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天鼓

see styles
tiān gǔ
    tian1 gu3
t`ien ku
    tien ku
 tenko
    てんこ
(given name) Tenko
The deva drum— in the 善法 Good Law Hall of the Trayas-triṃśas heavens, which sounds of itself, warning the inhabitants of the thirty-three heavens that even their life is impermanent and subject to karma: at the sound of the drum Indra preaches against excess. Hence it is a title of Buddha as the great law-drum, who warns, exhorts, and encourages the good and frightens the evil and the demons.

太保

see styles
tài bǎo
    tai4 bao3
t`ai pao
    tai pao
 taibao
    タイバオ
a very high official in ancient China; juvenile delinquents
(1) Grand Protector (lowest of the top three civil positions of the Zhou Dynasty); (2) Minister of the Right (official in Nara and Heian periods); (place-name) Taibao (Taiwan)

太傅

see styles
 taifu
    たいふ
(1) Grand Tutor (second of the top three civil positions of the Zhou dynasty); (2) (See 左大臣) Minister of the Left (official in Nara and Heian periods)

太師


太师

see styles
tài shī
    tai4 shi1
t`ai shih
    tai shih
 taishi
    たいし
imperial tutor
(1) Senior Grand Tutor (senior-most of the top three civil positions of the Zhou Dynasty); (2) Grand Minister; Chancellor of the Realm

奇特

see styles
qí tè
    qi2 te4
ch`i t`e
    chi te
 kitoku; kidoku
    きとく; きどく
peculiar; unusual; queer
(noun or adjectival noun) (1) praiseworthy; commendable; laudable; (adjectival noun) (2) (colloquialism) (non-standard usage) strange (person); weird; odd
Wonderful, rare, special, the three incomparable kinds of 神通奇特 power to convert all beings, 慧心奇特 Buddha-wisdom, and 攝受奇特Buddha-power to attract and save all beings.

妙觀


妙观

see styles
miào guān
    miao4 guan1
miao kuan
 myōkan
The wonderful system of the three Tiantai meditations; v. 三諦, 三觀.

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.

孔融

see styles
kǒng róng
    kong3 rong2
k`ung jung
    kung jung
Kong Rong (153-208), poet of the Three Kingdoms period

季子

see styles
jì zǐ
    ji4 zi3
chi tzu
 kishi
    きし
youngest brother; a period of two or three months
last child; (female given name) Yoshiko

孫堅


孙坚

see styles
sūn jiān
    sun1 jian1
sun chien
 sonken
    そんけん
Sun Jian (155-191), famous general at end of Han dynasty, forerunner of the southern kingdom of Wu of the Three Kingdoms
(personal name) Sonken

孫權


孙权

see styles
sūn quán
    sun1 quan2
sun ch`üan
    sun chüan
Sun Quan (reigned 222-252), southern warlord and king of state of Wu 吳|吴[Wu2] in the Three Kingdoms period

孫誅


孙诛

see styles
sūn zhū
    sun1 zhu1
sun chu
Sun Zhu (1711-1778), poet and compiler of Three Hundred Tang Poems 唐詩三百首|唐诗三百首[Tang2 shi1 San1 bai3 Shou3]; also known by assumed name 蘅塘退士[Heng2 tang2 Tui4 shi4]

安居

see styles
ān jū
    an1 ju1
an chü
 ango
    あんご
to settle down; to live peacefully
(n,vs,vi) {Buddh} varsika (meditation retreat; usu. for 90 days starting on the 15th day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar); (given name) Yasuoki
Tranquil dwelling. varṣā, varṣās, or varṣāvasāna. A retreat during the three months of the Indian rainy season, and also, say some, in the depth of winter. During the rains it was 'difficult to move without injuring insect life'. But the object was for study and meditation. In Tokhara the retreat is said to have been in winter, from the middle of the 12th to the middle of the 3rd moon; in India from the middle of the 5th to the 8th, or the 6th to the 9th moons; usually from Śrāvaṇa, Chinese 5th moon, to Aśvayuja, Chinese 8th moon; but the 16th of the 4th to the 15th of the 7th moon has been the common period in China and Japan. The two annual periods are sometimes called 坐 夏 and 坐 臘 sitting or resting for the summer and for the end of the year. The period is divided into three sections, former, middle, and latter, each of a month.

