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There are 7 total results for your 祖师 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

祖師


祖师

see styles
zǔ shī
    zu3 shi1
tsu shih
 soshi
    そし
founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)
founder of a sect; (surname) Soshi
A first teacher, or leader, founder of a school or sect; it has particular reference to Bodhidharma.

祖師堂


祖师堂

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zǔ shī táng
    zu3 shi1 tang2
tsu shih t`ang
    tsu shih tang
 soshi dō
patriarch's hall

祖師殿


祖师殿

see styles
zǔ shī diàn
    zu3 shi1 dian4
tsu shih tien
 soshi den
hall of the patriarchs

祖師爺


祖师爷

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zǔ shī yé
    zu3 shi1 ye2
tsu shih yeh
founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)

歷代祖師


历代祖师

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lì dài zǔ shī
    li4 dai4 zu3 shi1
li tai tsu shih
 rekidai soshi
successive generations of patriarchal teachers

開山祖師


开山祖师

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kāi shān zǔ shī
    kai1 shan1 zu3 shi1
k`ai shan tsu shih
    kai shan tsu shih
 kaisan soshi
founding master of a monastery; founder; originator
founder of a school

歷代祖師菩薩


历代祖师菩萨

see styles
lì dài zǔ shī pú sà
    li4 dai4 zu3 shi1 pu2 sa4
li tai tsu shih p`u sa
    li tai tsu shih pu sa
 rekidai soshi bosatsu
successive generations of ancestor bodhisattvas

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

This page contains 7 results for "祖师" 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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