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There are 7 total results for your 知根 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

知根

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zhī gēn
    zhi1 gen1
chih ken
 chikon
The organs of perception. To know the roots, or capacities (of all beings, as does a bodhisattva; hence he has no fears).

五知根

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wǔ zhī gēn
    wu3 zhi1 gen1
wu chih ken
 go chi kon
The five indriyas or organs of perception— eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin. v. 五根.

具知根

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jù zhī gēn
    ju4 zhi1 gen1
chü chih ken
 guchi kon
faculty of the power of perfect knowledge [of the Four Noble Truths]

已知根

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yǐ zhī gēn
    yi3 zhi1 gen1
i chih ken
 ichi kon
ājñendriya. The second of the 三無漏根 q. v. One who already knows the indriya or roots that arise from the practical stage associated with the Four Dogmas, i. e. purpose, joy, pleasure, renunciation, faith, zeal, memory, abstract meditation, wisdom.

未當知根


未当知根

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wèi dāng zhī gēn
    wei4 dang1 zhi1 gen1
wei tang chih ken
 mitō chikon
The mental faculty of resolving to come to know something unknown

未知欲知根

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wèi zhī yù zhī gēn
    wei4 zhi1 yu4 zhi1 gen1
wei chih yü chih ken
 michi yokuchi kon
the mental faculty of resolving to come to know something unknown

未知當知根


未知当知根

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wèi zhī dāng zhī gēn
    wei4 zhi1 dang1 zhi1 gen1
wei chih tang chih ken
 michi tōchi kon
faculty of the power for learning [the Four Noble Truths]

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

This page contains 7 results for "知根" 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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