宗派

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zōng pài
    zong1 pai4
tsung p`ai
    tsung pai
 shuuha / shuha
    しゅうは
sect
(1) sect; denomination; (2) school (e.g. of poetry)
Sects (of Buddhism). In India, according to Chinese accounts, the two schools of Hīnayāna became divided into twentysects. Mahāyāna had two main schools, the Mādhyamika, ascribed to Nāgārjunaand Āryadeva about the second century A. D., and the Yogācārya, ascribed toAsaṅga and Vasubandhu in the fourth century A. D. In China thirteen sectswere founded: (1) 倶舍宗 Abhidharma or Kośa sect, representing Hīnayāna,based upon the Abhidharma-kosa-śāstra or 倶舍論. (2) 成實宗 Satyasiddhi sect, based on the 成實論 Satyasiddhi-śāstra,tr. by Kumārajīva; no sect corresponds to it in India; in China and Japan itbecame incorporated in the 三論宗. (3) 律宗 Vinaya or Discipline sect, basedon 十誦律, 四分律, 僧祗律, etc. (4) 三論宗 The three śāstra sect, based on theMādhyamika-śāstra 中觀論 of Nāgārjuna, theSata-śāstra 百論 of Āryadeva, and theDvādasa-nikāya-śāstra 十二門論 of Nāgārjuna; this schooldates back to the translation of the three śāstras by Kumārajīva in A. D. 409. (5) 涅槃宗 Nirvāṇasect, based upon the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra 涅槃經 tr. byDharmaraksa in 423; later incorporated in Tiantai, with which it had much incommon. (6) 地論宗 Daśabhūmikā sect, based on Vasubandhu's work on the tenstages of the bodhisattva's path to Buddhahood, tr. by Bodhiruci 508,absorbed by the Avataṃsaka school, infra. (7) 淨土宗 Pure-land or Sukhāvatīsect, founded in China by Bodhiruci; its doctrine was salvation throughfaith in Amitābha into the Western Paradise. (8) 禪宗 dhyāna, meditative or intuitional sect, attributed toBodhidharma about A. D. 527, but it existed before he came to China. (9) 攝論宗, based upon the 攝大乘論 Mahāyāna-saṃparigraha-śāstra byAsaṅga, tr. by Paramārtha in 563, subsequently absorbed by the Avataṃsakasect. (10) 天台宗 Tiantai, based on the 法華經 SaddharmapuṇḍarīkaSūtra, or the Lotus of the Good Law; it is aconsummation of the Mādhyamika tradition. (11) 華嚴宗 Avataṃsaka sect, basedon the Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra, or Gandha-vyūha 華嚴經 tr. in 418. (12) 法相宗 Dharmalakṣaṇa sect, established after thereturn of Xuanzang from India and his trans. of the important Yogācāryaworks. (13) 眞言宗 Mantra sect, A. D. 716. In Japan twelve sects are named:Sanron, Hossō, Kegon, Kusha, Jōjitsu, Ritsu, Tendai, Shingon; these areknown as the ancient sects, the two last being styled mediaeval; therefollow the Zen and Jōdo; the remaining two are Shin and Nichiren; at presentthere are the Hossō, Kegon, Tendai, Shingon, Zen, Jōdo, Shin, and Nichirensects.

定學


定学

see styles
dìng xué
    ding4 xue2
ting hsüeh
 jōgaku
Learning through meditation, one of the three forms of learning 三學.

寶印


宝印

see styles
bǎo yìn
    bao3 yin4
pao yin
 hōin
Precious seal, or symbol. (1) The second of the triratna, i.e. 法寶. (2) The three evidences of the genuineness of a sutra, v. 三法印. (3) The symbols of buddhas, or bodhisattvas. (4) Their magical 種子, i.e. germ-letters, or sounds.

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.

