Nirvāṇa sūtras, and (b) 平道教 direct or levelled up teaching as in the Huayan sūtra. (12) The Huayan division of (a) 化教 all the Buddha's teaching for conversion and general instruction, and (b) 制教 his rules and commandments for the control and development of his order.

五因

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wǔ yīn
    wu3 yin1
wu yin
 goin
The five causes, v. 倶舍論 7. i. e. (1) 生因 producing cause; (2) 依因supporting cause; (3) 立因 upholding or establishing cause; (4) 持因 maintaining cause; (5) 養因 nourishing or strengthening cause. These all refer to the four elements, earth, water, fire, wind, for they are the causers or producers and maintainers of the infinite forms of nature. Another list from the Nirvana-Sutra 21 is (1) 生因 cause of rebirth, i. e. previous delusion; (2) 和合因 intermingling cause, i. e. good with good, bad with bad, neutral with neutral; (3) 住因 cause of abiding in the present condition, i. e. the self in its attachments; (4) 增長因 causes of development, e. g. food, clothing, etc.; (5) 遠因 remoter cause, the parental seed.

伸び

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 nobi
    のび
(noun/participle) (1) growth; development; (2) stretching (e.g. body when waking up); (3) spread; elongation; extension; carry (e.g. of sound); sustain

体養

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 taiyou / taiyo
    たいよう
development of the body; caring for one's body

促す

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 unagasu
    うながす
(transitive verb) (1) to urge; to encourage; to press; to prompt; to draw (attention to); (transitive verb) (2) to stimulate (e.g. growth); to hasten (e.g. development); to quicken; to accelerate; to promote

內測


内测

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nèi cè
    nei4 ce4
nei ts`e
    nei tse
(software development) to do closed beta (or internal beta) testing

全総

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 zensou / zenso
    ぜんそう
(abbreviation) (See 全国総合開発計画) Comprehensive National Development Plan (1962-)

公測


公测

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gōng cè
    gong1 ce4
kung ts`e
    kung tse
(software development) to do beta testing

六位

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liù wèi
    liu4 wei4
liu wei
 rokui
The six stages of Bodhisattva development, i. e. 十信位; 十住位; 十廻向位; 十地位; 等覺位; 佛地位; these are from the order Huayan jing.

六因

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liù yīn
    liu4 yin1
liu yin
 rokuin
The six causations of the 六位 six stages of Bodhisattva development, q. v. Also, the sixfold division of causes of the Vaibhāṣikas (cf. Keith, 177-8); every phenomenon depends upon the union of 因 primary cause and 緣 conditional or environmental cause; and of the 因 there are six kinds: (1) 能作因 karaṇahetu, effective causes of two kinds: 與力因 empowering cause, as the earth empowers plant growth, and 不障因 non-resistant cause, as space does not resist, i. e. active and passive causes; (2) 倶有因 sahabhūhetu, co-operative causes, as the four elements 四大 in nature, not one of which can be omitted; (3) 同類因 sabhāgahetu, causes of the same kind as the effect, good producing good, etc.; (4) 相應因 saṃprayuktahetu, mutual responsive or associated causes, e. g. mind and mental conditions, subject with object; Keith gives 'faith and intelligence'; similar to (2); (5) 遍行因 sarvatragahetu, universal or omnipresent cause, i. e. of illusion, as of false views affecting every act; it resembles (3) but is confined to delusion; (6) 異熟因 vipākahetu, differental fruition, i. e. the effect different from the cause, as the hells are from evil deeds.

共創

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 kyousou / kyoso
    きょうそう
growing together; joint development

初住

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chū zhù
    chu1 zhu4
ch`u chu
    chu chu
 shojū
The first of the ten stages, or resting-places, of the bodhisattva. 住 is the resting-place or stage for a particular course of development; 地 is the position or rank attained by the spiritual characteristics achieved in this place.

