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There are 10 total results for your 妙心 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

妙心

see styles
miào xīn
    miao4 xin1
miao hsin
 myōshin
The mind or heart wonderful and profound beyond human thought. According to Tiantai the 別教 limited this to the mind 眞心 of the Buddha, while the 圓教 universalized it to include the unenlightened heart 妄心 of all men.

妙心寺

see styles
miào xīn sì
    miao4 xin1 si4
miao hsin ssu
 myoushinji / myoshinji
    みょうしんじ
(place-name) Myōshinji
Myōshinji

妙心寺派

see styles
miào xīn sì pài
    miao4 xin1 si4 pai4
miao hsin ssu p`ai
    miao hsin ssu pai
 Myōshinji ha
Myōshinji school

妙心寺通

see styles
 myoushinjitoori / myoshinjitoori
    みょうしんじとおり
(place-name) Myōshinjitoori

妙心寺駅

see styles
 myoushinjieki / myoshinjieki
    みょうしんじえき
(st) Myōshinji Station

妙心體具


妙心体具

see styles
miào xīn tǐ jù
    miao4 xin1 ti3 ju4
miao hsin t`i chü
    miao hsin ti chü
 myōshin tai gu
mind inherently endowed with enlightenment

涅槃妙心

see styles
niè pán miào xīn
    nie4 pan2 miao4 xin1
nieh p`an miao hsin
    nieh pan miao hsin
 nehan myōshin
marvelous mind of nirvāṇa

妙心寺境内

see styles
 myoushinjikeidai / myoshinjikedai
    みょうしんじけいだい
(place-name) Myōshinjikeidai

花園妙心寺

see styles
 hanazonomyoushinji / hanazonomyoshinji
    はなぞのみょうしんじ
(place-name) Hanazonomyoushinji

花園妙心寺町

see styles
 hanazonomyoushinjichou / hanazonomyoshinjicho
    はなぞのみょうしんじちょう
(place-name) Hanazonomyoushinjichō

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

This page contains 10 results for "妙心" 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.
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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).



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