小橋


小桥

see styles
xiǎo qiáo
    xiao3 qiao2
hsiao ch`iao
    hsiao chiao
 kobayashi
    こばやし
Xiao Qiao, one of the Two Qiaos, according to Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4], the two great beauties of ancient China
(surname) Kobayashi

小雅

see styles
xiǎo yǎ
    xiao3 ya3
hsiao ya
 shouga / shoga
    しょうが
one of the three main divisions of the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经
(See 雅・が・2) minor festal song (subgenre of the Shi Jing)

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

巫峽


巫峡

see styles
wū xiá
    wu1 xia2
wu hsia
Wuxia Gorge on the Changjiang or Yangtze, the middle of the Three Gorges 三峽|三峡[San1 Xia2]

巻く

see styles
 maku
    まく
(transitive verb) (1) to wind; to coil; to roll; to wear (e.g. turban, scarf); (2) to envelope; to shroud; (3) to outflank; to skirt; (4) to link (verse); (v5k,vi) (5) to move ahead (three hours, etc.); to move up

帝釋


帝释

see styles
dì shì
    di4 shi4
ti shih
 taishaku
    たいしゃく
(surname) Taishaku
Sovereign Śakra; Indra; 能天帝 mighty lord of devas; Lord of the Trayastriṃśas, i.e. the thirty-three heavens 三十三天 q. v.; he is also styled 釋迦提桓因陀羅 (or 釋迦提婆因陀羅) (or 釋迦提桓因達羅 or 釋迦提婆因達羅); 釋帝桓因 Śakra-devānām Indra.

平句

see styles
 hiraku
    ひらく
ordinary verse of a renga (i.e. not the first three verses or the last verse)

平民

see styles
píng mín
    ping2 min2
p`ing min
    ping min
 heimin / hemin
    へいみん
ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged); civilian (contrasted with the military)
(1) commoner; plebeian; (2) (hist) (See 族称) commoner (in Japan between 1869 and 1947; the lowest of the three classes); (given name) Heimin

年三

see styles
nián sān
    nian2 san1
nien san
 nensan
three months of the year when purity is practiced

底哩

see styles
dǐ lī
    di3 li1
ti li
 teiri
tri, three, in trisamaya, etc.

府試


府试

see styles
fǔ shì
    fu3 shi4
fu shih
prefectural exam, the 2nd of the three entry-level exams in the imperial examination system of Ming and Qing dynasties

廣雅


广雅

see styles
guǎng yǎ
    guang3 ya3
kuang ya
earliest extant Chinese encyclopedia from Wei of the Three Kingdoms, 3rd century, modeled on Erya 爾雅|尔雅[Er3 ya3], 18150 entries

張三


张三

see styles
zhāng sān
    zhang1 san1
chang san
 chouzou / chozo
    ちょうぞう
Zhang San, name for an unspecified person, first of a series of three: 張三|张三[Zhang1 San1], 李四[Li3 Si4], 王五[Wang2 Wu3] Tom, Dick and Harry; (dialect) wolf
(given name) Chōzou

張揖


张揖

see styles
zhāng yī
    zhang1 yi1
chang i
Zhang Yi (c. 3rd century), literary figure from Wei of the Three Kingdoms, other name 稚讓|稚让[Zhi4 rang4], named as compiler of earliest extant Chinese encyclopedia 廣雅|广雅[Guang3 ya3] and several lost works

彡旁

see styles
 sanzukuri
    さんづくり
(kana only) kanji "three" or "hair ornament" radical at right

後三


后三

see styles
hòu sān
    hou4 san1
hou san
 go san
latter three

後唄


后呗

see styles
hòu bài
    hou4 bai4
hou pai
 gobai
The third of the three chants in praise of Buddha.

徒人

see styles
 zunin
    ずにん
(archaism) (hist) (See 徒・ず) prisoner (for one to three years under the ritsuryō system)

心佛

see styles
xīn fó
    xin1 fo2
hsin fo
 shinbutsu
The Buddha within the heart: from mind is Buddha hood: the Buddha revealed in or to the mind; the mind is Buddha. 心佛及衆生, 是三無差別 The mind, Buddha, and all the living — there is no difference between the three. i. e. all are of the same order. This is an important doctrine of the 華嚴經 Huayan sutra, cf. its 夜摩天宮品; by Tiantai it is called 三法妙 the mystery of the three things.

