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There are 5 total results for your 八门 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

八門


八门

see styles
bā mén
    ba1 men2
pa men
 hachimon
(八門二悟 or 八門兩益) Eight kinds of syllogisms in Buddhist logic; v. 因明八正理諭. (1) 能立a valid proposition; (2) 能破 an invalid proposition; (3) 似能立 doubtful, or seemingly valid but faulty; (4) 似能破 seemingly invalid, and assailable; (5) 現量manifest, or evidential; (6) 比量 inferential; (7) 似現量 seemingly evidential; (8) 似比量 seemingly inferential.

五花八門


五花八门

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wǔ huā bā mén
    wu3 hua1 ba1 men2
wu hua pa men
myriad; all kinds of; all sorts of

八門二悟


八门二悟

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bā mén èr wù
    ba1 men2 er4 wu4
pa men erh wu
 hachimon nigo
eight propositions in two kinds of making-aware

八門兩益


八门两益

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bā mén liǎng yì
    ba1 men2 liang3 yi4
pa men liang i
 hachimon ryōyaku
eight approaches to two kinds of benefit

因明八門


因明八门

see styles
yīn míng bā mén
    yin1 ming2 ba1 men2
yin ming pa men
 inmyō hachimon
eight approaches in a proposition

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

This page contains 5 results for "八门" 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

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

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).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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