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愛別離苦 is a Buddhist term that refers to “the pain of separation from loved ones,” or “the suffering of being separated from those whom one loves.”
If you translate each character separately, you get, “love(s) separated [and] departed [yields] pain.”
The pain character can also be defined as anguish; suffering; distress; anxiety; worry; trouble; difficulty; hardship; bitterness; to suffer; anguish; distress; anxiety; worry; trouble; difficulty; bitterness; unhappiness; or misery.
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Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
独立 see styles |
dokuritsu どくりつ |
(n,vs,vi) (1) independence; self-reliance; supporting oneself; being on one's own; (n,vs,vi) (2) independence (e.g. of a nation); freedom; (n,vs,vi) (3) separation; isolation |
愛別離苦 爱别离苦 see styles |
ài bié lí kǔ ai4 bie2 li2 ku3 ai pieh li k`u ai pieh li ku aibetsuriku あいべつりく |
More info & calligraphy: The Pain of Separation from Your Loves(yoji) {Buddh} the pain of separation from loved ones The suffering of being separated from those whom one loves. v. 八苦. |
を see styles |
o を |
(particle) (1) indicates direct object of action; (particle) (2) indicates subject of causative expression; (particle) (3) indicates an area traversed; (particle) (4) indicates time (period) over which action takes place; (particle) (5) indicates point of departure or separation of action; (particle) (6) (See が・1) indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc. |
去 see styles |
qù qu4 ch`ü chü kyo |
to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do something; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation) Go, go away; gone, past; depart, leave; to remove, dismiss; the 去 tone. |
中点 see styles |
nakaten なかてん chuuten / chuten ちゅうてん |
middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid-character height; interpoint (interword separation); (1) middle point; median point; (2) middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid-character height; interpoint (interword separation) |
中黒 see styles |
nakaguro なかぐろ |
(・) middle dot; centred period; full-stop mark at mid-character height; interpoint; symbol used for interword separation, between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.; (place-name, surname) Nakaguro |
久別 久别 see styles |
jiǔ bié jiu3 bie2 chiu pieh |
a long period of separation |
久闊 久阔 see styles |
jiǔ kuò jiu3 kuo4 chiu k`uo chiu kuo kyuukatsu / kyukatsu きゅうかつ |
a long period of separation not having met or contacted someone for a long time; neglect of friends |
乖離 乖离 see styles |
guāi lí guai1 li2 kuai li kairi かいり |
(noun/participle) divergence; alienation; deviation; estrangement; separation; detachment to diverge |
分別 分别 see styles |
fēn bié fen1 bie2 fen pieh bunbetsu ぶんべつ |
to part; to leave each other; to distinguish; to tell apart; difference; distinction; in different ways; differently; separately; individually (noun, transitive verb) separation (e.g. of rubbish when recycling); classification; discrimination; division; distinction vibhajya, or vibhaaga; parikalpana; vikalpa; divide, discriminate, discern, reason; to leave. See also 三分別. |
分割 see styles |
fēn gē fen1 ge1 fen ko bunkatsu ぶんかつ |
to cut up; to break up (noun, transitive verb) partition; division; separation; segmenting; splitting |
分析 see styles |
fēn xī fen1 xi1 fen hsi bunseki ぶんせき |
to analyze; analysis; CL:個|个[ge4] (noun, transitive verb) analysis To divide; leave the world; separation.; To divide, separate, leave the world, v. 析. |
分權 分权 see styles |
fēn quán fen1 quan2 fen ch`üan fen chüan |
separation of powers |
分煙 see styles |
bunen ぶんえん |
separation of smoking and non-smoking areas |
分祀 see styles |
bunshi ぶんし |
(noun/participle) separation of worship; movement of an enshrined deity to another shrine |
分祠 see styles |
bunshi ぶんし |
(noun/participle) separation of worship; movement of an enshrined deity to another shrine |
分立 see styles |
fēn lì fen1 li4 fen li bunritsu ぶんりつ |
to establish as separate entities; to divide (a company etc) into independent entities; discrete; separate; separation (of powers etc) (n,vs,vi) segregation; separation; independence |
分色 see styles |
fēn sè fen1 se4 fen se |
color separation |
分離 分离 see styles |
fēn lí fen1 li2 fen li bunri ぶんり |
to separate (n,vs,vt,vi) separation; partition; detachment; segregation; isolation rent asunder |
別れ see styles |
wakare わかれ |
parting; separation; farewell |
別婚 see styles |
bekkon べっこん |
separation with divorce in the offing |
別居 see styles |
bekkyo べっきょ |
(n,vs,vi) (ant: 同居) separation; living separately; living apart |
別時 别时 see styles |
bié shí bie2 shi2 pieh shih betsuji べつじ |
another time; time of separation special times |
別離 别离 see styles |
bié lí bie2 li2 pieh li betsuri べつり |
to take leave of; to leave; separation (noun/participle) parting; separation separation |
剖析 see styles |
pōu xī pou1 xi1 p`ou hsi pou hsi hōshaku |
to analyze; to dissect separation |
剥離 see styles |
hakuri はくり |
(n,vs,adj-no) (1) detachment; coming off; peeling off; (2) separation |
坎軻 see styles |
kanka かんか |
separation from the world |
始離 始离 see styles |
shǐ lí shi3 li2 shih li shiri |
first separation |
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. |
常離 常离 see styles |
cháng lí chang2 li2 ch`ang li chang li jōri |
permanent separation |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
The Pain of Separation from Your Loves | 愛別離苦 爱别离苦 | ai betsu ri ku aibetsuriku | ài bié lí kǔ ai4 bie2 li2 ku3 ai bie li ku aibieliku | ai pieh li k`u aipiehliku ai pieh li ku |
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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