心作

see styles
xīn zuò
    xin1 zuo4
hsin tso
 shinsaku
    しんさく
(given name) Shinsaku
The karmic activity of the mind, the 意業 of the three agents, body, mouth, and mind.

心咒

see styles
xīn zhòu
    xin1 zhou4
hsin chou
 shinju
One of the three classes of spells, idem 一字咒.

心地

see styles
xīn dì
    xin1 di4
hsin ti
 kokochi
    ここち
character
(1) feeling; sensation; mood; (suffix) (2) (usu. after -masu stem of verb; read as ごこち) sensation of doing
Mind, from which all things spīng; the mental ground, or condition; also used for 意 the third of the three agents-body, mouth, mind.

念仏

see styles
 nenbutsu
    ねんぶつ
(n,vs,vi) (1) {Buddh} (See 南無阿弥陀仏) nembutsu; nianfo; the three-word invocation "Namu Amida Butsu" dedicated to the Amitabha Buddha; (n,vs,vi) (2) {Buddh} visualizing a Buddha (in one's mind); (place-name, surname) Nenbutsu

忿怒

see styles
fèn nù
    fen4 nu4
fen nu
 funnu
    ふんぬ
variant of 憤怒|愤怒[fen4 nu4]
(n,adj-no,vs) anger; rage; resentment; indignation; exasperation
Anger, angry, fierce, over-awing: a term for the 忿王 or 忿怒王 (忿怒明王) the fierce mahārājas as opponents of evil and guardians of Buddhism; one of the two bodhisattva forms, resisting evil, in contrast with the other form, manifesting goodness. There are three forms of this fierceness in the Garbhadhātu group and five in the Diamond group.

悲田

see styles
bēi tián
    bei1 tian2
pei t`ien
    pei tien
 hiden
The field of pity, cultivated by helping those in trouble, one of the three fields of blessing.

惡道


恶道

see styles
è dào
    e4 dao4
o tao
 akudō
Evil ways; also the three evil paths or destinies— animals, pretas, and purgatory.

意三

see styles
yì sān
    yi4 san1
i san
 shinzou / shinzo
    しんぞう
(personal name) Shinzou
The three evils which belong to intellect — lobha, dveṣa, moha, i.e. desire, dislike, delusion.

戌陀

see styles
xū tuó
    xu1 tuo2
hsü t`o
    hsü to
 juda
戌達; 戌陀羅 (or 戌捺羅 or戌怛羅) śūdra, the fourth or servile caste, whose duty is to serve the three higher castes.

戒學


戒学

see styles
jiè xué
    jie4 xue2
chieh hsüeh
 kaigaku
The study of the rules or discipline; one of the three departments 三學, the other two being meditation and philosophy.

抬秤

see styles
tái chèng
    tai2 cheng4
t`ai ch`eng
    tai cheng
large steelyard usu. operated by three people – two to lift it using a pole, and one to adjust the counterweight

捲く

see styles
 maku
    まく
(transitive verb) (1) to wind; to coil; to roll; to wear (e.g. turban, scarf); (2) to envelope; to shroud; (3) to outflank; to skirt; (4) to link (verse); (v5k,vi) (5) to move ahead (three hours, etc.); to move up

掛声

see styles
 kakegoe
    かけごえ
(noun/participle) yell used to time or encourage activity (e.g. "Heave ho!", "On three ... One, two, three!" in English); enthusiastic shout from the audience (e.g. in kabuki); shouting (in concerts)

擯治


摈治

see styles
bìn zhì
    bin4 zhi4
pin chih
 hinji
The punishment of expulsion, which is of three orders: (1) 擯出 expulsion from a particular monastery or nunnery, to which there may be a return on repentance; (2) 默擯 prohibition of any intercourse; (3) 滅擯 entire expulsion and deletion from the order.

支郞

see styles
zhī láng
    zhi1 lang2
chih lang
 shirō
Chih-lang, formerly a polite term for a monk, said to have arisen from the fame of the three 支 Chih of the Wei dynasty 支謙 Chih-ch'ien, 支讖 Chih-ch'an, and 支亮 Chih-liang.