制作

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 seisaku / sesaku
    せいさく
(noun, transitive verb) (1) work (film, book); (noun, transitive verb) (2) production; creation; turning (something) out; development; (personal name) Seisaku

創薬

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 souyaku / soyaku
    そうやく
drug discovery; drug design; development of new drugs

動き

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 ugoki
    うごき
(1) movement; move; motion; (2) trend; development; change; fluctuation

動燃

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 dounen / donen
    どうねん
(company) Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (1967-1998; abbr); PNC; (c) Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (1967-1998; abbr); PNC

化道

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huà dào
    hua4 dao4
hua tao
 kedō
The way of conversion, transformation, or development; also 教道.

十住

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shí zhù
    shi2 zhu4
shih chu
 jū jū
The ten stages, or periods, in bodhisattva-wisdom, prajñā 般若, are the 十住; the merits or character attained are the 十地 q.v. Two interpretations may be given. In the first of these, the first four stages are likened to entry into the holy womb, the next four to the period of gestation, the ninth to birth, and the tenth to the washing or baptism with the water of wisdom, e.g. the baptism of a Kṣatriya prince. The ten stages are (1) 發心住 the purposive stage, the mind set upon Buddhahood; (2) 治地住 clear understanding and mental control; (3) 修行住 unhampered liberty in every direction; (4) 生貴住 acquiring the Tathāgata nature or seed; (5) 方便具足住 perfect adaptability and resemblance in self-development and development of others; (6) 正心住 the whole mind becoming Buddha-like; (7) 不退住 no retrogression, perfect unity and constant progress; (8) 童眞住 as a Buddha-son now complete; (9) 法王子住 as prince of the law; (10) 灌頂住 baptism as such, e.g. the consecration of kings. Another interpretation of the above is: (1) spiritual resolve, stage of śrota-āpanna; (2) submission to rule, preparation for Sakṛdāgāmin stage; (3) cultivation of virtue, attainment of Sakṛdāgāmin stage; (4) noble birth, preparation for the anāgāmin stage; (5) perfect means, attainment of anāgāmin stage; (6) right mind, preparation for arhatship; (7) no-retrogradation, the attainment of arhatship; (8) immortal youth, pratyekabuddhahood; (9) son of the law-king, the conception of bodhisattvahood; (10) baptism as the summit of attainment, the conception of Buddhahood.

