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There are 5 total results for your 阿彌陀佛 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

阿彌陀佛


阿弥陀佛

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ē mí tuó fó
    e1 mi2 tuo2 fo2
o mi t`o fo
    o mi to fo
 Amida butsu

More info & calligraphy:

Amitabha Buddha
Amitabha Buddha; the Buddha of the Western paradise; may the lord Buddha preserve us!; merciful Buddha!
Amitâbha Buddha

阿彌陀佛名


阿弥陀佛名

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ā mí tuó fó míng
    a1 mi2 tuo2 fo2 ming2
a mi t`o fo ming
    a mi to fo ming
 Amida butsu myō
name of Amitâbha

阿彌陀佛號


阿弥陀佛号

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ā mí tuó fó hào
    a1 mi2 tuo2 fo2 hao4
a mi t`o fo hao
    a mi to fo hao
 Amida butsu gō
name of Amitâbha

南無阿彌陀佛


南无阿弥陀佛

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nán wú ā mí tuó fó
    nan2 wu2 a1 mi2 tuo2 fo2
nan wu a mi t`o fo
    nan wu a mi to fo
 namo amida butsu

More info & calligraphy:

Namo Amitabha Buddha
homage to Amitâbha Buddha

阿彌陀佛五十菩薩像


阿弥陀佛五十菩萨像

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ā mí tuó fó wǔ shí pú sà xiàng
    a1 mi2 tuo2 fo2 wu3 shi2 pu2 sa4 xiang4
a mi t`o fo wu shih p`u sa hsiang
    a mi to fo wu shih pu sa hsiang
 Amidabutsu gojū bosatsu zō
images of the fifty-two bodhisattva attendants of Amitâbha

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

This page contains 5 results for "阿彌陀佛" 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.
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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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