新羅


新罗

see styles
xīn luó
    xin1 luo2
hsin lo
 shiragi; shinra
    しらぎ; しんら
Silla, Korean kingdom 57 BC-935 AD; one of the Korean Three Kingdoms from 1st century AD, defeating its rivals Paikche 百濟|百济[Bai3 ji4] and Koguryo 高句麗|高句丽[Gao1 gou1 li2] around 660 in alliance with Tang China; unified Silla 658-935
(hist) (See 三国・3) Silla (ancient Korean kingdom; 57 BCE-935 CE); (surname) Nira
Silla

斷德


断德

see styles
duàn dé
    duan4 de2
tuan te
 dantoku
The power or virtue of bringing to an end all passion and illusion—one of the three powers of a buddha.

方便

see styles
fāng biàn
    fang1 bian4
fang pien
 houben / hoben
    ほうべん
convenient; suitable; to facilitate; to make things easy; having money to spare; (euphemism) to relieve oneself
(1) means; expedient; instrument; (2) {Buddh} upaya (skillful means, methods of teaching); (surname) Houben
upāya. Convenient to the place, or situation, suited to the condition, opportune, appropriate; but 方 is interpreted as 方法 method, mode, plan, and 便 as 便用 convenient for use, i. e. a convenient or expedient method; also 方 as 方正 and 便 as 巧妙, which implies strategically correct. It is also intp. as 權道智 partial, temporary, or relative (teaching of) knowledge of reality, in contrast with 般若智 prajñā, and 眞實 absolute truth, or reality instead of the seeming. The term is a translation of 傴和 upāya, a mode of approach, an expedient, stratagem, device. The meaning is— teaching according to the capacity of the hearer, by any suitable method, including that of device or stratagem, but expedience beneficial to the recipient is understood. Mahāyāna claims that the Buddha used this expedient or partial method in his teaching until near the end of his days, when he enlarged it to the revelation of reality, or the preaching of his final and complete truth; Hīnayāna with reason denies this, and it is evident that the Mahāyāna claim has no foundation, for the whole of its 方等 or 方廣 scriptures are of later invention. Tiantai speaks of the 三乘 q. v. or Three Vehicles as 方便 expedient or partial revelations, and of its 一乘 or One Vehicle as the complete revelation of universal Buddhahood. This is the teaching of the Lotus Sutra, which itself contains 方便 teaching to lead up to the full revelation; hence the terms 體内 (or 同體 ) 方便, i. e. expedient or partial truths within the full revelation, meaning the expedient part of the Lotus, and 體外方便 the expedient or partial truths of the teaching which preceded the Lotus; see the 方便品 of that work, also the second chapter of the 維摩經. 方便 is also the seventh of the ten pāramitās.

日曜

see styles
rì yào
    ri4 yao4
jih yao
 nichiyou / nichiyo
    にちよう
(See 日曜日) Sunday
The sun, one of the nine 曜 luminaries; one of the retinue of 日天 shown in the eastern part of the Garbhadhātu group driving three horses.

明刻

see styles
 minkoo; minko
    ミンコー; ミンコ
{mahj} (See 刻子,明刻子) open three-of-a-kind (meld); three-of-a-kind made with a tile called from another player

明慧

see styles
míng huì
    ming2 hui4
ming hui
 myoue / myoe
    みょうえ
intelligent; brilliant
(female given name) Myōe
The three enlightenments 三明, and the three wisdoms 三慧.

時分


时分

see styles
shí fēn
    shi2 fen1
shih fen
 jibun
    じぶん
time; period during the day; one of the 12 two-hour periods enumerated by the earthly branches 地支
(n,adv) time; hour; season; time of the year
Time-division of the day, variously made in Buddhist works: (1) Three periods each of day and night. (2) Eight periods of day and night, each divided into four parts. (3) Twelve periods, each under its animal, as in China. (4) Thirty hours, sixty hours, of varying definition.

晨朝

see styles
chén zhāo
    chen2 zhao1
ch`en chao
    chen chao
 jinjou; shinchou; jinchou / jinjo; shincho; jincho
    じんじょう; しんちょう; じんちょう
{Buddh} (See 六時) around six o'clock AM; dawn service
The morning period, the first of the three divisions of the day.

