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道天地將法 is a list of five key points to analyzing your situation from the first chapter of Sun Tzu's Art of War.
This reads like a 5-part military proverb. Sun Tzu says that to sharpen your skills, you must plan. To plan well, you must know your situation. Therefore, you must consider and discuss the following:
1. Philosophy and Politics: Make sure your way or your policy is agreeable among all of your troops (and the citizens of your kingdom as well). For when your soldiers believe in you and your way, they will follow you to their deaths without hesitation and will not question your orders.
2. Heaven/Sky: Consider climate / weather. This can also mean considering whether God is smiling upon you. In the modern military, this could be waiting for clear skies so that you can have air support for an amphibious landing.
3. Ground/Earth: Consider the terrain in which the battle will take place. This includes analyzing defensible positions, and exit routes, while using varying elevations to your advantage. When you plan an ambush, you must know your terrain and the best location from which to stage that ambush. This knowledge will also help you avoid being ambushed, as you will know where the likely places in which to expect an ambush from your enemy.
4. Leadership: This applies to you as the general and your lieutenants. A leader should be smart and be able to develop good strategies. Leaders should keep their word, and if they break a promise, they should punish themselves as harshly as they would punish subordinates. Leaders should be benevolent to their troops, with almost a fatherly love for them. Leaders must have the ability to make brave and fast decisions. Leaders must have steadfast principles.
5. [Military] Methods: This can also mean laws, rules, principles, models, or systems. You must have an efficient organization in place to manage both your troops and supplies. In the modern military, this would be a combination of how your unit is organized and your SOP (Standard Operating Procedure).
Notes: This is a simplistic translation and explanation. Much more is suggested in the actual text of the Art of War (Bing Fa). It would take a lot of study to master all of these aspects. In fact, these five characters can be compared to the modern military acronyms such as BAMCIS or SMEAC.
CJK notes: I have included the Japanese and Korean pronunciations but in Chinese, Korean and Japanese, this does not make a typical phrase (with subject, verb, and object) it is a list that only someone familiar with Sun Tzu’s writings would understand.
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Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your war god search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
蚩尤 see styles |
chī yóu chi1 you2 ch`ih yu chih yu shiyuu / shiyu しゆう |
More info & calligraphy: God of Warcraft(archaism) Chinese god of war |
軍神 see styles |
gunshin; ikusagami; gunjin(ok) ぐんしん; いくさがみ; ぐんじん(ok) |
More info & calligraphy: God of War |
關帝 关帝 see styles |
guān dì guan1 di4 kuan ti Kantei |
More info & calligraphy: Guandi: God of War |
八幡神 see styles |
hachimanjin; yawatanokami はちまんじん; やわたのかみ |
More info & calligraphy: Hachiman: God of War |
阿修羅 阿修罗 see styles |
ā xiū luó a1 xiu1 luo2 a hsiu lo ashura; asura あしゅら; あすら |
More info & calligraphy: Frightful Demon / Asura{Buddh} Asura; demigod; anti-god; titan; demigods that fight the Devas (gods) in Hindu mythology; (female given name) Ashura asura, 修羅 originally meaning a spirit, spirits, or even the gods, it generally indicates titanic demons, enemies of the gods, with whom, especially Indra, they wage constant war. They are defined as 'not devas', and 'ugly', and 'without wine'. Other forms are 阿須羅 (or 阿蘇羅, or 阿素羅); 阿修倫 (or羅須倫 or 阿修輪 or 羅須輪); 阿素洛; 阿差. Four classes are named according to their manner of rebirth-egg, born, womb-born, transformation-born, and spawn- or water-born. Their abode is in the ocean, north of Sumeru, but certain of the weaker dwell in a western mountain cave. They have realms, rulers, and palaces, as have the devas. The 阿修羅道 is one of the six gatis, or ways of reincarnation. The 修羅場 or 修羅巷 is the battlefield of the asuras against Indra. The 阿修羅琴 are their harps. |
