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欲樂 is the Chinese and Japanese title representing the Buddhist and Jainist joys of the five desires.
Kama comes from the Pali/Sanskrit काम. The meaning is “desire, wish, longing.”
In Jainism, it can include sensual pleasure, sexual desire, and longing.
However, the Buddhist context refers more to any desire, wish, passion, longing, the pleasure of the senses, desire for, longing to and after, the aesthetic enjoyment of life, affection, or love, enjoyment of love is particularly with or without the enjoyment of sexual, sensual and erotic desire, and is often used without sexual connotations.
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your 欲樂 search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
欲樂 欲乐 see styles |
yù lè yu4 le4 yü le yokuraku |
More info & calligraphy: Kama - Desire Wish Longing |
五欲樂 五欲乐 see styles |
wǔ yù lè wu3 yu4 le4 wu yü le goyokuraku |
the five desires and pleasures (arising from the objects of the five senses) |
欲樂喜 欲乐喜 see styles |
yù lè xǐ yu4 le4 xi3 yü le hsi yokurakuki |
to desire |
如是欲樂 如是欲乐 see styles |
rú shì yù yào ru2 shi4 yu4 yao4 ju shih yü yao nyoze yokugyō |
this kind of intent |
猛利欲樂 猛利欲乐 see styles |
měng lì yù lè meng3 li4 yu4 le4 meng li yü le mōri yokuraku |
powerful intention |
受用欲樂行 受用欲乐行 see styles |
shòu yòng yù lè xíng shou4 yong4 yu4 le4 xing2 shou yung yü le hsing juyō yokuraku gyō |
devotion to sensual pleasure |
淳淨一味欲樂 淳淨一味欲乐 see styles |
chún jìng yī mèi yù yào chun2 jing4 yi1 mei4 yu4 yao4 ch`un ching i mei yü yao chun ching i mei yü yao junjō ichimi yokugyō |
longing for the single unadulterated taste |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Kama - Desire Wish Longing | 欲樂 欲乐 | yokuraku | yù lè / yu4 le4 / yu le / yule | yü le / yüle |
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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When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to my art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
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When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
The wall scroll that Sandy is holding in this picture is a "large size"
single-character wall scroll.
We also offer custom wall scrolls in small, medium, and an even-larger jumbo size.
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days.
Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form
of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over 6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt such a feat.
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