智悲

see styles
zhì bēi
    zhi4 bei1
chih pei
 chihi
All-knowing and all-pitying; these two with 定 'contemplative' make up the 三德 three virtues or qualities of a Buddha.

暗刻

see styles
 ankoo; anko
    アンコー; アンコ
{mahj} (See 刻子,暗刻子) concealed pung; concealed three-of-a-kind

曹操

see styles
cáo cāo
    cao2 cao1
ts`ao ts`ao
    tsao tsao
 sousou / soso
    そうそう
Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕; the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义
(person) Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei, father of Emperor Cao Pi; the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms

會三


会三

see styles
huì sān
    hui4 san1
hui san
 e san
subsuming three

有學


有学

see styles
yǒu xué
    you3 xue2
yu hsüeh
 ugaku
śaikṣa; in Hīnayāna those in the first three stages of training as arhats, the fourth and last stage being 無學 those beyond the need of further teaching or study. There are eighteen grades of śaikṣa.

有爲


有为

see styles
yǒu wéi
    you3 wei2
yu wei
 ui
Active, creative, productive, functioning, causative, phenomenal, the processes resulting from the laws of karma, v. 有作; opposite of 無爲 passive, inert, inactive, non-causative, laisser-faire. It is defined by 造作 to make, and associated with saṃskṛta. The three active things 三有爲法 are 色 material, or things which have form, 心 mental and 非色非心 neither the one nor the other. The four forms of activity 四有爲相 are 生住異滅 coming into existence, abiding, change, and extinction; they are also spoken of as three, the two middle terms being treated as having like meaning.

末伏

see styles
mò fú
    mo4 fu2
mo fu
the third of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏[san1 fu2]), which typically runs over the middle ten days of August

末法

see styles
mò fǎ
    mo4 fa3
mo fa
 mappou / mappo
    まっぽう
{Buddh} (See 三時・3) latter days of the law (one of the three ages of Buddhism); age of the degeneration of the law; (surname) Matsubou
The last of the three periods 正, 像, and 末; that of degeneration and extinction of the Buddha-law.

本迹

see styles
běn jī
    ben3 ji1
pen chi
 honjaku
The original 本 Buddha or Bodhisattva and his 迹 varied manifestations for saving all beings, e. g. Guanyin with thirty-three forms. Also 本地垂迹.

李四

see styles
lǐ sì
    li3 si4
li ssu
Li Si, name for an unspecified person, second of a series of three: 張三|张三[Zhang1 San1], 李四, 王五[Wang2 Wu3] Tom, Dick and Harry

李寧


李宁

see styles
lǐ níng
    li3 ning2
li ning
Li Ning (1963-), PRC gymnast, winner of three gold medals at Los Angeles 1984 Olympic games

東吳


东吴

see styles
dōng wú
    dong1 wu2
tung wu
Eastern Wu (222-280); the southern state of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, founded by Sun Quan 孫權|孙权

果相

see styles
guǒ xiàng
    guo3 xiang4
kuo hsiang
 ka sō
Reward, retribution, or effect; especially as one of the three forms of the ālaya-vijñāna.

枝香

see styles
zhī xiāng
    zhi1 xiang1
chih hsiang
 sayaka
    さやか
(female given name) Sayaka
Incense made of branches of trees, one of the three kinds of incense, the other two being from roots and flowers.

梵天

see styles
fàn tiān
    fan4 tian1
fan t`ien
    fan tien
 bonten; bonden
    ぼんてん; ぼんでん
Nirvana (in Buddhist scripture); Lord Brahma (the Hindu Creator)
(1) Brahma (Hindu creator god); (2) (See 御幣) large staff with plaited paper streamers (used at religious festivals or as a sign); (3) buoy (used in longline fishing, gillnetting, etc.); (4) down puff (on the end of an ear pick); (given name) Bonten
Brahmadeva. Brahmā, the ruler of this world. India. brahmaloka, the eighteen heavens of the realm of form, divided into four dhyāna regions (sixteen heavens in Southern Buddhism). The first three contain the 梵衆天 assembly of brahmadevas, i.e. the brahmakāyika; the 梵輔天 brahmspurohitas, retinue of Brahmā; and 大梵天 Mahābrahman, Brahman himself.

