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There are 14 total results for your 不可得 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

不可得

see styles
bù kě dé
    bu4 ke3 de2
pu k`o te
    pu ko te
 fukatoku
    ふかとく
{Buddh} the unobtainable (that which cannot be known)
ampalabhya; alabhya. Beyond laying hold of, unobtainable, unknowable, unreal, another name for 空 the void. See 三世心不可得.

不可得空

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bù kě dé kōng
    bu4 ke3 de2 kong1
pu k`o te k`ung
    pu ko te kung
 fu katoku kū
One of the eighteen 空; it is the 言亡慮絕之空, the 'void' that is beyond words or thought.

不可得言

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bù kě dé yán
    bu4 ke3 de2 yan2
pu k`o te yen
    pu ko te yen
 fukatoku gon
you cannot say...

不可得說


不可得说

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bù kě dé shuō
    bu4 ke3 de2 shuo1
pu k`o te shuo
    pu ko te shuo
 fuka tokusetsu
inexplicable

四不可得

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sì bù kě dé
    si4 bu4 ke3 de2
ssu pu k`o te
    ssu pu ko te
 shi fuka toku
The four unattainables, perpetual youth, no sickness, perennial life, no death. There is a work, the Catur-lābha-sūtra, tr. into Chinese under this title.

我不可得

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wǒ bù kě dé
    wo3 bu4 ke3 de2
wo pu k`o te
    wo pu ko te
 ga fukatoku
the self is unobtainable

不可得思議


不可得思议

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bù kě dé sī yì
    bu4 ke3 de2 si1 yi4
pu k`o te ssu i
    pu ko te ssu i
 fukatoku shigi
inconceivable

不可得正因

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bù kě dé zhèng yīn
    bu4 ke3 de2 zheng4 yin1
pu k`o te cheng yin
    pu ko te cheng yin
 fukatoku shōin
correct reason of non-cognition

三世不可得

see styles
sān shì bù kě dé
    san1 shi4 bu4 ke3 de2
san shih pu k`o te
    san shih pu ko te
 sanze fukatoku
Everything past, present, future, whether mental or material, is intangible, fleeting, and cannot be held; v. 三世心.

念念不可得

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niàn niàn bù kě dé
    nian4 nian4 bu4 ke3 de2
nien nien pu k`o te
    nien nien pu ko te
 nennen fukatoku
no moment of thought can be apprehended

自相不可得

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zì xiàng bù kě dé
    zi4 xiang4 bu4 ke3 de2
tzu hsiang pu k`o te
    tzu hsiang pu ko te
 jisō fukatoku
own-marks are inapprehensible

三世心不可得

see styles
sān shì xīn bù kě dé
    san1 shi4 xin1 bu4 ke3 de2
san shih hsin pu k`o te
    san shih hsin pu ko te
 sanze shin fukatoku
The mind or thought, past, present, future, cannot be held fast; the past is gone, the future not arrived, the present does not stay.

未來心不可得


未来心不可得

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wèi lái xīn bù kě dé
    wei4 lai2 xin1 bu4 ke3 de2
wei lai hsin pu k`o te
    wei lai hsin pu ko te
 mirai shin fukatoku
future mind is unobtainable

過去心不可得


过去心不可得

see styles
guō qù xīn bù kě dé
    guo1 qu4 xin1 bu4 ke3 de2
kuo ch`ü hsin pu k`o te
    kuo chü hsin pu ko te
 kako shin fukatoku
past mind is unobtainable

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 14 results for "不可得" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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