Free Chinese & Japanese Online Dictionary

If you enter English words, search is Boolean mode:
Enter fall to get just entries with fall in them.
Enter fall* to get results including "falling" and "fallen".
Enter +fall -season -autumn to make sure fall is included, but not entries with autumn or season.

Key:

Mandarin Chinese information.
Old Wade-Giles romanization used only in Taiwan.
Japanese information.
Buddhist definition. Note: May not apply to all sects.
 Definition may be different outside of Buddhism.

There are 6 total results for your 通教 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

通教

see styles
tōng jiào
    tong1 jiao4
t`ung chiao
    tung chiao
 michinori
    みちのり
(given name) Michinori
Tiantai classified Buddhist schools into four periods 藏, 通, 別, and 圓. The 藏 Piṭaka school was that of Hīnayāna. The 通Tong, interrelated or intermediate school, was the first stage of Mahāyāna, having in it elements of all the three vehicles, śrāvaka, pratyekabuddha, and bodhisattva. Its developing doctrine linked it with Hīnayāna on the one hand and on the other with the two further developments of the 別 'separate', or 'differentiated' Mahāyāna teaching, and the 圓 full-orbed, complete, or perfect Mahāyāna. The 通教 held the doctrine of the Void, but had not arrived at the doctrine of the Mean.

通教菩薩


通教菩萨

see styles
tōng jiào pú sà
    tong1 jiao4 pu2 sa4
t`ung chiao p`u sa
    tung chiao pu sa
 tsūkyō bosatsu
bodhisattva of the Shared Teaching

三乘通教

see styles
sān shèng tōng jiào
    san1 sheng4 tong1 jiao4
san sheng t`ung chiao
    san sheng tung chiao
 sanjō tsūkyō
the teachings of the three vehicles in terms of their commonality

圓通教主


圆通教主

see styles
yuán tōng jiào zhǔ
    yuan2 tong1 jiao4 zhu3
yüan t`ung chiao chu
    yüan tung chiao chu
 entsū kyōshu
Master of the Teachings of Supernatural Powers

普通教育

see styles
pǔ tōng jiào yù
    pu3 tong1 jiao4 yu4
p`u t`ung chiao yü
    pu tung chiao yü
 futsuukyouiku / futsukyoiku
    ふつうきょういく
general education
general education

中等普通教育

see styles
zhōng děng pǔ tōng jiào yù
    zhong1 deng3 pu3 tong1 jiao4 yu4
chung teng p`u t`ung chiao yü
    chung teng pu tung chiao yü
general middle school education

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

This page contains 6 results for "通教" 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.

Just because a word appears here does not mean it is appropriate for a tattoo, your business name, etc. Please consult a professional before doing anything stupid with this data.

We do offer Chinese and Japanese Tattoo Services. We'll also be happy to help you translate something for other purposes.

No warranty as to the correctness, potential vulgarity, or clarity is expressed or implied. We did not write any of these definitions (though we occasionally act as a contributor/editor to the CC-CEDICT project). You are using this dictionary for free, and you get what you pay for.

The following titles are just to help people who are searching for an Asian dictionary to find this page.

Japanese Kanji Dictionary

Free Asian Dictionary

Chinese Kanji Dictionary

Chinese Words Dictionary

Chinese Language Dictionary

Japanese Chinese Dictionary