業相


业相

see styles
yè xiàng
    ye4 xiang4
yeh hsiang
 gōsō
Action, activity, the karmic, the condition of karmic action. The first of the three 相 of the Awakening of Faith, when mental activity is stirred to action by unenlightenment.

權教


权教

see styles
quán jiào
    quan2 jiao4
ch`üan chiao
    chüan chiao
 gonkyō
Temporary, expedient, or functional teaching, preparatory to the perfect teaching, a distinguishing term of the Tiantai and Huayan sects, i.e. the teachings of the three previous periods 藏, 通 and 別 which were regarded as preparatory to their own, cf. 圓教.

正月

see styles
zhēng yuè
    zheng1 yue4
cheng yüeh
 shougatsu / shogatsu
    しょうがつ
first month of the lunar year
(1) New Year (esp. first three days); (2) first month of the year; January; (surname) Mutsuki
the first month of the year

毒氣


毒气

see styles
dú qì
    du2 qi4
tu ch`i
    tu chi
 dokuke
poison gas; toxic gas; manifestation of passion, anger etc (Buddhism)
Poison vapour, emitted by the three poisons, 貪瞋痴, desire, hate (or anger), stupor (or ignorance).

比量

see styles
bǐ liang
    bi3 liang5
pi liang
 hiryou / hiryo
    ひりょう
to measure roughly (with the hand, a stick, string etc)
(noun/participle) (1) comparison; (2) {Buddh} Pramana; epistemology
Comparison and inference; it is defined as 比 comparison of the known, and 量 inference of the unknown. It is the second form in logic of the three kinds of example, 現, 比 and 聖教量, e. g. the inference of fire from smoke.

水災


水灾

see styles
shuǐ zāi
    shui3 zai1
shui tsai
 suisai
    すいさい
flood; flood damage
(See 水害) water damage; flood disaster
The calamity of water, or food; one of the three final world catastrophes of fire, wind, and water, v. 三災.

沙彌


沙弥

see styles
shā mí
    sha1 mi2
sha mi
 shami
novice Buddhist monk
śrāmaṇera, 室羅摩拏洛迦; 室末那伊洛迦; 室羅摩尼羅 The male religious novice, who has taken vows to obey the ten commandments. The term is explained by 息惡行慈 one who ceases from evil and does works of mercy, or lives altruistically; 勤策男 a zealous man; 求寂 one who seeks rest; 求涅槃寂 one who seeks the peace of nirvāṇa. Three kinds are recognized according to age, i. e. 7 to 13 years old, old enough to 驅鳥 'drive away crows'; 14 to 19, called 應法 able to respond to or follow the doctrine; 20 to 70.

法數


法数

see styles
fǎ shù
    fa3 shu4
fa shu
 hōshu
The categories of Buddhism such as the three realms, five skandhas, five regions, four dogmas, six paths, twelve nidānas, etc.

法滅


法灭

see styles
fǎ miè
    fa3 mie4
fa mieh
 hōmetsu
The extinction of the Law, or Buddhism, after the third of the three stages 正像末.

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.

法身

see styles
fǎ shēn
    fa3 shen1
fa shen
 hosshin; houshin / hosshin; hoshin
    ほっしん; ほうしん
{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.

法顯


法显

see styles
fǎ xiǎn
    fa3 xian3
fa hsien
 hokken
    ほっけん
(personal name) Hokken
Faxian, the famous pilgrim who with fellow-monks left Chang'an A.D. 399 overland for India, finally reached it, remained alone for six years, and spent three years on the return journey, arriving by sea in 414. His 佛國記 Records of the Buddhistic Kingdoms were made, for his information, by Buddhabhadra, an Indian monk in China. His own chief translation is the 僧祗律, a work on monastic discipline.

涉事

see styles
shè shì
    she4 shi4
she shih
to be involved in the matter (Example: 涉事三人[she4 shi4 san1 ren2], the three people involved); (archaic) to recount the events

淨肉


净肉

see styles
jìng ròu
    jing4 rou4
ching jou
 jōniku
Pure flesh, the kind which may be eaten by a monk without sin, three, five, and nine classes being given.

