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The word namaste comes from Sanskrit and is a common greeting in the Hindi and Nepali languages exchanged by devout Hindu or Buddhist people in Southern Asia (especially India).
Here you can see the Chinese form (and Japanese but not well-known in Japan) of this word which is used describe a Buddhist (or Hindu) greeting with palms closed together in a prayerful manner, generally at chest level. However, this selection of characters describes the act, and is not a word spoken during the greeting. In fact, words or a greeting is seldom spoken when two Chinese or Japanese Buddhists meet. The greeting is silent, and respectful but composed completely of body language.
Note that the greeting namaste as well as the act of placing palms together are used both as a hello and goodbye (kind of like the word aloha in Hawaiian).
If you are looking for a welcoming hello and goodbye, you may want to consider gassho or a simple welcome.
In Buddhism, this term refers to a community of monks and/or nuns (one of the "Three Jewels"). In general terms, it can simply mean "all followers of the Buddha".
Notes: Though there are not vast numbers of Chinese Hindus, in the Hindu faith, this term means "community together".
The original Sanskrit word is also Romanized as samgha.
The first character means "monk". The second character means Buddha or Shakyamuni.
僧伽 is really a transliteration of the original Sanskrit but it uses two very profound Chinese characters related to Buddhism.
Some may pronounce this as "seng qie" or "seng jia" in Mandarin (two possible pronunciations for second character). Note that "qie" would sound a bit like "chee-ah" using typical English pronunciation. Chinese Romanization is not actually designed to match English sounds.
Note that when writing this as Kanji, Japanese will tend to write the first character in the form shown to the right. If you select our Japanese master calligrapher, please expect this special Kanji form. However, it should also be noted that this is not a common term in Japanese (except by certain sects of Buddhism or perhaps devout Buddhists in Japan).
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The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Sriprada | 斯里普拉達 斯里普拉达 | sī lǐ pǔ lā dá si1 li3 pu3 la1 da2 si li pu la da silipulada | ssu li p`u la ta ssulipulata ssu li pu la ta |
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Sripradha | 斯里普拉達 斯里普拉达 | sī lǐ pǔ lā dá si1 li3 pu3 la1 da2 si li pu la da silipulada | ssu li p`u la ta ssulipulata ssu li pu la ta |
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Sreepradha | 斯里普拉達 斯里普拉达 | sī lǐ pǔ lā dá si1 li3 pu3 la1 da2 si li pu la da silipulada | ssu li p`u la ta ssulipulata ssu li pu la ta |
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Sreeprada | 斯里普拉達 斯里普拉达 | sī lǐ pǔ lā dá si1 li3 pu3 la1 da2 si li pu la da silipulada | ssu li p`u la ta ssulipulata ssu li pu la ta |
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Namaste - Greeting | 合十 | gou juu / goujuu / go ju / goju | hé shí / he2 shi2 / he shi / heshi | ho shih / hoshih |
Sangha | 僧伽 | sougya / sogya | sēng qié / seng1 qie2 / seng qie / sengqie | seng ch`ieh / sengchieh / seng chieh |
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. |
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