十地

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shí dì
    shi2 di4
shih ti
 juuji / juji
    じゅうじ
{Buddh} dasabhumi (forty-first to fiftieth stages in the development of a bodhisattva); (place-name) Jūji
daśabhūmi; v. 十住. The "ten stages" in the fifty-two sections of the development of a bodhisattva into a Buddha. After completing the十四向 he proceeds to the 十地. There are several groups. I. The ten stages common to the Three Vehicles 三乘 are: (1) 乾慧地 dry wisdom stage, i. e. unfertilized by Buddha-truth, worldly wisdom; (2) 性地 the embryo-stage of the nature of Buddha-truth, the 四善根; (3) 八人地 (八忍地), the stage of the eight patient endurances; (4) 見地 of freedom from wrong views; (5) 薄地 of freedom from the first six of the nine delusions in practice; (6) 離欲地 of freedom from the remaining three; (7) 巳辨地 complete discrimination in regard to wrong views and thoughts, the stage of an arhat; (8) 辟支佛地 pratyeka-buddhahood, only the dead ashes of the past left to sift; (9) 菩薩地 bodhisattvahood; (10) 佛地 Buddhahood. v. 智度論 78. II. 大乘菩薩十地 The ten stages of Mahāyāna bodhisattva development are: (1) 歡喜地 Pramuditā, joy at having overcome the former difficulties and now entering on the path to Buddhahood; (2) 離垢地 Vimalā, freedom from all possible defilement, the stage of purity; (3) 發光地 Prabhākarī, stage of further enlightenment; (4) 焰慧地 Arciṣmatī, of glowing wisdom; (5) 極難勝地 Sudurjayā, mastery of utmost or final difficulties; (6) 現前地 Abhimukhī, the open way of wisdom above definitions of impurity and purity; (7) 遠行地 Dūraṁgamā, proceeding afar, getting above ideas of self in order to save others; (8) 不動地 Acalā, attainment of calm unperturbedness; (9) 善慧地 Sādhumatī, of the finest discriminatory wisdom, knowing where and how to save, and possessed of the 十力 ten powers; (10) 法雲地 Dharmamegha, attaining to the fertilizing powers of the law-cloud. Each of the ten stages is connected with each of the ten pāramitās, v. 波. Each of the 四乘 or four vehicles has a division of ten. III. The 聲聞乘十地 ten Śrāvaka stages are: (1) 受三歸地 initiation as a disciple by receiving the three refuges, in the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha; (2) 信地 belief, or the faith-root; (3) 信法地 belief in the four truths; (4) 内凡夫地 ordinary disciples who observe the 五停心觀, etc.; (5) 學信戒 those who pursue the 三學 three studies; (6) 八人忍地 the stage of 見道 seeing the true Way; (7) 須陀洹地 śrota-āpanna, now definitely in the stream and assured of nirvāṇa; (8) 斯陀含地 sakrdāgāmin, only one more rebirth; (9) 阿那含地 anāgāmin, no rebirth; and (10) 阿羅漢地 arhatship. IV. The ten stages of the pratyekabuddha 緣覺乘十地 are (1) perfect asceticism; (2) mastery of the twelve links of causation; (3) of the four noble truths; (4) of the deeper knowledge; (5) of the eightfold noble path; (6) of the three realms 三法界; (7) of the nirvāṇa state; (8) of the six supernatural powers; (9) arrival at the intuitive stage; (10) mastery of the remaining influence of former habits. V. 佛乘十地 The ten stages, or characteristics of a Buddha, are those of the sovereign or perfect attainment of wisdom, exposition, discrimination, māra-subjugation, suppression of evil, the six transcendent faculties, manifestation of all bodhisattva enlightenment, powers of prediction, of adaptability, of powers to reveal the bodhisattva Truth. VI. The Shingon has its own elaborate ten stages, and also a group 十地十心, see 十心; and there are other groups.

十行

see styles
shí xíng
    shi2 xing2
shih hsing
 jūgyō
The ten necessary activities in the fifty-two stages of a bodhisattva, following on the 十信and 十住; the two latter indicate personal development 自利. These ten lines of action are for the universal welfare of others 利他. They are: joyful service; beneficial service; never resenting; without limit; never out of order; appearing in any form at will; unimpeded; exalting the pāramitās amongst all beings; perfecting the Buddha-law by complete virtue; manifesting in all things the pure, final, true reality.

啓発

see styles
 keihatsu / kehatsu
    けいはつ
(noun, transitive verb) enlightenment; development; edification; public awareness; illumination; education; inspiration

善轉


善转

see styles
shàn zhuǎn
    shan4 zhuan3
shan chuan
 zenten
wholesome development

四戒

see styles
sì jiè
    si4 jie4
ssu chieh
 shikai
Four stages in moral development: that of release, or deliverance from the world on becoming a monk; that arising from the four meditations on the realms of form; that above the stage of 見道 q. v.; that in which all moral evil is ended and delusion ceases.

四結


四结

see styles
sì jié
    si4 jie2
ssu chieh
 shiketsu
The four knots, or bonds, saṃyojana, which hinder free development; they are likened to the 四翳 q. v. four things that becloud, i. e. rain clouds, resembling desire; dust-storms, hate; smoke, ignorance; and asuras, gain.

四門


四门

see styles
sì mén
    si4 men2
ssu men
 yotsukado
    よつかど
(surname) Yotsukado
The four doors, schools of thought, or theories: 有 is the phenomenal world real, or 空 unreal, or both, or neither ? According to the Tiantai school each of the four schools 四教 in discussing these four questions emphasizes one of them, i. e. 三藏教 that it is real 通教 unreal, 別通 both, 圓通 neither; v. 有 and 空, and each of the four schools. In esoteric symbolism the 四門 are four stages of initiation, development, enlightenment, and nirvana, and are associated with E., S., W., and N.; with the four seasons; with warmth, heat, coolness and cold, etc.

