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There are 9 total results for your 法印 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

法印

see styles
fǎ yìn
    fa3 yin4
fa yin
 houin / hoin
    ほういん
(1) {Buddh} highest rank among priests; (2) {Buddh} mountain ascetic monk; (3) {Buddh} signs that distinguish Buddhist teachings from other faiths; (4) title given to a great physician or painter; (personal name) Houin
The seal of Buddha-truth, expressing its reality and immutability, also its universality and its authentic transmission from one Buddha or patriarch to another.

法印瀑

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 houinbaku / hoinbaku
    ほういんばく
(personal name) Houinbaku

法印谷

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 houindani / hoindani
    ほういんだに
(place-name) Houindani

一法印

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yī fǎ yìn
    yi1 fa3 yin4
i fa yin
 ippōin
The seal or assurance of the one truth or law, see 一如 and 一實; the criterion of Mahāyāna doctrine, that all is bhūtatathatā, as contrasted with the Hīnayāna criteria of impermanence, non-personality, and nirvāṇa.

三法印

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sān fǎ yìn
    san1 fa3 yin4
san fa yin
 sanbouin / sanboin
    さんぼういん
Dharma seals; three marks of existence (suffering, impermanence, non-Self)
idem 三印.

問法印


问法印

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wèn fǎ yìn
    wen4 fa3 yin4
wen fa yin
 monhō in
The manual sign indicating the putting of a question.

四法印

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sì fǎ yìn
    si4 fa3 yin4
ssu fa yin
 shihouin / shihoin
    しほういん
{Buddh} (See 諸行無常,諸法無我,一切皆苦,涅槃寂静) the four signs of orthodox Buddhism
The seal or impression of the four dogmas, suffering, impermanence, non-ego, nirvana, see 四法本末.

說法印


说法印

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shuō fǎ yìn
    shuo1 fa3 yin4
shuo fa yin
 seppō in
preaching mudrā

一切無障法印明


一切无障法印明

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yī qiè wú zhàng fǎ yìn míng
    yi1 qie4 wu2 zhang4 fa3 yin4 ming2
i ch`ieh wu chang fa yin ming
    i chieh wu chang fa yin ming
 issai mushōhō inmyō
A sign for overcoming all hindrances, i.e. by making the sign of a sword through lifting both hands, palms outward and thumbs joined, saying Hail! Bhagavat! Bhagavat svāhā!

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

This page contains 9 results for "法印" 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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