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There are 4 total results for your 大般涅槃經 search.

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Simple Dictionary Definition

大般涅槃經


大般涅盘经

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dà bān niè pán jīng
    da4 ban1 nie4 pan2 jing1
ta pan nieh p`an ching
    ta pan nieh pan ching
 Dai nehan kyō
Nirvana sutra
The Mahā-parinirvāṇa sūtras, commonly called the 涅槃經 Nirvāṇa sūtras, said to have been delivered by Śākyamuni just before his death. The two Hīnayāna versions are found in the 長阿含遊行經. The Mahāyāna has two Chinese versions, the northern in 40 juan, and the southern, a revision of the northern version in 36 juan. Faxian's version is styled 大般泥洹經 6 juan. Treatises on the sūtra are 大般涅槃經後分 2 juan tr. by Jñānabhadra; 大般涅槃經疏 33 juan; 大般涅槃經論 1 juan by Vasubandhu, tr. by Bodhidharma.

大般涅槃經後分


大般涅槃经后分

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dà bān niè pán jīng hòu fēn
    da4 ban1 nie4 pan2 jing1 hou4 fen1
ta pan nieh p`an ching hou fen
    ta pan nieh pan ching hou fen
 Dai han nehan kyōgofun
The Latter Portion of the Sūtra on the Great Decease

北本大般涅槃經


北本大般涅槃经

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běi běn dà bān niè pán jīng
    bei3 ben3 da4 ban1 nie4 pan2 jing1
pei pen ta pan nieh p`an ching
    pei pen ta pan nieh pan ching
 Hoppon dai hatsu nehan kyō
Northern Edition of the Nirvāṇa Sūtra

大般涅槃經荼毘分


大般涅槃经荼毘分

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dà bān niè pán jīng tú pí fēn
    da4 ban1 nie4 pan2 jing1 tu2 pi2 fen1
ta pan nieh p`an ching t`u p`i fen
    ta pan nieh pan ching tu pi fen
 Daihan nehan kyō dabi fun
The Latter Portion of the Sūtra on the Great Decease

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

This page contains 4 results for "大般涅槃經" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



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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

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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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