土壌

see styles
 dojou / dojo
    どじょう
(1) soil; (2) breeding ground; fertile ground (for); foundation (for the development of ...)

地上

see styles
dì shang
    di4 shang5
ti shang
 chijou / chijo
    ちじょう
on the ground; on the floor
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) (ant: 地下・1) above ground; on the ground; earth's surface; (noun - becomes adjective with の) (2) this world; this earth; (surname) Chiue
on the ground; above the ground; used for 初地以上 the stages above the initial stage of a Bodhisattva's development.

孕育

see styles
yùn yù
    yun4 yu4
yün yü
to be pregnant; to produce offspring; to nurture (a development, school of thought, artwork etc); fig. replete with (culture etc)

宅造

see styles
 takuzou / takuzo
    たくぞう
(abbreviation) (See 宅地造成) residential land development

宮庭

see styles
 kyuutei / kyute
    きゅうてい
(place-name) Kyūtei (development area near Shinjuku)

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.

展開


展开

see styles
zhǎn kāi
    zhan3 kai1
chan k`ai
    chan kai
 tenkai
    てんかい
to unfold; to spread out; to open up; to launch; to carry out
(n,vs,vt,vi) (1) development; evolution; progression; unfolding; (plot) twist; (n,vs,vt,vi) (2) expansion; spreading out; extending; deployment; building up; (n,vs,vt,vi) (3) {math} expansion (of an algebraic expression); (n,vs,vt,vi) (4) {math} development (of a three-dimensional shape); (n,vs,vt,vi) (5) {comp} extraction (of compressed data); decompression; unpacking

延び

see styles
 nobi
    のび
(noun/participle) (1) growth; development; (2) stretching (e.g. body when waking up); (3) spread; elongation; extension; carry (e.g. of sound); sustain

後腎

see styles
 koujin / kojin
    こうじん
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (anat) metanephros; third stage of kidney development

急速

see styles
jí sù
    ji2 su4
chi su
 kyuusoku / kyusoku
    きゅうそく
hurried; at a great speed; rapid (development)
(noun or adjectival noun) rapid (e.g. progress)
rapid

成蟲


成虫

see styles
chéng chóng
    cheng2 chong2
ch`eng ch`ung
    cheng chung
imago (adult, sexually mature insect, the final stage of its development)
See: 成虫

成行

see styles
chéng xíng
    cheng2 xing2
ch`eng hsing
    cheng hsing
 naruyuki
    なるゆき
to embark on a journey
(irregular okurigana usage) (1) outcome; development; course of events; progress; result; (2) (abbreviation) market order; order without limit; (given name) Naruyuki

成長


成长

see styles
chéng zhǎng
    cheng2 zhang3
ch`eng chang
    cheng chang
 seichou / secho
    せいちょう
to mature; to grow; growth
(n,vs,vi) (1) growth; development; growing up; becoming an adult; (n,vs,vi) (2) growth (of a company, the economy, etc.); (surname) Narinaga

承句

see styles
 shouku / shoku
    しょうく
(1) (See 起承転結) development of a text; (2) the second line in a four-line Chinese poem

拓殖

see styles
 tsuge
    つげ
(noun/participle) colonization; colonisation; development; settlement; exploitation; (place-name, surname) Tsuge

推移

see styles
tuī yí
    tui1 yi2
t`ui i
    tui i
 suii / sui
    すいい
(of time) to elapse or pass; (of a situation) to develop or evolve
(n,vs,vi) (1) transition; change; progress; development; shift; (n,vs,vi) (2) passing (of time)

整備


整备

see styles
zhěng bèi
    zheng3 bei4
cheng pei
 seibi / sebi
    せいび
preparedness; to bring something to a state of readiness
(noun, transitive verb) (1) maintenance; servicing; (noun, transitive verb) (2) putting in place; development; improvement; preparation; provision; equipping; outfitting

新村

see styles
xīn cūn
    xin1 cun1
hsin ts`un
    hsin tsun
 mimura
    みむら
new housing development
(place-name) Mimura

斷道


断道

see styles
duàn dào
    duan4 dao4
tuan tao
 dandō
The stage in development when illusion is cut off.

