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There are 5 total results for your 发愿 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

發願


发愿

see styles
fā yuàn
    fa1 yuan4
fa yüan
 hotsugan
to vow
To vow, resolve.

發願文


发愿文

see styles
fā yuàn wén
    fa1 yuan4 wen2
fa yüan wen
 hotsugan mon
written vow

至心發願欲生


至心发愿欲生

see styles
zhì xīn fā yuàn yù shēng
    zhi4 xin1 fa1 yuan4 yu4 sheng1
chih hsin fa yüan yü sheng
 shishin hotsugan yokushō
sincerely desire to be born in the [pure] land

白花道場發願文


白花道场发愿文

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bái huā dào chǎng fā yuàn wén
    bai2 hua1 dao4 chang3 fa1 yuan4 wen2
pai hua tao ch`ang fa yüan wen
    pai hua tao chang fa yüan wen
 Hakke dōjō hotsugan mon
Vow Made at the White Lotus Enlightenment Site

彌勒菩薩發願王偈


弥勒菩萨发愿王偈

see styles
mí lè pú sà fā yuàn wáng jì
    mi2 le4 pu2 sa4 fa1 yuan4 wang2 ji4
mi le p`u sa fa yüan wang chi
    mi le pu sa fa yüan wang chi
 Miroku bosatsu hotsugannō ge
Verses on Bodhisattva Maitreya's Vow

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

This page contains 5 results for "发愿" 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.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

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).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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