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There are 11 total results for your 空观 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

空觀


空观

see styles
kōng guān
    kong1 guan1
k`ung kuan
    kung kuan
 kūgan
v. 空有二觀.

二空觀


二空观

see styles
èr kōng guān
    er4 kong1 guan1
erh k`ung kuan
    erh kung kuan
 ni kūkan
Two kinds of meditation on the "void', or unreality: (a) 無生觀 the meditation that things are unproduced, having no individual or separate natures, i.e. that all things are void and unreal; cf. 性空; (b) 無相觀 that they are therefore formless, cf. 相空. Also 人 and 法空觀 see above.

人空觀


人空观

see styles
rén kōng guān
    ren2 kong1 guan1
jen k`ung kuan
    jen kung kuan
 ningū kan
The meditation on, or insight into the selflessness of person 人空.

卽空觀


卽空观

see styles
jí kōng guān
    ji2 kong1 guan1
chi k`ung kuan
    chi kung kuan
 sokkū kan
realizing emptiness by contemplation of form

性空觀


性空观

see styles
xìng kōng guān
    xing4 kong1 guan1
hsing k`ung kuan
    hsing kung kuan
 shōkū kan
The meditation of the 性空教 sect on the unreality, or immateriality, of the nature of things.

析空觀


析空观

see styles
xī kōng guān
    xi1 kong1 guan1
hsi k`ung kuan
    hsi kung kuan
 shakukū kan
meditative practice of analyzing things to be empty of self-nature

法空觀


法空观

see styles
fǎ kōng guān
    fa3 kong1 guan1
fa k`ung kuan
    fa kung kuan
 hōkū kan
Meditative insight into the unreality of all things.

生空觀


生空观

see styles
shēng kōng guān
    sheng1 kong1 guan1
sheng k`ung kuan
    sheng kung kuan
 shōkū kan
contemplation on arising from emptiness

相空觀


相空观

see styles
xiàng kōng guān
    xiang4 kong1 guan1
hsiang k`ung kuan
    hsiang kung kuan
 sōkū kan
contemplation of emptiness of marks

三空觀門


三空观门

see styles
sān kōng guān mén
    san1 kong1 guan1 men2
san k`ung kuan men
    san kung kuan men
 san kū kanmon
three approaches to emptiness

從假入空觀


从假入空观

see styles
cóng jiǎ rù kōng guān
    cong2 jia3 ru4 kong1 guan1
ts`ung chia ju k`ung kuan
    tsung chia ju kung kuan
 jūke nyū kū kan
contemplation of realizing emptiness from the conventional (and the two truths)

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

This page contains 11 results for "空观" 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).



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