早熟

see styles
zǎo shú
    zao3 shu2
tsao shu
 soujuku / sojuku
    そうじゅく
precocious; early-maturing
(n,adj-na,adj-no) (See 晩熟) precocity; early ripening; premature development

智育

see styles
zhì yù
    zhi4 yu4
chih yü
intellectual development

泰達


泰达

see styles
tài dá
    tai4 da2
t`ai ta
    tai ta
TEDA (Tianjin Economic Development Area)

流變


流变

see styles
liú biàn
    liu2 bian4
liu pien
to flow and change; development and change (of society)

深度

see styles
shēn dù
    shen1 du4
shen tu
 shindo
    しんど
depth; (of a speech etc) profundity; advanced stage of development
depth; (place-name) Fukawatari

深耕

see styles
shēn gēng
    shen1 geng1
shen keng
 shinkou / shinko
    しんこう
deep plowing; thorough penetration; thorough development (of a market segment etc)
(noun, transitive verb) deep plowing; deep ploughing; (surname) Fukayasu

源流

see styles
yuán liú
    yuan2 liu2
yüan liu
 genryuu / genryu
    げんりゅう
(of watercourses) source and course; origin and development
(1) source (e.g. of a river); headwaters; (2) origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)
source of the flow

爛熟


烂熟

see styles
làn shú
    lan4 shu2
lan shu
 ranjuku
    らんじゅく
well cooked; to know thoroughly
(n,vs,vi) (1) overripeness; (n,vs,vi) (2) full maturity; full development

現像

see styles
 genzou / genzo
    げんぞう
(noun, transitive verb) development (of film); photographic processing

生育

see styles
shēng yù
    sheng1 yu4
sheng yü
 seiiku / seku
    せいいく
to give birth to; to bear; fertility
(n,vs,vt,vi) birth and growth; giving birth and raising; development; breeding

発展

see styles
 hatten
    はってん
(n,vs,vi) (1) development; growth; expansion; extension; flourishing; (n,vs,vi) (2) development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; progression; unfolding; (n,vs,vi) (3) (See 発展場) playing around (sexually; esp. of a male homosexual); having an active sex life; (place-name) Hatten

発生

see styles
 hassei / hasse
    はっせい
(n,vs,vi) (1) occurrence; incidence; outbreak; birth (e.g. of civilization); (n,vs,vt,vi) (2) generation (of power, heat, etc.); production; (n,vs,vi) (3) {biol} ontogeny; development; growth; breeding

発育

see styles
 hatsuiku
    はついく
(n,vs,vi) (physical) growth; development

発色

see styles
 hasshoku
    はっしょく
(n,vs,vi) coloring; colouring; colour development; production of colour

発達

see styles
 hattatsu
    はったつ
(n,vs,vi) development; growth

發展


发展

see styles
fā zhǎn
    fa1 zhan3
fa chan
development; growth; to develop; to grow; to expand

發育


发育

see styles
fā yù
    fa1 yu4
fa yü
to develop; to mature; growth; development; (sexually) mature

盤面

see styles
 banmen
    ばんめん
(1) surface of a board (shogi, go, etc.); (state of) the board; development of a game; (2) surface of a record

研發


研发

see styles
yán fā
    yan2 fa1
yen fa
research and development; to develop

神速

see styles
shén sù
    shen2 su4
shen su
 shinsoku
    しんそく
lightning speed; amazingly rapid; incredible pace of development
(noun or adjectival noun) great speed; extreme speed; swiftness

端緒


端绪

see styles
duān xù
    duan1 xu4
tuan hsü
 tansho(p); tancho
    たんしょ(P); たんちょ
start and development; thread (of a story); general outline; clue
start; beginning; first step; clue

経過

see styles
 keika / keka
    けいか
(noun/participle) (1) passage (of time); elapsing; lapse; (noun/participle) (2) progress; development; course (of events); (noun/participle) (3) {astron} transit

經合


经合

see styles
jīng hé
    jing1 he2
ching ho
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); abbr. for 經濟合作與發展組織|经济合作与发展组织

緣因


缘因

see styles
yuán yīn
    yuan2 yin1
yüan yin
 en'in
Developing cause, i.e. development of the fundamental Buddha-nature, cf. 緣正.