阿瑞斯 see styles |
ā ruì sī a1 rui4 si1 a jui ssu |
More info & calligraphy: Ares |
摩利支天 see styles |
mó lì zhī tiān mo2 li4 zhi1 tian1 mo li chih t`ien mo li chih tien marishiten まりしてん |
More info & calligraphy: Marici / MarishitenMaricī |
修羅 修罗 see styles |
xiū luó xiu1 luo2 hsiu lo shura; sura しゅら; すら |
Asura, malevolent spirits in Indian mythology (1) (abbreviation) {Buddh} (See 阿修羅) Asura; demigod; anti-god; titan; demigods that fight the Devas (gods) in Hindu mythology; (2) fighting; carnage; conflict; strife; (3) sledge (for conveying large rocks, logs, etc.); (4) (See 滑道) log slide; chute; flume; (female given name) Shura asura, demons who war with Indra; v. 阿修羅; it is also sura, which means a god, or deity. |
八幡 see styles |
hachiman はちまん |
(1) (abbreviation) (See 八幡神) Hachiman (God of War); (2) (abbreviation) (See 八幡宮) Hachiman shrine; (adverb) (3) (archaism) certainly; (place-name, surname) Yawata |
閻魔 阎魔 see styles |
yán mó yan2 mo2 yen mo enma えんま |
(Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell {Buddh} Yama (King of Hell who judges the dead); Enma; (dei) Yama (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead); Emma; Yan; Yomna 閻王 閻羅; (閻魔王); 閻摩羅; 閻老 Yama, also v. 夜; 閻羅王 Yama. (1) In the Vedas the god of the dead, with whom the spirits of the departed dwell. He was son of the Sun and had a twin sister Yamī or Yamuna. By some they were looked upon as the first human pair. (2) In later Brahmanic mythology, one of the eight Lokapālas, guardian of the South and ruler of the Yamadevaloka and judge of the dead. (3) In Buddhist mythology, the regent of the Nārakas, residing south of Jambudvīpa, outside of the Cakravālas, in a palace of copper and iron. Originally he is described as a king of Vaiśālī, who, when engaged in a bloody war, wished he were master of hell, and was accordingly reborn as Yama in hell together with his eighteen generals and his army of 80,000 men, who now serve him in purgatory. His sister Yamī deals with female culprits. Three times in every twenty-four hours demon pours into Yama's mouth boiling copper (by way of punishment), his subordinates receiving the same dose at the same time, until their sins are expiated, when he will be reborn as Samantarāja 普王. In China he rules the fifth court of purgatory. In some sources he is spoken of as ruling the eighteen judges of purgatory. |
八幡宮 see styles |
hachimanguu / hachimangu はちまんぐう |
Shrine of the God of War; (place-name) Hachimanguu |
馬爾斯 马尔斯 see styles |
mǎ ěr sī ma3 er3 si1 ma erh ssu |
Mars (Roman God of War) |
弓矢八幡 see styles |
yumiyahachiman ゆみやはちまん |
god of war |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
God of Warcraft | 蚩尤 | shi yuu / shiyuu / shi yu | chī yóu / chi1 you2 / chi you / chiyou | ch`ih yu / chihyu / chih yu |
God of War | 軍神 | gunjin / gunshin / ikusagami | ||
Hachiman: God of War | 八幡神 | hachi man jin hachimanjin | ||
Guandi: God of War | 關帝 关帝 | kan tei / kantei | Guān dì / Guan1 di4 / Guan di / Guandi | Kuan ti / Kuanti |
Art of War: 5 Points of Analysis | 道天地將法 道天地将法 | dou ten chi shou hou doutenchishouhou do ten chi sho ho | dào tiān dì jiàng fǎ dao4 tian1 di4 jiang4 fa3 dao tian di jiang fa daotiandijiangfa | tao t`ien ti chiang fa taotientichiangfa tao tien ti chiang fa |
Marici Marishiten | 摩利支天 | ma ri shi ten marishiten | mó lì zhī tiān mo2 li4 zhi1 tian1 mo li zhi tian molizhitian | mo li chih t`ien molichihtien mo li chih tien |
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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