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There are 5 total results for your 定业 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

定業


定业

see styles
dìng yè
    ding4 ye4
ting yeh
 teigyou / tegyo
    ていぎょう
regular employment
Fixed karma, rebirth determined by the good or bad actions of the past. Also, the work of meditation with its result.

不定業


不定业

see styles
bú dìng yè
    bu2 ding4 ye4
pu ting yeh
 fujō gō
indeterminate karma

正定業


正定业

see styles
zhèng dìng yè
    zheng4 ding4 ye4
cheng ting yeh
 shoujougou / shojogo
    しょうじょうごう
{Buddh} (See 阿弥陀仏,浄土宗) correct meditative activity (in Jodo, saying the name of Amitabha)
Concentration upon the eighteenth vow of Amitābha and the Western Paradise, in repeating the name of Amitābha.

決定業


决定业

see styles
jué dìng yè
    jue2 ding4 ye4
chüeh ting yeh
 ketsujō gō
determined karma

定業亦能轉


定业亦能转

see styles
dìng yè yì néng zhuǎn
    ding4 ye4 yi4 neng2 zhuan3
ting yeh i neng chuan
 jōgō yaku nō ten
Even the determined fate can be changed (by the power of Buddhas and bodhisattvas).

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

This page contains 5 results for "定业" 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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