緣正


缘正

see styles
yuán zhèng
    yuan2 zheng4
yüan cheng
 enshō
Conditioned and fundamental; 正 refers to the Buddha-nature, the bhūtatathatā 正因佛性; 緣 to the Buddha-nature in all undergoing development 緣因佛性.

縱深


纵深

see styles
zòng shēn
    zong4 shen1
tsung shen
depth (from front to rear); depth (into a territory); span (of time); (fig.) depth (of deployment, progress, development etc)

興し

see styles
 okoshi
    おこし
(suffix) development; revitalization; (kana only) millet or rice cake, roasted and hardened with starch syrup and sugar (sometimes including peanuts, etc.)

興亜

see styles
 koua / koa
    こうあ
(hist) (sensitive word) (used during WWII) raising Asia; development of Asia; making Asia prosper; (surname) Kōa

苗頭


苗头

see styles
miáo tou
    miao2 tou5
miao t`ou
    miao tou
 byoutou / byoto
    びょうとう
first signs; development (of a situation)
deflection (gunnery)

衝力


冲力

see styles
chōng lì
    chong1 li4
ch`ung li
    chung li
momentum (the force exhibited by a moving body); (fig.) momentum (capacity for progressive development)

襁褓

see styles
qiǎng bǎo
    qiang3 bao3
ch`iang pao
    chiang pao
 mutsuki
    むつき
    oshime
    おしめ
swaddling clothes; fig. early stage of development; infancy
(1) diaper; nappy; (2) (archaism) swaddling clothes; (3) (archaism) loincloth

路程

see styles
lù chéng
    lu4 cheng2
lu ch`eng
    lu cheng
 rotei / rote
    ろてい
route; path traveled; distance traveled; course (of development)
distance

轉時


转时

see styles
zhuǎn shí
    zhuan3 shi2
chuan shih
 tenji
time of development

途上

see styles
 tojou / tojo
    とじょう
(n,adv) (1) on the way; en route; (2) in the process of (development, construction, etc.); in the middle of; (given name) Tojō

造成

see styles
zào chéng
    zao4 cheng2
tsao ch`eng
    tsao cheng
 zousei / zose
    ぞうせい
to bring about; to create; to cause
(noun, transitive verb) development (of land); preparation (e.g. of ground for housing); reclamation; creation

進展


进展

see styles
jìn zhǎn
    jin4 zhan3
chin chan
 shinten
    しんてん
to make headway; to make progress
(n,vs,vi) progress; development

進歩

see styles
 shinpo
    しんぽ
(n,vs,vi) (ant: 退歩) progress; advance; improvement; development; (personal name) Yukiho

里程

see styles
lǐ chéng
    li3 cheng2
li ch`eng
    li cheng
 ritei / rite
    りてい
mileage (distance traveled); course (of development)
mileage; distance; (given name) Ritei

門派


门派

see styles
mén pài
    men2 pai4
men p`ai
    men pai
 monpa
    もんぱ
sect; school (group of followers of a particular doctrine)
division of a religious sect; branch of a school
門流; 門葉; 門跡 The followers, or development of any sect.

開拓


开拓

see styles
kāi tuò
    kai1 tuo4
k`ai t`o
    kai to
 kaitaku
    かいたく
to break new ground (for agriculture); to open up (a new seam); to develop (border regions); fig. to open up (new horizons)
(noun, transitive verb) (1) reclamation (e.g. of wasteland); cultivation; development; (noun, transitive verb) (2) pioneering; opening up (e.g. of a new market); breaking new ground; trailblazing; (place-name) Kaitaku

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