湘繡


湘绣

see styles
xiāng xiù
    xiang1 xiu4
hsiang hsiu
Hunan embroidery, one of the four major traditional styles of Chinese embroidery (the other three being 蘇繡|苏绣[Su1 xiu4], 粵繡|粤绣[Yue4 xiu4] and 蜀繡|蜀绣[Shu3 xiu4])

準提


准提

see styles
zhǔn tí
    zhun3 ti2
chun t`i
    chun ti
 Juntei
Candī, or Cundi; also 准胝; 尊提. (1) In Brahmanic mythology a vindictive form of Durgā, or Pārvatī, wife of Śiva. (2) In China identified with Marīci 摩里支 or 天后 Queen of Heaven. She is represented with three eyes and eighteen arms; also as a form of Guanyin, or in Guanyin's retinue.

潤生


润生

see styles
rùn shēng
    run4 sheng1
jun sheng
 mitsuo
    みつお
(male given name) Mitsuo
The fertilization of the natural conditions which produce rebirth, especially those of the three kinds of attachment in the hour of death, love of body, of home, and of life.

瀛洲

see styles
yíng zhōu
    ying2 zhou1
ying chou
Yingzhou, easternmost of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, home of immortals and source of elixir of immortality

瀛臺


瀛台

see styles
yíng tái
    ying2 tai2
ying t`ai
    ying tai
Ocean platform in Zhongnanhai 中南海[Zhong1 nan2 hai3] surrounded by water on three sides, recreation area for imperial wives and concubines, more recently for communist top brass

火坑

see styles
huǒ kēng
    huo3 keng1
huo k`eng
    huo keng
 ka kō
pit of fire; fig. living hell
The fiery pit (of the five desires 五欲); also that of the three ill destinies— the hells, animals, hungry ghosts.

火塗


火涂

see styles
huǒ tú
    huo3 tu2
huo t`u
    huo tu
 kazu
(or 火道) The fiery way, i. e. the destiny of the hot hells, one of the three evil destinies.

火宅

see styles
huǒ zhái
    huo3 zhai2
huo chai
 kataku
    かたく
{Buddh} this world of suffering
The parable of the burning house; one of the 'seven parables' in the Lotus Sutra 譬喩品, that of the burning house from which the owner tempts his heedless children by the device of the three kinds of carts— goat, deer, and bullock, especially a white-bullock cart i. e. Mahāyāna.

火院

see styles
huǒ yuàn
    huo3 yuan4
huo yüan
 kain
The 'fire-court', a kind of contemplation, in which the devotee sees himself encircled by fire after circumambulating three times to the right while making the fire-sign. Also 火界; 金剛炎.

無學


无学

see styles
wú xué
    wu2 xue2
wu hsüeh
 mugaku
aśaikṣa. No longer learning, beyond study, the state of arhatship, the fourth of the śrāvaka stages; the preceding three stages requiring study; there are nine grades of arhats who have completed their course of learning.

煩惱


烦恼

see styles
fán nǎo
    fan2 nao3
fan nao
 bonnō
    ぼんのう
to be worried; to be distressed; worries
(out-dated kanji) (1) worldly desires; evil passions; appetites of the flesh; (2) (Buddhist term) klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)
kleśa, 'pain, affliction, distress,' 'care, trouble' (M.W.). The Chinese tr. is similar, distress, worry, trouble, and whatever causes them. Keith interprets kleśa by 'infection', 'contamination', 'defilement'. The Chinese intp. is the delusions, trials, or temptations of the passions and of ignorance which disturb and distress the mind; also in brief as the three poisons 貪瞋痴 desire, detestation, and delusion. There is a division into the six fundamental 煩惱, or afflictions, v. below, and the twenty which result or follow them and there are other dual divisions. The six are: 貪瞋痴慢疑 and 惡見 desire, detestation, delusion, pride, doubt, and evil views, which last are the false views of a permanent ego, etc. The ten 煩惱 are the first five, and the sixth subdivided into five. 煩惱, like kleśa, implies moral affliction or distress, trial, temptation, tempting, sin. Cf. 使.

片歌

see styles
 katauta
    かたうた
(hist) katauta; ancient Japanese poetry form with three verses in a 5-7-7 moraic pattern

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